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What is your GIFT, not your Passion????

People often are confused about what they love to do and that which they are born to do.

There may be some things that you love to do in life and wish to pursue

and that would be described as your passion.

But each of us has some knack or special ability which we do well and easily

and which is what we should be sharing with the world and that would be your gift.

To gain maximum success you need to figure out what is your gift and then use it to your best ability.

Both of these are important but different.

Hence I try to remind myself every day and to distinguish between my passion and my gift.

Therefore, my favorite reminder is the saying “FUEL your passion and SHARE your gifts”.

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A natural-born TEACHER willing to share his fascinating life experiences and discoveries.

Business start-up MENTOR with practical experience of what works and what doesn’t work.

Prostate cancer PATIENT with an interesting story.

A life-long LEARNER interested in all of life’s wonders.

Mil-spec and Aerospace coatings specifications and applications CONSULTANT with 40 years experience in the Coatings Industry.

Life-long Health and Fitness FANATIC.

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Everyone of us has an exceptionally powerful gift inside of us in our power to focus. At any given time we can drop everything we’re doing and thinking about and just focus on one important thing. This is a secret in life to getting things done and doing things well and then being happy as a result.

How to focus our minds:

Focusing is a skill that can be worked on and improved.. need to quiet our minds and unclutter our thoughts… and be aware of what you are doing and what is around you…

Some tips:

Must be healthy & feel good. This is very important. You will not focus well if you don’t feel well. It was Emerson who said “Health is the 1st Wealth”. And he was correct. Without your health everything else falls apart. Life is a marathon not a sprint. Think long-term.. Start paying attention to your health now…. Think about the Dick Creek story, still having kids at 50. Starting his own business, AeroCoat at age 60. You must be prepared for the long-haul…

We must not be tired.

We should not be hung over.

Multitasking is a myth.Nobody can truly do two things at the same time and well. To be truly effective we must strive to do only one thing at a time and to do it well. This is the power of focus…

Think of it this way, at any given time there can only be one most important issue in your life. And that’s what you should be working on and thinking about at that moment.

Pay attention, Life Lesson Alert:

Many times the best lessons are the lessons we learn the hard way. Case in Point: I have only recently, let’s say in the last 10 years, come to realize that my focus on Health & Fitness has not been entirely correct. By that I mean I have strongly favored Exercise over Nutrition. So forever I have exercised and played every kind of sports imaginable but with little regard to nutrition. I had mistakenly thought that you could eat almost anything if you exercise enough. Come to find out that without proper nutrition your exercise is not optimally benefitted. And without proper nutrition other aspects of your health can suffer.

Both are important but Nutrition should be favored over Exercise In about the ratio of 60/40.

Dick Creek

After 40 + years in the Coatings Industry working for leaders in the Defense & Aerospace Coatings markets I realized a life-long dream and started an aircraft paint distribution business in 2004, AeroCoat Source, LLC. From a humble beginning mixing paint in a rented space in a public warehouse we have grown so impressively that my two college-graduate sons have chosen to join the business as well. Today we are a family/woman-owned business.

Now I am sharing my lifetime of experience and knowledge with you. I would like to pass on what I have learned to help you “To get from where you are,…to where you want to be”.

Dick Creek

The Helpful Expert.

Did this ever happen to you?
If it didn’t yet it probably will someday.

You take inventory of your life so far and you realize that you have a great job, you have a great family, you have a nice house . Yet on this day you realize you’re working too hard and can’t enjoy any of it.. Working hard at a 9 to 5 job along with commuting back & forth to work doesn’t leave much time to do anything else of any merit. That experience happened to me a few years into my promising career in Corporate America. On that day I decided I needed to change course and do something to start my own business. And thus began Dickie’s Great Adventure…

I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do but I had a feeling that I just had to do something, anything. Thus I did a real crazy not-recommended thing and quit my promising job in Corporate America and essentially left without prospects for a better position and started a not too-well thought out consulting company. And that was followed by a series of positions in a variety of industries which led to me experiencing a lot about industry and working in general. Included in the experience were assignments as a construction site manager, a convention center manager, experience in a multi level marketing company, owner and operator of a small Italian restaurant, followed by a consulting job with a paint company which led to some experience in sales and marketing in the paint industry. All of this very good experience paid off in many ways when it came time to start my own business. So with a great idea of attacking a neglected niche market I started an aerospace paint distributor business. And after 15 years at it I can say that I have far exceeded anything I ever dreamed of with this business.. It is a true family business which now includes my ex-wife and features my two college-educated sons as key contributors to this business at this time.

Now it is time for me to step back and tell the story of everything that contributed to the success of that company and to my longevity and to teach other people starting out in business some of the do’s and don’t’s that I’ve discovered along the way.. Hence I am calling my new business The Helpful Expert because that is what I want to be….

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What is your GIFT, not your Passion????

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