Storms are coming, be grateful

well good morning or good afternoon or good evening or whatever the hell time it is where you are this is motivational monday on the daily grateful my name is michael crowson i am motivated oh am i motivated you know i got stuff to do you know what kind of stuff i got to do well i live on the west central coast of florida and you know depending on when you hear this if you're hearing this today what is the date what is even the date today let me look at the mr iphone it is uh monday august 28th right this month ago uh tomorrow which is tuesday there's supposed to be a major hurricane here yeah it started off as this like little tropical something or other down you know down south of us and they said it's not gonna be it's probably gonna be a rainmaker and then all of a sudden you know yesterday they said oh well it's made its way to a tropical storm status and this morning monday morning i get up and it is they say it's gonna be a big old hurricane by the time it gets up to us and i looked at that you look at the path and we're at the bottom part of the path but the path seems to be getting wider it seems to be heading more towards us you know so every time they change the path we don't worry about hurricanes in florida until the waffle house closes and the waffle house is still open and that's what i'm looking for tomorrow by wednesday this whole thing's gonna be gone so tomorrow i'll be checking to see if the waffle house is open i need to record a bunch of uh these things today because there's a real good chance we will lose our electricity and if we lose our electricity for a day or two or three last time a big storm came through here we lost our electricity for three days so i think i need to record the rest of these uh today sometime i got other stuff i gotta get done today i i gotta go walmart i you know usually have them deliver i think i need to run up there and get a bunch of bread and uh another jar of peanut butter because you know we have no electricity i need something to eat so you know we're off with that and my lovely favorite second ex-wife diane will be coming over tomorrow and she stays at the storm at my house we weather the storm together because she has a second floor bedroom at her house she lives less than a mile away from here and she doesn't want to be on the second floor so she likes to come over here and i really love it when she comes over here so she'll stay with me for the day or two or whatever it takes and i'm grateful for that see there's always something to be grateful for you know there's the other thing i'm grateful for is i got rid of the three trees that were in my front yard that i was always nervous about the last time a big storm came through here there were a couple of trees in my front yard uh danger area and the trees were old and brittle one of them hanging over my house and i would just sit there and i would i would you know during the storm i was wondering if this thing's just gonna land in the house well all those trees are gone there's three trees they're now all gone there are no trees next to my house none so i am grateful for that you can always find things to be grateful for when you're in you know when interesting things are heading your way i'm grateful that i have a bunch of food here already i'm gonna get the only thing i'm really gonna get is bread and peanut butter i've got bottles i'm gonna fill them up with water just in case that'll you know that's never happened here in florida since i've lived here since 19 a long time ago uh in the 60s it's never happened we've never lost water in the old they would say fill up your bathtub so you have water to you know scoop up to flush your toilet with and uh you know just all the stuff we all used to do i don't do that stuff anymore i do bottle up some water just in case but you know i don't know we've never lost water so that's the only reason you would lose water is if the power at the water place went out and their generators didn't work anymore that's how i see it that's just all you know i'm rambling today i'm sorry i apologize for rambling but what i want to tell you is when the world looks like it's going to you know what you have a lot of things to be grateful for you have the ability to plan you have the ability to take action you have the ability to be calm you have all those abilities and you can just take it on as it goes this is a small challenge compared to some challenges that some people have there are some people who are going to weather the storm they have disease that is attacking their bodies and their mind and their soul and they're helpless and that's not me and while i i pray for these people i'm grateful i'm not one of those people but if i were one of those people i would be grateful that through all of this i have the ability to persevere to get through it to get through the storm to get through the cancer to get through the covet to get through whatever you have upper respiratory problems any of those things you have the ability to work towards those things so that's good i like that all right i just happen to know that all of us have the ability the one thing we all have is the ability to be grateful the one thing that we all have is the ability to look up and find the good the ability that we all have is the ability to persevere all you got to do is get off your ass and move forward all right i'm gonna pre-record a bunch of these things to get us through the storm and i hope not to use any of my hope tomorrow when i come back is me coming back with a fresh brand new podcast but if not it'll all be on tape see you then you