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Personal Challenge + Positive Societal Impact = Good Karma
at Lavaman
So one of the perks of working at a firm where the inmates are running the asylum is that, from time to time, you get to do some really outrageous stuff, i.e. train for and compete in a Triathlon.
Now I had the same reaction most of you would’ve had if someone asked you if you’d like to do a Triathlon - “Hell no!” Then they asked me if I’d do a Triathlon if it meant I’d get to go to Hawaii, and again my answer was “Hell no!” Finally, they told me I was running the Triathlon or I was fired. It was at that precise moment I realized I really wanted to compete in a Triathlon.
So here’s the deal – I have to raise money to send myself (actually 25 percent of the goal) to Kona for the Lavaman Triathlon and for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. My goal is a nice, round $5,800.
Some of you are friends from college who, after the beer money, student loans and union dues, don’t have a lot of money left over. That’s really not my problem now is it? You’re the one who made fun of me for getting a degree in Political Science - time to reap it big boy!
Some of you are relatives or older friends who may need a tax shelter and have declined participation in my ingenious “Ponzi Schemes” of past. Still others of you may just be looking to ride on my proverbial coattails into karmic bliss.
The fact is, you’re all equal in my eyes so don’t be a miser and fork over some of that cabbage. It’s for a good cause. Seriously, don’t be that friend/relative who didn’t help.
Some day your kid is gonna want to sell me some crap candy bar so they can go on a Six Flags band trip. How bad are you gonna feel when you have to tell little Johnny or Suzie that they came up $10.00 short because you didn’t give a little to Uncle Mark back in the day? Let me tell you, pretty darn bad.
