Yesterday you did your best. Yesterday you made a difference. Yesterday you hit the mark.
How far will that victory take you today?
Where do you need to reach today to be your best? Your previous success encourages growth today. Are you better than yesterday?
Your growth today ensures your best future. What do you see for tomorrow? To ensure you can reach those dreams pin them on action today.
Enjoy your triumph. Glad you are on the mark.
Passion makes your day flow. Passion is rocket fuel for your mind. Walking through today can be an adventure or an indenture. Carrying baggage from yesterday ensures you will not reach your stride or fully enjoy the beauty. Ignite your passion each day by giving. Simply give yourself in service doing what you love.
Kevin Koym said it wonderfully when he reminded me that “… the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45 NIV)
Keeping up is not enough, you need passion to move ahead and be the servant leader the world needs.
What are you waiting for?
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller
How do you grow?
In February 2005 George O’Kelley taught me “Nothing changes if nothing changes.” Mostly I focused this outward viewing others and their actions but recently realized my lack of change.
My comfort zone has been reading the same types of books. Really I had not realized the depth of things until I read The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. I have changed and grown mightily through reading yet now realize I have really not achieved escape velocity.
Has my growth been stymied? Have I been comfortable in my learning/growth and perhaps even proud?
~POW~
Like in an old movie fight scene; my head was rocked. I was accepting the status quo by doing what I had always done. My comfort zone evaporated. Would I patch it up and continue the status quo? Afraid not.
Walking outside my comfort zone bears out the the truth Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. proclaimed; “Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
I am stretching.
Great time this month with Kevin Kelly dipping in his mind reading New Rules for the New Economy. Much learning to be had as with most reading undertaken with a curious mindset. Some may be put off when something is not hot-off-the-shelf and they miss out. Even though New Rules for the New Economy is not new there are gems to be mined. Are you a life-long learner? Is growth a passion? Does Sri Ramakrishna speak of you when he said, “Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”?
Speaking of our ‘culture technology’ Kevin quotes Laurie Anderson; “Technology is the campfire around which we gather.” It is not the technology that is king, it is that technology enhances our communication. Technology enhances our story telling.
Rule 9 Relationship Tech – “Networks haul relations the way rivers once hauled freight.” How will you amplify your relations?
Welcome to the new economy.
Life is whole not separation.
Life is the whole thing. What I do, who I am being, what I love, where I live/work/play, why I take action.
Taken as a whole life is simple. Put forth your best effort in each adventure while you strive to highlight the truth. This is your simple life. Not saying it is easy but I will not go back to torn apart. Life in separate compartments can be hard as you grope to maintain the distinction between home/work/play.
How do you live life?
What price is extracted when I do not take action? What’s the price of no decision?
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” George S. Patton
I like the now plan. Much easier on the pocket book.
You decide the price you pay.
Reminded again today about the importance of action.
“Nothing happens until someone sells something.” Kevin Koym
Are you caught in paralysis-by-analysis? Me too for much of my life. Time to get on with it, make a change. Make a phone call.
One phone call can start a cascade that leads to answers and progress. What are you waiting for?
“Nothing changes if nothing changes” are the wise words spoken by George. These are not mean words, they are a call to action. Want to reach a goal you have forgotten? Do you need an extra boost to live the life you deserve? Make the decision to change, take the action to change.
Formula
1. Decide to read a book of Proverbs each day
2. Read one book of Proverbs each day
3. Record your learning in your journal
4. Share
I look forward to your victories.
