Monday, January 22, 2007
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Just a few updates for the moment. It’s A LONG ONE. LOL
It’s another Sat. Morning and I thought I would give you a small update.
Sometimes it’s the waiting that drives us crazy. You want things to speed up a bit. I have found in the waiting little gems of wisdom come my way. Patience is one of them. So when something does happen it’s like a tidal wave of Joy.
Man I love those moments.
I was looking back over the last 4 months. I had many moments of ups and downs. When something new happened I felt humble and just overjoyed. I don’t know, think about all the people I have met so far. It’s just not one or two. I have stories of people going back to their families over the holidays and telling everyone about what I was doing and laughing at my Lip Sync videos.
It’s crazy to think about how God has used this little venture to bring joy and touch people in ways I never thought possible. Sometimes I get this little voice in my head that says, Do You Really Think You Can Pull This Off?
Aw yes, DOUBT! That little whisper that plants that seed in the back of my head.
Lady’s let me give you a little insight on us men.
The question we always want the answer to is:
Am I good enough? Do I have what it takes?
Yea It’s crazy but it does run us. I think the Devil uses that to hold us down.
That could be in out Jobs, Marriage, Family, Spitual Life. DREAMS
It’s the Devil that whispers “Just give it up, you don’t have what it takes.”
The bad part is we all give in sometimes and we just settle back into our routines, when God is standing there with
His hands out and saying step out of the boat and trust me.
Now my problem is sometimes I jump out of the boat and start running toward God on the water then I take my eyes off of Him and start looking down saying
“Man the Water Looks Deep” And sure enough I screw up.
Sure it’s easy to look to Him when things aren’t great, BUT it’s when we are doing great is when we screw it up.
So with this venture in Winnie I am going to keep my eyes looking at Him!
We will all see what will happen. So even though things are really slow in my business, I am not going to get distracted.
I have received some unbelievable words of encouragment from
people I have never met. Thank you.
One thing I can promise you is that this adventure will NOT be boring.
It will be filled with amazing HIGHS and some LOWS, but we will have fun.
Have a blessed day. Someone must of needed to hear something because
I sat down just to put the video on below and I just started writing. LOL
Maybe it was me or one of you. Have a great day!
Monday, January 15, 2007
BIG UPDATE OF TRIP TO LA!!
It was a great trip. Watch the videos below to see how things went. I came away with an even bigger appreciation on what it is to Dream and pay attention to little stuff along the way. Keep posted God is doing some crazy things.
Click on Read More Button below to hear a little bit about my trip!
(Video 1) My first Hollywood Party
It was crazy. i just got into LA when Sheila had me change and off we went to this big party for Event Planners across the USA. It was well decorated and i felt like I was at an Oscar Awards after party. Really cool. Sorry video was dark there wasn’t much light. The stage and decorations were incredible. I even saw one of those Guys that dresses like a girl. LOL
Out to Eat at the In And Out Burger (Video 2)
Who would have thought In And Out was the best place to eat in LA. It seems they love theseburgers a lot! Anthony and Mandy took us out on the town to introduce us to this tender burger and bun.It was good, but those places are packed at all times of the day.
Crazy. After that we were going to try and head to Santa Monica but it didn’t work out. Sheila and I ended up going the next day.
Anthony and Mandy are going to be doing some church work in LA and it is truly a unique place God has called them to be.
Us up on the Santa Monica Pier (Video 3)
Just a short walk down the Pier to meet Dan an old man that has been coming to the Pier on his bicycle for the last 50 years. I received a short History lesson on the things he has seen. I love that kind of stuff. Meanwhile a crazy person was telling Sheila he could make the Sun stop. So we both met some fun people. LOL That’s what makes a journey the people.
My B-Day at Santa Monica Beach and God had a message waiting for me. (Video 4)
Yea in all the sand on the beach we found something. We were up on the pier and I wanted to go down and touch the water. You don’t make it all the way to that end of the USA and NOT touch the water. So we get down there and my lovely wife stops at the waters edge where I’m going to bend down and touch the water and sees something. LOL Yea it was God saying Happy Birthday.
(CLICK READ MORE FOR VIDEO)
After this we went to the Life According to Jim show. We stood in line for an hour and half. They came out and took a number of people in and left us 8 people from the front. They started telling everyone that there wasn’t anymore seats. But we waited right up to the taping time. What a LAST minute count came in and they only had 8 seats left. Sheila and I literaly were the last 2 people brought into the taping. I could go on for hours at this point. It was God saying Happy Birthday Todd. We sat on the second row next to a women whos husband worked on the camera team. Really cool. It was a blessed day.
See me at the Chinese Theatre with the handprints (Video 5)
It took a little work but we did find Hollywood Blvd. LOL We walked around until we found the stars handprints in the concrete. It was really cool. I happened to find my initials along with the Stars. Now I know it was a thumb print but sometimes it starts out small and has to grow.
The best video for Last. Me in front of The Tonight Show (Video 6)
I found the Tonight Show after doing a bit of driving around. It felt great, now all I have to do is make the trip back to be on show with Winnie. It was good I could drive around there and get a feel of the landscape. So now we really get things moving. Check out the video. Just hit the Read More button.
How cool is that!!!
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Getting ready to leave LA.
This truly has been a great few days. We are packing to try and head back to KC. Looks like it might not happen with the snow storm in KC, so we might be delayed a bit. I shot some fun videos, saw some things I always dreamed of seeing and put together a knowledge of the roads. I now know where the Tonight Show is and what is around it. So now it’s back to KC to get the show on the road. These next few weeks are going to be fun. I will be getting advertising on Winnie FINNALY. Rick has been working on the new website and is about 75% done. We are going to be having different things on there.
So now it’s off to raise more awareness. I’m learning even more about what it can take to live out a Dream. Sure it can be a lot of work, but the reward can be unbelievable. I don’t think that if it was easy it would be as rewarding.
I was posed a question last night that keeps me on track. What if you absolutly knew that this was your last week to live on this earth? Sure we have heard that question, but last night I really thought about it. Sure we need to plan for the future, but we also need to live in the present. Dreams are both planning for the future and living right NOW. Yea that’s cool. Our family is the same way. We must plan for colleges and marriages, retirements, BUT we also must enjoy them right now. The moment!!! I hope to do an update when I get back. As it looks it might not be until Tue. So keep us in your prayers for traveling. Take care everyone.
Maranatha
Todd
