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?

If it feels a little scary…

Being purposeful means doing things that do not feel natural.

If you are to break new ground in your life, then you have to do things that don’t feel exactly comfortable, because you have not done them before. 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas to all.  May the spirit of the season bring you peace and love.

Reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in a long time, and tell them you love them, offer forgiveness (silently or audibly to lighten your load), or just listen or tell a nice story.

May there be warm light in your home.

From the invisible…

I was listening to an interview with Kyle Maynard who was born with only half of his arms and legs (arms ended at the elbow and his legs ended at the knee; no hands or feet). When he was young his parents put him on the wrestling team.  Yes, the wrestling team.  

He lost every match for a year and a half.  Some adults were saying it was borderline child abuse.  But in his senior year Kyle was undefeated and today he is in the wrestling Hall of Fame.  Wow.  

Kyle said that some kids made fun of his handicap – they could see it – it was so obvious. But many people have handicaps you can’t see – they don’t believe in themselves, they think negatively, they identify as victims in one or more areas of life, or they fail to learn good useful things each day and put mental junk in instead.

From the inner – comes the outer.

This is why you and I need to work on us as much or more than we work on anything outside us.

From the invisible – the visible.

Give thanks for those that made this world possible

“Live honestly and honorably within the limits and to the limits of your own ability – and give thanks to the men and women whose greater ability has made such a magnificent world possible for you.” – Ayn Rand

I am talented, and so are you.  But together you and I could not have created this easy, fascinating, safe, and wonderful world by ourselves.  Just the computer you are reading this on…I mean, holy smokes!

Let us strive to make our life count by using what we have been given to make the world even better, and give thanks for those who have come before us, with less than we have and in very different circumstances, who made our current life possible.