Effort = Happiness?

Would you be happy if you didn’t work and stayed home?  If you didn’t have to take the garbage out or shop or cook or clean up?  If you didn’t have to do much at all and just sat around – would you be happy then?

When we complain about what we have to do, remember it could be worse. 

We could have nothing to do at all.

WLARRY

I am the program director of my own “Radio” station – W-L-A-R-R-Y.  I control what goes in my ears and in front of my eyes.  I decide and don’t let others decide for me, because I know what I am trying to become and what my plan is, and they don’t.

Do you control the program at W(YOUR NAME HERE)?

No pressure – no diamond

Many of us try to avoid effort and avoid suffering.  But the truth is that without them, the greatest things in life are not possible.

While we don’t choose suffering, choosing to avoid it is choosing a bland life of unrealized potential.

What's in the way?

Progress = Effort – Interference

What is interfering with your progress? What’s in the way and making it more difficult for you?

Instead of just working harder, can you remove the interference? 

Make life happen FOR you

The day you graduated from childhood to adulthood is the day you have to take complete responsibility for yourself.  

While everyone else is blaming someone or something else, you take responsibility and transform problems into opportunities.

Make life happen for you, not to you.

You ARE responsible

Yesterday we said we need to take full responsibility in order to change our lives.  The reality is you are responsible – 

1) By what you did

2) By what you didn’t do (you know…you could have, should have…)

3) By how you responded to what happened to you.  If you have bad luck, how are you responding?  You probably had a hand in it.

So here’s a test question.  Are you responsible for your life and how it has turned out so far?

Take full responsibility

Changing your life or your business is not possible until you take full responsibility for it all.

Have you taken full responsibility?

Feelings are not facts

Negative emotions like anger and frustration and hate can be made more intense by simply dwelling on them and running the scenario that sparked them over and over again.  Then we act on them and make a mistake by doing something stupid, embarrassing or that causes people to not want to deal with us.

But feelings are not facts.  Better not to act when we are emotional.  Instead, recognize the emotion, and question why it is there, if it is true, and if who you are being with it is helpful to you achieving your long-term goals.

If you can’t do that, go off by yourself and just wait.  A night’s sleep usually burns off the edge and brings back some perspective.  

Born this way

We all have inherent talents and abilities.  Certain tasks and activities come easily; we like doing them.

That’s what you need to follow, develop and use to create value for others.

What were you born with?

Liberty Causes Prosperity

This, from my friend Dr. Tom Palmer at the Atlas Network –

“After tens of thousands of years on this earth, in our lifetime we have witnessed the greatest poverty eradication in human history.  In 1990 35% of humans or 1.85 billion were living in poverty.  Thirteen years later that number had fallen to 10.7% or 767 million people.

Liberty is coordinate with equality, with justice and with peace, for what we seek is equal liberty – under abstract rules that do not discriminate among persons, and that makes it possible for us to live in peace, each following his or her own plan of life, neither oppressing or being oppressed.

And what a world liberty has made possible!  A world of increasing prosperity, of rising dignity, of health, education, art, of wonders that previous generations would never have imagined, much less aspired to.  The poorest citizens of Europe have comforts no king or queen of old could have imagined.”

Thank you, Tom! Let us remember this, be grateful, and do our part to preserve liberty for the coming generations.