Desire

Desire is the power behind action.

What we desire most is what we will think and focus on.

Whatever we fix our minds on, that is what we attract.

What do you desire?

A New Year

A New Year is a time to reflect on your life and how things are going and make some high-level decisions about what kind of person you want to be and what kind of life you want to lead.  Then you can make plans for what you are going to DO.

So give some serious thought and answer these questions.

What do you love about your life?

What do you dislike about your life?

How do you feel about YOU?

How old are you?

When you die, what do want to have done that you haven’t done yet?

What would be super cool to do this year?

What do you have to do to feel better about yourself?

Who do you need to include, say things to, or forgive to move forward and feel better?

OKAY – now, what are you going to do this year?

In what months are you going to do them?

What do you need to start right now?

What do you need to schedule?

How will you change your environment to support these new goals?  

Who do you need to tell or involve?

How will you measure progress?

Good things don’t happen by accident.  It’s 2022.  Make it happen now!

Get Enough Sleep

Would you rather wake up early and get to work sleep-deprived and tough it out for 11 hours, OR get more sleep and work 9 hours?  Which do you think would be more productive and have you producing better results?

When you don’t get enough sleep you lose patience, compassion, gentleness, kindness, focus on details, ambition and aspiration.

If you can’t sleep later, go to bed earlier – but you must shut off all screens one hour before.

Get enough sleep.

Imagination Beats Reality

There’s no bogeyman.  But if you think there is, you will behave that way.

A mission is labeled very difficult by most, but you believe you can do and love the challenge – and you prevail.

You think today will be hard.  It is.

You think today is a great day.  It is.

You think something is impossible.  It is for you, while others are doing it.

Things are or are not, because thinking makes it so.

What are you imagining and believing?

Everybody is focused – but on what?

A big part of being successful is being focused.  “But I’m not very focused,” you say?

Most everybody, whether they are doing well or not, is focused on something.

A guy may not doing well in some areas, but he’s really great at playing video games – because he focuses on it.

A 16-year-old boy may be failing math because he is really focused on his first car, and spends all his free time with it, working on it, or thinking about it.

We’re all focused, but some are focused on things that don’t produce very good results over the short or long term, and some are.

What are you focused on?

What you want more than the truth

We would rather be right than be corrected with the truth.

Whatever we learn first and accept as the truth, we will defend in the face of any other idea.

Beliefs about ourselves, how the world is, what is possible for us, how other people are…all of it.

Funny, huh?

We’d rather be right, than get it right.

Hold your beliefs loosely, and stay open to new ideas.

Nature uses capital punishment

Take care of yourself.

Eat right, sleep enough and exercise 4x a week.

Left to yourself, you get stuck.

You can’t rely on what you already know for long.

Tune in to voices of value.

What are you learning today?

We are all essential workers

To make a country/world of XXXX millions of people work and have all enjoy a high standard of living, we all need to row the boat.

As we have seen with supply chain problems, and even getting a table at a restaurant or getting our car washed, we need all of us.

Look at any one product around you and we can trace it being there to the collective effort of thousands of hands and minds or more.

We all rely on each other. 

We need you.

What you do = what you get

There is an undeniable connection between what you do and what you get.

Actions determine outcomes.  

Outcomes inform actions.  (If I want X, I have to do Y).

Do you know clearly what you want?

What do you have to do to get what you want?