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Reveille Rocks May 24 Newsletter

​​The latest news, views, and announcements​  

Welcome to our Newsletter. We are very happy to be publishing our first Newsletter for ReveilleRocks.com  

Our New Class will kick off our monthly Training Classes in June.  

Do you ever wish you could do more, do it better, or work on the things you believe will make a positive difference in your life and the lives of others? When you attempt to do something are you finding yourself held back by demands of others for you to take care of their needs first? Do you feel trapped? Maybe, this class is for you.  

I will deliver this class live on 5 June 2024.  I will have more information on how to sign up for this class very Soon. This is normally a $47 class, but I am giving this one time for $15.  

​​Welcome to our Newsletter​ 

​​                                               By Mike Balof​  

We are very happy to be publishing our first Newsletter for Reveille Rocks and the Https://Reveillerocks.com Website. 

We are running a little late this month. Normally, the newsletter is out on the first Monday of the month. We will work on making those dates so you will not have to wait. 

The Newsletter will give you information on classes, books, and other neat things we will be offering. It will also tell you a little about the Monthly meetings and what will be covered. Each month, our meeting will include some training on interesting subjects. Our meeting on May 15th at 10 a.m. MDT will be an excerpt from our training about getting out of your shell. 

​​About Our Academy​  

I am building an Academy of courses, books, other training materials, and coaching sessions. It should be open by June and will have items that anyone who wants to learn can afford. 

​​What is Coming Up 

​We will have our Academy open in June, and there will be a great offer for those who want to join it in June. 

  • ​Coaching offers will be available which include not only paid coaching. We also have a free 90-minute discovery offer to help anyone wanting to learn about coaching.  
  • ​We will have a theme for each month and a class for that theme. 
  • ​A new book will be published twice yearly on thoughts, ideas, and what people tell me they are looking for. 
  • ​We will have a group Zoom call every month. I am starting these in the middle of the month, and we can adjust dates and times to meet the needs of most clients.  
  • ​And there will be much more as we grow and reach out to be of assistance. 

​Thank you for reading this newsletter. Please send all comments and thoughts to Mike Balof at mikeb@reveille.rocks. 

B.T.W.

​​ Please let me know if you need help with the items I teach and talk about. I can help with a 20-minute free Zoom call, resources to learn more, and even good training at reasonable prices. Thanks, Mike

Travel Always Gives a True Light

I find it is travel that renews our spirits. It allows us to learn new customs, meet new people, and see new sites. My wife and I were blessed to enjoy such a trip this last week. I thank you for your patience when I went into areas and actions where daily blogging would be hard to accomplish.

I traveled for hours through the desert enjoying the cool air and the snow which was still present in crevices and washes where the sun had not yet shined on it. I had initially been worried about the heat I remembered from being stationed in Del Rio, Texas. I was very grateful to the kind people of Arizona who arranged a little snow and temperatures in the ’30s for us.

Part of my trip took me to Douglas, Arizona where I attended my son’s wedding and welcomed a wonderful new son-in-law into the family. I was also very privileged to meet his wonderful extended family and enjoy their gracious company.

I will tell you more of the grand hotel we stayed in later. It was the technical wonder of its day when first built, and even today, as it is being restored to former glory, all of the history and narrative of the local area is still visible and felt within its walls.

I will have much more to tell you about in upcoming blogs. For now, I wish to thank the people of Douglas. While I was there, I went out and walked the town. I always felt safe in this border crossing town. And the people were very friendly. I saw nice small shops, and I ate delicious local cuisine.

The hype I see on TV about terrorists, drug smugglers, rapists, and other terrors, I have learned is made up TV hype. I have been there and what I see in this nice border town is a community where people are living and enjoying daily life.

I want to thank all those I met, and all those I had a chance to talk with. Because of all these interactions, I have grown and hopefully become a better person because I have new ways to look at things.  Travel always helps to see things in a true light.

Thanks for being with me today. I hope to be with you again tomorrow.

Good or Bad

No person makes it by themselves. The poets and the singers got it right.

It is incredible, when we think of it, that for all the foibles and failures in our society, we actually function best with a community. As a matter of fact, lack of community only serves to stunt our ability to grow and do better. Although I focus on emotional growth and growth of knowledge, health and physical well-being are also often compromised.

A community is not for sissies. Just like Yin and Yang, there are positives and negatives in anything. Being part of a community is no exception. You will find much good in interacting with others, sharing, and learning as you grow within the community. At the same time, you do open yourself up to emotional pain. You find yourself open to some negative people. And not everything that you learn will turn out to be true.

This does not mean we’re better off walling ourselves off from the community. For good within the community far outweighs the bad. What we need to do, is to go into the community as I believe one great person put it, “as gentle as lambs, and is wary as wolves.”

The real trick is to absorb everything you can and then weigh it. Do your research to know what’s true or not. And, do your considerations to understand the meeting of what you have learned and whether it is good or bad based on the morals of the community, and more importantly within your framework of right and wrong within life. Only then, do you really know if this knowledge is relevant, accurate, and helpful.

Utilize and grow with the right and confident knowledge. Do not dismiss or flush out of your system the false and harmful knowledge. Instead, keep a file in your mind of things that are negative or untrue. Having the record on hand helps you from having to relearn or possibly remaking the same mistakes.

Community

Lately, it seems the country is caught between floods and fires. Here in the Springs, we had terrible smoke and haze on Sunday from the fires in California Oregon, and even locally in Woodland Park. Monday, we had heavy afternoon storms that caused some of the worst flooding in the last few years. The water came down Ute pass and through Manitou Springs.

The mess left from hail, which was more than ankle-deep, and the gunk from the stream overflowing, brought the small tourist town to a standstill. The next morning civic togetherness was in full demonstration as many people in town showed up to help clean up the mess. It would take a few days to get the Town back up and running again. And, of course, the loss due to property damage and lack of tourist trade will set the town back.

The most helpful thing to come from this is the fact that even with the property damage, interruptions to routines, and loss of business, the entire community came together to help each other and clean up the mess. The town stood together to ensure everyone was safe and could recover from this devastation. Manitou Springs once again is a positive role model of a southwestern community.

This is one more occurrence that makes me step back and ask myself, “What have I done for others lately?”