Willie Wonka

Never, never doubt

what no one is sure about.

-Willie Wonka

Life is not the way it is supposed to be…

It’s the way it is. The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference.

 

Sylvester Stallone

Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain’t about how hard you can hit.
It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

Taken from the movie Rocky Balboa
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Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. -Teddy Roosevelt

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;

The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

                                           -George Bernard Shaw

Playing Small

Your playing small does not serve the world,

There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking

So that people won’t feel insecure around you….

And as we let our own light shine,

We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

                                                                        -Marianne Williamson

“Life will knock us down. But, we can choose to get back up.” –Jackie Chan taken from The Karate Kid remake

There are people who teach that life can be all rainbows and sunshine. The problem with teaching this philosophy is that it just isn’t true. Life will knock us down. Sometimes, it will appear as though we are unable to get back up. It is in these moments that teachings show their true value.

If life were easy, we would all be successful, but it isn’t. Life will test us to make sure that we are committed to our outcomes. To create anything of real value, we must be willing to step outside our perceived boundaries. We must be willing to become more than what we believe we are.

By choosing to get up, we are refusing to believe the lie that we aren’t enough. When we do this, we stretch ourselves outside what we believe possible. We become more.

Today, I will be committed to my outcome.

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden

Book on Leadership

“I don’t cheat myself…that was rule #1 I was taught as a kid. And I definitely can’t cheat the audience. So I give 150% every single time that I do anything, in any way that I live my life. I just cherish each doggone moment. -Bernie Mac taken from the movie Soul Men

What use does not giving everything you have do for you? What use does saving energy have? One result is a lack of commitment for your life. The end result is cheating yourself and others from the experience of life.

Not giving yourself fully to whatever you are doing in any moment robs you of the experience of life. The current moment is all that you really have. Spending energy on something that already happened is wasted energy. It didn’t happen anywhere near the way that you thought that it did.

Saving for something that is coming up doesn’t serve you. When you don’t commit fully to where you are in any moment, you end up slightly off from where you would be. This compounded over time throws you way off your course. You end up on your death bed with wishes unfulfilled and dreams un-done. You die with your song still in you.

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There are three types of people. Those who make things happen. Those who watch things happen. Those who wonder, what just happened. I want to be the first, not the last. -Cpt. Harris Deadliest Catch

When you are laying on your death bed, counting the days, what is the story you will have left to remember? Will you have spent your time in this world waiting for something better? Will you have spent your time waiting for better weather, complaining and waiting for the tides to change?
Maybe you will be a watcher; someone who sits critiquing the initiative of others. Will you spend your last review wondering how your energy had value? Will your observations be worth the energy you spent on them?
Maybe, just maybe, you were a doer. More than likely, you will have worn your body out from getting things done. Your memories would be filled with stories not believed by the other two types of people…..
Imagine the conversation that would happen with each type of person lying next to each other on their death beds. How would each feel about themselves? How do you want to choose to feel about yourself?
Today, I will make things happen…
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