Need a hero? It's you.

You are making up your own life each day anyway…decide to be the hero of your own story.  

What would the hero do?

Believing Self-Talk and Self-Torment

I have been jumping motorcycles off of ramps 25 feet high and 75 feet distance for 10 years. I’ve done it thousands of times. It’s called “freestyle motocross”. I do some easy tricks, but nothing like my brother Rick, who is a paid pro traveling North America doing shows. Why?  It’s fun, challenging, and the act of conquering one’s fear is liberating. I do it with my son which is very cool.  It keeps me young at 50 years old.  When it’s wet, muddy, windy, darkish, if my bike isn’t right, or if any other factor is off, you think twice.

Early last year I had an injury, (not from jumping the ramp) and didn’t jump for a while.  A voice crept into my head that it was too dangerous for me – that I had lost my timing, I couldn’t get the distance right, and that some tragedy would befall me if I jumped again.  I was hearing this voice and it was scaring me.  I didn’t jump that ramp and its 75 foot gap to safety for a month.  I wanted to, and approached it each time I rode on the track, (motocross track and freestyle motocross ramp are different) but I pulled off before the ramp – I couldn’t bring myself to do it.  The voice…

I watch my son Tanner hit it many times each outing, but I stuck to the track.  I was haunted, and Tanner knew it.  A one-month jumping embargo became two, and nearly three.  I knew it was not valid, but I was freaked out.  Ten years of flying a motorcycle and now I’m chicken.  Why?  That voice inside my head.  At night in bed, driving…anytime I thought about jumping I started to sweat and become afraid. 

One day I had enough.  The torture and stress of the voice was going to kill me even if I never jumped again!  I’d have rather crashed and take the consequences than listen to this awful haunting anymore.  To hell with it…I made the hairpin turn onto the 100 foot long runway, approaching the ramp – second gear, the ramp coming at me like a vertical metal wall, smooth, push into the 8 foot high curved transition with my legs and smooth acceleration using my ears and g force for how much… suspension fully compressed…leave the ramp’s lip into space, suspension uncompresses, rising high above the earth, the ground falls away…at the apex, weightless, feels awesome, body English, place it down front wheel a hair before the rear in the sweet spot on the downhill landing, roll it out.  Perfect!  Goodbye voice!  I was back in control of myself!  What relief!  Prisoner no more!  Whew!

Boy, was I needlessly paralyzed for allowing that voice to haunt me.  Fear is good – to protect us from real danger.  But we develop fears to stuff we know we can do, like I did.  It was killing me – for no good valid reason. Imagined fears hold us back.

What voice is in you telling you that you can’t?  Making you afraid?  Face your fear by doing what you fear – and silence your tormenter forever.

Saving the world – at YOUR home.

At my company Dr. Energy Saver, the work we do everyday at homes like the one you live in, not only makes homes more comfortable, but saves the burning of fossil fuels and the greenhouse gas emissions that result.

We do it, and ask our customers to do it, because it makes sense to them personally – kinesthetically and financially.   Consider having an expert evaluate your home.  If you are like most of our customers, you will be shocked and amazed at the defects in your own home that cause those uncomfortable rooms.

Until I was in the business and became an expert I didn’t understand; for most of us, the best thing we can do for the environment is at our own homes.

One life, limited time.

Each day is a sparkling gift; another chance.  

Now is the time.

Tell them now

Do you have relatives or friends who died before you could tell them what you wanted to say?

Tell them now.

The Only "Luck"…

The only luck you’ll ever have is the luck to be a disciplined learner, hard worker, discerning observer and persistent son-of-a gun!

Are you lucky?

Love is a verb

Love is a verb.  Help is a verb.  Kindness is a verb.  Compassion is a verb.

A verb is an action word.

Take action.

Yes.

The world will tell you no.  The world will tell you that you can’t.

The world will say you aren’t smart enough, talented enough, fast enough, pretty enough or strong enough.  They will say you aren’t the one.

Over and over again they will tell you no.

You will tell them YES.

Now is the time. She needs your help.

Dear Think Daily Community,  I have never asked you for anything.  Now I am.  Click on the link below to the news article.  Sandra Weiler was born with severe cerebal palsy.  This didn’t stop her from getting a college education, becoming a teacher, and opening her own day care business.  She bought her own house in 1998.  She is an inspriation to the world; a woman who never gave in.

Things have gotten more difficult.  Her condition has deteriorated.  She battled cancer for six years – and beat it!  She is in a wheelchair now, but continues to work as much as she can. She got behind on her mortgage and her bank evicted her from her home.  She has a temporary reprieve – for now.  Now is the time.  She needs our help.

I am asking you to get your checkbook and write a check to “Sandra Weiler” and send it to me, Larry Janesky, 60 Silvermine Road, Seymour CT 06483.  Something.  Anything.  And if you don’t have any money yourself, tell the story to a friend who does, and have them write a check and mail it to me.  I will present the money to her attorney who has a trust fund set up to take care of this.  

Let’s not just make a payment – let’s try to pay this off for her so she never has to worry about a mortgage payment again. Her balance is over $150,000 – but there are 3461 of us – and we all have friends!  Wouldn’t that be something?!  I will write the biggest check.  Let’s have the Think Daily Community come together for this.  Act today so we can have all the checks in within 7 days from today.

Now is the time.  Watch the story below and act.

-In gratitude and grace.

Things Unseen

Your quality of life, standard of living, and all things seen come from what’s unseen.

What’s in you?