"Quotes"
If there is no filament in a bulb, there is no light; if God is not in your life, there is no light in your life.
A man with a bad temper is really angry with himself.
Never lose hope. Hope is a rope that swings you through life.
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1 Corinthians 13
A close friend sent this to me in a text last night. Whatever your beliefs these words remain true.
1 Corinthians 13
Love is patient; love is kindand envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.
Lest we Forget
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Enrollment Creative Thinking
Earlier today I received call from a woman speaking on behalf of her daughter. It turns out her daughter is 25 years old, has cerebral palsy and is a Medicare beneficiary. I immediately "warmed" to this woman due to the soft spot in my own heart for people touched by cerebral palsy. (My daughter, who is 8 years old, has cerebral palsy.)
I followed Medicare, and UnitedHealthcare policies and procedures while gathering information on both the mother, and her daughter. I wasn't able to speak with the daughter, at the time so I had her mother provide me everything I needed and we proceeded to discuss plan benefits.
We found, in her area, a PFFS (Private-Fee-For-Service) plan that would meet 'the daughter's' needs and determined we could complete enrollment today. I finished documenting her account (in our Customer contact/management system) and was just about to begin the enrollment when I realized, I haven't spoke with the daughter!
Just before the enrollment I put the mother on hold and asked for help. It turns out that 'the mother' does not have POA (Power of Attorney) and as such we would have been unable to enroll her daughter in this plan. (Normally I would give her my phone number, and extension and have her call be back. It's important to note that UHC does not operate "normally". At this point, I'm NOT ALLOWED to give out my phone number and extension on inbound sales calls. Which means if I don't close the sale, I lose it.)
My idea (at first) was to call the daughter, from my phone, and get her permission that way. It turns out that that could be perceived (by Medicare) as solicitation and was therefore declared a non-viable option. I didn't want to lose the sale, so I presented my idea! Our conversation unfolded as follows:
Me: "Ma'am, I'm going to need you to call your daughter, from your phone and have her give her permission for me to complete this enrollment with you, on her behalf."
Caller: "Okay. Wait, I can't make 3-way calls from my phone."
"Ha. I don't mean to sound 'pushy' but most phones 'these days' are able to 3-way call."
"Oh really? How do I do it?"
"Press the Talk/Send button, call your daughter and wait for the call to connect. That should put me on hold and allow you to conference all 3 of us by pushing the Talk/Send button again."
"Okay, so push Talk, call my daughter, and push Talk again and we'll be talking to you. Okay. Let me try this. Wait, what's your number in case this doesn't work."
...I proceeded to break a few rules and gave her my phone number and extension...
Caller: "Okay. Here goes nothing. Hold on and I'll get her."
You can probably guess how this ended - the 3-way call worked, I recorded the daughter's permission to speak to her mother, on her behalf and completed a telephonic enrollment; go me. :)
Unexpectedly Cold Mountain
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Movies are the window to my soul. I love watching movies. I love the unexpected. The unexpected good ones. They show up and engage us most intimately. Good movies educate and open up our narrow minds. It changes us.
Never liked Nicole Kidman. She seems cold and rigid. Almost frigid. Never liked Jude Law. Too much of a ladies man. (sleeps with his nanny) But I watched Cold Mountain this afternoon and loved it. I even feel like I love Mr Law.
It's such a loss with director Anthony Minghella (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005237/bio) having passed on last year. He has the same birthday as my husband. Wierd that I noticed. Such a brilliant storyteller. I'm going to get the book. It almost always is better reading the books.
Watching Cold Mountain made me colder about the warring world and yet, it gives me hope. The unexpected type of hope. Hope that life does get better. Hope that people are worth waiting for. Hope that when someone we love dies, we can still survive. No matter how cruel life can be, how cruel people can be, there will always be goodness.
I might sound very dramatic. But even though I don't experience half the extent of the drama in Cold Mountain, it helps to explore the dramatic side of life through books and movies. I guess it's a sort of mental preparation for the unexpected in my life.
Expect in one hand...
“Expect nothing, hope for everything."
- Everyone
It’s cliché quotes like this one that makes me question my method of listing my quotes in the order they appear in “the book”. In my old age, I’ve become much more discerning about the quotes I actually write in the book, but this is the direction I chose. So bare with me.
Hand to heart, I actually said this quote out loud the other day to my mom (Hi, mom!). She was telling me that I “should expect” something or another because I earned it. I corrected that I could hope for everything, but expecting things only ends in heartache.
My grandfather used to always say, “Want in one hand and spit in the other. See which one fills up first,” and I think it’s almost the same saying – just with a Grandpa twist. (Look, you just got a bonus quote today. You’re welcome.)
You can want anything in the world, but it doesn’t mean you’ll get it. You can have a list of expectation a mile long, but it doesn’t mean any of them will be met. All you can do is hope.
Because even if you’re only expecting something that is fair and deserved, you’re no more likely to get it than if it was something unrealistic and frivolous. Life doesn’t always work out the way we expect it to or wish it would.
But you should hope. You should hope for everything. And when you get it, it will seem that much better.
What do you think? Should we hope or expect?
So I play the guitar and you donated over $400 to #StJude!?
I have been playing bars, weddings, and coffee shops for almost 3 years now and getting paid to drink, party, and play music. I never thought I should get paid to do something I love and have a great time but it was pretty awesome. That is when I thought, could I play an online show and raise over 400 dollars for St. Jude? Having someone close to me get cancer (read below) it was the least I can do and was worth a shot! You didn't let me down and over 50 people watched the show online at livestream.com and we did it together. Raised $410 dollars for St. Jude! I took a picture of the actual donation I sent tonight.
Why did I do it?
It was winter break 2005 and I had just came back from college. Just 2 months before this, the news had came through the phone line to our dorm room that my best friend/roommate’s sister was diagnosed with Cancer. It was that moment, that word, that brought about all the thoughts and prayers one could imagine into that small box of a room. All you can do is sit and wonder about life, dreams, and all the other things you were planning for the future. It is this moment you realize that all the other “things” about life don’t really matter all that much. “Things can be replaced.”
This project, “Songs 4 St. Jude” came from a personal request from my roommate’s sister to play a song for her on Christmas. Little did I know that the song, “Skin” by Rascal Flatts is about a young girl with cancer and I also didn’t know how to play piano. I had a week and a half until this day. A week and a half to learn Piano, Skin, and play it at our Christmas gathering. Let’s say it was the best, most difficult, inspiring feeling that I have ever experienced and to this day gives me goosebumps thinking about that moment when I played the song for our families. (Here’s a picture of that day, before the song)
It was that story, that girl, that inspiration, that makes me start this project. The live shows are just a way to let people know what I plan to do while helping to support St. Jude at the same time. My goal is to head to St. Jude and write songs with the kids that we can then record, sell, and hopefully play live with the children someday. While this will raise money for the families and the hospital, it can be a lot more of an intrinsic motivator to help children fight this disease. I do this because I still have a true family friend around and can say that a big part of this is credited to St. Jude.
PROJECT IDEA
Here’s the deal… I want to go to St. Jude… In the meantime I am going to raise money with online concerts/shows…. Read below
Hopefully soon I want to go to St. Jude and help kids with cancer stay strong by showing them that they can write songs, create music, and sell the songs they write, then together we can help both the children and St. Jude. I can show each child that if they can write a song, then I can help them see the bigger dream that they can do anything. This is a project inspired from being personally affected by this terrible disease. This project goes out to Michelle Roberts.
UPDATE:
THANK YOU EVERYONE! WE RAISED OVER $400 in 30 minutes for St. Jude!
They Killed my Brother
Will you wait to be backed into a corner while fighting for your life to really be the person you are inside? I've been watching Band of Brothers recently and I've seen the men fight side by siderisking life and limb to protect themselves, their families, and their country.
They get shot one by one andstill the group moves forward.
They get crippled one by one and still the group moves forward.
They DIE one by one and still the group moves forward.Their Brothers are getting killed one by one so they fight harder. Why? Because they can stop the killing.
I ask myself, "Do people really need a war to be the heroes that they are?"
If you think about it, right now we are all fighting for our lives. We are also fighting for the lives of our loved ones. The only difference between wartime and peacetime is the Urgency of Survival. Since we don't have any rifles aimed at us we take it easy and say "I'll start my success tomorrow."We delay and delay till there's NO TIME LEFT.
But suppose we take that urgency and put it into our life today. HOW MUCH will it affect the path of your future?
HOW SOON will you get to your goal?HOW SOON will you be the HERO that you are?What about RIGHT NOW?
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Incredible story !! Unexpected "animal" behavior ??!!
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Could you imagine such reaction from a supposed wild and dangerous animal, a "leopard seal" ?? I'm so often amazed by so called "beasts" reaction... They can show emotions, compassion, interest, love along with fear, violence, instinct need for food, etc... This is life !!
