Tony,

So very true Tony. And it is a central theme of humanity and what incentives people
need to achieve.

Our Founding Fore Fathers of American were most studious and practical in designing
the Great American Dream around your theme.

Given enough opportunity, then people will get up off their butts and work.

So, if a person gets to a level where they have it made and feel complacent, then there are
two directions to help encourage more striving for greater success. And it is again a
balance of power type of control built into the system.

Freedom to Fail --- Yes, one can stay in the complacent comfortable level and get passed
by or lose everything and end up in the gutter. Unique is that we encourage that one pay
their dues to society, and get back into the fray, and try to succeed again.

Opportunity --- Maybe the reason the person stops and becomes complacent is that real
worthwhile achievement for advancement is not any longer opportune enough. This has
been a real problem in our time in America. Knowledgeable Americans, for example,
see some opportunity, however, they look at the workaholic lifestyle, die of a heart attack
by the time one is 30 years old, and decide to opt out for a better lifestyle. At the same
time, say a foreign new immigrant looks at the same opportunity, greater than they had
ever had before in the old country, and they take on the opportunity, pay the dues for 20
years, and finally break out on the profitable side. Thus, making the older American a
little jealous of passing up on that opportunity. Many times the tight knit closeness of a
foreign family is key to getting cheap help in the buildup time period to success.

The new business of home computers and the Internet dot.coms, was totally different
than establishment. Super opportunity beyond American's previous experience was
demonstrated in a short time period, which created a 'Gold Rush' into the new fantastic
opportunity.

School of hard knocks is one thing, but more opportunity than one can turn their backs on
is the real key.

Tony,

I have a suggestion about your Peace Podium.

I take it you are serious about building an actual table of sorts from your Redwood.
How about taking a picture of it and posting it as a background picture on the site.
Then creating a social network with computer animation as a ‘Virtual Peace Podium.’

Once one of your friends commented a suggestion that you have your wife review your
articles with a spell checker and editor review --- got me to thinking. Well, nowadays
social networks are going gang busters with new ideas and programs like blog sites, RSS
aggregators, Wiki’s, etc. to make virtual communities easy to participate in for everyone.
So, I’m thinking why not have your friend who commented and other Internet users join
into the effort, rather than depending upon your wife?

I remember the year or two those jerks in Viet Nam spent talking about nothing other
than weather or not the peace table should be round or square while good Americans
were dying.

Therefore, please consider the opportunity to take charge in the connected world of today
and bypass the establishment and developing Tony Anthony’s Virtual Peace Podium.

Smaller success is greater than bigger failure.

It's tough enough just defining perfection, let alone achieve it. It's so different for each person.

There's also no growth in perfection. It's too balanced to go anywhere. It's through imbalance that we build strength.

I think back to when I was a child and my grandfather taught me how rock candy was made. He would put sugar in water, which was suspended within it perfectly; then he would put a knot in the string and disrupt that perfection. The sugar became attracted to the knot and it crystallized around it. Without that knot, the sugar would have nowhere to go.

We're all like little knots in the sugar water of life.

You're already part of the everything, so just become something.

Keep the light on!