The Cup Half Full

My Centennial Post - What I've Learned

2012-01-27T18:31:00.001-05:00

This is a momentous occasion for me.

There is a certain satisfaction that comes from having achieved this milestone, although this is not the first of my blogs that I have achieved it on.   It shows conviction and stick-to-it-tiveness.   Key ingredients for success.

When I first began planning for this centennial post I thought I'd plot out the next 100 blogs and what direction I'd want to take.   Problem is, I change over time and the nature of this blog has changed along with me.

Unless I decide to 'clean' it up at some point, you can go back and find some posts where I talk about the future of this blog.   What it is now isn't what I had envisioned then.   Know what? That's okay.

I do have a plan and this blog is just one part of that.   However the great thing about a blog is it's a part of a journey.    It's always a reflection of where I am now.   In general, I get wiser and better as I go along.

So, after 100 posts - what have I learned?

"Do or do not. There is no try." ~ Yoda

When I first heard those words, as a youth, I intellectually got what Yoda was saying but I didn't really 'get' it. Now, I get it.   You are either absolutely committed to doing what it takes to get a result or you are not getting the result. Period.

When I started this blog, I was like 95% of the people reading this blog, and others such success blogs. I was looking for 'the answer' or 'the secret'. That 'thing' that if I just knew that one (or two or three) 'things' that were holding me back, I'd be rocketing to success. My potential would be unleashed and I'd be unstoppable!

After a quarter century of studying here's what I've found: What's stopping you is an intolerance to risk.

You have got to learn to love failure.

Society has this notion that 'failure' is a horrible thing to be avoid. It's not. It's an essential part of life. It's like breathing.   If you're living you're bound to experience it. So why do we spend so much of our time avoiding it?   Because it's unpleasant, or we perceive it as such because we wrap up too much of our emotions into getting a positive result.

Early on in this blog I wrote a couple posts of how life 'Seperates the Wheat from the Chaff'. That life is designed that way.   Failure is the stick that's beating the wheat.   If you can embrace failure as merely a means to an end then you're wheat. If you run from the threat of failure - your chaff.

I've said it a thousand times (or at least a hundred, once for each post - lol) successful people don't just succeed more, they fail more. But you don't hear about all their failures (except for Edison and the light bulb) you hear about their successes. But those successes all came after unsuccessful attempts.   That's true for everyone in history from Bell to Jobs.

They learned to not get upset when things didn't work out as hoped. Odds are they won't a lot of the time. So just accept that two steps forward, one step back, is a part of life and keep walking forward.

Enough on that, I've preached that too many times already.

You're still wondering what's holding you back.

You.

There's no one else. It's you.

You're afraid. For whatever reason, being where you are is more comfortable than being where you 'want' to be.

So you want a magic bullet. That's why you're here yes? To find that 'one secret' that will TA-DA make the difference in your life.

Okay, here it is.

Step 1: Go fail. That's right. Get off your ass, do that thing, whatever it is, that you've been wanting to do and go right ahead and fail at it.

Get it out of the way!!

Now, you might screw it up and actually succeed, oops, but let's assume you really are as bad as you subconsciously think you are.

Step 2: So you tried and failed. So now you can either justify doing nothing for the rest of your life (stop reading, go cry and carry on being dissatisfied) or you can try and fail at it again.   Yeah, that's right, fail at it again.

Now this time, there's is a much higher likelihood you'll accidentally succeed, so don't say I didn't warn you but let's assume you don't. Cause, like me, and Bell, and Edison, and Steve Jobs, and countless others, you suck. At least at first.

Step 3: Repeat Step 2 until you've 'accidentally' succeeded.

I'm being facetious here but you get the point. There is no other secret.   There's the constant willingness to try, a willingness to learn, belief (in yourself or God), determination and sticktoittiveness. And a lot of effort.

That's it.

The reason I'm saying to fail is because once you've become accustomed to failing, it loses it's sting. It's just another step on the road to success.   Because anyone who is absolutely committed to doing something, to learn from their mistakes, to model what works, and just keep on, keeping on is guaranteed to achieve.

That's nothing new. You could have told me that. So, do you want to 'succeed' or not? If you do, you've got some failures to face and some success to embrace.   I look forward to meeting you along the way.

Isagenix - Is It For Real?

2012-01-25T17:31:00.001-05:00

I'm going to do something a little different today.

If you're a follower of this blog, then you know I normally discuss self-motivation, Law of Attraction or perhaps God and Faith. Today though I thought I'd share on one of the things I'm doing to improve my life and why I've stuck with it.

For those who may be have found this on a Google search, this is not an advertisement, I'm not interested in selling you on Isagenix. If you're researching it, almost certainly someone has brought Isagenix to your attention and I wouldn't want to try to 'scoop' their credit.

Isagenix

What is it: Isagenix is a multi-level marketing company that sells health products, with a primary focus on cleansing and longevity.

Now before you start rolling your eyes over another 'sucker' caught up in MLM schemes, here's a few facts to consider.

Dr. John Grey - Men are from Mars, Jack Canfield - Chicken Soup for the Soul and Marcia Wieder - Dream University are all active Isagenix users and promoters. Dr. Grey is an Isagenix millionaire.
Many professional atheletes, movie stars and other celebrities all use Isagenix. And it's the fastest growing MLM in the world, have reached the top ten of all MLM worldwide within about ten years (the rest of that top ten list are very old MLMs like Mary Kay and Amway so to be reaching their level within such a short time shows Isagenix is doing something right).

Why Isagenix?: Quite simply - it works. I've looked into a lot of MLMs over the years, but Isagenix is the first one I'll endorse. The products work - you lose weight, you feel great. Effectively, fast and naturally.

My wife, a personally fitness trainer has used it and had her clients on it for years. All to great result. I tried it personally and also had fantastic results. I lost ten pounds of fat (in a month!) and have now added fifteen of lean muscle mass. Those are results I can get behind! Moreover, I've personally enrolled many people and all of them lost weight and felt great (as long as they continued to use the products as intended). Some of them have even enrolled their friends who also had similar results.

Is it worthwhile?: For your health? Absolutely. I encourage everyone to try it, whether you want to lose weight, gain muscle mass, improve physical preformance, or just feel better in general - this is the real deal.
From a business perspective - Like any business you get out of it what you put in. When I work it diligently, I bring people in and see increasing income. When I allow myself to get busy with other things - or just get lazy - income tends to slowly drop off. Bottom line: Isagenix is a business not a hobby. Treat it like a hobby and you might make enough to cover your own costs (which is great because I love the product and free product is a wonderful thing), treat it like a business - consistantly - and you'll reap the rewards. It's a great business and pays well. It's also simple - if you keep it simple. Study the leaders, and do as they do. It's not hard. Do not try to reinvent the wheel. I've seen it in stock trading and I see it again here - people all think they know better. You don't, don't even try it. Not until you're legitimately successful doing it the way it's known to work - first.

What do I like best?: By far the most valuable gift from being a part of Isagenix is the people. I have a great upline (and I did a bit of digging to find more people in my upline, and side line and over there line) and that includes people making six and seven figure incomes with Isagenix. They are all invested in my success. That's great. What's even better is surrounding yourself with 'can do' people. Success minded people. People who will cheer you on and not critize you (unduly). What's also great is to meet millionaires and realize, they are not so different than I. They are not more talented, or gifted or smarter or better looking than I am. In fact, in some cases, if those where the perametres for success, I should be earning much more than they!

Future Plans: I've made a three year commitment to doing Isagenix and I intend to keep that. For the last couple of months I've really lapsed on that - mainly because I was getting married and that took the bulk of my attention. I've also come to the realization that to really be successful Isagenix has to be a full-time career choice. You can do it while working another job, but you need to be prepared to invest serious hours once you get going. It's more than just talking to people and signing them up. It's coaching them, developing your down line, three-way calling with people, attending conferences, home shows, etc., etc. There's a lot of work. While I do enjoy it, I also want to build up my writing/blogging career and to truly succeed on that I need to treat it as a full-time career. I cannot possibly hold three concurrent full-time careers. So I'm moving more to a support role for my wife's Isagenix business, at least until I can fully replace my current salaried job.

I'm following my dreams and Isagenix remains an important part of that mixed, both for health and wealth reasons, but is not my primary goal. If I became a millionaire selling Isagenix, well, that would be swell, but not nearly as rewarding as making millions through my writing. That's my dream and I'm sticking to that.

You Are Exactly Where You Choose To Be.

2012-01-19T13:08:00.000-05:00

Do you look at some aspect of your life and wonder why you're there?   Or perhaps there's all sorts of reasons why you're there.   People and circumstance have conspired against you to put you there.

That may be true in the short term, but if you're still there a year later, you've only yourself to blame.

Some will accept that with a sad sort of resignation, others will openly refute it but it's still the case 99% of the time.

You are exactly where you choose to be.

That may not be by conscious decision, or to your liking. In fact, many people are in a situation, be it a job or relationship or financial circumstance they dislike or even despise but they still choose to be there.

Here is an example I often give.    A woman grows up in a roach infested tentament in the bad side of town to immigrant parents.   She dreams of being rich. She pushes and pushes and finds a way to make it to and through university.   She gets a nice job and ends up renting an apartment on the nice side of town. She has a decent salary, a modest car, and stability.   She still dreams of being rich but she simply isn't.   Unless something changes in her, or in her life (like marriage) she will likely remain there, perhaps for life.

Now let's assume Paris Hilton suffers a horrendous financial collapse that ruins her reputation. Her fame is gone, her millions are gone and she ends up sharing the apartment with the above woman. What do you think will happen? Will Paris Hilton remain in that apartment? In that life?   No, of course not. She simply can't.   It's so far beneath her minimum expectations of life that she will work, think and plan day and night on how to get out of that life and back to the one she knew. It'll basically be her obcessive predominate thought.    In time, sure enough, she'll find a way to recoop her old lifestyle.    It might mean starting a new business, or marrying some rich guy she doesn't like but somehow she'll do it.

So if Paris can - and will - do it, why doesn't the first woman?   Because the first woman is comfortable where she is.   She may not be content, but she's comfortable.  It's an acceptable standard to her. It's not to Paris.

It is human nature to go with the easy 'win'.   The question is, what's an acceptable standard for you?   A great many of us, myself included, need to raise our standards.

You might think you're living below you're standard, but you're not really, no one does for long unless they're a prisoner or have some debilitating circumstance. You can't. It's so uncomfortable you are restless until you do something to change it and get back above that mental standard. Even alcoholics will eventually drag themselves to an AA meeting and start the process to get out of the hole they dug and back into their comfort zones (unless, they are comfortable in the gutter).

Your standard, your comfort zone, is tied to your own self-worth.   If you don't think highly of yourself, you accept a lower standard.   If you think very highly of yourself, then you expect more from yourself.    Our self-worth is often tied to what others - parents, teachers, peers validated us as being.    If you heard 'You're worthless' enough times, chances are high that you, at a subconscious level, believe it.  If you had a parent, or parents, that didn't validate you, no matter how much you tried, you might feel the same way.

But know this: You do not need to be particularly smart to be successful. You don't need to be good looking. You don't need to very talented.   You just need to want it.   And I mean you have to, 'HAVE TO', have it.   You have to want it - bad. Being where you are now, must be so far beneath what you're willing to accept out of life that it drives you to do something about it.

My son used to struggle in school. He's a tactile learner. When it's something he can touch, he does well. When it's something that's all in the mind, he struggles with it.    Unless... it's something he really wanted.
He struggled to learn his times tables but he could tell you everything about every single Pokemon. What their powers were, their stats, who would win over who and why.    That's a lot of work to study 150 Pokemon to that level, yet he had no problem with that.   Because he wanted it - bad.   He was driven to learn it out of his desire to play Pokemon card and video games and love for the characters.   Not knowing wasn't acceptable to him. It took away from his enjoyment and was out of his comfort zone. So he learned.

You can succeed at most anything but first you must choose to do so.   The idea of anything less must simply become so distasteful, so unacceptable to you, that it simply won't do. The discomfort of being there will compel you into action.

If you still find yourself living a life you don't want, you are still choosing to live it in that way. Either you don't feel you're good enough to have better or you believe it's too much work to have better or perhaps somehow that having better will make you a bad person and it's a values conflict. Regardless, if you want it bad enough, you'll figure out what's holding you back - and change it.

Choose the life you want to live, know you are worth it, know it's possible, take action and do not accept anything less.

Stop Reading - Start Doing

2012-01-15T15:34:00.000-05:00

Here I am staring at a blank white text box, slowly watching letter after letter appear as I ponder what to write about in today's installment.   The trouble with being a blogger of an inspirational site is having some fresh inspirational thing to say every time.

As I think about it, all the inspiration quotes in the world did not make a whit of difference in my life, except to maybe temporarily brighten my mood (and take up some memory space). For that matter 25 years of studying about success did little to help me either.

In the end, it's not about the 'knowing'. It's about the 'doing'.   Fact of the matter is a lot of people who are doing right now, what you want to be doing, didn't get there from reading any inspiration material like this. They simply took the necessary actions. But how did they know what actions to take you ask?   They didn't! Not initially. They either figured it out through trial and error or sought the advice of those who had carved out the path ahead of them.

I read recently the Google founders where coached by Steve Jobs (the late CEO of Apple). They didn't get to where they are by accident, they got there taking action and learning from their more successful peers.

So, here's my inspirational advice for today, and this applies as much to me as it does to you. Stop seeking to fix yourself. God has already given you everything you need to succeed in life.   Education and intelligence notwithstanding - not so bright and poorly educated people have managed to live very successful lives, I know, I've met some personally - and that's no slight on those people, it's a deep appreciation for what they have accomplished.   If you were to take the time to actually go and meet people who are living the life you currently desire, you would quickly realize, that they are really not very different than you.

The difference is this. They are taking action while you're sitting here wanting to take action. Looking for the right action to take.   The right action, is any action that sets you in motion! Even if it's in the wrong direction. Won't take you long to figure that out and then you course correct. But it's always better to be doing than to always to be planning to do.    Yes, you should have a plan, but the greatest design in the world for a temple beyond comprehension doesn't amount to anything if the shovel never hits the dirt.

Commit to yourself to take one action towards your top goal (set a goal if you haven't got one) right now. Not tomorrow, not even later today. Do it now. It can be a small simple action. A call. A purchase. A request for help. A commitment to another. But start the journey, right now.

Then keep taking actions every day.   Then stop reading about what to do and instead learn best techniques from others while you walk the walk. If you discovered you've stopped, start again.

A rich life is built from the compound interest of our daily actions.

Preston Squire 2012

Doing it - God's Way

2012-01-12T16:42:00.000-05:00

One of the realization's I've had is that my life runs best when I get in line with God's plan for my life.

I find there's three ways of running your life.

Doing it MY Way:

This is of course a very popular option, especially in today's day and age of independent, agnostic, thinking.   It also feeds one's pride and ego to say, 'I did it - myyyyyy wayyyy'.   I certainly was a follower of this phylosophy myself up until late last year.

The reason I eventually abandoned it was because despite all the new age gurus, success secrets, books, seminars, programs and coaching I took in, I still fell into the same trappings that Paul did when he said, 'For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.' ~ Romans 7:19

Knowing what I should do, even knowing the driving internal forces that caused me not to do those things I should do, did not ultimately enable me to do the things I knew I should be doing. Instead I did stuff that was 'good' and 'fun' but never really fulfilled me. They weren't the 'right' actions. Often, I didn't even know what the real 'right' action should be.

There's a difference between doing 'good' actions and 'right' actions.    For example, Jesus could have become a priest, or choose to live to an old age tending to the sick.   Those certainly would have been 'good' actions but they weren't the 'right' one.   Jesus choose not to do what might seem good to him but instead what seemed good to God the father.

My problem, is my mind is pretty limited. Not to suggest I have a low IQ, I don't, but that I'm always swayed to do the easy and immediately rewarding thing. Despite whatever resolve I might muster to endure long term hardship for long term victory, my will ebbed and I'd start wanting self-gratification of easy 'wins' or at least, a distraction from the pain of 'doing' without seeing results.

So instead of taking 'right' actions, I do 'good' things I think I should be/feel rewarded for but often don't really.   Whenever this is my primary way of operating, I find life to somehow be less than fulfilling.

Doing it MAN's Way:

That is doing what your boss thinks you should be doing. Or following what your parents think you should be doing with your life. Or letting your spouse determine your actions.   Or your kids, or social peers, or your religious edict, or society as a whole.

Everyone has an opinion on how you should be conducting your life. Opinions are the cheapest form of currency out there.   Everyone has them. Trouble is, few people even do the things they think they themselves should be doing.   Even fewer are inline with God's plan doing the 'right' things that really build their life and bring true joy.

Doing things to please others might give us a sense of acceptence but it doesn't fulfill. We find we are doing things that just don't hold any real meaning for ourselves. We're people pleasing, pure and simple.   What's worse is that people don't all agree. So no matter what you do, you can't please all the people all the time.   No matter how hard you try you will still feel let down because someone will still feel you're doing it 'wrong'.

Doing it GOD's Way:

At this point in my life, I've determined to give up on doing it My Way and Man's Way and am committed to living my life according to what God would have me do.

Whenever I'm in line with God's plan, things simply work. I meet the right people, people have a change of heart in my favour, things just work out in my favour.   I feel like a regular Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow is a current NFL sensation who is generally considered to have enjoyed the bulk of his success through dumb luck - or devine faith (he's a devote Christian) - depending on who you ask.

Just this week Tebow threw a questionable but ruled acceptable pass that resulted in an 80 yard rush and touchdown, giving his team a much needed overtime win (in a mere 11 seconds of play) to get into the playoffs. That has certainly been the reality for me as well when I'm living in accordance to God's plan for my life. It might look like there's no way, and MAN and ME might agree on that - it's just not possible - but when I do it anyway, in faith, somehow it works out in my favour.

The question then becomes; how do you know what God's plan for your life is?   That is one I struggle with every day. However, ultimately I do it the same way Jesus and everyone who came after him did it. Through lots of prayer and fasting. For myself, I find meditation can be very helpful in getting 'connected' as well.

However, there's no guarantee. Sometimes I feel God very powerfully and actively and it's clear what I should do.   Other times it's just a hunch. Other times, despite how much I may be praying, I'm just not feeling connected and feel like I'm floating aimlessly.    However, God has, time and again, given me three pillars to live by - to lead, to love and to write/speak.   So when I'm not getting any feedback from the holy spirit, I'm doing my best to live up to those pillars.    Eventually, I find the spirit will nudge me here or there or speak through me in my writing.   It takes some attunement and I have to be sure to take time out to just be with God, even if I not feeling like I'm hearing Him, to stay attuned.

I could write an entire book on this subject (might do that someday) but there's many already out there for those of you who want more guidence on being lead by the spirit.

Preston Squire

Love Yourself

2012-01-10T00:34:00.000-05:00

He answered: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" ~ Luke 10:27

Ever notice that before you can truly love your 'neighbor' (and be loved by them), you must first have a healthy love of self.

Faith

2011-10-27T15:38:00.000-04:00

Faith is the cornerstone of every ambition. Without it, dreams collapse under their own weight.

No compromise

2011-10-17T23:15:00.002-04:00

There's a time and place for compromises. My life just doesn't happen to be one of them.

Rock & Roll

2011-10-16T23:33:00.001-04:00

A life of sex, drugs and rock & roll may sound like a lot of fun but I find it interesting how many people I've met who lived that life for years and are now seeking God. It's like eating candy all the time, might be yummy, but eventually you start craving some real food.

Be Yourself

2011-10-01T06:51:00.002-04:00

It's interesting... I've owned so many pets over the years, and each one has had it's own distinct personality. Regardless of if they were bold or shy, loving or independent, cuddly or rambunctious, I've loved them each exactly as they were and none of them - not one ever - tried to be anything other than who they were.

So why do we feel the need to put up a false front? Let's be loved for exactly who we are.

What's your 'Why'?

2011-09-30T08:44:00.000-04:00

No matter how disillusioned, disappointed, disgusted or even downright disadvantaged we are in any area of our lives, we often tend to stay right where we are - despite the discomfort - because we don't know 'How' to change it.

Knowing 'How' is never the answer. We need only have a compelling enough 'Why' to move us forward and then the 'How' will be revealed bit by bit as we take action. Yes, we will make missteps along the way. But 'two steps forward, one step back' is infinitely better than standing still in the muck, slowly sinking away.

No excuse

2011-09-28T11:54:00.001-04:00

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. " ~ Bejamin Franklin

If you want to break through and succeed at any area of your life, stop making excuses as to why it can't be done, and just start taking the actions to make it happen. To quote Nike 'Just do it.'

Enjoy the journey

2011-09-27T16:57:00.001-04:00

A happy life is made up of many happy moments. Unfortunately many of us miss those moments as we try to create a happy life.

Happiness is...

2011-09-24T21:54:00.000-04:00

Happiness is not a gift the world gives you. It is a gift you give yourself, and then share with the world.

Stay in the moment

2011-09-23T09:00:00.000-04:00

When you think about the future you want, do you start seeing all the challenges along the way?

Or perhaps you remember all the times you failed or all the times someone else, or just life itself messed you up?

It's quite normal, most everyone does it.

But your future is not determined by your past. Nor is it determined by your imagined problems. Unless you allow those things to control your mind.

Your future, your bright, beautiful future is always created in the now. What you're doing in this present moment, will always determine what comes next.

Forget the past - it's gone. Don't fuss over the future - it hasn't happened. Stay in the moment. Right now, with me, take the steps, big or small, that lead to your desired future. Then just keep going. Just keep on going.

Appreciation

2011-09-22T15:55:00.000-04:00

Before you go out into the world seeking more, you need to cultivate an appreciation for what you already have. It's very difficult to go from saying 'No, no, no' to the world around you to saying 'Yes' to that which you want. If you instead focus on saying 'Yes' to the things in your life that you currently appreciate, then you will automatically say 'Yes' to more of that.

Ironically, if all your focus in on the things you don't like, it's effectively saying 'yes' to more of that too.

Get Uncomfortable

2011-09-21T11:35:00.000-04:00

"No Pain, No Gain"

Listen, if you are comfortable in every area of your life, you have a problem. You are stuck in your 'comfort zone', doing those things that are comfortable for you to do. Now, you might hate what you're doing, but doing what you've always done, is still more comfortable than the risk of the unknown.

Decide right now, with me, right this very minute to do something different. Do that thing you keep telling yourself you ought to be doing. Send that resume, talk to that person, take that action - that thing that will make you uncomfortable - because that's where the growth is. That's where life begins. Do it. Do it now.

Kaizen

2011-09-20T09:56:00.000-04:00

"If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong."

— Charles F. Kettering: was an American inventor and businessman

The Japanese have a philosophy that if you see someone you haven't seen for a while, you ought to be able to tell what's different. It's a belief in Kaizen - constant and never-ending improvement. Life doesn't stand still, why should we? At the end of every day ask yourself, 'How did the day go? What could I have done better?' And then visualize tomorrow being better by utilizing the lessons of today.

Surrender

2011-09-18T22:34:00.000-04:00

"Let go and let God"

There's this lie that we keep telling ourselves. That if we really, I mean really, 'let go and let God', somehow we'll end up as a backseat driver in our own lives and never see the life we wanted. But the truth is most of us have been stuck in commuter traffic jam hell in our lives, going the same route we see everyone else taking (so surely that's got to mean it's the right way, right?) but not really going anywhere. When we finally surrender the driver's seat to God, He act as the GPS to our dreams and fast-tracks us. Doesn't always seem like that when He takes us down the dirt roads in life but what He knows that we don't is, we'll save a lot of time avoiding the traffic jams that way.

Success

2011-09-15T13:48:00.004-04:00

"Do today what others won't, so you can do tomorrow what others can't."

Success is not an accident, nor an entitlement. It's a result of years of dedicated, committed action.

Decide

2011-09-14T15:38:00.001-04:00

"People do not decide to become extraordinary, they decide to accomplish extraordinary things."

Sir Edmund Hillary

Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Terry Fox, Alexander G.Bell - What made these people extraordinary? Nothing, except that they decided the status quo simply wasn't good enough and it drove them to do something different.

If you are not happy with your status quo, then is it not time to stop accepting it and actually do something different?

Shift

2011-09-14T00:13:00.000-04:00

"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got."

If you're not happy with the way your life is now, then you need to start changing what you're doing. Don't try to suddenly act differently, that'll last a week. Create new habits and you create a new life.

Action First

2011-09-12T22:09:00.002-04:00

"Fake it til you make it" ~ Steven Tyler

Y'know, so often those things we avoid, that we procrastinate on, that we always find some excuse not to get to it today, are the very things we need to be doing in order to make our lives better.

I'll tell you a secret; if you can just get yourself to start doing it, very often, the desire to do it will follow.

Action

2011-09-09T12:20:00.001-04:00

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next to best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
— Theodore Roosevelt

One essencial key to realizing your dreams is to actually take action on them. The right time to start is now. Focus on your 'why' and as you move forward in faith, the 'how' will become clear.

Celebrate

2011-09-08T09:51:00.001-04:00

If you truly appreciated how glorious you really are, and the wonders that you could perform if only you'd let yourself, and how deeply and vastly your heavenly Father loves you - then every moment would be cause for celebration. ~ Preston Squire