Making changes along the way, fixing things, learning from mistakes, it ends up that we are a lot more a head than if we stayed put without getting started. We will find the things along the way that we need, if we just get going. As I sit here writing this, I have found it very liberating to understand the importance of this fact. Just getting moving on things I've been putting off has made me feel so much better about my life that it has freed me up in other areas too. That's one of the bi-products of this - taking action gets the ball moving in so many other parts of your life. Now the key is for me to just keep going and not quit.
I know that this thought has held me hostage many times during my lifetime. I've always waited on things to be just right or close to being right before I wold even start. Now that I'm a lot older, I have started to listen to those that have told me similar messages to this quote. Just start. Just get going with things you have to do. There is another saying that says - you don't have to get it right to get going, just get going.
Making changes along the way, fixing things, learning from mistakes, it ends up that we are a lot more a head than if we stayed put without getting started. We will find the things along the way that we need, if we just get going. As I sit here writing this, I have found it very liberating to understand the importance of this fact. Just getting moving on things I've been putting off has made me feel so much better about my life that it has freed me up in other areas too. That's one of the bi-products of this - taking action gets the ball moving in so many other parts of your life. Now the key is for me to just keep going and not quit.
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What a powerful and true statement! We can always look ahead to doing good things, but it always helps that we do good things today, since that is all we really have control over anyway. The good habits we do today, carry over to tomorrow - but the same is true for bad habits too. I have learned that one first hand. The longer a habit is going on for, the more difficult it is to break it.
That's why setting up routines that are good for ourselves, good for others around us, healthy, financial, mental, etc., those are great things to keep going with. I know I have bad habits that I need to break. I also know that it's not all going to happen at once. I need to make some changes. I heard Tom Ziglar say "The best way to find success is to replace a bad habit with a good one." Then we just have to keep repeating that sequence with all of our habits. That is the journey that I am currently on. How about you? "The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure." - Stephen Richards9/5/2017 There are so many things that we can look at to help us measure success. But what kind of success are we talking about? Everyone seems to have different pieces to their own success puzzle. When I saw this quote, it made me think about the fact that the puzzle piece of failure in life is a puzzle piece that we all have in our own puzzle for sure.
Since it does indeed happen to all of us, one of the best ways we can have it produce positive things for us and our lives is to actually learn from those failures. There is an old saying - Lessons Repeated Until Lessons Learned! I know that is right on target, especially for me. So if we can learn that failure happens to all of us and it's usually all the time. Then we can find so much value in failures - now we don't go looking to fail intentionally, but we can find something positive for sure in those. Finally, I think there is power in the fact that if you know these things about failure - you certainly kind make up your mind to bounce back from them. Knowing that they are coming at us all the time - we can learn from them along with making up our minds to get up from them and not let them keep us down. Of course this is one of many ideas that is best when we take the advice earlier in life rather that waiting. School Is Back In Session – Not Just For Kids
September 4, 2017 This summer was good one for picking up some new lessons that I found in a few places. First of all, I got connected with some awesome people that have taught me some very valuable lessons. One of the best things about this is that I’m still in touch with them and I’m still learning new lessons, which I need to do bigtime! The confidence factor that they have helped me with was something that I think meant the most. Their encouragement in my goals and dreams was something that I needed for sure. I got my podcasts going and I am looking forward to working on other projects coming up soon too. Part of that was the fact that I found all of them have battles that they are fighting. Things going on in their lives and trying to do good things and go after their dreams and goals. Those things they were going through were some of the very reasons why they wanted to do what they were doing! I’ve seen it around other places too and I know darn well the validity of this – all of us are battling some sort of issue that gets in the way of things we want to do in life. The same can be said that it’s more than one issue too. The amazing part is – the help that we are giving each other by sharing our stories, learning from each other, encouraging each other, along with helping to instill hope in each other – all of that is a very powerful formula for success. Another lesson this summer came from someone from my past. A friend of mine that I grew up with and knew from middle school on. We were not great friends, but good ones. She was actually my senior prom date in 1984 and her name was Erin. She passed away back in February of this year from a battle with cancer. Sad to say, I didn’t find out about it until last month. I am amazed and upset with myself for not knowing, especially in this age of social media where I can do a much better job on connecting with people that I cared about throughout my life. Sad to say, I did not do that with Erin. You see, I’ve been on a type of quest to tell people from my past how much they have meant to me along with thanking them for the investment they made into me – even if it was brief, it’s something that I can now see was very important for me and my life’s journey. I’ve told some people that exact thing, but others I have not. Erin was one that I had meant to tell her, but time ran out on her and me to do that. What a painful but valuable lesson as I now know I need to reach out to other in my life and let them know. The key is, like many other things in life, is not to put it off. Another one of the valuable lessons I learned this summer was that of one I already knew about, but sort of forgot about the value of it. The lesson? How valuable reading books can be. I got a couple of them done this summer and it has inspired me to try and read a book a month in the upcoming year. I have a new #1 most favorite book on my list – and that is “On Fire” by John O’Leary. It is one that I recommend you read. It is an amazing & life changing story that has greatly affected the way I am viewing things in my life. Always open to discussion and feedback.. let me know. |
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