Ideas and you – integration or separation?

Many of us are always looking for more ideas and information related to what we say we want.  Then when it comes to using and mastering it, we don’t – maybe because we learned too much.

In the end, being successful at something is not about learning and doing MORE things that the other guy, it’s about mastering the few things that make the difference and executing on those few things each day.

What are the FEW things for you?  Are you getting better at them?

What are you capable of?

What’s the most you are capable of?

How do you know?

College education…without the college.

Technology disruption –

Just as you can get a map without buying a map, a light without buying a flashlight, a video recorder without buying a video camera, you can get a college education without buying into a college.  All you need is a laptop and an internet connection – oh yeah, and you have to want to learn.

Bye-bye flashlight, bye-bye (most) colleges.

Who says?

Go to college.  Get a job.  Get married. Buy a house. Have kids, have some fun, and maybe save some money.

(Nothing wrong with that, but) who says that’s what you’re “supposed” to do?

"I'm challenged"

Good for you!  We should all be challenged.  We should all strive and stretch and do things that are difficult.

Not to would be wasting your talents, and letting your abilities go undeveloped.

What’s your challenge?

The world's most precious resource…

The world’s most precious resource is the passionate and persistent human mind.

You have one of those – don’t you?

"With great power comes great responsibility"

We hear this and attribute it to others – the “powerful”.  But what about you?  Don’t you have powers?

With the technology available, your power to vote, your earning ability, your power to lift others, and many other abilities, you have more powers than most humans did back when this quote was coined.

You can solve the problems of the group, community, country and world.

Are you responsible with these powers?

Don't compare yourself to others

If you do, you’ll always find reasons to not be happy with yourself.

There will always be people who look better than you, have better relationships, and more stuff.

Instead, compare yourself to who you were in the past.  Be a better you.

Forgive

When people hurt you and caused you pain, it had nothing to do with you, and everything to do with them.

Don’t let what happened keep hurting you.

Forgive and release yourself.

Is "retirement" the goal?

Data shows that of people who retire at age 55, 89% die within ten years.

Could it be that making a contribution each day is what we are here for?

We have to work to live.

What would happen to you if you did nothing?