Posts Tagged ‘faith’
Every Day
Willie Mays said, "It isn't difficult to be great from time to time. What's difficult is to be great every day". I love that quote and have kept it with me at my desk for years. I break it out every so often with my staff or any group who will listen, because it is a great reminder that we can really bring our A-game at any given time, and while that's good, it's not exceptional. Exceptional (and difficult) is bringing that A-game every single day. No matter what. And being great every day is what enables you to accomplish anything [...]
Will Power
I ran across a great poem tonight that was written by a guy named Berton Braley. The poem is all about will power, but I also think it speaks to the power of the focused and persistent human spirit. There is no doubt in my mind that if any of us want something bad enough, we can have it. Of course if we never do anything about our desire, we will simply go on wanting. It is, after all, by taking action that we start to achieve all that we desire in life. The poem was just such a great reminder to me that wanting something is not [...]
The Faith Of A Child
Can you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up? Maybe you're still trying to figure that out... Do you remember what it felt like though, as a child, to imagine what it was you wanted to be? And here's an even more powerful question: When did you stop believing in that dream? There is really no faith like the faith of a child. A child believes that they can have, be or do anything they want. All that is required is an imagination. And, like Einstein said, it takes them everywhere! So what happens to us when we [...]
Judgment Call
It's likely that there is no such thing as objective reality. Okay, that was a little deep for the first sentence of the post, sorry about that, but hear me out... Each of us sees everything in life just a little differently. It makes sense because we are all totally unique. Everything we observe or experience, we do so with our own subjectivity. Meaning that everything in life is truly subjective, or slightly different for all, depending on who the observer might be. How does that sound? Probably even more crazy... If you [...]
You’ll See It When You Believe It
Our minds are magical. We possess the ability to do amazing things. And all of it starts in our heads. But here’s the crazy part; If you believe that to be true, then you know it’s true. If you don’t believe it, then you know it’s not. Yes, I just made myself dizzy, too. Sorry about that… But that’s the thing about belief – it truly dictates every part of our lives. The events, circumstances, people and everything else that make up our life experience are directly related to the things we think about most [...]
Imagine That…or This
I was hanging out with my kids the other night and we were talking about all sorts of cool stuff. We were laughing and having a wonderful time, as we often do in our crazy household. At some point during the conversation it occurred to me that one of the best parts about talking with the kids is in just listening to what they come up with next. Kids have such wonderful imaginations. They are pure and they are free. They haven’t taken the cultural beat-down that we have as adults. They haven’t been introduced to limitation. [...]
