Winter in Zion

This is a little waterfall that is often over looked in Zion. It hides on the north side of the road as you head to the Temple of Sinawava.

The picture above is a four point buck. You can make out the points of his horns if you look closely.

Be Interested in others

I have been pondering lately on "communication skills". Being in training and development, and graduating with a communication degree myself, I see so many classes offered on communication skills. Tips and techniques to guarantee that you build beneficial relationships in the work place that will catapult you to unprecedented success and win you hundreds of loyal friends and associates. People attend these workshops all the time, and return to work only to find out that for some reason the skills and tactics discussed in that life changing training don't work for them. They still have a hard time with the same difficult people, and they still long for the respect from there coworkers that has eluded them. Why is this so? Because skills, tactics, and techniques that try to force sincere, natural relationships don't work. We need to look more at the person to whom we are talking. Go deeper. Why don't you communicate with tact and professionalism? It is not because you don't know the tricks; it is because you lack the ability to see the human need inside the person you are talking to. You are more concerned about how they perceive you, or if they will buy into your vision than you are about them. When you approach a person with a sincere interest in understanding them, when you offer yourself, with out fear; because you are more interested in them than you are in yourself, that is when the magic happens. That is when you will experience mutually beneficial communication and move towards solutions that will be positive and beneficial to both of you.

13 Seconds!

Do you know how haunting 13 seconds can be to a guy!? I have been training for six months, five days a week, 20 plus miles a week trying to reach a sub-three marathon. This last Saturday as I came around the last corner of the St. George Marathon with just under one half mile to go, I could see the finish line! I knew I was cutting it close, I had not time to loose! I told myself to not let up, push it! Sprint it in! As I got closer I saw the clock 2:59! I had about 300 yards to go! All I needed to do now is get in before that clock clicks over to 3:00. Ready...GO! In my mind I turned on the juice and kicked it into overdrive-- in reality, there was nothing more to give, I had nothing hiding inside me that could carry me over that finish line in the time I needed. Just before I crossed under the big rainbow of blue and white balloons, I saw the clock hit 3:00. NO!!!!
---I have a fire in my belly now though. The next time I hit the marathon course, I will be far from seeing that cursed number three. I am bound and determined to set a mark above and beyond that, proving to myself and to that course that those 13 seconds have messed with the wrong guy!

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