Tag: Paradox

Today and tomorrow are especially big days

Panera Bread pastry display
Yesterday morning’s meeting at Panera Bread. Just because it’s front and center, doesn’t mean we should eat it.

 

Today and tomorrow are especially big days.

Do you ever categorize your days or rate them on a scale of importance?

Maybe on certain big days, right? But not everyday. No one does that. Do they?

Often, we are on auto-pilot. Going through the motions. It’s just easier to adopt the societal norms.

Here’s the paradox though, what should be normal rarely is.

Why?

Because its too much work. Too much focus. Too much discipline.

Really?

Yes.

A clear, concise, and compelling goal – with a deadline – is the key to being fully alive day in and day out.

That should be the norm.

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Maybe we should just call it sense

Orange County Florida Mounted Patrol
Horse’s asses.

 

Maybe we should just call it sense.

Take the common out of it.

Common sense is on the endangered list.

Yes, of course, if you’ve got to get a nail through a piece of wood, a hammer makes sense.

But if a positive attitude as well as peace and contentment is exponentially better than a negative one…if exercise is better than not…

On second thought, maybe common sense is extinct.

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Are you aware quotes are dangerous?

Quote about regret
Photo: captured from a friend’s Facebook feed.

 

Anyone ever said to you, “Watch out, quotes are dangerous”?

No, right?

Same here.

And then yesterday, an epiphany.

The reason quotes are dangerous is that they postpone action.

Quotes makes us feel good. Inspired even.

And this inspirational feel-good feeling masks the pain of not moving forward with our dream.

Quotes are intended to be a call to action, but we spend a lifetime squandering our efforts in exchange for short term pleasure – a pressure release so to speak from all our fear and self-doubt.

Magic happened when i began thinking for myself, and stopped using quotes as a shot of whiskey to dull the anxiety of my unlived dreams.

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The daily battle between confidence and arrogance

Mid Life Celebration baby Boomer Keynote Speaker
Denver, Colorado last week.

 

The mental battle of mind over matter…

The marketing battle that takes place in our head between confidence and arrogance is brutal. It never ends.

On one hand, confidence is essential for great things to happen.

On the other hand, arrogance is like drinking poison.

The catch 22 is that the two can look like twins, even though they’re not.

And here’s what i’m learning as an entrepreneur: You have to constantly move forward. Success will not come to you. You have to (repeat, have to) go and get it.

Successful, optimistic people easily recognize confidence.

Unsuccessful, jealous people see arrogance, because it justifies their lack of courage.

i pray for both groups.

It is difficult to leave people behind.

Be confident in knowing that you are not hurting the ones left behind. They have already committed themselves to that position. It’s not your fault.

And it is also not arrogant.

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