The brief recap of a man's life could be summarized by the following:

...Although this might read like an intro for the upcoming few years of Bobby Brown or Brett Michael's life, I am actually talking about Miguel de Cervantes. He wrote this little book a while back called Don Quixote. Some of you might have heard about it. What might strike you as a story of a total screw-up is anything but, when you look at it a little more closely. Yes there were some bumps along the road. But he did go on to write what some people a lot smarter than me would argue to be the greatest book ever written.

The amazing part of Cervantes' path is that it is so like our own if we only look a little deeper. We do not need to have a rap sheet to be able to relate. So many times, we just expect things to go differently than they actually do. Therein lies the challenge: not to give up when they do not. You know life is funny, so often it ends up giving you so much more then you could have imagined but you can bet it will go a lot differently than you  thought it would. Enjoy that.

This story of a humble man born to poor parents is filled with all sorts of catastrophes and screw-ups. Yet he overcame them and went on to make a beautiful contribution; an amazing and unprecedented contribution if you think about it.  It was not easy, and it took nearly 10 additional years for the second part of his masterpiece to be published, but he made it. A story about a man's search for love and his passion for everything good, the story of Don Quixote teaches us all something. In our pursuit of greatness, a little madness and a ton of passion, can be just the perfect concoction for one's success. This week, I have decided to embrace my own madness and passion and I ask you all to do the same.