Last week Larry Genkin and I did a teleseminar on How to Balance Fame, Family & Fortune.  We chose this topic because there seems to be some myth that Fame, Family and Fortune are mutually exclusive terms…and that if you have one, you can’t possibly have the other.

We spent an hour and a half with several hundreds of my students explaining how wrong-headed this kind of thinking actually is - and how believing it can cause you to create your  own “self-fulfilling Prophecy” principle. 

Since that call, I had a wonderful experience, one that ranks on the top of my All-Time Greatest Moments list.  Now for those of you who know me, my list is already pretty long because I have been Blessed with such an interesting life. I have had the opporunity to travel to some pretty neat places, meet some pretty neat people and see some pretty neat things.  

My new “Greatest Moment” happened last week as Kathy and I took our daughters Jessica & Meghan and their husbands, Kory & Jason along with our two grandsons, Devin and Caleb to Disney World for a week long family trip.  One morning we decided to take our group to Magic Kingdom so our grandsons could meet some of the Disney characters. When I got out of bed that morning I had no idea that today I was going to do something so incredible that it would leave a mental impression that will last forever.

As our entire family walked down Main Street USA heading toward the Castle, Devin, Meghan’s two year old grabbed the pinkie finger of my right hand and at the same time, Caleb, Jessica’s one year old grabbed the pinkie finger of my left hand.  So, with the rest of the family falling in behind us, the three of us marched in unison (albeit small steps) toward this wonderful icon of awe and amazement.  The memory of the joy and anticipation on their bright young faces will be the memory that lasts with me forever.  Yeah, a grandababy on each pinke is neater than shaking hands with Kings, Queens or Presidents.

In one brief but very shining moment, Fame, Fortune and Family were put in their proper perspective and Family won!