The Speed of Life

When you are bored, not challenging yourself, and not doing anything exciting, time passes dreadfully slow.

When you are doing what you were meant to do, developing your talents and growing each day, time flies, and you’ll live longer.

How fast do your days pass?

Win

You already know what giving up feels like.

Now see what happens if you don’t.

Be a laser

Are you focused? Are you focused on your current primary goal?  Are you focused on what you have to do to make it happen each day?  Do you deny other smaller things that compete for your attention so that you may remain focused on what matters most to you?

Self Mastery

You can be, do or have anything you want, but it will require self mastery.

You have what you need in you, but you must be the master over yourself, and master the use of the tools you have in your head, and your heart. 

You can do that, if you make a firm decision, focus your mind on your goal, and do not give up.

Now is your chance

“Death twitches my ear.  ‘Live’ he says.  I am coming” 

                                                               – Virgil

Palm Reading

It’s in not the lines in your palm, the stars overhead, or in a fortune cookie. It’s not in tarot cards, Ouija board or your past. It’s not in your formal education, what anyone says about you, or what direction the economy is going.  

No, your destiny is not in any of those things.  

It’s in you.

Personal interests are the seeds of talent

Most of the people you and I would call “talented”, didn’t start out that way.  They weren’t born as good as they are.  How did they get this way?  Practice, study, research, and persistence through unsuccessful early experiences.

But what made them do all that?  They were interested in it.  

What are you drawn to?  What “work” do you do that doesn’t feel like work?

You can't fix the world

If we are emotionally upset by the stupidity of others, their irresponsibility, and behavior that we would never engage in, and try to fix it all, we’ll never be happy – there’s just too much to fix.  And while you’re trying to fix “them”, they are trying to fix you to their standards!  It’s a war that’s never won.

Instead, work on something you can control and will lead to happiness – you. 

Like attracts like

Most people think about what they DON’T want – and they most often get it.

Think about what you DO want.

Thoughts become things.

"Some Rich People are Good"?

A teenager commented to me that “It’s nice to know some rich people are good”.  I cringed.  That’s like saying “It’s nice to know some poor people are good”.  The comment showed the teen’s conditioning.  

There are “good” people, however you may define that, in all economic classes; and there are scoundrels in all as well. People are people. What I want to say to the teen is that people who are good at earning money are with scarce exception, good people; otherwise they would not be good earners.  

Making money requires cooperation with many others, and few would want to do that if you were a jerk. Further, those that make no money do not hire others, and even those that are not ambitious require a job to stay out of poverty.  To create a successful business that hires others requires risk taking and a lot of hard work to create a product or service that people want to trade their money for voluntarily – because they can see they are better off than not doing so.  In this way, businesspeople help others by providing all the products and services they need.

Lastly, my advice to this teen, is that if she sees herself as the kind of person who will never have money, who thinks that others who do have it are not honorable in some way, and as the kind of person who will struggle forever – then she will repel prosperity, because your income will never exceed your self image.