Taking Responsibility
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Taking action about our current station in life involves taking responsibility for our current state of affairs. When we acknowledge that we are the main culprits with regards to where we are now, we will more likely take responsibility for creating the future we desire.
Most of us grew up without learning to take responsibility for our state of affairs. Somebody else but us is always to blame. We play the blame game. We blame our spouses, our bosses, the economy, government, fate, the devil and other factors for our plight.
We have dreams, but we don’t plan. When we manage to plan, we don’t execute it. Among the few that go on to execute their plans, most give up at the first setback. We have ready-made reasons for why events turned out contrary to our expectations. Most return to Status Quo Boulevard and Grumble-Ville. Read more
Persistence
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I believe there are three kinds of people. There are winners, who know what they want and understand their potential and the possibilities. They take life on. Next are losers, who don’t have a clue as to who they are. They allow circumstances to shape their lives and their self-image.
I believe there is a third group as well. This consists of potential winners whose lives are just slightly out of alignment. I call them wayward winners. It may be that they just need to learn how to be real winners. Perhaps they’ve hit a bump or two that has knocked them off course and they are temporarily befuddled. A failed relationship, a lost job, financial problems, unformed goals, a lack of parental support, illness, many things can send us off course temporarily. Read more
Fear of Failure
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Most of us have remained rooted to one spot because of the fear of failure. We are risk averse. We have an idea of what we want to do, but the fear of failure throws up several dooms day scenarios, both real and imagined. What if? We ask.
The fear of failure makes failure loom larger than life. We hardly ever ponder over what failure is, and how to deal with it. Like death, we all know failure exists, but it is a subject we rather not talk about, or contemplate. It is a situation we wish was not part of life.
Failure: falling short, lack of success, bankruptcy.
Failure means many things to many people. For some, it is a temporary set back. For others, it is the end of the road, terminal. Read more
Dreams, Journey, Destination
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As we travel the road to our dreams, let us occasionally take our eyes off the destination. Let’s savor the experience. Let’s keep tabs on what the journey is making of us. For some, the journey to success brings out the worst, revealing a side no one ever saw before. For others, it brings out the best, humbling them to realize that they are no better than any other, just blessed by God.
We can monitor what we are becoming, making adjustments as we go. But the true wealth in success is the lessons we learn as we get there. If you keep a journal of those lessons, you can look back on them often. Not only will you achieve your goals when you are mindful of these life’s lessons, but you will become a better person for it. Read more
Dreams Do Come True
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Experience has made a lot of folks to consider dreams to be fantasies, unattainable, galaxies away from reality.
Some folks believe dreams do come true. Dreams do actually come true, if you believe they do. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
However, in this group are those that believe that their dreams will come true somehow, some day. Tomorrow takes on a magical quality. A day where all your troubles will be over, all your prayers answered. They don’t need to lift up a finger and do anything. By some stroke of fate, or a chain of events orchestrated by providence, their dreams will simply come to pass. All they need to do is hope, and pray.
Still within this group exists a pragmatic minority, who dream, and do something about it. Most dreams come to pass when you are awake. That is, you roll up your sleeve and do something about it. Read more