Monday, February 11, 2008

February 11 2008

I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money,I give you myself;Will you give me yourself, will you come travel with me?

This journey you have embarked on is going to be long and fraught with disasters waiting to happen. If you have someone in your life, I hope it is someone that supports you in your endeavors, and the support is a multi-faceted thing.

As we go through life we make choices, and one of the most major choices we make, is who is going to be our life partner. If you’re lucky, you picked well, but if you aren’t you have a person in your life that will never be the one that helps you bring that great idea to realization. The most ideal person is one that is as creative as you are, but barring that having someone that tries to understand, what you are doing and is totally for you, will make for a good partner.

If you haven’t found that person that makes your heart beat faster yet, I urge caution, pick well. You must be able to judge without emotion, find the one that is there for you and only you, is willing to go through hell, and still be there, because I promise you, that hell or a reasonable facsimile is awaiting you. Murphy Law will always be around the corner, no matter how well planned or executed, Murphy will raise it ugly head. So make sure the one in your life is the one that you need.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

February 10, 2008

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true -- hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

We all are seeking something in our lives, be it money, love, self-worth, respect. What ever it may be, if we don’t work to get it, then it won’t be worth much in the long run.

I spend my time learning how to do things, it is a time consuming, sometime it’s really boring, but I know deep down inside myself, that it will pay off. I must keep on keeping on as we said in the old days. It may bore me to tears, or make me go half blind, reading all the things that I know I must, to succeed.

Very few self help books are exciting, but I can create the excitement in myself, by realizing I have a vision of success. I want all the things money can buy, but it may surprise you I want to find that special someone to share it with, money is a wonderful thing, it makes you comfortable, but comfort is just an ok thing, it will never replace the warmth of sharing your self with another person. But you have to be careful; sometimes that other person in your life will drag you down like an anchor. But if you’re lucky you have or will have that special person in your life that will be there, with you and for you, in all things.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

February 9, 2008

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

I would like to think that most people out there are honest, when the clerk gives you a dollar to much in change, most of us would give it back, but honesty is a very slippery word, we can be honest in all our endeavors and yet fail to be honest with the most important person in your life, you.

Have you ever started a project, only to find yourself never finishing it. It all boils down to being honest, with oneself. We all have grandiose thoughts, if we didn’t there would be no lottery, we buy tickets, because we see ourselves getting gobs and gobs of cash, we spend it in our heads.

Having good visualization skills is the most important thing an inventor can have, but if you lack the honesty with yourself then it is just an flight of imagination, if you fail to look at the reality of a thing, then you fall short of your imagined outcome. So be honest with yourself, look at all the work that you will have to put into something, to make it real.

It is just to easy to see the outcome without seeing the work, and the work is the journey not the results.

February 8, 2008

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Bored, the most common thing I see from all the people I know is they get bored, no matter what they do, no matter how big the reward is they give up just because it is boring.

Have we become an action driven society, if we are not physically doing something, we are bored, and unfortunately we are also a nation of couch potatoes.

It use to be normal if you were bored you read a book, most people I know either can’t or won’t read a book. Reading is what I have always done to learn, if I couldn't read I would be lost, I was having coffee with a friend the other day, as we sat drinking, I told him of a new medical procedure, that might apply to him, he was amazed I would know about it, since he had no idea it existed, as we sat there he ask how I know so much stuff, I said, “I read”, he just couldn’t understand reading just for the enjoyment of it.

Reading is a passion; I used it for escape as a child, the ability to go to some far off place or time. I can’t even bring myself to throw out a book. One of my fondest memories of my dad was when I moved to Wyoming from Colorado, my dad came down to help us move, we lived on the 3rd floor of an apartment building. I had 48 boxes of nothing but books, he wasn’t really happy carrying them down 3 flights of stairs.

The first gift my child received was a book, it was cute it had pictures and when you squeezed it there was a noise. What we pass on to our children is what they become.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

February 7. 2008

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Personal responsibility those two words seem to be fading from regular use these days. It seems that when ever something bad happens, most of the people I know always find someone else to blame for all their woes, and it doesn’t matter what it is about be it love or business or any one of countless events in their lives

If you want to succeed in what ever your passion is, you have to take responsibility for all your actions, you will make mistakes and more mistakes, if you don’t accept personal responsibility you will be certain to fail, all the people that have made it, realize they will make mistakes and they learn from them. If you continue to blame others for your failures, then I feel sorry for you, you have given up any hope for success.

Do you teach your children to take full responsibly for their actions, or are you one of those parents that always blame someone else when your child gets in trouble, be it with the school, friends or the law.

The problems with our children, the gangs and getting pregnant at 15 or even younger, the total disregard for human life, drugs, you name it. I see the parents blame the television, the video game, their friends, even their teachers, what happened to teaching them to be good citizens of this great country. I grew up in the 60’s so I understand rebellion, but I wouldn’t have done the things I see kids doing every day, the total disrespect for others, “The you can’t tell me what to do.” And the parent backs down. I realize that there is a fear out there of what others will say, or the law will become involved, I am not saying beat them, but developing a line of commutation with them will fix most things. Don’t give them everything they want make them earn it. An old saying keeps running through my head and that is “You get what you raise.”

The one thing I do know is this, if you can’t take responsibility for yourself, and your actions, then you and all your offspring will be destine to failure

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

February 6, 2008

"History will never accept difficulties as an excuse."

It was a good day, I made a commitment, and it was a monetary expenditure, that at the present time I will be a challenged to meet. But I have found if you give someone something for free they really never appreciate it.

I have learned that a gift that is expected is never valued as one that you spent your hard earned money on. It like Christmas morning the kids have opened all their gifts, and then go “Is that all.” If you have to dig deep to get something, it will increase in value in proportion to the amount of sweat you had to put into it.

No matter what path you take in life, you will feel like a winner if you had to work to get all you have. If you don’t believe me just check out all the Hollywood kids, that had money handed to them when they have done nothing to earn one dime of it.

Most of us had chores when we were growing up, I think it made me a better person, I had responsibilities, if I wanted money I got a paper route, or worked in farming. It made me a better person, I hated it at the time but I had made a commitment and we must do what we committed ourselves to. I think it all boils down to being true to oneself.

February 6, 2008

In truth, the world is neither with us or against us; it is but raw material in our hands, and can be heaven or hell according to what we are.

Well I can see this is going to be a, sure you got problems, but……kind of week. When one door closes another opens, the key is to be aware of the other door.

I was just watching the “Big Idea” with Donnie Deutsch it is fun and informative, watch the people that have made it or on the road to making it, and you learn something if you pay attention.

Paying attention is something I am learning to do; it is hard sometimes, to catch the little things that are more important than you give them credit for at the time.

When a person says no, do they really mean no, perhaps they didn’t like how you presented it or just one little part of your idea, ask them, and don’t be afraid of anything they can’t say anymore than no. If you ask, maybe they will give you the answers to meet their needs.

Never give up, there is nothing that can not be overcome.