So true Thom....

I have not failed. I have merely found ten thousand ways that won't work.

- Thomas Edison

Here we go again - asking you for favors.........

for a good cause.  The Long Island Press has begun the "Best of ...."

Below is the link - please nominate "Strength for Life, Port Jefferson Station"  (local charity/non -profit) what does it means to us?... a promising article, press, more people that know about us - more people we can reach - the future potential for funding ....

http://longisland.upickem.net/engine/Welcome.aspx?contestid=18983

Now please understand we would simply like to be counted - no real assumption of a win - God knows "Long Island Cares" and "Habitat for Humanity" are awesome local charities -we just want to be among the top 12....and we all know anything is possible!

So please vote/nominate us...and your favorite bar, drink, health care provider (my neurologist won last year - I suppose that is why I can't get an appt to see him!) gym, lawyer, realtor ...etc. etc.

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."  ~ Christopher Reeve

Wanted: someone to write a review of Strength for Life.....

Great Nonprofits is a website that shares reviews of organizations - we have "0" reviews :( - who wants to be the first to share their experience in our class or from a wellness weekend - any/all can only help us.   If  by reading a review someone feels comfortable joining a class or wellness weekend - than we were successful.

Please consider this request - I can't believe it will take much of your time. 

Thanks!

http://greatnonprofits.org/search/results

"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose." Ralph Waldo Emerson

KEEPERS ...............

I grew up with practical parents who had been frightened by the Great Depression in the 1930's. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it... A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.

Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things: a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that repairing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.

But then my father died, and on that clear fall night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away ... Never to return. So ... While we have it ... it's best we love it ... And care for it ... And fix it when it's broken ... And heal it when it's sick.

This is true ... For marriage ... And old cars ... And children with bad report cards ... And dogs and cats with bad hips .. And aging parents ... And grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with.

There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special ... And so, we keep them close!

I received this from someone who thinks I am a "keeper," so  why not send this to those people who are "keepers" in your life.

Good friends are like stars ... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

Be Happy ...a great video to slow you down for 2:41 minutes of your day.......

Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1535353903240&ref=mf

Moving Ahead............

Dr. Freeley of C. W. Post in conjunction with BOCES TV/Film produced a 30 minute video of Strength for Life which we received this week - Thank you Prof. Freeley!  As you may remember Prof. Freeley's Graduate Social Entrepreneurship class adopted Strength for Life for a class project this last semester helping us with a business plan, our website and a host of other jobs we need to accomplish and in the end presented us with this professionally done interview. Thank you!

Reaching out for race sponsors - so if you are aware of anyone who wants to adopt a good cause - give us their name and we will give them a call.

Mark your calendars - November 21, 2010 at Sunken Meadow State Park - start your training now!!!

“If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work; but, rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Channel 7 on board with cancer and exercise - major endorsement

ACSM changed their guidelines - big news for cancer and exercise.... Now will they believe???

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fhealth&id=7562432