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Monday, August 18, 2008
19-Aug-2008
GETTING READY FOR TOMORROW
You heard about the sign posted on a rancher's fence? On the otherside of the fence resides the biggest, meanest looking bull you canimagine. The sign is intended to strike fear into the hearts ofwould-be trespassers. It reads: "Don't attempt to cross this field unless you can do it in 9.9 seconds. The bull can do it in 10 flat!"Don't try to cross that field unless you are prepared! And isn't thatthe way it is in life? We have to be ready when the opportunity arises or else we will have little chance of success.
Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms. Shelton believed in readiness. Students remember how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of an eighth-grade caliber on the chalkboard. They quicklyprotested that the words were not on their level and they couldn't learn them.Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these words. She said that she would never teach down to them. Ms. Shelton ended by saying that one of the students in that classroom could go onto greatness, maybe even be president some day, and she wanted toprepare them for that day. Ms. Shelton spoke those words many years ago. Little did she know thatsomeday one of her students - Jesse Jackson - would take them seriously ("Leadership," Summer 1992). She believed that if they were well prepared, they could achieve high goals.Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "People only see what they are preparedto see." If that's true, then it is also true that they only become what they are prepared to become. And a lot of life is just aboutgetting ready."I want to be doing something more significant with my life than whatI am doing now," a young man once said to me. He felt like what he was doing was just not that important. Other people have said things to me such as, "I only wish I had a meaningful relationship." And, "I'd really like to get a better job, but I just don't see how."You fill in the blanks. What is it you would like to happen that isn't happening? Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet ready. Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that whichyou desire. Think of today as another chance to prepare yourself for that exciting future you are looking for. Today is not wasted. If you desire more from life, then you can use today as training. For you will experience only what you are prepared to experience. Something wonderful can happen. And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow.-- Steve
P.S. CELEBRITY QUIP: New York City: No matter how many times I visit this great city I'malways struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab. -- Scott Adams.
You heard about the sign posted on a rancher's fence? On the otherside of the fence resides the biggest, meanest looking bull you canimagine. The sign is intended to strike fear into the hearts ofwould-be trespassers. It reads: "Don't attempt to cross this field unless you can do it in 9.9 seconds. The bull can do it in 10 flat!"Don't try to cross that field unless you are prepared! And isn't thatthe way it is in life? We have to be ready when the opportunity arises or else we will have little chance of success.
Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms. Shelton believed in readiness. Students remember how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of an eighth-grade caliber on the chalkboard. They quicklyprotested that the words were not on their level and they couldn't learn them.Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these words. She said that she would never teach down to them. Ms. Shelton ended by saying that one of the students in that classroom could go onto greatness, maybe even be president some day, and she wanted toprepare them for that day. Ms. Shelton spoke those words many years ago. Little did she know thatsomeday one of her students - Jesse Jackson - would take them seriously ("Leadership," Summer 1992). She believed that if they were well prepared, they could achieve high goals.Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "People only see what they are preparedto see." If that's true, then it is also true that they only become what they are prepared to become. And a lot of life is just aboutgetting ready."I want to be doing something more significant with my life than whatI am doing now," a young man once said to me. He felt like what he was doing was just not that important. Other people have said things to me such as, "I only wish I had a meaningful relationship." And, "I'd really like to get a better job, but I just don't see how."You fill in the blanks. What is it you would like to happen that isn't happening? Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet ready. Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that whichyou desire. Think of today as another chance to prepare yourself for that exciting future you are looking for. Today is not wasted. If you desire more from life, then you can use today as training. For you will experience only what you are prepared to experience. Something wonderful can happen. And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow.-- Steve
P.S. CELEBRITY QUIP: New York City: No matter how many times I visit this great city I'malways struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab. -- Scott Adams.
18-Aug-2008
PUT YOUR BEHIND IN YOUR PASTI like what Miguel de Cervantes, the author of DON QUIXOTE, said, "Love not what you are, but what you may become." There is hope that I can always change for the better. I can become more self confident, more in charge of my life, healthier, happier -- you get the idea. And there is hope that I can change a situation -- like finding a new career or going after a new life-style.If you're like me, making any big changes can be scary. We will have to COMMIT. And we may have to take a risk.Let me illustrate what I mean:Consider a performer on a trapeze. She swings back and forth. And then she encounters another trapeze bar. It is swinging toward her and it is empty. Now she has a decision to make. She may continue to hang onto her present bar, or let go and grasp the new one. But she can't do both! She can't hang onto the old and grasp the new with her other hand. She HAS to decide which she wants.If she chooses to let go of the past and grasp the future, she finds herself suspended for a moment in mid-air. Scary! It's too late to go back and she has not yet latched onto the other bar. She is vulnerable and at risk. But she has decided to take that risk in order to move forward.Life is like that. Sometimes you have let go of something if you want to latch onto something else. Maybe you will need to let go of an old job in order to take a new one. Or you may have to let go of an old relationship before fitting a new one into your life. You have to let go of other priorities on your time or money before grasping that new opportunity.And for a while you may feel suspended in mid-air. You've committed to something new and let go of the past, but you have not yet grasped what is ahead. You feel vulnerable and you may be frightened. But you know that the only way you can reach the new "bar" is to let go of the old one.But like Pumba (from "The Lion King") says, "Ya gotta put your behind in your past." Then you're ready for whatever comes next.--
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P.S. CELEBRITY QUIPWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- OscarWilde
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P.S. CELEBRITY QUIPWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- OscarWilde
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