What does Independence Day mean to you? Here's what it means to me....

Hi Dien!

Any fan of Franklin is a friend of mine...though he is NOT Leonardo, he is right up there!

In fact, today at breakfast we were discussing Mr. Franklin.

(I know, the world is amazing that you were in Australia thinking about Ben, and my girls and I were munching on Breakfast foods how many thousands of miles away?)

Our conversation centered around the application of knowledge in regards to business and success. Recently I learned about Samuel Morse, the creator of Morse Code. Mr. Morse was predominantly a painter who was fascinated by how to use electricity. He envisioned an electric pulse somehow providing the power through which knowledge would run. He had the IDEA, Franklin had provided the TOOL and he then created with the help of a TEAM the medium to apply his idea to the tool--thus being a huge part of the beginning of telecommunications as we know it today.

My girls and I talked about how Mr. Morse was NOT an engineer...and instead of saying, "I can't do it" he said "how can I?" and partnered with an engineer who COULD implement his idea more fluidly. It is through the telegraph machine that came from this collaboration that Morse Code was first used.

Thats how Mr. Franklin came into the conversation! He was a remarkable man. I don't know if any of you have seen the movie "1776". I really like how the actor portrayed him in this movie.

> "To be thrown upon one's own
> resources, is to be cast into the very lap
> of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a
> development and display an energy of which
> they were previously unsusceptible."
> -- Benjamin Franklin.

***Just had to include that quote again!

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE JORDAN SCOTT


Dare to Discover Your Passion, Decide to Live Your Destiny!