Well my vacation has come to an end, its back to the real world for me.
Monday, July 12, 2010
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Discipline
Four Truths about Discipline
By John Maxwell
What were you born to do? What is your dream? To become the person you have the potential to be, you have to cultivate a life of discipline. Consider these truths concerning discipline:
Discipline Comes with a Price Tag
Discipline is costly. It demands a continual investment of time, energy, and commitment at the expense of momentary pleasure and ease. Discipline means paying hours of practice to win the prize of skill. Discipline means giving up short-term benefits for the hope of future gain. Discipline means pressing on to excellence long after everyone else has settled for average.
Discipline Turns Talent to Greatness
When you read about someone like Mickey Mantle, you realize that too much talent can actually work against someone. Super-talented individuals can coast on sheer ability and neglect building the daily habits of success that will sustain them. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow shared much insight when he wrote:
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
If you want to reach your potential, attach a strong work ethic to your talent.
Discipline Focuses on Choices, Not Conditions
In general, people approach daily discipline in one of two ways. They focus on the external or the internal. Those who focus externally allow conditions to dictate whether or not they remain disciplined. Because conditions are transitory, their discipline level changes like the wind.
In contrast, people with internal discipline focus on choices. You cannot control circumstances, nor can you control others. By focusing on your choices, and making the right ones regularly, you stay disciplined.
Discipline Does Not Bow Down to Feelings
As Arthur Gordon said, "Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you."
If you do what you should only when you really feel like it, then you won't build disciplined habits. At times, you have to act contrary to emotions. If you refuse to give into your lesser impulses, no matter how great they will make you feel in the moment, then you'll go far.
Summary
Discipline is a matter of taking total responsibility for your future. Choose not to blame circumstances for the outcome of your life. Choose to go beyond your natural talent. Choose to make wise decisions repeatedly. Choose discipline as the path to your potential.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Just One of Those Days
Do you ever have one of those days where you just feel shit on? I mean you can just bend over backwards to try and help someone and they just walk all over you like your a piece of dog crap? They're never seem to take notice of anything you do MUCH LESS say "Thank You". You do all kinds of things that you're neither required nor obligated to do, and they act as if their intitled! It makes me so f@%*ing angry and you just want to cuss, fight and cry. I think it's my hurt that turns into anger, but I'm really trying to change a lot of my ways, and reading things like the poem below are helping. I don't yet know how to just not be "Hurt" by people, and it's so hard to just brush it away but I am learning. Read on, and I hope it brings you a little solace too.
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, It is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway.
Author Unknown
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Equality NC Blog: Get a Red Ribbon License Plate
Equality NC Blog: Get a Red Ribbon License Plate: "HIV/AIDS is everywhere, and anything we do will make a difference.Certainly the least I can do is pay a token fee for a license plate. I hope you'll consider that, too -- click here to download the application."
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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