Find something you would die for…

We’ve all seen movies where two people are so in love that one would die for another.  That’s nice and all, and makes for a great movie.  But a better way to go is to LIVE for the other person.  In life you can experience, and care for, and grow and build and love.

So to it is with causes.  

Find something you would die for – and live for it.

Hiding in plain sight

Are the “secrets of success” closely guarded, made only available to the privileged?

Not at all. In fact they are in plain view of everyone.  That they are deceivingly simple makes them easy to miss or ignore.

What do you already know about that you need to start doing or stop doing, to get better results in your life?

Easy to do, and easy not to do.

Living a successful life is not the result of 90 years of learning ten thousand things and struggling mightily with them.  It’s finding and doing a handful of easy and important things as a habit each day, and letting the results compound.

Often these easy things are in the “everybody knows that” category.  But what’s easy to do, is easy not to do, and that’s why not everyone gets the same results.

What things should be a habit for you today that are not?

"I had a great day", or…

“I wasted my day”.  We’ve all had days where we felt one way or the other.

Every action we take moves us farther away or closer to what we were meant to be.

Your happiness is the indicator.

"Confirmation Bias"

This is when you attach more significance to information that confirms your preconceptions.  

Consider that you are seeing in the world what you believe you’d find.

To see something better, you have to believe it’s there first.

Nature is not human hearted

Humanity is part of the natural world on earth, but cannot defy its laws.  Chemistry, geology, weather, physics, and cause and effect of the sciences will not change because we feel good or bad about how they affect our personal lives, or how intensely we feel these emotions.

We must be aware and make the best long term personal decisions we can, and face the consequences of our choices.

Free markets and trade solves a lot of problems

We want to do good in the world and reduce human suffering; two problems we want to eradicate most around the world are poverty and war.

The best way to do this is by working to (and help others who are working to) establish economic liberty, the rule of law, property rights and free markets in these countries, and between your country and these countries – even countries that are politically different than the U.S.  The reason is that free markets allow people to pull themselves out of poverty, and prosperous people tend to be peaceful.

"We are losing jobs to…"

When you or a family member loses their job, or a business closes down in town, or if you read about it in the news, it’s easy to start saying that we are losing jobs to other countries, or that things are going to hell.

But the reality is that unemployment is low.  How could this be?

Each year in the United States 21 million jobs are destroyed.  At the same time 24 million new jobs are created.  The world is changing, as it always has and always will.  This is a good thing.  

Be ready and participate. 

Study what you want

What do you really wish for and want in your life?

Are you studying it each day?

Why Self-Discipline?

The only reason I would deny myself simple pleasures and ease today is because I know that what I do today will determine how it’s going to be for me tomorrow.

Self-discipline requires making the connection between today’s action and tomorrow’s result.

Are you making that connection?