One Choice

Think about this for a moment...one choice, just one, can change your life forever. Simply put, your life today is what your choices have made it, but with new choices, you can change directions this very moment. For me, that idea alone is highly motivational because it offers tremendous hope, regardless of circumstances, for a better tomorrow.  We have both the ability and responsibility to make better choices today.  Don't say "if I could" say "I will."
 

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen received 77 rejections for their idea Chicken Soup for the Soul. They had to make a decision each time...should they throw in the towel and say enough is enough, or should they keep trying to pursue their dreams? You know the rest of the story. The 78th publisher said "Yes" and they went on to sell over 100 million books.

Never forget...you're always One Choice away from changing your life. 

 Secrets of the World Class

Where are your thoughts leading you?

An excerpt from
The Strangest Secret
by Earl Nightingale 

George Bernard Shaw said, "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

Well, it's pretty apparent, isn't it? And every person who discovered this believed (for a while) that he was the first one to work it out. We become what we think about.

Now, it stands to reason that a person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because that's what he's thinking about. And we become what we think about.

Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn't know where he's going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety, fear and worry - his life becomes one of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing...he becomes nothing.

How does it work? Why do we become what we think about? Well, I'll tell you how it works, as far as we know. To do this, I want to tell you about a situation that parallels the human mind.

Suppose a farmer has some land, and it's good, fertile land. The land gives the farmer a choice; he may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn't care. It's up to the farmer to make a decision.

We're comparing the human mind with the land because the mind, like the land, doesn't care what you plant in it. It will return what you plant, but it doesn't care what you plant.

Now, let's say that the farmer has two seeds in his hand - one is a seed of corn, the other is nightshade, a deadly poison. He digs two little holes in the earth and he plants both seeds - one corn, the other nightshade. He covers up the holes, waters and takes care of the land...and what will happen? Invariably, the land will return what was planted. As it's written in the Bible,

"As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

Remember, the land doesn't care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the plants - one corn, one poison. The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn't care what we plant...success...or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal...or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.



So, as we enjoy this beautiful day God has given us, let us focus our thoughts on things that will add value to ourselves and to others!  Think thoughts of prosperity and blessings.  Remember, each day is a gift from God, what we do with it is our gift back to him! ~ Sue

Jeff Young's Inspirational Message

“A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it... Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.”

- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

When you get sky-high and charge into a new endeavor, what do you do when your objective starts to push back? Most people fold up their tent and quit at the first sign of resistance. Do you not know that you must suffer temporary defeat in order to learn the requisite lessons and build the necessary character to conquer your goal? I don’t know what your goal is, but the bigger it is, the more wisdom and character will be required. Translation- the grander the objective, the more temporary defeat necessary.   

In the late 1980s, John Elway and the Denver Broncos suffered three crushing Super Bowl losses and were the butt of endless Super Bowl loser jokes. I will never forget Mr. Elway’s response when asked if maybe it would be better to lose the week before the Super Bowl rather than to keep suffering the personal ignominy of these cruel barbs. He insisted he would rather go back again and again and keep swinging until he finally won one.  He didn’t win one, he won two.  It took until the final two seasons of his sixteen year career, however, for that to happen.

Victory is usually accorded the last person standing.  This is usually the person that gets up after being knocked to the floor one more time than his competition. It is a lot easier to accept temporary defeat and keep getting up when you realize that it is absolutely coming but only need be temporary. Be like John Elway; get up again and again until you are the last person standing.