Quote of The Month

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and the reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

- Garth Brooks


The Niagara Syndrome

In fact, most people live what I call "The Niagara Syndrome." I believe that life is like a river, and that most people jump on the river of life without ever really deciding where they want to end up. So, in a short period of time, they get caught up in the current: current events, current fears, current challenges. When they come to forks in the river, they don't consciously decide where they want to go, or which is the right direction for them. They merely "go with the flow." They become a part of the mass of people who are directed by the environment instead of by their own values. As a result, they feel out of control. They remain in this unconscious state until one day the sound of the raging water awakens them, and they discover that they're five feet from Niagara Falls in a boat with no oars. At this point, they say, "Oh shoot!" But by then it's too late. They're going to take a fall. Sometimes it's an emotional fall. Sometimes it's a physical fall. Sometimes it's a financial fall. It's likely that whatever challenges you have in you life currently could have been avoided by some better decisions upstream.

- Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within


 The Great
 FSS Trivia Challenge

1) In 2003, this company spent more money advertising during sporting events than any other.

2)  Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the book that this television series was based on. What was its name?

3) "Postcards from the Edge" was a book made in to a movie. Who was the author of the book?

4) This is the tallest structure in the United states. It's observation deck on the 109th floor offers spectacular views and the rides on top are truly hair raising.

5) Charles Nelson Reilly was a fixture in the top row of what game show? What woman occupied the seat next to him?

6) In the United States, which of the three traffic signal colors (red, amber, or green) is tinted with blue?

7) Budweiser beer sponsors what driver on the NASCAR racing circuit?

8) What Major League Baseball team is named for people who (either on purpose or for survival) played "chicken" with streetcars?

9) Which state has been said to occupy - at least in the eyes of its inhabitants, and also in the maps they supply to their visitors - "all of the North American continent, except a fraction set aside for the U.S. of A, Canada and Mexico"?

10) Who wrote that 'Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'?

11) Which U.S. state has the smallest population?

12) As of 2002, this is the most populous state bordering a Great Lake.

13) Slavery was first made legal in what American colony in 1641.


Last Issue's Puzzle Solution
1) Hawaii
2) Ebay
3) Michael & Susan Dell
4) Jeffrey Lundgren
5) New London, Connecticut
6) Appalachian Mountains
7) Rembrandt
8) Graig Nettles
9) Las Vegas
10) Copernicus
11) Ronnie Coleman