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or My Education Funding Business Ureka! It's taken a lot of work to figure out the process flow, market potential, contacts, programming and more but it has all come together - with the final piece being a great name and brand. I love the name iJar and the feeling that I had little to do with it's popping into my head. Much like when you get told about automatic writing or other feats of the faithful, it feels good, best even, to not be wholly responsible for the creation of something so much more important than your role. Let me digress a bit. iJar is an evolution of the education funding business I've been working on. Let's say that it started at a time when I was completely open to influence. Asking for guidance from those I'd only dare to have observed in the past, I also spent time having conversations with birds and staring at blank canvas. I wrote more than I painted when my hand finally started moving and soon I moved to my notepad. I'd been livin...

or Consistent Dedication It's gorgeous outside, good things happened since before I was awoke at 5:30 and my family is on my mind. They are consistently dedicated to their works - and in that I don't mean "job", I mean their works as relative to what they believe in and peruse in this world. If you know me, you've heard this before, but today, I was thinking that consistent dedication - like what I see in my entire family - causes a lot of days in life where it feels lake all your doing is finding money in your pocket, being blessed or feeling accomplished. It takes a lot to stay dedicated. Just this past week, I had to take some much needed time off. After a strong roll in which much was done, I ran out of energy. I don't mean I got tired, I could do no more for a minute. So, I didn't.  When finished resting, I fully thought there would need to be effort made to build new momentum and "get in" to the day. 'Twas not true. Working hard, ...