"The only thing we have to fear…"

In 1985 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said AIDS was the greatest threat to public health this country has ever faced and that research predicts one in five heterosexuals will be dead from AIDS in the next five years (by 1990). A member of the president’s commission on AIDS said that it was the greatest threat to society ever faced by civilization – more serious than the plagues faced by past generations.

In 1968 Paul Erlich wrote a book called “The Population Bomb,” published by the Sierra Club. The book’s ideas were widely talked about. It predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the ’70s and ’80s due to overpopulation and called for taxing the rich to pay for population control to prevent the “great die-off” which included 65 Americans who would die…

In the 1990s, many credible climate change advocates said that much of Florida would be underwater by now.

In the 1990s it was predicted the world would run out of oil in 15 years, and civilization would come to a stop.

In 1999, “Y2K” theorists said the world would stop due to computer dates not being able to handle the year ’00.

The “experts” predictions have been found to be so poor that they’d have been beaten by random guesses.

Today has its own voices who cry in the streets and on the news of our doom or demise due to this or that.

Are you a consumer and participant in fear?

Affirmations

An affirmation doesn’t have to be positive to qualify as an affirmation.  You could be affirming something that is negative or not even true.  

“I hate _____”, “Those people ________”, “I will never be (have) _________”, “I am no good at _______”, or “I love _________ , “I am good at __________” , “I will (can) _________”, etc.

The mind believes what messages are repeated.  It doesn’t care if it’s good or true or not.

What do you keep saying to yourself, helpful or not?

Tell us in the comments.

Living a life of intent

It’s your life. Are you a passenger or the pilot?

Be intentional instead of reacting.

Being a passenger is – “This happened to me because I didn’t make a decision otherwise,” “I let hardship stop me,” “I gave over responsibility for my life to others,” and “I didn’t create much value for anyone else.”

Intentional is – “I made this happen,” “I earned what I wanted,” “I didn’t quit when I got hit in the face,” “I took total responsibility for me and my family”.

Tell us which you are and an example of why in the comments.

How will this winter be great for you?

What will you do that will make it memorable?

Dream, Plan, Act.

Don't waste your luck

It’s 2020.  Life is easy now.  Ask your great-great-grandfather.  We live in a world where it takes less time than ever to feed and house ourselves, giving us an unprecedented amount of time to do what we want. 

Be careful not to waste this amazing opportunity. 

Don’t play small.  See what you can do.

Risk?

In a world that is safer than ever before in human history, so many try to make things “safe”.  In the process, we may be missing the greatest risk of all – forgetting to live, and forgetting to use our potential.

Sliding safely into retirement – it may be the greatest risk of all.

What do you think of you?

A practitioner stops on thought or a question to ponder, question, explore and understand, and use the outcome of the thought.

The right important question can take a week of hard processing – like this question.

It’s a question that is at the root of how the rest of your life will go.

What do you think of you?

Older but the same?

Are you the same person you were ten years ago – just older?

Or are you a better, smarter, more able, and fulfilled version of you?

To become a better you, change your environment, the people you spend time with, what you learn, and what you do.

In ten years from NOW, will you be older but the same?

Where did you come from?

If we compare where we are in life to other people who are doing better than us, or to the life of our dreams all the time, we will always feel disappointed with our life.

Instead, compare where you are to where you were; where you started out.  (If you are in the same place, and you like it there, you wouldn’t likely be a subscriber).  If you are in the same situation as when you grew up, or as you were years ago, that’s not good.  

But most of us have made progress, and we can look back and say “I used to be there, and now I am here, and I am proud of that”.  We have gone from nowhere to somewhere.

Put where you are against where used to be, not where you want to be all the time.

Habits are great. Habits are not great.

The cumulative results of what you do/hear/see/eat/drink/think/say have a profound impact on who you are and where you wind up.

Habits are powerful in shaping your life.  

What positive habits do you have?

What negative ones?