Getting smarter

Chances are, there is something we are still doing that we’ve done in the past that didn’t work.

What are you still doing that you know doesn’t get good results?

Behaviors, actions towards others, eating, drinking, watching, etc.

What should you be doing instead?

Desire = Possibility

If you don’t want something, it is not possible for you.  

But if you do desire something, it is an indication that it is possible.

What do you want?  How strongly?

Body, Mind and Soul

There are three motives we live for – body, mind and soul.

Can any one live a full life if either of the others is cut short of life or expression?

“Balance”?  Which of the three needs to be cared for most in your life right now? 

"Moving to the adjacent possible"

While we can’t make all the changes and get all the results we would ever want in life in a day, we can do something to move toward our ideal today.  

Pick an area of your life – something you are doing at work, a relationship, a big goal, something you want to invent – Given what you now know and what is now available, what step is possible and available now?

Why not take it?  Then see how there is a new “adjacent possibility”.

Controlling your thoughts and your destiny

If you put a movie screen in front of your face, what do you think about?  What’s on the screen, right?

If you hear a voice speaking, what do you think about?  What it is saying, right?

That’s how we control our thoughts, and controlling our thoughts builds our beliefs and leads to what action we take. What we learn controls our destiny.  

What do you listen to and watch each day?

Not responsible for your childhood

I was picked on…I was poor….I was from the wrong side of the tracks….my parents did this or that to me…

We all have our story, and we made it part of who we are, and replay it over and over – even now.

Well, guess what – your story is not unique.  Most of us have reason to say our childhood was crappy in some way.  But here’s the thing – you were a kid, and you were not in charge.  You are not responsible for your childhood.  But you are responsible for your adulthood.  And you can decide what your childhood means to you now.

You’re going to be an adult a LOT longer than you were a kid.

Is it time to reframe what happened, and move forward a free woman or man?

You're in charge of you

Who is in charge of your life?  Who can call the shots?  Who designs your future (or not)?

That fact is you are in charge, and since you’ve been an adult you have been calling the shots and making the decisions – or letting someone else make them for you.

What you see around you and what you do each day is a result of what you decided.

How’s that going for you?

Here’s the good news – You’re still in charge.

Incombustible

Some of us spend our days being annoyed by one thing after another.

What if you could get to a place where nothing angers you?

What if (almost) nothing upset you?

Peace and happiness are not found anywhere outside of ourselves.  

Is anything more important than your own peace and happiness?

Animals can't decide who they want to be.

An animal can’t be anything but that animal, and act on their own instincts.

People can decide who and what they want to be.  And if people don’t like who they have become, they can rip up the script and start again.

People are flexible, creative, and powerful.  

People like you.

Television 1928-2015

Do we really need television anymore?

I don’t ever turn mine on. With the hours I save, I can do much better things.

Do this experiment; no TV in your house for one week.

Do you talk more? Read more? Do more? Sleep more? Feel better? Think better? Think more?