Tag: Choices

Mantras can serve as medicine

Without Limits movie scene

 

Without Limits movie scene

 

Remembering this mantra: Lose a battle to win the war.

On it.

Recently inspired (again) watching a top three all time favorite movie, Without Limits (the struggle for understanding between Bill Bowerman and Steve Prefontaine – an Olympic Coach and an Olympic Athlete at the 1972 Munich Olympics)

(yes, this is obscure yet it frees a writer to occasionally put something on paper that just feels good to say – it’s so cathartic)

(and it brings a Heavenly smile that is 1,000 times bigger on the inside)

(it’s extraordinarily healthy)

(it’s like having a therapist)

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Celebration or Crisis? A choice each of us gets to make.

Midlife Celebration book at Disneyland Town Square
Celebration or Crisis? A choice each of us gets to make.

 

It’s currently incomprehensible that a single day could begin without private, quiet contemplative time before the sun comes up.

This truly has been a game changing discovery.

And life changing habit.

It requires giving up a few things:

  • watching TV
  • staying up late

The harsh reality is life requires commitment and decisiveness.

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Being the CEO of our life has far reaching ramifications

Airport boarding area at LaGuardia
Everyone in this airport is the CEO of their life and this has far reaching ramifications

 

Heard a really important, heavily influential, highly seasoned and decorated executive say that making others uncomfortable is part of being a leader.

Couldn’t help but wonder if it also applied from subordinates to the higher-ups.

Everyone is a leader because everyone is the CEO of their life.

Think about it for a second.

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Fear is a highway, but began as a footpath

NYC freeway on a Sunday afternoon
Life (and fear) is a highway

 

Fear in the professional world is so thick, it nearly chokes us.

It’s good to be able to identify it in others.

Why? To help us see the early signs in ourselves, and slay it before it chokes us.

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It’s probably one or the other for all of as we travel through life

Spaceship Earth
Hometown = Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

 

It’s one or the other for us as we travel through life attempting something incredibly lofty:

  • our efforts will change our life
  • our efforts were the biggest waste of our time

Faith, reason, and hard work are never a 100% guarantee.

There are only two regrets in life:

  1. We didn’t try hard enough and failed
  2. We tried too hard and wasted our resources

Life is hard.

And full of uncertainty.

Be intentional which ever way we choose. No?

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