Monthly Archives: January 2014
Do the impossible!
No time like the present
Today is Friday and it’s a beautiful day! Many have a mindset of “TGIF.” By the time Sunday evening comes many will fall into a sort of depression with the thought of returning to work on Monday. So why do so many go through this week after week, month after month and year after year? We get caught up in the mind frame that we need too. As Americans we have lost the appreciation for family and time. Instead we have replaced it with stuff. Bigger and more things to impress people we don’t care about. We are so busy keeping up with the Jones that we are distracted by what is really important. Most households have two working parents if there are two parents in the home at all. The divorce rate is well over 50% so there are a lot of single parent homes. Instead of spending time enjoying family and each other we are killing ourselves working 40-80 hrs a week to buy more stuff. Unfortunately, because we are living so big when a crises like unemployment happens we still can’t enjoy our family and friends. Why not take the time to get small and enjoy the present we have called life. Today is a gift that many will let pass. We can’t get it back and there will only be one today. There is no time like the present to enjoy the present!
What will you gain when you lose?
I love that slogan because it relates to so much. Not just weight loss, but life. As the new year starts so many people make resolutions. The reality is, in order to get something different you have to do something different. That means you have to give up something. In many cases it is old habits. When you lose old habits it’s amazing what can happen. I have found that losing old habits reaps things like weight loss, new opportunities, better relationships and a host of other things. Looking at life through new eyes makes a world of difference. When I lost my desire to do what society says I should do and just did what I want my life changed. I am willing to lose the thinking that creates complacency and ordinary in order to gain extraordinary and greatness. My question to everyone is what will you gain when you lose?
Wow how time flies
It doesn’t feel like 2014 already, but it is. I remember thinking I can’t wait to drive, graduate high school, and just grow up. It’s amazing how fast things change and how each day passes. I remember feeling like 30 years old was so far away. Now I look at pictures of my mom when she was in her 30’s and think how much I look like her. Today was a big day for my family. It reminded me of so much and just how little time we have. My husband and I attended a convention and someone said what the projection was for 24 months from now. It made me think back to 24 months ago. Life was so different. My husband and I both did something different for a living and even though financially we were in what seemed to be a great place to most people, it was hard for us knowing change was coming. We didn’t know what kind of change would take place, but we understood change had to happen. Today we are so glad it did. Today my mother is suffering with stage 4 cancer and doesn’t have very long left to live. As a result of the changes made we are able to enjoy spending time with her. My husband was in the army for 10 years and now we are able to spend time together with our children because we now work together. Owning our own network marketing business was one of the scariest adventures we took on, but the best decision we ever made. Today I know time waits for no one, but now we have the time to do what we choose instead of what someone else decides we should do with it. Time may fly, but we are the pilot.
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