I’m in Vegas right now attend­ing three sem­i­nars back to back. I’ve been here for close to three weeks now, and we’re about to return home tomor­row. This explains why I haven’t blogged in a while.

While here, we’re look­ing at some prop­er­ties. We want to buy a vaca­tion home, espe­cially dur­ing those cold win­ter months in Canada. (I think we found our home.)

But last week, my wife took me to see George Car­lin at the Orleans Casino as my Father’s Day gift. It was a great show. George was fun­nier than ever. Still raw, caus­tic, and rant­ing at 71, he cer­tainly hasn’t lost his touch.

Well, just a few moments ago I’ve learned that we, how­ever, lost him.

When I learned about it, I was speech­less. We just saw him a few days ago! I guess we caught one of his last shows if not his last. The fun­ni­est part of this? His show included jokes about dying and the afterlife.

Rest in peace, George Car­lin. We’ll miss you.

Michel Fortin: Peo­ple have egos and it’s nor­mal and it’s nat­ural and we all have things that are near and dear to every sin­gle per­son. Peo­ple will fight for what their egos tell them that they need to fight for.

I’m a very hum­ble per­son. I always like to take the low road. I do like the approval. I do like the lime­light. But, if I feel that some­body else can take it for me, if I feel that if there is some­thing that I can do, that it takes away from me, but it makes some­body else’s life bet­ter, I will do that. That’s a really hard les­son to learn in humility.

When­ever you look at, for exam­ple, some of the dis­cus­sion boards that I’m par­tic­i­pat­ing in, some­times you get these really fierce bat­tles. And there was a cou­ple of times when peo­ple actu­ally were against some of the things that I’ve either actu­ally said or had done.

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“Suc­cess is always tem­po­rary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your char­ac­ter.“
–Vince Gill

Today, when one is con­sid­ered “suc­cess­ful,” that per­son is usu­ally labeled as such accord­ing to some exter­nal cri­te­rion. This is only nat­ural, for along with the major­ity of the human race you have the ten­dency to judge a book by its cover. What you per­ceive or observe through any of your five senses is often­times inter­preted as real­ity or truth. And the prob­lem, how­ever, is that when you dis­tin­guish that which is suc­cess to you, you are only scratch­ing the surface.

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