It's on you

“For those who approve but do not carry out, who are stirred but do not change, I can do nothing at all.” – Confucius, The Analects of Confucius

Your goals and dreams require your action – and lots of it.

Defeat

If we won all the time we wouldn’t learn anything and would not try to get better.

“A defeat may break your heart, but it’s worth it of it opens your eyes.” – Dr. Mardy Grothe

In order to have a breakthrough, something has got to break.

What defeats have you had in your life that, after a bit of time, you realize it made you better?

Kindness

Sharing a smile.  Caring.  Being kind.

Maybe life is not that complicated.

“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.” – Aldous Huxley

“Kindness can become its own motive.  We are made kind by being kind.” – Eric Hoffer

“This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Being kind puts a little distance between you and your own problems, and feels good.

Substitution

Everyone has a full schedule.  

Nobody has the capacity to start doing something, adding something to their routine/days, unless they stop doing something else or do less of something else.

So – the process of getting better is substitution.  Stop doing something – or so much of something, and start doing something better.

What will you spend less or no time on from now on and what better activity will you put in its place?

Happy, with problems.

People who have problems but are not dissatisfied with them don’t do anything to get better.

Eventually, those problems cause something really bad to happen.  Then (scared, upset, threatened, angry) people do something.

GoFundMe is not a substitute for good planning, decisions, habits or discipline. 

Are you going to wait for something bad to happen, or do something now?