What you think about gets magnified

Be careful what you chose to put your attention on – because it will grow.

Should you focus on what you WANT then?

What do you want today?

Freedom and rules

Freedom and rules don’t quite go well together.  From our government, our employer, and places we shop, man likes to control other men given the chance.  The more rules there are, the less trust is shown and the less free we feel.

When you became leader at the PTA or Elks Club or of a classroom, were rules your instrument of control?

Personal standards

When other people set expectations or standards for you, then you haven’t set high enough standards for yourself.

Do you begrudge meeting others’ standards, or do you meet higher ones you’ve set for yourself?

Make room for new and better things

What do you need to stop doing?

Reflection

Wisdom is Knowledge + Experience + Reflection.

We all have some knowledge and some experience.  Take the time to reflect.

Did it all go as you had planned?  What were your expectations at the outset?  Did you communicate well?  What could you have done differently or better?  Look at it all from the orientation of YOU, not what “THEY did to me”.

Reflection leads to new decisions, which leads to new and better outcomes now and in the future.

Be good at the right time

You don’t have to be good/give it your all/perform well all day – just when it counts.

What times of the day do you need to be your very best?

Maturing means changing

One sign of maturity is when what mattered to you yesterday doesn’t matter so much now, and what didn’t matter yesterday, is starting to matter now.

It’s normal.  You’re still growing up.

How far we have come

The Non-Conformist

If you don’t have a plan, you should be a conformist and fit into someone else’s plan.  But guess what they have planned for you – not much.

If you are going to be a non-conformist however, you’d better have a better plan yourself – and be willing and disciplined enough to make it happen.

Even non-conformity isn’t easy.

Limitations of sight

Because what we can see around us is limited, does that mean the world is limited?  

Most things we can’t see from where we stand.  Put yourself in a place to see what you want to see. Create what you want to see around you.  

Draw from your imagination – and make it your reality.