Captive – and Captor

Feel trapped by your situation?

Look around you.  Do you see any physical walls or 12 foot high fences with razor wire at the top?  

We build walls in our minds by clinging to the past, attaching meaning, reliving events that cause negative emotions over and over, and underestimating ourselves.

Walls we built can vanish quickly – if we make a new decision. 

The deciding vote

God has voted for you.

Satan has voted against you.

You cast the deciding vote.

"Recalculating…"

So it didn’t work out the way you thought or wanted.  You didn’t get there from where you were.

Ok.  So, how do you get there from where you are now?

I start it, I finish it

When you begin a task or project, and you don’t bring it to a conclusion, you never get that feeling of accomplishment that fuels the next project.  And if people see you don’t finish things, they won’t give you any more to do and you’ll be less important and less relevant.

If you start it, no matter how long it takers, finish it – and finish strong.

Keep your word

If people begin to understand that when you say you’ll do something or be somewhere, (however small or unimportant it may be) that you may or may not, you will loose your credibility.

When people come to understand they can’t count on you, your life takes a turn for the worse. A heavy self-inflicted loss indeed.

Keep your word.  Always.

(Messed up on this one before?  Start anew, now.)

The Paradox of Effort

If you’re only willing to do what is easy, life will be very hard.

But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be very easy.

How is that working for you?

Prepare for the game you want to play

Stay organized, take care of yourself, and mind the details.

If you can’t do the little things, you can’t do the big things.

Confident and sincere doesn't mean right

You can be confident and sincere and still be wrong. 

A person who has experience in the field and experience at making decisions of the nature as the one currently before him, (when it worked out and when it didn’t) who is still confident and sincere, would often be the one to follow.

Experience and track record count.

Be intentional

What do you want?  What do you need to get accomplished?  What have you been putting off?

Make today your day.  Be intentional about moving forward in the clearly defined direction you want to go.

Bon VoyageEast Inflatables!

Authenticity wins people over

When you’ve got to do a presentation, an interview, a speech and you feel pressure, just be authentic.  Prepare and know your stuff, but when the time comes don’t feel you need to perform.  

Authenticity is not performing – it’s “heart space”.