Start and finish

Some people never take the first steps.  Some people never take the last one.

You don’t want to be either.

Start and finish.

Stay calm to think

When emotions go up, intelligence goes down.

Keep your head when a bad situation comes along, and you’ll come out better than you would have otherwise.

The chicken and the pig

Sometimes we say we’re behind an idea or mission, but we’re only casually involved and would bail if things got tough.

It’s like breakfast – the chicken was involved, but the pig was committed.

What are you ALL IN on?

Follow your heart

Pay attention to what you love.  It’s what you are supposed to do.

Zero Sum Thinking

This is the idea that a gain for me is a loss for someone else.  It’s scarcity thinking – that there is not enough to go around.  But it’s wrong.  

If we wish for our neighbors to have less, will that help us have more?  Or would we rather live in a prosperous neighborhood? How about at work?  Don’t we wish everyone does well?  How about nations?  Will it help us if other nations are prosperous or poor?

If others around you are doing well, it only helps you do well too.

"Life is not a dress rehearsal"

I always loved this thought.  We are not practicing for another life.  We are not waiting for the curtain to rise on the real life for us.  This is it.  This is the one.  This is the time. Now.  And soon this chance will be over – gone.

Yes it’s true.  This is the one shot you have.  The one year when you will be the age you are.  

Is there something you want to do with your chance?  What are you waiting for? 

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.