Hey everyone, I just had an awesome weekend at UG5 (Underground 5 seminar, hosted by Yanik Silver) learning from some amazing businessman, entrepreneurs and very good friends.  I shared something that happened to me in my presentation and I’d like to share that same moment with all of you. 
After UG2 in 2006 I got home and was sitting on my front steps looking at my gravel driveway thinking about my businesses I was trying to run at the time. Emphasis on TRYING…really I was just getting by. My wife and I had just built our current home and we couldn’t afford paving the driveway so I remember distinctly sitting on the steps…feet on the gravel thinking to myself, “Man, you’ve got to get this together.” Schmidt Engineering was going okay, and USCCA was going okay but really what it came down to was that putting half effort into everything at the time was costing me a lot of money! I was frustrated! I wanted to spend more time with my family instead of working 80 hours a week. I wanted to feel good about my finances instead of just ‘doing okay.’
That’s when I made the decision. Focus completely on USCCA, put all my eggs in that basket, just do whatever I could to make that work! And you know what, one year later I sold my engineering business because the magazine really took off.
Reading ‘A Leaders Legacy’ they talk about Rosa Parks Moments (RPM!). Who was Rosa Parks before that historic day on the bus when she REALLY took a stand…er a seat…for herself? …she was a seamstress and a citizen. She was like the rest of us. Not famous, wealthy or a hero. But after that day she was known all over the country and people still celebrate her courage to act on her convictions.  My RPM completely changed my life and I will never forget it.  What’s that moment when you really say ENOUGH is ENOUGH! I’m not putting up with this anymore! Take it from a recovering engineer, quit thinking about it and make your own RPM! ACT NOW!

Take care,

Tim Schmidt

Tonnie (my wife) and I were out in Vegas a few weeks back for one of our mastermind meetings. Our entire mastermind group (about 17 of us) decided to take a trip out to Las Vegas Motor Speedway and drive Indy cars for an afternoon.

Below is a video I took of some of my fellow masterminders driving. It doesn’t look like they’re going that fast… but they are! The one thing I kept thinking to myself when I’d hit the corners going 150+ MPH was, “I can’t believe they’re letting me do this!”

I figured it was going to be pretty cool… but I had NO IDEA just how cool it was going to turn out to be!

Tonnie and I recently returned from taking the whole Schmidt family to the Turks & Caicos islands for a pre-Christmas vacation. Needless to say, we had a wonderful time!

Our youngest is 4 and he’s finally old enough to travel with. Don’t get me wrong, he is still a HUGE handful, but at least it’s do-able!

Here is a picture of the whole family on the beach. For those of you who are not completely in “the loop”, the red-haired kid is our German foreign exchange student. His name is Jan and he’s been living with us since August 15th, 2007.

We stayed at the Beaches resort and I’d say that everyone liked it a lot. They had a ton of cool kid activities and lots of great places for the kids to play and hang out.