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Precious Little Stones

Today was my birthday. After a nap, I read a quick little story called "Precious Stones".  In the story a professor at an American business school, pulled out a jar. In the jar he placed large stones, then small stones, then sand, then water.  The ultimate lesson that he to taught his students was that it is always important to schedule into our is life what's most important. I wondered, how often are we sidetracked by the small insignificant things in our life?  

At that point I, before I jumped on Facebook to check for, or post a status update and then subsequently, turn down an old friends request to play a new the Zynga game, Farmville, Farmtown, or whatever the game of the week. And see who'd given me a birthday shout out, we all love to see those on our "special" or "moment" or day that we choose to share to celebrate.

I then had a thought, how many times or of the actual moments are stealing away to share these moments on carious social media platforms. However, at the same time, we seem to never be able to fit in our schedule the Father and Daughter dance, or the Father and son camping trip.  Ask yourself.  What are my precious stones?  And how can I fit them in first. Because, as I begin this next year in my life, I'm going to ask myself. 

Darrin

Ian and Allie. My precious little stones. 

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It's hard being Darrin Marion a lot of the time.

Darrin Marion of Darrin's Coffee Company.

I've been in a blah mood about Darrin's Coffee lately. I think it's because in the past 6 years, I've been through a lot to make this thing happen. I've been defrauded, scammed, lied on, discriminated against, verbally abused, stolen from, cyber-bullied, bullied, more than you could imagine any business owner, let alone a small coffee shop should ever have to endure. I've endured a couple of lifetimes of trials and tribulations. I try to remember Job 1:21, and keep moving. That's always helped. I recall when I needed an Indiana criminal defense lawyer and I was on my own, what was I to do next.

There was one little thing, albeit the smallest of things that happened to me today. It caused me to instantly want to shut the doors and walk away. I was ready to close down the shop, end Darrin's Coffee altogether. But in the midst of my "I've had enough moment", there was a little thing, actually a lot of little things, at least 20 or so that forced me to dial back. And remember the other side of the little things. Hopefully you'll watch this video, and it will make you think for a second, or see a bit into my eyes and you'll be able to use what happened to me and make your day and someone else's day a little better.

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