What didn't happen…

What great war generals can you think of?  You may think of Eisenhower or MacArthur.  They fought the bad guys and protected us.  But what we forget are the people who prevented wars in the first place such as Ronald Reagan, who may have prevented World War 3 and saved tens of millions of lives and nuclear winter.

How about you?  You prevented a deadly accident yesterday by paying attention to the road.  You prevented your children from being homeless or hungry, you kept yourself a lot healthier than what could have happened…

We think about the exceptions, what did happen, but there are far more bad things that didn’t happen.  There are a lot of things going right in the world and your world because of what you and so many others are doing.

Let’s make it another great day!

Don't manufacture poison

Self-doubt is poison to your success, happiness, and well-being and it will stop you.

Do you create it?

"The only thing we have to fear…"

In 1985 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said AIDS was the greatest threat to public health this country has ever faced and that research predicts one in five heterosexuals will be dead from AIDS in the next five years (by 1990). A member of the president’s commission on AIDS said that it was the greatest threat to society ever faced by civilization – more serious than the plagues faced by past generations.

In 1968 Paul Erlich wrote a book called “The Population Bomb,” published by the Sierra Club. The book’s ideas were widely talked about. It predicted that hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the ’70s and ’80s due to overpopulation and called for taxing the rich to pay for population control to prevent the “great die-off” which included 65 Americans who would die…

In the 1990s, many credible climate change advocates said that much of Florida would be underwater by now.

In the 1990s it was predicted the world would run out of oil in 15 years, and civilization would come to a stop.

In 1999, “Y2K” theorists said the world would stop due to computer dates not being able to handle the year ’00.

The “experts” predictions have been found to be so poor that they’d have been beaten by random guesses.

Today has its own voices who cry in the streets and on the news of our doom or demise due to this or that.

Are you a consumer and participant in fear?

Affirmations

An affirmation doesn’t have to be positive to qualify as an affirmation.  You could be affirming something that is negative or not even true.  

“I hate _____”, “Those people ________”, “I will never be (have) _________”, “I am no good at _______”, or “I love _________ , “I am good at __________” , “I will (can) _________”, etc.

The mind believes what messages are repeated.  It doesn’t care if it’s good or true or not.

What do you keep saying to yourself, helpful or not?

Tell us in the comments.

Living a life of intent

It’s your life. Are you a passenger or the pilot?

Be intentional instead of reacting.

Being a passenger is – “This happened to me because I didn’t make a decision otherwise,” “I let hardship stop me,” “I gave over responsibility for my life to others,” and “I didn’t create much value for anyone else.”

Intentional is – “I made this happen,” “I earned what I wanted,” “I didn’t quit when I got hit in the face,” “I took total responsibility for me and my family”.

Tell us which you are and an example of why in the comments.

How will this winter be great for you?

What will you do that will make it memorable?

Dream, Plan, Act.

Don't waste your luck

It’s 2020.  Life is easy now.  Ask your great-great-grandfather.  We live in a world where it takes less time than ever to feed and house ourselves, giving us an unprecedented amount of time to do what we want. 

Be careful not to waste this amazing opportunity. 

Don’t play small.  See what you can do.

Risk?

In a world that is safer than ever before in human history, so many try to make things “safe”.  In the process, we may be missing the greatest risk of all – forgetting to live, and forgetting to use our potential.

Sliding safely into retirement – it may be the greatest risk of all.

What do you think of you?

A practitioner stops on thought or a question to ponder, question, explore and understand, and use the outcome of the thought.

The right important question can take a week of hard processing – like this question.

It’s a question that is at the root of how the rest of your life will go.

What do you think of you?

Older but the same?

Are you the same person you were ten years ago – just older?

Or are you a better, smarter, more able, and fulfilled version of you?

To become a better you, change your environment, the people you spend time with, what you learn, and what you do.

In ten years from NOW, will you be older but the same?