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Facing and Fearing: A Blog Post 1) The cost of inaction is not much truth be told if I accept my life as it is. I have amazing friends, family, wife and work yet what is missing is my creative soul. I feel I traded that in somewhere in my first marriage and it has taken me decades to realize how much I miss it. As materially wealthy as I am, my soul is poor and starved for action and the more I have done this writing exercise, the more I see how it is to get out of inaction. I have so much more to gain by trying that the only failure that will string is the lost chances to write. I see myself writing regularly and lately my visions for work and love have gotten clearer as if I was in a fog and until writing cleared away the cobwebs, I was merely content. Now I am full of energy, working out, writing, loving, planning things, it’s as if I am running out of time, and I want to get it all done and now. Related articles
Dreams: A Blog PostDreams by Michael Rad Write down your top three dreams. Now write down what’s holding you back from them. 1) Become an accomplished legal advocate for the company. Fear really. I am learning more and more but just always feel behind the ball so I have started to take classes and more than anything else I am committing to working regularly on that aspect 2)Published Writer: written about it so much but now its time to commit to actually doing it 3) Create a bucket list and then accomplish it Food For Thought for Friday, June 17, 2011 Be appreciative
Life brings you great and wonderful gifts each day. Be aware, be appreciative, and be willing to make the best use of every one. Often, the most valuable of life’s gifts don’t look very appealing when you first encounter them. They appear as demanding problems and complicated challenges. Be appreciative anyway, and soon you’ll begin to see the positive value that’s hidden in those difficulties. Be appreciative, and you’ll discover ways to make meaningful use of that value. What you have may not seem like much, yet within what you already have is your connection to all you could ever desire. Truly appreciate what you already have, what you already know, what you already can do, and you’ll activate that connection to limitless abundance. Be appreciative of the truth, even when it is painful. Be appreciative of each moment, of each circumstance, of each encounter, for everything can add richness to your life when you allow it. Be appreciative of whatever may come. And you’ll see your own unique way to make it great. — Ralph Marston My Future: A Blog PostInvent the Future by Cindy Gallop My favorite quote of all time is Alan Kay: ‘In order to predict the future, you have to invent it.’ I am all about inventing the future. Decide what you want the future to be and make it happen. Because you can. Write about your future now. I sit here, mind blank, full of the past, not much of the present and none for the future. Those are my initial thoughts until I realize that I am present, I am here, and I change my present and future if I choose to. For the first time in my life, I ran 3 miles. To some, it may not mean much but for someone who like who was convinced that he could never run more than a mile, I saw a future of me running a marathon, getting new running shoes, perhaps a treadmill in the garage, full of future thoughts because I dared to do something in the present. It is now that I realize that my future is right here, right now, these words because they are the reason I keep wanting to write more, express more, get better than just whining. My future is my wife (who I am still getting to know) and what we will do together (perhaps travel, perhaps have children, or perhaps just spend more time loving each other, friends and family. What is the future but the possibility of the present? What I do today, right now will make my future, I see that now. Each day I work, work out, write, love her as well as family gets me closer to the life I have always wanted. Food For Thought For June 16, 2011You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. – Swedish proverb There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores. The door of opportunity won’t open unless you do some pushing. True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Sent from my iPhone |