Who Is Greg Lightning ?
I live in Sunny Florida
Prior to being into and out of network marketing today my life has taken quite a journey. In the early 70s my family came to America from Germany when I was 9 years old .I adapted quickly to American ways but still had my European roots. My father was in business after WW2 that took him back an forth an he decided to stay in the states after the company he worked for made him an offer to work for them in the states and stay here. He brought the whole family and moved to Indiana not far from Indianapolis Speedway
My father was making good money an loved motor-sports of all kinds and raced motorcycles in the mid forties in what they called hare and hound chases in the states here .He was a top rider and very good friends with the Harley and Indian factory riders which helped him quite a bit. I was 14 when he bought me my first motocross bike an soon I was ready to race officially at a local track .I took to it like a duck to water an did well for a couple years but it is a rough sport an we decided to move on to Karts eventually .
We bought a used "Shifter Kart" which for those of you who are not familiar with them ,They are racing karts with 125cc or 250cc motorcycle style engines with 5-6 gears you could shift ,hence the name. These were mainly run on road courses and was quite a learning curve for us. It took us a year to really get a handle on it with a lot of help from fellow racers. .I was offered a spot on a factory team in Europe after placing several strong finishes against the pro guys and readily jumped on it for the next 2 years. These guys were extremely good but I finished 6th over all my first year and 3rd my second year. Not too bad for a rookie against the old pros. They let me go after my second year an we parted on good terms as I was tired of all the traveling/sponsor demands required.
We moved on to the dirt track karts in the states after that as it was becoming very popular. I struggled the first year till about halfway through the season figuring things out and started winning,I won 5 championships in the next 8 years and was 2nd the other 3 years at 3 different tracks .Dad had a friend who had a sprint car an they decided to let me try it out for a few races. It was quite a handful as I was not used to the weight or the power. I ran half a season for them finishing in the top 5 a few times but I never really was passionate about the car as it was very temperamental.
THE DAYS AHEAD WOULD BE DARK
As Dad got older his years of poor diet and no exercise slowly caught up with him as he developed diabetes ,had a stroke which left him in bad shape . He became depressed as we had to pretty much quit racing all together and I became the pillar of the family as I helped support the family with my job at the time .My older sister was married,self involved and rarely showed up to help me out as was the case of my younger brother .He was never much interested in the family sport of racing so he decided if we weren't rich enough to let him not work that he was going to go conquer the world . I shook my head in disgust knowing he had not a clue of what he was going to face out there alone in the world. He disappeared one day and mom was heartbroken for some time after that .He was gone for several months and every once in a while someone would call telling me how we were a horrible family kicking him out like we did. I told them the real story but they were not convinced .I guess he had learned how to prey on people to get them to feel sorry for him and give him food ,shelter and money .This went on for some 11 years plus.
In the mean time dads health was really deteriorating at a fast rate until he finally had a fatal heart attack in 94. My stress was already on overload an this kicked it up a couple more notches .Now it was just mom an I to handle our world. Dad had cashed in his life insurance prior to his passing and we didn't know until he was gone. We barely had enough to give him a proper ceremony. I went back to my job driving trucks and mom was working at a hotel reservation position and we were doing ok for the time being .We were holding our own but not able to put any money away due to mom's spending habits unbeknown to me as I was busy driving over the road making a living and thought she had a handle on it. Not so
In late 2007 mom's driving was getting scary as she was getting older an kept having minor fender benders all too often. She came home and was in the process of getting out of her minivan and did not get it all the way into park the van slipped into reverse ,the drivers door knocked her down and the left front tire ran over her hand . Why it was still running and she got out I will never figure out. My guess is she thought it was in park when it was actually in reverse. I guess her mind started slipping then. I had left for an hour an I come back to all this. Imagine my stress .The whole next year was me working ,dealing with her in an out of the hospital as they found clots in her lungs an they were giving her dangerous blood thinners. I was awoken by a thud and found her on the floor with broken hip at 3am one morning . She had passed out from the combination of drugs on her way to the bathroom This lead to more lengthy hospital stays..surgery..rehab to home care where my girlfriend an I were full time servants to all her needs. I finally lost my job as they grew tired of my time off for mom so there went that income and that really hurt plus mom's vacation time was used up. I scrambled doing odd jobs here an there but I was losing ground to the mortgage ,bills and my sanity .
Take care my friends and blessing's to all of you in your journey of life.
Never take anything for granted.
Greg Goodcat
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GregGoodcat
Youtube http://www.youtube.com/Lightning96669
Clixsense http://www.clixsense.com/?9638108
Please visit my other site
ThisRocksMoney.com
"When you Change the way you Think....You absolutely, Positively change the way you Live!"
Prior to being into and out of network marketing today my life has taken quite a journey. In the early 70s my family came to America from Germany when I was 9 years old .I adapted quickly to American ways but still had my European roots. My father was in business after WW2 that took him back an forth an he decided to stay in the states after the company he worked for made him an offer to work for them in the states and stay here. He brought the whole family and moved to Indiana not far from Indianapolis Speedway
My father was making good money an loved motor-sports of all kinds and raced motorcycles in the mid forties in what they called hare and hound chases in the states here .He was a top rider and very good friends with the Harley and Indian factory riders which helped him quite a bit. I was 14 when he bought me my first motocross bike an soon I was ready to race officially at a local track .I took to it like a duck to water an did well for a couple years but it is a rough sport an we decided to move on to Karts eventually .
We bought a used "Shifter Kart" which for those of you who are not familiar with them ,They are racing karts with 125cc or 250cc motorcycle style engines with 5-6 gears you could shift ,hence the name. These were mainly run on road courses and was quite a learning curve for us. It took us a year to really get a handle on it with a lot of help from fellow racers. .I was offered a spot on a factory team in Europe after placing several strong finishes against the pro guys and readily jumped on it for the next 2 years. These guys were extremely good but I finished 6th over all my first year and 3rd my second year. Not too bad for a rookie against the old pros. They let me go after my second year an we parted on good terms as I was tired of all the traveling/sponsor demands required.
We moved on to the dirt track karts in the states after that as it was becoming very popular. I struggled the first year till about halfway through the season figuring things out and started winning,I won 5 championships in the next 8 years and was 2nd the other 3 years at 3 different tracks .Dad had a friend who had a sprint car an they decided to let me try it out for a few races. It was quite a handful as I was not used to the weight or the power. I ran half a season for them finishing in the top 5 a few times but I never really was passionate about the car as it was very temperamental.
THE DAYS AHEAD WOULD BE DARK
As Dad got older his years of poor diet and no exercise slowly caught up with him as he developed diabetes ,had a stroke which left him in bad shape . He became depressed as we had to pretty much quit racing all together and I became the pillar of the family as I helped support the family with my job at the time .My older sister was married,self involved and rarely showed up to help me out as was the case of my younger brother .He was never much interested in the family sport of racing so he decided if we weren't rich enough to let him not work that he was going to go conquer the world . I shook my head in disgust knowing he had not a clue of what he was going to face out there alone in the world. He disappeared one day and mom was heartbroken for some time after that .He was gone for several months and every once in a while someone would call telling me how we were a horrible family kicking him out like we did. I told them the real story but they were not convinced .I guess he had learned how to prey on people to get them to feel sorry for him and give him food ,shelter and money .This went on for some 11 years plus.
In the mean time dads health was really deteriorating at a fast rate until he finally had a fatal heart attack in 94. My stress was already on overload an this kicked it up a couple more notches .Now it was just mom an I to handle our world. Dad had cashed in his life insurance prior to his passing and we didn't know until he was gone. We barely had enough to give him a proper ceremony. I went back to my job driving trucks and mom was working at a hotel reservation position and we were doing ok for the time being .We were holding our own but not able to put any money away due to mom's spending habits unbeknown to me as I was busy driving over the road making a living and thought she had a handle on it. Not so
In late 2007 mom's driving was getting scary as she was getting older an kept having minor fender benders all too often. She came home and was in the process of getting out of her minivan and did not get it all the way into park the van slipped into reverse ,the drivers door knocked her down and the left front tire ran over her hand . Why it was still running and she got out I will never figure out. My guess is she thought it was in park when it was actually in reverse. I guess her mind started slipping then. I had left for an hour an I come back to all this. Imagine my stress .The whole next year was me working ,dealing with her in an out of the hospital as they found clots in her lungs an they were giving her dangerous blood thinners. I was awoken by a thud and found her on the floor with broken hip at 3am one morning . She had passed out from the combination of drugs on her way to the bathroom This lead to more lengthy hospital stays..surgery..rehab to home care where my girlfriend an I were full time servants to all her needs. I finally lost my job as they grew tired of my time off for mom so there went that income and that really hurt plus mom's vacation time was used up. I scrambled doing odd jobs here an there but I was losing ground to the mortgage ,bills and my sanity .
Take care my friends and blessing's to all of you in your journey of life.
Never take anything for granted.
Greg Goodcat
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GregGoodcat
Youtube http://www.youtube.com/Lightning96669
Clixsense http://www.clixsense.com/?9638108
Please visit my other site
ThisRocksMoney.com
"When you Change the way you Think....You absolutely, Positively change the way you Live!"
