Don't make decisions when you're on drugs.

When you’re emotional, you’re on drugs.  It happens to all of us.  We’re human.

Don’t make decisions when you’re on drugs.

Wait.  Go to bed.

Ripples across humanity

The other day I was going into a diner and a woman was coming out and said “Hey I know you!  I get your messages every morning and I really love them.  I have a business and I have used all your ideas.”  

I didn’t know her, and maybe I’ll never see her again.  But it reminded me that it’s a small world, and what we put out there is floating around us, orbiting our lives.  Each day, sometimes directly and most times indirectly, it comes back to affect our lives with the same polarity as the intention we put it out with.

If it’s what you want, then be nice and help others be successful.

Pain can be a gift

Pain can be a gift.  

“Damn it!  I’m pissed off enough to make the change in myself I need to but haven’t!”

Hurt enough yet?

Be unreasonable

People who are reasonable don’t chase big goals – and don’t catch them either.

People who are reasonable know when to quit – and they do.

People who are reasonable listen to others who caution them to play it safe.

People who accomplish great things are NOT reasonable.

Where seeds grow best

The seeds of your dreams grow best in the compost of your past.

Stuff happened.  You’ve learned a bunch of things.  You’re smarter now.

You’re ready.

No evidence of success

No evidence of success is not evidence you can not be successful.

It just means you haven’t done what it takes – yet.

Yet.

The limits of your language are…

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.  

Talk about what you want.  Often.  Clearly.

Talk about it.

Bob and Weave

Just because your plan was wrong doesn’t mean your goal is unattainable.  

Keep your goal, change your plan.

Destiny = Destination

Destination is a place you take yourself.

Carpe Destiny.

It's hard to appreciate what did NOT happen

Nuclear war.  We were all worried about it when I was growing up.  Ronald Reagan avoided it and saved tens of millions of lives.  Sound overly dramatic?  That’s because it didn’t happen and it’s hard to appreciate.

That bad car accident you weren’t in last week?  Your child not being born with cerebral palsy? The recession we are not in?  The socialism our country has not fallen into?  Your home that didn’t burn down last week?  The people you love that didn’t die in the night.

It’s easy to take things for granted.  But keep working to avoid disaster, and be grateful the worst didn’t happen.