Bravery is always in style

We are all inspired when witnessing acts of bravery in others.  

Why?  Perhaps it’s because we have our own beliefs and walls of our own inner construct that we desire but fear to cross.  Seeing someone else cross theirs, stimulates our own belief that we can do what our soul tells us we should.

What brave behavior have you witnessed lately?

A World of Abundance

If we think “zero – sum,” then we think that more for them is less for us, and more for us is less for them. We become selfish, and greedy and conniving to get our share.

But if we think abundantly, then we know that there is plenty to go around. There always will be. When we innovate in any way, we create a new market, and new opportunities.  

Competition and pursuing your own self interest is healthy. But coming at it from a point of view that we must get ahead at others’ expense, or that the resources and opportunities are scarce, is not.

"I-can't-tations"

That little voice in your head that is with you all the time…that tells you you can’t, you aren’t good enough, you aren’t worthy, you’ll look foolish trying this…

You made that voice. And you have to stop listening to it to succeed.  

First, call the voice out and declare that it is not you.

Then overwrite it with positive messages – “I can, I will, I am the best, I will succeed…”

“When you doubt your power, you give your power away to doubt” – Leo Buscaglia

Make your own truth.

"My inspiration and my treasure."

Replying on the meaning of life, a man wrote from Sing Sing prison – 

“I do not know to what great end destiny leads us, nor do I care very much. Long before that end I shall have played my part, spoken my lines, and passed on. How I play that part is all that concerns me. In the knowledge that I am an inalienable part of that great, wonderful, upward movement called life, in that nothing, neither pestilence, nor physical affliction, nor depression, nor prison can take me away from my part, lies my conciliation, my inspiration and my treasure.

Act your way into thinking

We all have mornings, or times when we “don’t feel like it.” If we can’t get our mind in gear to get the motivation to want to, then just act without that motivation.

Act first, and soon enough, you will “feel like it.”

How are you playing it?

This is your chance – to be alive at the pinnacle of time, in man’s finest hour.

How are you playing this opportunity?

Purpose in Life

It has been my observation that people who are sad, depressed and have little energy, are people that have no sense of purpose. They have no big goals, no passions, and no purpose outside themselves.  

Having something that is important to you, a mission, a reason to be, that you go for every day, fills holes in your soul and spirit, and gives you energy to chase away worry, fear and self-pity.

How about you?

How to impress someone

You want to impress someone?  Care about THEM.

Show genuine caring and support.  That’s the only way to genuinely shock and impress anyone.  

The reason?  It’s rare.  

Trusting people

The trust of the innocent is the liars most useful tool.  People who trust everyone are open to deceit.  

But people who trust no one are closed to beautiful and productive relationships and love.

I think we need to trust most people, and lightly scan for those we can’t.  

And don’t deal fractionally, with those you can’t trust fully.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction

I came across this quote by a Twyla Tharp –

“Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction. If you’re generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It’s like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.”

How cool! Give good luck away.

How about today?