We are expecting to go live with our web site today. I finished my first video and it is sure to reinforce the fact that this is a grassroots effort. It is an “in-house” video that does the job by relaying a summary of my background and emphasizing my belief in leadership through being a listener, by being someone who is understanding and someone who leads by example….in short, a servant leader. The myriad of tasks is daunting and I haven’t even started the active campaigning portion of this endurance race. I would be lost without the help of my son-in-law and my wife who patiently teach me how a campaign needs to be run. I have also received a lot of advice from seasoned politicians and spend much time deciding what advice to follow and what I need to ignore. I struggle with the need to run a professional campaign with the over-riding necessity to be a servant leader in all my decisions and to never forget that I am a citizen first and a politician second. People in the community are becoming aware of my candidacy and this “soft” opening of my campaign may be good. It allows me to slowly ramp up and not get totally overwhelmed by all the details of the campaign….having to produce blogs, e-mails, literature, videos, making appearances, requesting donations and the list goes on. As in most large endeavors, I need to attack the needs of each day and not get overwhelmed by considering the obligations of the entire campaign…..semper fidelis.