How attached are you to you?

The reason why most people won’t become who they want, is that their attachment to who they have been is stronger than their desire to be something else.

How attached are you to the person you are now?

Get yourself ready

What is higher education? Getting yourself ready for a career or to increase your earning ability.

What is working out? Getting yourself ready to compete or to feel better.

What is becoming expert on a specific subject or developing your good reputation? Getting yourself ready for opportunity.

Opportunities don’t come along for just anyone – they come along to the people who are ready for them.

Get yourself ready, and they will come.

And they ignored the popular media…

…and lived happily ever after.

Stay out of the trash can of “information” – the “news.”  

You’ll be a happier person.

Indecision – the thief of opportunity

Some people say they are never given opportunities.  But the truth is we are all presented with opportunities every day – we just don’t take them.  And since one opportunity well seized leads to another, the chain of interesting and promising events lost is unknowable.

Just say yes and see what happens! Go there! Meet them! Talk to those people! Try it out! Get in the game! 

Doing what others won't

You can have what others don’t, if you do what others won’t.

If few others are doing what you know you should, it’s one indication you’re on the right track.

We live where our attention is.

What do you think about every day? Really. What do you put your attention on? It may not even be a person who is around you or place that your in – but if you put your mind there, that’s where you live.

You get to decide where you live. And where you live in your mind, will steer, drive and affect, sooner or later, where you are living in reality.

You are your own freedom factory

Feeling trapped? Captive? Controlled? Out of control?

(It’s not because of them. It’s you.)

You have the keys in your hand.

Use them.

Getting Hacked

I don’t mean your computer – I mean YOU.

We have five senses.  Which one do we take the most information in with?  Our eyes, right?  Which one is next? Our ears.  

So when we tune into the radio or TV (video or audio), and it is someone else’s choice to show us what they want (literally their “program”), we have opened up our firewall and allowed ourselves to be hacked.

We then are influenced by this program.  We think about it and talk about it to others and feel that this is the way the (our) world is.  

Don’t get hacked.  Control your own programming.

Narrow Samples, Wide Decisions

We get a bad piece of fish at a store.  

We can decide – 

We can’t buy fish on Tuesday.

We can’t buy fish at that store.

Fish is bad, I’ll never eat it again.

That store is bad, I’ll never go there again.

The world sucks.

Why me?

But what does it really mean?  You got a bad piece of fish is all we know. We do want to learn from our experiences, but that’s a small sample to be making wide decisions on.

You swing the bat and miss. You made the call but nobody answered.  You took the test and failed.

What does it mean? You get to say.

Choose carefully. 

"Personal Velocity"

Personal Velocity – the intensity of drive with which you naturally operate.

How fast and deliberately do you move toward your small and large goals?