Bring on the Day

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne

Each day brings a new beginning, a new opportunity to improve upon that which we experienced today.

You live your best effort during the present with the knowledge that tomorrow will be there waiting for you.

Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic "Peanuts" said, most likely tongue-in-cheek, "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Tomorrow will come so live today trying all you can.

Improve yourself by the experience of yesterday and know a new day will bring fresh vision to your life.

Stay inspired my friends.

Revealing Hidden Connections

"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." - Heraclitus of Ephesus

There are hidden connections that exist between humans from all over the world. When I think about how we are connected with each other in ways we may not realize, I think of the popular game called, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The game rests on an assumption that any person can be linked through his or her life to actor Kevin Bacon.

It became so widely played, the actor himself started a charitable organization called Six Degrees. Mr. Bacon's organization takes the premise that everyone is connected by roughly six connections, and turns that networking capability into something powerful and quite useful.

When you stop and think about how you are connected to others, we can usually trace it to three or four people fairly easily. It is those further connections which are hidden, and even if hidden we are still connected.

Connection to one another is important in our lives. Zig Ziglar says that “you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

But how do you know what they want?

By connecting and taking the time to get to know them.

People are generally not interested in how much 'you' know until they know how much 'you' care. It is an odd way of looking it but has quite a bit of truth in it. You develop credibility with others when you connect with them and show them you genuinely want to help them.

This does not mean you make a project out of people, but you connect because you actually care. What happens is those hidden connections get revealed. The separation that once existed is now closed and people's lives are impacted.

When you make a move to connect, the connections begin to vibrate throughout your sphere of influence.

The hidden connections are revealed and lives are touched.

Stay inspired my friends.

The Sky Is Falling

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are you scared yet?

Have we panicked enough now to send everyone into seclusion?

There are many things that could befall us as humans with varying degrees of probability. Such as the odds of winning a single state lottery are roughly 18 million to 1. While the likelihood of being killed by lightning is roughly 2,650,000 to 1. I would be more alarmed by going to the store to purchase a chance of a winning the lottery.

There is an abundance of things one could worry about. We currently have the Ebola scare going around that in and of itself is dangerous. But there are many others that we could contract and fall ill, even die from with greater odds than this virus.

More importantly to me, if you are scared and figuratively running around saying the sky is falling, are you not part of the problem? Sensibility and reason will solve issues more readily than finger pointing.

Are you scared simply of your own inability to handle the unknown?

Is the panic you feel driving you into seclusion or to help solve it?

Fear can be a motivational part of life but it quickly becomes debilitating. It spreads like a virus through your words, your actions and can paralyze your very life. You can overcome fear, you can live life again without the anxiety of a virus, a lightening strike or even death to some degree.

Find out what is behind the fear; meaning what are you really afraid of. There is always something behind it, a real reason for the fear. Just be clear on what your are "really" afraid of. Knowing and expressing the fear makes it easier to confront.

Next is to understand what you are saying to yourself about the fear. If you are saying, "this final exam is hard and I am going to fail the test and not earn my degree", you are already setting yourself up for the failure. Say something positive about it. You will pass. You will earn the degree.

Now exaggerate the worst thing or things that could happen should the fear be realized. You fail the test, you do not earn the degree and you end up living in a van down by the river. After catastrophizing for a few minutes, you'll probably begin to realize that the world couldn't possibly be as bad as your imagination can make it.

Relax now for a few minutes and think of the good things that can result from letting go of the fear. You'll get on that plane. You will ride in that elevator. You will help people that are truly sick. You will make a difference because you are freed from the shackles of fear.

Lastly, you will need to actually approach the thing, person, or situation head on. This doesn't mean changing your entire behavior in one big step. You can break it down into a number of steps. But you now need to actually get on that plane, ride in that elevator, or help people that are truly sick.

You can live without fear when others are shouting in panic.

You can trust that living without fear is living a greater life.

Are you no longer scared?

Stay inspired my friends.

Movement Is Where Memories Live

“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.” ― Markus Zusak

It has now been a few weeks since a very good friend passed away and similar to only a couple of other occasions in my life, I couldn't move. I was going to work, shopping at the store and doing those things one does to live.

Getting back to really living was the difficult part.

Grief and loss can have that effect upon you. What I felt is nothing compared to my friend's family and telling you this story is not meant to compare levels of hurt and pain. It is meant to express that life can stop you in your tracks.

Life may go on around you, but the circumstance can make you feel like you are stuck in your tracks. Unable to think clearly, unable to grab hold of living, unable to breathe.

Movement is what springs us back into going on with our lives. The act of getting up in the morning, having breakfast, going to work and all of those other things we do are what make us live. Those acts of living shake us from standing still.

Memories of a loved one, a friend or whatever the loss occurred stir within you. These memories push from your soul, to your heart and it beat with anticipation of movement once again. Pushing you to live again, to think more clearly, to breathe once again.

Memories living through your movement, your life.

Soon you will find your life in elegant motion. Clarity will be restored. Life will be birthed again in joy.

Stay inspired my friends!