Tonight was awesome, all three of us we psyched and energized after the meeting. Chris and I just spent the last two hours practicing defensive moves between jigs and other made up combat moves in hopes of burning off some of the excess energy we had obtained. We do want to sleep tonight.... Chris managed to almost completely miss thwacking me in the right eye.

A lot of good stuff was said during the meeting and at the night owl afterwards.

Some things that were said that struck me (because I wrote them down on one of the placemats):

~who we choose to associate with and who we choose not to associate with.

That's not meaning we don't associate with people who think we are crazy for being in Quixtar, it's that we generally avoid people who would be bad influences; drinkers, gamblers, negative thinkers. The books we read and the people in the business have a different, more positive way of thinking. Unlike Christianity or Catholicism, it will not take just one naysayer or bad influence to turn a person back or away from the teaching, but once you're around people with such a positive outlook on life, being around people who think negatively is highly annoying, especially when they feel extremely negative about themselves.

~Everything outside of this business is temporary. Friendship is forever.

It really is a fraternity that I've entered. The camaraderie is obvious.

~When you overcome difficulties, you learn how to teach your team how to avoid and deal with them.

This has to do with team building as well as life building. Everything that we learn and read about can be taken and spread throughout ones life, improving a person’s entire life.

Even if I wanted to get out, which I absolutely do not, I don’t think I’d be able to stand the sense of “so…I’m back to where I was once before…um..now what?” that I know I’d experience if I just left. Ceased going to meetings. Ceased talking with my uplines. The forth time or so that I went to a meeting, I told Chris and Nick, who’d been telling me about how one of their uplines had gotten out of the business after reaching the $1000 dollar a month mark, that I did not see how a person could stop coming to the open night, to the Night Owl. The positive from the people who attend and who are working the business is just reassuring. They said that if I figured it out that I should tell them.

Frankly, I hope I never figure it out.