Born this way

What were you born to be?

Advanced Scout

Your imagination is the advanced scout to the rest of your life.  It’s the preview of coming attractions.

Spend time to connect with the voice inside you, and imagine.

Dream and find the ideal path.

Create your future.

See it.

What do you see?

Natural Healing

I’m listening to one of “The Great Courses” on natural healing and the instructor, who used to be a cardiologist putting in stents every day, noted that doctors don’t (have time to) ask you what you are doing, eating, thinking, or about your environment or habits when you have a problem.  They resort to drugs and surgery quickly.

But there is a cause for our ills.  We have to recognize it and make the connection.

“It’s more important to know about what kind of person has the disease than to know what kind of disease the person has”.

What are you doing, that is causing you?

Do your job

On the congested roads of failure, scandal, tragedy, and ruin, it has been my observation that someone didn’t do their job.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion.

You got this?

Trying to fix everyone's problems?

If we take on too many burdens to make other’s lives easier, especially when they won’t, we can easily find that we just can’t fix all the problems for everyone in the world.  We’d run out of our own time and resources and then we may need help ourselves.

“Sympathy for all would be tyranny for thee”. – Freidrich Nietzsche 

You can’t do it all yourself.  Just chose.

Do you lie to this person?

Do you keep your word with YOU?

How many times do you tell yourself you are going to do this or stop doing that – and then you don’t?

Keep your integrity with yourself.  If you have to tell others about your commitments and promises to help you keep them, go ahead.  If you have to make goal charts or make signs for yourself or give any other visual reminders or representations, go ahead.  You can make it easier on yourself to keep the promises you made when you were strong and thinking clearly.

When you keep your own commitments, you feel good about yourself and start to like yourself more – and that makes a huge difference in your life.

What promise did you make?

Give First

Give people your best – the best version of you and the best commitment to them that you have.

When you go first, they will buy/follow/cooperate/respect and feel they want to give their best to you.

How about the people you interact with today?

What can YOU do?

Don’t think about what you don’t have and about your limitations.  Think about what you can do with what you do have and go do it.  The result in and around you will be a step to the next thing you can do.  Proceeding in this way, you can live an extraordinary life no matter where you started.

This has been my story, and you can do it too. 

Trust begets trust

I met with a businessperson the other day who I had known of but hadn’t really talked to.  He was open and forthcoming with details of his large business.  I found it refreshing and before I knew it I was telling him things about my business that I wouldn’t normally tell someone new.

Many take the opposite approach and hold their cards close, whether it be about business or their life, so they don’t get hurt/taken advantage of/look imperfect.  But when talking to other human beings, the sooner we drop the illusion of perfection, the sooner we make real connections.

Trust begets trust.

Friends first

You can’t influence someone who is convinced you are his enemy.

“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

Who are you trying to win over?