Yesterday's over...

I often get caught up in yesterday. I forget that today's a new day and it's filled with new opportunity; both good and bad. Regardless of the luck of the day, I still have the opportunity to make the most out of it.

I was reading Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morton T. Hansen, and one of the lessons they speak about is return on luck, or ROL. It is exactly how it sounds, and the crazy thing is, you control the ROL. Yes, there are things out of your control, and beyond your limit, but as I've always enjoyed the saying, "Luck favors the prepared." ROL is not the same as luck, but what you do with the cards you have been delt.

Depending on the day, that could mean anything. A botched meeting, a kid falling down and injuring themselves, and so much, much more! Today, I plan on taking luck by the horns and get a good ROL by preparing in the best way I can

1. Reading helps with my preparation. I will read.
2. Listening to good things: I often find myself listening to, or watching things with negativity or false truths or hopes. I will input positive things into my mind.
3. Don't waste my time. Honestly this is the hardest for me. I find myself spending hours watching an anime, or movie and don't realize the night is half gone.
4. Sleep! Yes, there's an exclamation mark because I don't sleep, or don't sleep well. It's hard to stay up if your mind is half down.
5.Use my time wisely, Budgeting is a huge part of my life, and why should I budget my day and my time? I've talked about time budgeting in a previous post and I'm sure that if I had things budgeted, even if my day goes completely wrong, just short of my house falling down, I can handle whatever the day might try to dish out at me.

That last one is a doozy for me and I have high hopes that I can manage it as well as I think I can.

Crossing the line

I often think of "crossing the line" as crossing the finish line, but that's isn't the only line you cross when running in a race. There's also a starting line. The line that you can visually see, but without a doubt you must cross it before you can finish...

Before you can cross the "Start" you have to be prepared. You can just get up to the line and begin running, but with out that training, you won't have the edge you could have or the endurance to finish. There is preparation that must go into it before beginning, but just because you should prepare before you begin, it doesn't mean you don't ever begin. 

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - John Maxwell

Don't get caught up and never start the race. Too often we look at the task before us and dream up a terrible run, a run we cannot hope to finish, and never begin. We over prepare and allow our fear to paralyze us, leaving you stilled in your footsteps. 

Begin. Don't hesitate. Start the race at a good pace and don't give in and own it!

Momentum...

I feel like right now I have a lot of momentum, but I'm dialing it back. Why? Because I don't want to be like a giant ball rolling down a hill or mountain. Still, why? Why would it be a bad thing to have so much momentum that you're rolling down a hill or mountain?

Hills have ends, as do mountains. Sometimes you aren't always just rolling, but there are some hurling that goes on as well. Bouncing, and bang-ups and snags, but still rolling until you hit the end of the mountain. Then, you either stop, or you keep going until you crash into something.

I don't want to crash. I want to keep going like a runner that is persistent and takes intentional steps. Methodical and going at the right pace to not burn out and run out of gas, but to persist long enough to reach the goal regardless of the place you become. Sure, you want to win, why wouldn't you? But is it important to win and push yourself so hard that you burn out and quit, or is it better to finish and get your product out?

I'm working towards the latter. I have so many projects that I want to work on, but I don't want to burn myself out. Which is why I'm pacing myself and not barreling headfirst down a mountain.

It's not that bad...

In my last post, I talked about how I was "taking time" for myself, but really I was just procrastinating, but what I didn't talk about was how it really made me feel. Not the post ER visit, but the time during the ER visit.

I have the terrible tendency to think worse of a situation. I have always done this to myself. Get called to the office in school, parents need to talk, teacher needs to talk, manager wants to have a word with me, all situations that were either good or mediocre, but because of my mind, I've blown them out of proportion.

I did this at the ER. I was having upper abdomen issues and I googled what could be wrong with me. Found several things that could have been the cause and found one that I thought would be ok to have and chose it. I started thinking and then my mind went back to my family history and it scared me senseless. I thought My dad had cancer and died at a young age, an uncle and grandmother all from my father's side, and they were all relatively young. Naturally, or unnaturally, my brain said, this too I must have and started to think the worse. I began crying and I was alone. My wife went home to tend to the kids, and I stayed in the ER alone and brooding.

Thankfully, it was my gallbladder and not cancer, but it got me thinking about my life and how I treat everything. I have always wanted to start a business and become an entrepreneur, but I have always have been debilitated by my fears and past. I allowed the doom and gloom of what? Failure? No, more!
I don't have cancer, and I'm out of excuses. In the worse case scenario with a business; I don't make a sell, and I have to start over. The best case scenario; I make more sales than I imagine and my dreams come to fruition. What do I have to lose? What do you have to lose?

Once lost

I fell a lot when I was younger, but the worst fall I ever had was falling from GOD. It wasn't even a fall it was more like a tumble into snow that kept building until I almost hit the bottom which was covered with jagged rocks. I'm so thankful I'm no longer in that place and that I'm no longer that person.

I played a game and I got bit

And most of me was lost

I found myself deep inside a pit

And there was an oh so high cost

Deep within the hole I dwell

Waiting for someone to find me

How long I waited in that hell

Please constantly I plea

But from that darkened land I did see

A light shining in the distance

And GOD when I was closer to He 

The lower my resistance

Higher now my head is raised

Because by his design

Jesus was slain and then was raised

And now he says, "He's mine!"

It took so much for me to admit I was wrong on almost all (if not all) levels. I hated being in that dark place.

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Friday motivation

It's Friday, and perhaps I'll do something motivational for today?! IDK, but I do enjoy it so much! Motivation and Fridays. I get down sometimes and thinking about the tasks ahead and he implications that they could mean make me a little nervous, but I know that I can do them if I stick to them.

It's called the "Strong-end"
not the weekend
get your head into the game
cause if you don't you'll always get the same
if you think that reading, watching or playing
things that have a negative saying
is going to help you in life get further,
then perhaps you should reset and take another
look at yourself and hop into the shower
clean off that gruff and then devour
the Word
a good book
a motivational tape
and listen
then you'll notice in time
that negativity gets left behind
and you'll move mountains that before you could not reach
mountains that had you stumble in your speech
but when they are cleared
things are as you feared
you'll have to start working, get things into gear
so brush off that fear
and bust it and you'll know
you'll achieve greatness, the greatness in your soul.


Does being great scare you? Achieving your goal? To some of you, that may sound silly, but to others, there couldn't be more truer words. What are your thoughts?

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