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“I learned a valuable lesson this weekend – Nay! I was the valuable lesson this weekend.”
Let me explain. This last weekend, my wife and decided that it was time to have one of those “Huge Yard Sales” that every urban community enjoys. It was really a lot of fun, and we met a lot of great people in the process.

It turned out to be record-breaking heat, in excess of 100 degrees – 102 degrees to be exact! I learned that with proper marketing, it is possible to sell a snow blower and a space heater at these elevated temperatures.

So after all this heat, we really didn’t want to pack things up quite yet, so we left things out and about in the back yard, where it wasn’t an eye-sore, but still needed to be packed up and put away.

But there was one little thing that was nagging at me in the back of my head. A customer had mentioned that the heat was going to be broken up in the evening with some clouds that might sprinkle on us. Not wanting to get caught off-guard, I had my wife check the weather. She replied,
“There’s a 4 % chance of rain”

We both had a good laugh at the slim prospect of rain, and mentioned that it would be just our luck that it would rain. A few hours later, I was outside with the kids on the swing-set when they exclaimed “It’s Raining!” Now mind you they’re only 3 and 4 years old, but a sprinkle is a huge deal to them. I looked up into the sky, realizing that a very large array of dark clouds was headed our way.

The sprinkles got heavier and heavier, while Jen and I scrambled to pack things up into boxes and tubs, and bring them into the house and the shed. Now the “rain” never surmounted to anything more than just a heavy sprinkle, but the impact of 4% was vividly imprinted into my head.

It made me realize that no matter what the odds are, or what people think, if you have a goal, you are in control. It really is that simple. So the next time that you think that it’s impossible. Just think of yourself as that puff of humidified air that we call clouds, blowing into town to drop that 4% chance of rain.

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