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Life is like being on the internet; there’s lots of good stuff but there is also a lot of garbage. There’s lots of places you can get information; various news sites, social media, opinions, blogs, and videos. Unfortunately, there is no one place you can look to for plain, direct, and objective information. Each source has its biases, slants, agendas, objective, and focus.

When officer Plais Horn saw a man climb off a freight train in Opelousas in March 1917, he thought his sharp eye and good memory had helped catch a notorious bank robber.
The Opelousas Star-Progress called the arrest of the man, identified as Joe Davis alias Bill Butler, “probably the biggest capture in the history of local criminal authorities in recent years.”

Do you fret over the past? Do you worry about the future? Do you put things off until you get around to it? Do you avoid dealing with problems? Do you spend today focused on yesterday or tomorrow? Do you spend time worrying? Now is the time to take control of your life.
Now is what matters. Yesterday is over and can’t be changed. Nothing can be accomplished tomorrow because you don’t live in tomorrow. Every day is today. Now is when you can get things done. Now is the time to be proactive.