There are two types of suffering

There are two types of suffering – short-term and long-term.  

You have to decide which you want.

Life does not just get better on it's own

Action must be taken on a day-to-day basis to make it better.

What are you doing to make your life better?

Fulfilling your cup

Filling your cup is not the same as fulfilling your cup.

We remain empty until we fulfill from the inside.  

Temporary satisfaction on repeat is not living to your full potential and it sure doesn’t equal fulfillment.

Civil Illiteracy

Can you imagine – Only 51% of Americans can name all three branches of government?

71% can’t identify the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.

62% can not identify the governor of their state.

63% can not name one of their state’s senators.

The US constitution is an exquisite charter of freedom, but freedom requires patriots, not passersby.  It demands fierce defenders, not feeble bystanders.

A republic comes with responsibility.  Each generation has an obligation to pass on to the next, not only a fully functioning government responsive to the needs of the people, but the tools to understand and improve it.  Education is a crucible for good citizenship.

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free…it expects what never was and never will be.  Education enables every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom.” – Thomas Jefferson

Be clear on YOU.

Three simple questions.  Can you answer them?

1) Who are you?

Not who others want you to be.  What makes you happy?  What makes you sad?

2) What do you stand for?

What do you believe in?  What do you not believe in?

3) What impact (difference) are you trying to make?

What are you trying to make happen that would not have happened without you?

Don't forget to live

There’s been a lot of fear put out there in recent times.

“By fearing death, we forget to live.”

Don’t forget.

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Are you stuck?

If we don’t get serious about growing into better versions of ourselves we will remain caught up in the day-to-day tasks of living the life we already have, and we won’t get better at all.

Are you serious about getting better?  

How would anyone else know?

Would you take advice from a 6-year old?

By age 6, 90% of our brains are developed.  We accept much of what we know to be true about ourselves, our potential, what is possible and what we have become.  We spend the rest of our lives trying to make sense of the world and our place in it relative to the self-image we created by age 6.

(That voice inside…) Would you take advice from a 6-year old? 

You likely already are.

You can be your own teacher

You do and experience.  If you can rise above yourself (your ego) and observe the doer and the experiencer, you can learn and be your own teacher. 

You are not just the one who is living your life, like most think.  You can be the one who observes you living your life, and understand why you feel as you do, think as you do and act how you do.  You can see you being the cause from this vantage point, and you can see how you can release yourself from pain.