“Stricken by expired years”

Hopefully, you’ll get old.  When you do, hopefully you have taken care of yourself and aren’t afflicted with too many ailments – but they are sure to come.

If you have lived well, you have learned many things, and your wisdom is useful and gladly shared.

Hopefully, you had a long-term time horizon as you “grew up” and made good decisions that will make tomorrow better.

Getting old is an extension of being younger – a flowering of who you are today.  

It can be a great time of life.

This is why we have kids…

Today we have a guest writer.  It’s my son Tanner.  He writes articles on Substack called “Energy Resource Dynamics”, and they are thorough and informative.  He writes about energy and the environment and all kinds of related subjects.  

Recently he wrote an article called “Conditional Existence – not good, not bad”.

In this link you can read the article or Tanner can read it to you.  It will take 19 minutes.  

Substack is a platform where independent writers can publish their work, and you can access it for free.  If readers want to support the author, they can pledge some money to the writer, but you don’t have to.

If you like his writing, I’d encourage you to subscribe to Tanner’s work for free.  Here is the link – 

“Conditional Existence”

What’s next for you?

How are you going to play the next ten years?

Most people spend more time planning the weekend than their lives.  

What are you going to do in the next chapter of your life?

Who are you going to become?

There is only one person who can decide….

Don’t lose yourself in a crowd.

People that abandon themselves to fit in will feel lost and empty.

You can’t belong to any crowd if you forget, ignore or surrender who you really are.

Stay true to you while you expand and explore.

What happens next is up to you.

Right?

Your situation – Opportunity or burden?

Is your situation an opportunity or a burden?

Is what happened to you your poison or your fuel?

Thinking makes it so – and that is up to you.

What do you think?

We are lead into action by our thoughts.

A person is with hmself 24 hours a day and never stops thinking.

We are influenced by our own thoughts more than any situation we encounter.

The other day one of my School of Entrepreneurship students gave me a gift.  He knew that I credit Nightingale-Conant  corporation for getting me started on my adult learning journey when I was about 19 years old.  They produced audio cassette programs.  I loved it.  I ate them up.  Earl Nightingale was like a wise grandfather to me.  My student presented me with one audio cassette tape called “The Strangest Secret” – a classic by Earl Nightingale.  It’s kind of like the fountainhead of my journey – and that of many others.  

But it’s not the cassette tape, but the truth of the message on it that was so important to me and to everyone, whether they studied it or not.

What’s the idea?  

That we become what we think about most of the time.  If we think something can be done by us and want it, we will do it and have it.  If we think today is going to be great, it is.  If we think the people we meet at this event are great people, they will be.  If we think our future will be like _______, it will be.  

Our attitude affects what happens and what we experience in a very active way.

He’s the magic – We can control our thoughts.

Our brain will act on whatever we tell it and believe.

With this simple idea in action, we can determine the outcome of our lives.  It’s under your control.

What thoughts are you thinking today?  What do you expect?

A bias for action

Some people have ideas – and wait.  They wait and wait and never do anything.

They may think, and prepare, and “get ready”, but never take action.

Others take action while they are inspired.  Taken to extremes, this leaves them changing their minds and course all the time and never finishing anything.

I think the best approach is to have a bias for action, but not to act when you are emotional or angry.

You learn a lot by taking action.

Even if you don’t know all the steps to accomplish something, by taking action, you will learn what the next step is.  

In my life, I see things through, even when inspiration is gone, and it turns into work.  I finish.

Vision and inspiration to start are not always there, but when they come, I take action and start.

People who produce the most results have a bias for action.

How about you?

Grow toward the sun

Every decision is a choice – a fork in the road.

You make many of them each day – even the choice to continue on a path you decided in the past.

Set a worthwhile goal.  Envision a life that fulfills you – one that you are excited about each day. 

Decide what you really want.  Write it down and put it on your bathroom mirror.

Make a total commitment in your mind.

Make each choice each day one that takes you towards what you want – how you spend the next hour, what you learn, what you do NOT do, and what actions need to be taken.

Every moment is a choice.

Grow toward the sun.

Don’t believe everything you think.

Your best thinking got you here.

If you knew how to do it better, you would have – right?

But at this point you want to be/do/have something better – right?

You can’t be left to your own thoughts.  You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.

You’ll have to learn something new from other smart/experienced people.

When you learn something new you see the world differently and believe in new possibilities.

You think new thoughts that drive new action that create new results.

Your brain is hardware that will run any software you put in.

What do you need to learn to go where you want to go?