A sparkling new week smiles at us, pregnant with exciting new opportunities, unlimited wealth, and wonderful experiences. The future beckons kindly with the offer of beautiful dreams, fun, and growth.
- Will you take up your sword, slay your dragons of fear, and boldly step up onto the stage of life? You can, you know.
- Or you can remain, as Roy Williams suggests, in the small pen of your choosing and compare yourself to littler men.
A New Perspective on “Failure”
Perhaps you fear “Failure”. In fact, you don’t fear failure per se – you fear the opinions of other people.
Tell me, if there were no other people in the world, would you still fear failure? How do you define failure, anyway? Here’s a good way:
“I only fail when I decide to quit, and if I decide to quit, I haven’t failed – I have simply got bored and chosen another goal.”
You can change your plans and your method of achieving your goals, it’s your life, and you can change your mind any time you like.
Getting Boxed In By Goal Setting
Too many people think goals are limited entities, such as “I want to lose twenty pounds.” While it’s important to have measurable, specific, time-sensitive goals, the REAL goal is to lose weight and feel healthier and more energetic, isn’t it?
Ultimately, your goal is freedom, happiness, integrity, health, good relationships, and congruency.
The world is flexible, changing, and dynamic. Don’t get hung up on the details. We have to adjust and ride the waves of life with our own values as our guiding light.
Being the best we can be, without compromising our values and guided by our philosophy, is what it is all about. Enjoy the ride of life. It’s short.
Start Living It Your Way
We create wealth to enjoy freedom, not to create wealth.
We create freedom so that we can live congruent lives.
Living according to our own values is what makes us happy – doing what is important to US, not some boss or witchdoctor or politician. It’s not about a hockey team or a disgruntled, resentful, jealous relative – it’s about YOU. It’s YOUR life, and you only have one, and it’s running out, and it’s time to start living it your way.
Moving Ahead Boldly
Exciting goals make exciting lives.
- Watch the movies, “Yes Man”, and “Patton”.
- Read the book, “The Fountainhead”.
- Face your fears, remove the victims, snakes, and parasites from your life, and move boldly ahead.
This is your time. You don’t have to explain, justify, or pacify anyone. Those who truly love you will support you and encourage you. They will want you to be happy, and we can only be truly happy when we are in charge of our own lives.
Happiness For Me…
Happiness for me is spending time with my loved ones, PG Tips tea with a ginger biscuit, skiing down a mountain, helping others to help themselves to make their dreams come true, and wondering in a forest.
I live according to my own philosophy, not someone else’s agenda.
I achieve my own goals if and when I want to, and I answer to nobody. I am a soldier, not a politically correct, passive aggressive sycophant. I freely, frequently, change my mind.
Freedom is Your Right and Privilege
Don’t deny yourself the joy of emotional and mental independence and freedom – it is your right and privilege.
Rise from the stupor of negative conditioning.
Break the cotton candy bonds of timidity and embarrassment.
Smash out of the fragile bubble of limited thinking and false guilt, take up your shiny sword of purpose, and skip feely down the winding daisy path of self-fulfillment.
You deserve it.
