Loneliness or Solitude?

“Our language has wisely…created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” – Paul Tillich

When you are alone, do you love the one you’re with?

"Don't hang around with ________. He's a bad kid"

Your mother knew something.  And you know it too.

Who are you hanging around with these days?

Training yourself how to think

You should make no distinction between purposeful training and daily living.  Everything you do counts.

With your daily habits you are training yourself how to think, what to think about, and cementing your worldview.

Years of watching the wrong stuff on tv, reading ______, hanging around with the wrong people and in the wrong places have had their effect on you.

Can you see that?

Crossroads

What decision can you make now that will change your life in the direction you want to go?

Our lives are shaped by decisions.

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What happens next is up to you.

(I think that’s enough for today.)

Think.

"Quitting is not an option"

Nothing great was ever accomplished overnight.  No great careers happened in a year.  No great skill was developed after trying a few times, or a few hundred.  No extraordinary results were accomplished in ordinary time.

When you go into an endeavor, and go back into it each day with the attitude that you will persist no matter what it takes, (“of course!”) and quitting is not in your toolbox, the universe will see you aren’t playing around – and will open up for you.

Results compound over time.  

Set yourself on fire

That project you are doing (or dreading); the chore you’ve been putting off; that challenge you think you’re not quite prepared for…

Why not embrace it?  Instead of just getting through it, why not see if you can do something really cool – really great, different and/or masterful with it?

Even the stuff you’ve been doing day in and day out for a long time – why not take it to the next level and show your genius though it?

“The most powerful force in the world is the human soul on fire” – Ferdinand Foch

Health should be a priority

You don’t think about the brakes in your car until you have none.  You may not think about your health until one day…then it’s too late.

So, eat right, sleep enough, move that body at regular intervals.  

Make your health a priority.  If you don’t, not much else matters when you lose it.

Your finest hour?

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

You aren't responsible for your childhood…

You are responsible for your adulthood.

How’s that going?