Living Intentionally

Most people live with good intentions.  “I wish”, “Someday I’ll…”

Good intentions aren’t going to change anything, including your own situation.

Living with intention is different.  “I will”, “Action”, “Today”. People that live with intention each day are the minority.

Which are you?

Tension in your soul

We have been conditioned to pursue a path; a career, a life, liesure activities that others are doing. We stay fairly close to the group because that’s what is expected.  

If we feel restless and unsatisfied, not because we haven’t accomplished our goals yet but because we aren’t doing the right things for us, it may be that we were meant to be doing something else.  Likely we will never be at peace until we follow our heart and soul, and not our conditioning or others expectations.

Are you doing what fills you?

Inventor Cuts Federal Taxes 10%

Well, the equivalent.  Because of the inventions of horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracking by a few innovators, the United States is no longer a net importer of oil.  This has created countless US jobs, and caused the price of oil to plummet via simple supply and demand.  This is not from US government efforts, but because of private businesses who operate in a free market. 

Meanwhile most of the other countries that produce oil are dictatorships who assumed control of their oil industries and cash flow long ago.  They run their countries and control their people on this money. Because the price is down, they are having trouble balancing their budgets.

The price at the pump is down – a LOT.  The American people will enjoy this dividend and save $300 billion a year, the equivalent of a 10% federal tax cut.  Likely they will spend this money elsewhere in the economy.

All this because the free market we have stimulates innovation.  These benefits brought to you by a few smart guys whose motivations are unlocked in a free market.  Enjoy!

Feeling "Alive"

I don’t know about you, but when I sit on the couch and watch tv for a couple hours I feel like I am wasting my time; I don’t feel good about myself (unless I’m watching an uplifting movie).  Life is easy these days.  We can do pretty well and be pretty comfortable (relative to history) without doing too much.  

But it’s the struggle to push ahead and accomplish good/great things that we don’t HAVE to accomplish, that makes us feel really good about ourselves and what we are doing.

Use what you have been given to its fullest, and you’ll feel alive. 

Hot Pursuit

So long as you are in active pursuit of a worthy goal, you are successful.

Are you in action each day?  Hot pursuit?

A product of your environment

Chose your environment well.  Shape it and change it so it works for you and supports your moving toward your objective.  

And if it doesn’t support you, get out of it and into someplace that does.

Does that make sense?

(Did you just say “But I can’t?”)

The last of the old you

What decision do you need to make, or action do you need to take, that will make today the last day of the old you, and tomorrow the first day of the better you?

Shouldn’t you do it today?

Your Choice

Between what happens and how we respond there is a space.

In that space we have a choice in what our response will be.

Your choice.

What do you do when you don't meet your goals?

Do you give up?  Lower your sights?  You could.

I announced it was a goal of mine to have 3500 subscribers to Think Daily by Halloween.  I can only get them from your referrals.  I didn’t make it.  We were 40 short.  

So I set a new deadline – Dec 1.  We made it!  

Setting a new deadline and keep working forward is a good strategy.  Keep going for your goals!

What goals are you going for?

Before I die, I want to….

Fill it in.