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November 16-18 Cabin for Deer Capm
November 21-25 Home for Thanksgiving
December 1-2 In Studio working on new album for Motivational Cowboy
December 6-9 College Station Texes for NCAA Soccer
December 10-12 Upnorth Running Elk Hunt
December 13-17 Cary NC for NCAA Men's Soccer
December 21-26 Home for Holidays
If MSU Makes the Insight bowl I will be in Tempe AZ
I am single while searching for a young positive female influence in my life.I currently reside in Berkley, MI. I choose to live a lifestyle where I am free and liquid to be anywhere I want in the country, whenever I want, with whom ever I want. I drive a 2001 Fully-Mobile, Self-Contained Urban & Wilderness Assault Suburban. I am the President and Founder of 3Ds Promotions: A Promotional & Marketing Company - www.3DsPromotions.com - I also the representation for Johnny D. "The Motivational Cowboy" and do all of his photography, web and gigs - www.MotivationalCowboy.com or www.MySpace.com/OutstandingDay - I have a salary job with TMG Sports Marketing where I manage and travel with our General Motors Pontiac accounts including the Grand American Racing Series and NCAA Sports. I enjoy traveling spontaneously, photography, writing and producing, cedar log furniture making, listening to audio books, cooking chili, sports, dancing, sailing, tailgating, random headstands and volunteer work. After Hurricane Katrina a friend and myself spent a week doing pet search and rescue in downtown New Orleans. After college I packed all of my possessions into a mini-van and traveled the country for 9 months covering 24 states. I ended up Key West Florida where my van broke down and my money ran out so I decided to stay. After a period of being homeless I helped to start LPTV which is a local television station in town, I substitute taught at Key West High and worked at glass bottom boats. I finally ended up opening the doors of The Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservancy as the Chief Operating Engineer where I was responsible for the outdoor gardens and all of the interior operations of the building – www.KeyWestButterfly.com -With the last of my money I purchased a 28-foot sailboat and lived on the ocean in it. Also in the keys I helped save the whales when a pod of Pilot Whales beached themselves on the beaches of Big Pine Key. I made a promise to a friend in my marina as I left that if he ever got his boat fixed up and needed help sailing it to give me a call. Four years later he called me. Within the week I dropped everything and went to the Keys to help my Captain Bob, an 81 year old Pirate, move his boat. You will have to read about the adventure later. During my travels I wrote a book and am in the process of self-publishing it. My current life’s passion is running my own publishing company where I give other people the opportunity to travel and write about their life experience and I publish their stories. I graduated in 2002 from Michigan State University with a major of Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Resources and Society with Sociology and a Business Emphasis. My studies brought me to Hawaii for a summer semester where I studied People and Cultures at the University of Hawaii. I graduated from Flushing High School in Flushing, MI in 1998 where my Dad was my high school principal. At Flushing High I was a championship athlete in Football, Basketball and Track where I shortly held the school record in the 100-meter dash. My Mom teaches first grade in New Lothrup, MI and my brother Mike is currently a teacher in Arizona and also coaches X-Country, Track and Girls Basketball. I enjoy spending time with my family both at home as well as at our log cabin up north in the woods. I am a member of The Sierra Club, The National Parks Conservancy, The National Geographic Society, The History Channel Club, The National Parks Travelers Club, The National Arbor Day Foundation, The National Audubon Society, The National Wildlife Federation, The Best Friends Animal Society and The International Chili Society.
The words I live by are written above and below while my schedule with stories are located to the side. Please take the time to read them and I hope they help to somehow inspire you.
Thomas D. Whitmire
Direct (810) 423-5030
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2856 Cummings
Berkley MI 48072
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--Here and Now—
Here and now I sit in a little park looking out over the harbor and the islands. I follow the aim of the cannon turrets mounted on the shores and they point me to a mess of ships navigating the water. Passing in front of me are ships of all sizes shapes and purpose, all of them amazing to watch and follow. These ships cut a wake into fresh open water like I hope to cut a wake into a fresh open new life. They leave behind a ripple like I hope to leave behind me. I ripple that will continue to spread out as I move forward through my life becoming greater and greater and leaving behind a sign of where something of greatness once passed through on its journey. Anchored in the harbor are so many ships with such great potential. These ships though are anchored. They are not creating the ripple through the water. I don’t want to become one of these ships. I want to be always moving through life, always creating that ripple and using my potential. No one watches in amazement the beauty of a sailboat parked at the dock with the sail down and the cover over its bow. This is like so many people today. They could sail so far in life but they are always parked at the harbor. People look at the breath taking beauty of the boat with open sails gliding with the wind through the water. I want to be this boat. I want to be watched as I set sail and head off into the unknown. So many people sit in the harbor because it is safe and predictable. It is a danger and a risk to set sail on a voyage. To many people are scared and would rather be stationery in their lives than to seek something greater around the next turn and to follow the wind of their ways. I do not want to be anchored and you should not want to be anchored and if you are you need to cut those lines and set sail. Ask someone in a bar to tell you the most amazing thing that ever happened to them in their lives and I guarantee it won’t start out with “I didn’t take a risk one time and this happened.†Greatness in your life won’t happen if you don’t want it to. If you are afraid, it will never change the way you live. Set sail and if someone asks you the most amazing thing that ever happened hopefully you would only have to look back to something you did last week not last decade. Live your life every day. Make each situation of it the best that it can be. Live so that you can tell your story. Each day should have a story come out of it. If it doesn’t, than make one happen. Set sail in your life and cut the anchor and see where the wind takes you. If you have others in your life make them your passengers and your crew and work together to navigate the wind of life. No one ever talks about the time they surfed the Internet or watched TV. They tell the stories of their lives about climbing mountains, skiing down mountains and traveling to California in the back of a Jamaican drug smuggling truck. It can be simpler than that I know. Call a friend, visit a neighbor or help a stranger. I encourage you to turn your TV off for a day and do random things you wouldn’t expect yourself to do and others wouldn’t expect you to do. See how this one-day could change your life or the people you encounter. Go to a diner and sit next to someone. Strike up a conversation and just follow the flow. Ask them about the greatest thing they have done or seen. Ask them where they have been or where they are going. Ask them what their story is and then share yours and then at the end of the conversation, buy their meal for them. Look at the expression on their face and it will be worth the money. If they inquire why you did this tell them they would probably do the same. Leave and see the country or just get out of the chair and see your own back yard. Sometimes depending, it can have the same effect. Make a point each day to encounter someone or something that is worthy of a picture. Make a pact to take at least one picture every day and to make something worthy of that photo. Whether it be to go visit a grandchild or to go down to a local park and take a photo of a family enjoying their time, or even a photo of a flower in your back yard. Just use the photo as an excuse to add a change or variety to your life. It will force you to experience something that day that you didn’t the day before. If you go the day without a photo taken then you haven’t set sail yet and you need to try a little harder. Going to work and then home and getting into that pace is not healthy. You need to find a way to break the monotonous pace of your life. Pull off and take a new way home. Or go to a different grocery store on your way home. See other places new things and people. Change it up a little. If you were going to have to write a page in a book about your day would you have anything to write about? Will you create a page for yourself and fill it with something. I hope so.
“Make only the days you live not worth writing a book about the days you spend writing a bookâ€
Thomas D. Whitmire
From the Book “Quest for Greatness†- 2003