Dear United States Senators…Right off the top and with all due respect, I don’t care what you think! I care what you do and right now what you should be doing is being a good, reverent and honest juror in an impeachment trial! I’ve heard too many of you saying that you don’t “think” it’s constitutional to impeach a President who’s out of office so no matter the evidence, you’ll vote no. Too bad! It’s been determined to be constitutional . The constitutionality question has been put to the United States Senate and it has been determined to be constitutional! You might not like it, but that is the fact! So the trial is proceeding and you are now a juror tasked with hearing the evidence, evaluating the truth and voting on it. In other words… It’s now time to pull up your big girl or big boy pants and do your job! If any of the rest of us out here in “Real-World-Land” were on a jury, our opinions on the validity of the proceedings wouldn’t mean squat! All that would matter would be the facts! (Facts, remember those?) The same holds true for you now. For now, we don’t care what you think about anything other than the facts!  Trying to litigate the past doesn’t matter. Trying to imagine the future doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is where we are now! (You are part of what got us here so buck up and take some responsibility.)  Listen to the facts.  Access the facts.  Weigh the facts.  Vote on the facts.  Live with your vote for the rest of your life and more than likely, the lives of your children.  On behalf of many, many, many Americans…  Do your job and stop hoping, wishing, praying and finagling ways to be re-elected! If you continue on this path, you will lose more than your seat in the Senate. You will lose the United States of America.  Do your job.  Just Do Your Job.  Sincerely, Gregg Masters

It seems like the question on everyone’s lips right now is “How do we move forward from here?” It’s pretty simple isn’t it? I mean we move forward now, the very same way we moved forward in order to make it this far.  No matter whether it’s Covid-19 or election results or racial injustice or your finances or problems around the house, getting to the solutions are the same.  First, you’re good but you’re still human, while you’ll want to accomplish them all at the same time, (Which is yesterday!) One Step At A Time is the ONLY way to get there! That’s why it’s the first and most important step. As for the rest, here they are… Access  Look at the situation dispassionately and access what the situation is and how exactly are you involved in it.  Adapt  Once you have accessed the situation then it’s up to you to adapt your behavior to I’m prove it. It’s not up to others to change. It’s up to you! Overcome  Take your new plans and your new path and overcome the challenges both real and imaged. Most importantly, overcome your previous mindset! That old mindset is what got you in trouble in the first place. Overcome that first and the rest will follow.  Repeat It’s not over! Things like this will happen over and over again. New problems and challenges will stand in your way and these steps got you past your last challenge. Use the knowledge you gained and use these steps again and again! One step at a time!!! Let’s be clear here, to do anything else others that solid action steps is nothing but LIP SERVICE! Lip service to others around you (including those you love) but most importantly, lip service to yourself! Do not let that happen! Moving forward is scary as hell but it’s the only way to look back with satisfaction of a job well done and look forward with anticipation, wonder and hope for a future ahead! Peace       …..Gregg

Things I’m hoping For In 2021…

This year more than any other, we need to look back in a somber and respectful way about what happened, while looking forward into 2021 with hope that is fueled by gratitude.

Here’s a few of the things that I’m hoping 2021 will bring us. Some serious and some… not so much.

Enjoy…..

•I’m hoping that 2021 finds us turning back the wave of Coronavirus that 2020 brought us.

•I’m also hoping that in 2021 we’ll all remember the hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19 in the United States and the millions around the world with respect and the resolve to never let this happen again.

•I’m hoping that 2021 delivers us Peace and Hope and Gratitude along with the Wisdom to allow them into our lives.

•I’m hoping that in 2021 all those people who feel the need to stand sideways with their hands on their hips in every picture they take realize that it ain’t workin! It just looks like you’re standing sideways with your hand on your hip! Take a great picture by being in the moment with those who are there with you.

•I hope that in 2021 more people might realize that the light at the end of the tunnel you’re seeing just might be a mirror reflecting the light within you as you get closer.

•I’m hoping 2021 will bring back hugs.

•I’m hoping that 2021 shows us how to make a New Normal that is not only New but Better and more indicative of what human beings were supposed to be like.

•I’m hoping that 2021 shows us that the revisionist history championed in the last few years, remains in the past and those leading that parade are destined to be remembered as clowns and charlatans.

•I’m hoping that 2021 sees the United States get back to not only leading the world again but also leading within our own borders again.

•I’m hoping 2021 shows us a better way to parallel park.

•I’m hoping for health in 2021.

•I’m hoping that more people notice more consistently “the least among us” and choose to not just talk about them but actually do something to help them.

•I’m hoping that 2021 will see all of my favorite sports teams win every single one of their games. (In the games and matches with their rivals, I’m hoping 2021 sees my teams winning those contests by triple digits! Just saying…)

•I’m hoping that in 2021 we realize that what we’re given is one thing but how we react to it is even more important.

•I’m hoping that in 2021 Hope is not forgotten or shuffled to the background. Let’s face it, in 20◼️◼️ (The Year That Must Not Be Named) many of us saw the brightness of Hope and Wonder dim. We began not to trust each step on our path because it was clouded with fear.

•I’m hoping that 2021 will be the year that we all rave about as being unexpectedly amazing and wonderful on a scale even greater than this year was the opposite.

•I’m hoping that 2021 allows you to find all the single socks once lost in the wash, find where you put the remote, that miraculously you have plenty of AA batteries in the junk drawer, that you find a $20 bill in those pants you haven’t worn for a while and that you not only find but allow happiness and love into your life.

Peace

     …..Gregg