Zero Based Thinking

“Knowing what I now know, would I get into this again?”

If the answer is no, the next question is “How can I get out of this, and how fast?”

Your time

A seed successfully germinates against the odds, grows despite periodic unfavorable conditions, and finally a beautiful flower emerges for a short time.

There must be a time in a persons life when it is her time. When she has the experience, energy, resources and relationships – to do something important.

Give your best

You can’t control being the smartest person in the room.  

What you can control is doing and giving your best; and that means a lot to you, and a lot to others.

Communication in relationships

Sometimes we communicate less with those who are closest to us because we think we know each other so well we don’t have to talk much.

Of course, that’s not true.  We need to talk more with those closest to us, so they stay close to us.

Right?

What causes prosperity?

Some people ask “What causes poverty?”  That’s the wrong question.  Poverty is the natural state of man. 

“What causes prosperity?” is the better question.  The answers are known.

In the United States and Canada, the only question is, are you willing to participate?

Decisions have power

You will not make a decsion unless you believe it is possible, and you desire it.  When you make a firm decision about what you’re going to be, do or have, you step into a river of energy that is going in the direction you want to go.  People and things and circumstances you need will appear as never before.  

Unlock this power to work in your favor, and make a firm decision.

Who do you want to be?

When we talk about goals, which we certainly should have, we often talk about what we want to have. Sometimes we talk about what we want to do.  But let’s go one more step upstream and ask – “Who do I want to BE?”

If we can get clear about what kind of person we want to be inside, then we can be that person now.  By being that person, the doing and having comes much easier.

Who do you want to be?  Get clear and be that person now.

Sunk cost bias

We have a lot of stuff we don’t need.  We tend to value things we already own more highly because we have already spent the money on them.  We keep this stuff because we don’t want to “lose”.

But ask, “If I did not already own this, would I buy it now?”

If the answer is “no”, then get rid of it.

Simplify and make space.

To get better is to change

Change is the movement from where you are to where you are not.  

Without change, you are hopelessly stuck where you are.

Either you are ok with where you are and what you’ve got, or you are ok with change.

Which is it?

Be Courageous

Courage is being scared and doing it anyway.  Change is scary, because we’d rather stick with the same crappy situation because at least our situation is familiar, and we fear it could be worse.  But if we don’t do what we are a little or a lot afraid of, we can’t make it better or do something worth talking about.

Stand up inside yourself – and be courageous!