CASH IN THE APPLE
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By Cash Michaels
HAPPY NEW YEAR – I’ll get to why I
am as pleased as punch that 2014 is over, dead and done with in a moment.
Needless to say, I am tremendously happy that all if us get a new beginning
starting today. But hopefully we do so with hard lessons learned, so that we
don’t make many of the same mistakes we made last year, or worse.
With the new year comes new
opportunity, and hopefully a new attitude to approach new opportunities with.
Consider last year your preparation year, the year where you put the pieces
together in getting ready for the big move. Force yourself to do better,
because who wants to go into a new year doing exactly the same thing you’ve
been doing over and over and over again.
And there are so many areas where
new beginnings could apply – business, education, training, relationships, with
GOD, with family, with community…the list is endless, and so are the
opportunities.
So here’s hoping that exactly one
year from now, you’re able to look back on 2015 and smile, saying to yourself
that it was a year where you worked, learned, sacrificed and achieved.
In that regard, I wish you and
yours the very happiest of the new year.
2014 – Needless to say, given all
that I’ve had to put up with healthwise, I am more than glad that 2014 is over
and done with.
As you may or may not know, I had a
stroke just two days after the Nov. 4th midterm elections, affecting
my left leg and arm. I joke that the size of the Republican victories that
night simply overwhelmed me. But I was in serious shape. I literally couldn’t
walk, and my left arm was weak. I spent five days in the hospital, and weeks at
home rehabilitating.
Then, because doctors were
concerned that I could easily sustain a second, and more debilitating stroke, I
agreed to an invasive heart procedure to determine of I had any coronary
blockages. On December 4th, I went into the Cary hospital, where
they planted me on an ice cold operating table, went up through my groin to my
heart (the easiest place because you have a major blood vessel there), and two
blockages were discovered.
That required for me to be
immediately transferred to the Raleigh hospital, where the procedures to
install two heart stents took place, and I spent three more days in the
hospital, before being sent home to recuperate. That’s where I’ve been ever
since. I expect to be as good as new in three weeks.
So I should be grateful that I had
my personal drama at the end of the year, and that thus far, it has turned as
well as it has. And I am grateful, make no mistake. I have a family, and to
think of the deadly path I was taking with my health leading up to my stroke is
now frightening to me. So the ending of 2014 is also the ending of a bad
mentality for me…a mentality of not taking very good care of myself, and almost
costing me my own life.
GOD spoke and got my attention, and
I’m so glad I listened because I know that I will be a better, healthier human
being in 2015, and beyond. All that I’ve outlined above for what should make
for a great 2015 are the rules and steps I’ve now laid out for myself. A
healthier me MUST be a BETTER me, which means this is lifelong hard work that I
must commit to.
Now don’t get me wrong…2014 wasn’t
a complete bummer. I finished three films I’m very proud of, and I’m looking
forward to be more active businesswise than ever before, because I’m not
getting any younger (indeed, I turn 59 this Saturday).
But I can’t do anything with decent
health, and that’s what I’m working towards, and looking forward to this new
year.
So thank you GOD, thank you family,
and thank you everyone else fro all of the love and support.
And Happy New Year!
Make sure you tune in every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. for my talk
radio show, ''Make It Happen'' on Power 750 WAUG-AM, or online
at www.waug-network.com. And read more about my thoughts and opinions
exclusively at my blog, ‘The Cash Roc” (http://thecashroc.blogspot.com/2011/01/cash-roc-begins.html).
Cash in the Apple - honored as the
Best Column Writing of 2006 by the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
Columnist Cash Michaels was also honored by the NNPA for Best Feature Story
Journalist of 2009, and was the recipient of the Raleigh-Apex NAACP’s
President’s Award for Media Excellence in Sept. 2011.
Until
next week, keep a smile on your face, GOD in your heart, and The Carolinian in
your life. Bye, bye.
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