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Austin houses that are a little more contemporary may be more your style. Clean lines and an open concept located near downtown.You want we got it! Our agents are here to help you find houses in Austin that you can call home!
If you are looking for real estate in Austin, please call Rose Castro at 512.656.3281 or [email protected]
NOTE: As a thank you for reading this blog post, we are providing you with a free excerpt from Dan Castro’s book CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES.
Today, the phrase, "crossing the Rubicon," is often used to describe a decision from which there is no turning back. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his troops, this act alone began a civil war from which there was no turning back. Caesar’s momentum carried him the rest of his way. Had Caesar not made the decision to cross the Rubicon, he never would have achieved his great victory.
A more compelling example is the story of the firemen of the New York Fire Department who ran headlong into the burning WorldTradeCenter when everyone else was running out on that fateful day of September 11, 2001. What was it within these men that compelled them to sacrifice their lives, not knowing for certain that they would even be able to save anyone? What was it in the fiber of their very souls that made them literally jump through the fire that day? They saw something different from what the people fleeing the fire saw. Oh, of course, they saw the fire. But the firemen also saw the purpose on the other side of the fire and that’s what they chose to focus on. This is the stuff heroes are made of.
Our heroes used to be superstar athletes, movie stars, senators, presidents and TV personalities. But they have left us disappointed, disillusioned, and embarrassed. More and more, our heroes are becoming the average every day person who goes out of his or her way to help someone else.
True heroes see a purpose bigger than themselves, their money and their fame. Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett Jr. and Jeremy Glick are just such heroes. On September 11, 2001, terrorists had already crashed airplanes into both of towers of the WorldTradeCenter. Beamer, Burnett and Glick were on United Airlines Fight 93, which was still in the air and had been taken over by terrorists. They knew they were going to die. But they decided to try to save others’ lives in the process. Unarmed, untrained and unprepared, they decided to take back the plane.
Before they moved out, Burnett spoke to his wife by cell phone. “We’re all going to die but there are three of us who are going to do something about it.” Jeremy Glick also spoke to his wife. Initially she begged him to sit down and not call attention to himself. She begged him to do whatever he could to save himself. But he explained that it was not that sort of situation. There was much more at stake than personal survival. Beamer said a prayer with the GTE operator and together they quoted the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. The GTE operator stayed on the line and heard Beamer say, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” His wife, Lisa Beamer explained that this was the expression Todd used every time they were getting ready to leave the house on a family outing. The cockpit voice recorder captured sounds of people shouting and screaming in the cabin and cockpit shortly before the crash. But, together, Glick, Burnett, Beamer succeeded. In the fight that ensued, the plane crashed into a field somewhere south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, instead into its intended target in Washington, DC.
When the United States retaliated by invading Afghanistan, an outstanding professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals answered the call to arms. Pat Tillman traded a $3.6 million, three-year contract with the Cardinals for any Army Ranger job that paid $18,000 per year. In 2001, the Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams had offered Tillman a $9 million, five year offer. He turned it down out of loyalty to the Cardinals. In a society where superstar athletes whine that a $20 million deal just isn’t enough, Tillman’s actions are baffling. We just don’t get it. It doesn’t compute. Playing in the NFL is every high school football player’s dream come true. You become an instant millionaire. You become instantly famous and instantly secure. Why would anyone in their right mind give this up? Heroes see a purpose bigger than themselves.
Tillman was first sent to Iraq with the 75th Regiment Ranger Battalion during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Then he was transferred to Afghanistan where U.S. troops had been battling pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban resistance. Despite major efforts by the media to make him a hero when he gave up the NFL to fight the terrorists, Tillman refused to let himself be treated any differently from his fellow soldiers. He refused to talk to the press – except for one rare interview. In that interview he said, “My family has . . . gone and fought in wars and I really haven’t done a damn thing as far as laying myself on the line like that, and so I have a great deal of respect for those that have and what the flag stands for.” Tillman was later killed in battle in Afghanistan.
Dave McGinnis, former head coach of the Cardinals said, “Pat Tillman made a decision based on some very real values, and the words honor, dignity, integrity, commitment . . . they were not just adjectives with Pat Tillman, they were reality in his life, and that came through very loud and clear.” Heroes don’t look for what’s in it for them. They see the bigger purpose.
Austin houses that are a little more contemporary may be more your style. Clean lines and an open concept located near downtown.You want we got it! Our agents are here to help you find houses in Austin that you can call home!
If you are looking for real estate in Austin, please call Rose Castro at 512.656.3281 or [email protected]
NOTE: As a thank you for reading this blog post, we are providing you with a free excerpt from Dan Castro’s book CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES.
Today, the phrase, "crossing the Rubicon," is often used to describe a decision from which there is no turning back. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his troops, this act alone began a civil war from which there was no turning back. Caesar’s momentum carried him the rest of his way. Had Caesar not made the decision to cross the Rubicon, he never would have achieved his great victory.
A more compelling example is the story of the firemen of the New York Fire Department who ran headlong into the burning WorldTradeCenter when everyone else was running out on that fateful day of September 11, 2001. What was it within these men that compelled them to sacrifice their lives, not knowing for certain that they would even be able to save anyone? What was it in the fiber of their very souls that made them literally jump through the fire that day? They saw something different from what the people fleeing the fire saw. Oh, of course, they saw the fire. But the firemen also saw the purpose on the other side of the fire and that’s what they chose to focus on. This is the stuff heroes are made of.
Our heroes used to be superstar athletes, movie stars, senators, presidents and TV personalities. But they have left us disappointed, disillusioned, and embarrassed. More and more, our heroes are becoming the average every day person who goes out of his or her way to help someone else.
True heroes see a purpose bigger than themselves, their money and their fame. Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett Jr. and Jeremy Glick are just such heroes. On September 11, 2001, terrorists had already crashed airplanes into both of towers of the WorldTradeCenter. Beamer, Burnett and Glick were on United Airlines Fight 93, which was still in the air and had been taken over by terrorists. They knew they were going to die. But they decided to try to save others’ lives in the process. Unarmed, untrained and unprepared, they decided to take back the plane.
Before they moved out, Burnett spoke to his wife by cell phone. “We’re all going to die but there are three of us who are going to do something about it.” Jeremy Glick also spoke to his wife. Initially she begged him to sit down and not call attention to himself. She begged him to do whatever he could to save himself. But he explained that it was not that sort of situation. There was much more at stake than personal survival. Beamer said a prayer with the GTE operator and together they quoted the Lord’s Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. The GTE operator stayed on the line and heard Beamer say, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” His wife, Lisa Beamer explained that this was the expression Todd used every time they were getting ready to leave the house on a family outing. The cockpit voice recorder captured sounds of people shouting and screaming in the cabin and cockpit shortly before the crash. But, together, Glick, Burnett, Beamer succeeded. In the fight that ensued, the plane crashed into a field somewhere south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, instead into its intended target in Washington, DC.
When the United States retaliated by invading Afghanistan, an outstanding professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals answered the call to arms. Pat Tillman traded a $3.6 million, three-year contract with the Cardinals for any Army Ranger job that paid $18,000 per year. In 2001, the Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams had offered Tillman a $9 million, five year offer. He turned it down out of loyalty to the Cardinals. In a society where superstar athletes whine that a $20 million deal just isn’t enough, Tillman’s actions are baffling. We just don’t get it. It doesn’t compute. Playing in the NFL is every high school football player’s dream come true. You become an instant millionaire. You become instantly famous and instantly secure. Why would anyone in their right mind give this up? Heroes see a purpose bigger than themselves.
Tillman was first sent to Iraq with the 75th Regiment Ranger Battalion during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Then he was transferred to Afghanistan where U.S. troops had been battling pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban resistance. Despite major efforts by the media to make him a hero when he gave up the NFL to fight the terrorists, Tillman refused to let himself be treated any differently from his fellow soldiers. He refused to talk to the press – except for one rare interview. In that interview he said, “My family has . . . gone and fought in wars and I really haven’t done a damn thing as far as laying myself on the line like that, and so I have a great deal of respect for those that have and what the flag stands for.” Tillman was later killed in battle in Afghanistan.
Dave McGinnis, former head coach of the Cardinals said, “Pat Tillman made a decision based on some very real values, and the words honor, dignity, integrity, commitment . . . they were not just adjectives with Pat Tillman, they were reality in his life, and that came through very loud and clear.” Heroes don’t look for what’s in it for them. They see the bigger purpose.
