Your life – from here and now.

Most people live according to what comes along.  They are responding to their circumstances and the people around them.  This can only make sense when we are children – we don’t have the knowledge or means to create what we want in our lives, let alone know what it is.

BUT….

Knowing what you now know….what kind life do you want, and what and who do you want in it?

(PS – You have one chance at this and time is ticking…)

Cut out negative people

If you are trying to enjoy your life and do good while staying positive, why would you be with people who are negative, pessimistic, and unpleasant?

Stay away from them.  Walk out.  If they are your family, tell them you don’t want to hear negativity and you will walk away when they are being negative.

Do whatever you have to do, but don’t let others put negative voices into the air around you, because they will penetrate you, or sap your energy resisting them.

Happy People Have Projects

Happy people are working on something they love.  They are doing or creating something they are really into.

What is your project right now?

Your attention – a valuable and finite resource

You only have so much attention because there are only so many hours in a day and you will only live so long. 

You can not pay attention to everything.  In fact, you can’t even pay attention to a fraction of 1% of the things that are possible to pay attention to, and probably far less than that.

What you pay attention to will determine your life and what you do, the results you get, and your entire life experience.

What are you paying attention to these days?

Hero – strength for two

Hero – the origins of the word mean “Strength for two”.

When you walk out that door in the morning and go be your best self in service to others, you can walk in at the end of the day back to the people you love, and they know you will take care of them.

Hero – strength for two, or three, or six…

Thank you Heroes!

Imagination – a preview of your future

“Whatever we build in our imaginations will accomplish itself in the circumstances of our lives.” – William Butler Yates

What can you see that isn’t there yet?

Who will you be that you aren’t yet?

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build capabilities, and opportunities will come

When you have no capabilities, you don’t even see opportunities when they orbit you.

If you do see them, you don’t get chosen because you are unprepared.

As you build your knowledge and skills, you see them, and when you are good enough, they land in your lap.

You can’t sit in front of the fireplace and say “Give me some heat and then I’ll put the wood in.”

Use Courage to get to Confidence

Confidence feels good.  Courage does not feel good.

When you have to muster up courage to do something it means you don’t feel confident doing that yet.

When we do something for the first time, or do something that doesn’t match with our own self-image skillset yet, especially in front of others, we feel uncomfortable and have to muster up the courage to do it.

But it is only by doing it that we can get better, and the courage is gradually replaced by confidence.

Be brave, and get better.

What will they say about you?

Imagine….you’re gone.  

It’s your funeral.

What will they say about you?

They will say what they thought of you when you were alive. 

What’s that?

Clarity

To bridge the gap between a goal/dream and your current reality, you must be clear on both.

How did you get here?  What did you think and do or not do to create your current reality?  (Most people will blame someone or something else.)

What do you want exactly?  (Most people cannot answer that question.)

Without clarity, you will be a wandering generality.