Posted by Matthew Brown on August 4, 2014 at 12:01pm

I have been running in to some speed bumps lately.  Some of them I would have just quit trying and walked away, but something keep me going back to finish them.  I just now realized what turned me around each time.  It’s Dan Dorr and the other things I learned at FOCUS.  I didn’t think a week long “class” would do really anything at all, but instilled in me now is a drive. A drive that I once had and had lost. I didn’t lose it at all I just had to find a different way of finding it.  A FOCUS helped me find it and helped me stoke the flames.  I am now working on enrolling in College (hoping to start classes on the 18th of Aug).  Active in my kids schooling and looking to volunteer for the PTO.  I learned you don’t have that huge goal to reach for right from the start.  It’s good to have those huge goals, but there are so many other smaller goals that could mean just as much or more completing.  I am using all the smaller goals as stepping stones to reach my huge goal of starting a business.  Sometimes waiting on a goal isn’t a bad thing, but don’t stop reaching for it.  Take the smaller steps to help with the bigger picture.  To make it easier to reach and make it easier to make sure everything works out.  Thank you all for support and helping this lost Marine find a new rewarding path.