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Every Day is a New Chance to Choose
By Ishita Gupta
Choose to change perspective.
Choose to flip the switchnin your mind. Turn on the light and stop fretting about with insecurity and doubt.
Choose to do your work and be free of distraction.
Choose to see the best in someone, or choose to bring out the worst in them.
Choose to be a laser beam, with focused intention, or a scattered ray of light that doesn’t do any good.
Within the choice to choose lies power. There is an opportunity to change from yesterday to today, from moment to moment. What choices are you making at this moment?
Today?
This week?
This year?
Chalk Lines
Was there a chalk line around your body this morning?
This morning I stopped by a local convenience store for a cup of coffee. The man who checked out before me ordered two tins of chewing tobacco and five Powerball tickets.
Handing him his loot and taking his money, the clerk asked “So, are you set for a good day?”
“I doubt it,” he replied with a scowl.
It made me think of a line that Les Brown uses. He says that every morning when he wakes up, he looks around his body. If he doesn’t see a chalk line, he knows it’s going to be a great day!
If you are reading this, it is a fair assumption that when you woke up this morning, there was not a chalk line around your body.
So what sort of a day did you choose to have when you got out of bed?
Learning to Fly
“I’m a Zen Buddhist if I would describe myself. I don’t think
about what I do. I do it. That’s Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and
build my wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s approach is one based on faith, based on you gut, based on what you don’t know you don’t know. This is not something they teach us growing up, in formal education or in continued education courses for our career. Whether it be your personal life or your professional career, there comes a point when what you know will only get you so far and you have to trust that along they way you will learn anything else you need to know.
One way to look at it is that life is a journey and often you have to take risks and learn as you go – you just hope when you jump, you have learned enough to keep you airborne long enough to learn how to fly before you hit the ground.
In your current life . . .
Where are you at with different areas of your life – are you safe on land or standing on the edge of the cliff or on your way down or even flying?
For the future . . .
What in your life has brought your to a cliff? (this “cliff” maybe a relationship with a friend, family member or significant other or the path for your professional career or learning a new skill set or trade or taking on a new hobby?) What would it take for you to jump?
Get Busy Living
There is a great quote in the movie Shawshank Redemption that says “Get busy living or get busy dying.” Those six words form a very powerful statement that may be a little confrontational to some people when they hear it. Those six words are not about death or mortality, rather they stand for a call to action to each of us!
This call to action is for each of us to be in action in the game if life.
Each one of us posses special skills and talents that we can use in this game called life. Those talents can be in our business/ industry, our friendships or personal relationships. These talents tend to be in the form of a natural skill set, a unique creative ability or a physical attribute. These talents can show up in everyday life as us being good with children or the ability to speak in front of crowds, the natural ability to cook or even the agility to perform challenging physical feats.
Regardless of the talent, many believe we have an obligation to get in the game of life and use these talents. This is based on the belief that if everyone is putting their best effort forward, ultimately the group/ community or society will achieve maximum results.
Within this obligation is the assumption that each of us will use our talents to attempt to win each time we step on the court and ultimately benefit ourselves and the others. It is also assumed that it is ok to sit on the bench at times and even watch from the stands, however when the time come, each of us need to be ready to get into the game and excel based on these skills we have been given.
What skills do you have? Come on we all have skills, maybe we haw never taken the time to recognize those skills.
When do you know it is time to get in the game and utilize those skills? Maybe the ability to recognize this will cone with practice?
How do you use your talents to win? What is a win for you in your life?
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