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Make room for expanding your horizons. Look beyond where you have come from and see
bigger picture. Plan to maximize your potential.
You cannot grow if you do not feed yourself. As a baby, someone else fed you until you learned to feed yourself. Now that you have learned to feed yourself and you have found that it is a must for life, you do it on a daily basis. For some it is three times a day. For others it might be 5-6 times a day. For others once or twice. But, I know of no one who does not feed themselves on a regular daily basis. Why? Because you will die if you do not. Now there are others ways to die besides at life's end. I call it wasting away.
Man is born triune. That is, body, soul and spirit. If you do not feed yourself spiritually, you will die. If you do not feed yourself intellectually, you will die. If you do not feed mind, you will die. If you do not feed soul, you will die. Or, to put it another way, you will waste away. Ancient Script says we perish for lack of knowledge. Knowledge comes from cracking books, taking classes, studying different cultures, going to seminars and sharing all this with others. There is something about sharing what you know with others that not only helps you grow and make room for more as you give what you know away, but it also helps those with whom you share your wisdom.
But guess what? There are thousands of people who do not and will not feed themselves on a daily basis, foods necessary for spiritual growth, mental growth, emotional growth, etc. Food for soul is good. So is food for brain, inner you, your emotions and intellect. You can feed body all it wants but still waste away if you do not attend all areas of your make-up. It is called balance. Why do you think you have a soul, a spirit, and a brain? It is there to feed on a daily basis. You cannot leave car in garage without giving it some attention. Sooner or later it isn't going to run well, if at all. What do you think would happen to it if you left it in garage without any attention at all for several weeks or months? One day you would try to start it and nothing would happen. It would be dead. It is same way with you and I. Those who refuse to attend most marvelous of creations might be called living dead. They just exist contributing nothing to not only their own lives but also contributing nothing to lives of those around them. What is it you want people to say about you after your gone? What should they say? Here is what I hope others will say about me. "You know, ol' Bill was never a quitter. He always gave it 110% no matter what. He not only changed himself for better by adding quality daily to his life, he also helped change lives of others."
You can grow if you want to. And key is WANT TO. Your want to must be stronger than I cant. I can't means I won't try. Purpose must be stronger than object sought. Why must be stronger than how. When you know why you want something and it serves a great purpose, how you get it will become easier. You will see ways to get it that you never knew, when why becomes stronger than how. If why has no worthwhile purpose, how of it will become harder than usual, many times impossible.
START GROWING TODAY. IT IS NEVER TO LATE. HOW DO I START? RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE, THAT'S WHERE. AND DON'T STOP GROWING UNTIL. UNTIL WHEN? UNTIL YOU HAVE GROWN ALL THAT YOU POSSIBLY CAN.
A parting thought...Stay encouraged. Everything is temporary, even storms of life.
I Wish You The Best Of Success,
Dr. Wm. G. Seavey Email Doctor for lecturing at winnow@earthlink.net Web Site www.thewinnerscircle.org Subscribe to The Mustard Seed - Lessons For Living at www.thewinnerscircle.org
Dr Seavey is the Founder of The Winners Circle and has been writing and speaking since 1976 to organisations, churches and businesses. Having studied success and its principles and disciplines for the past 15 years he is a product of real life. He is the author of The Mustard Seed - Lessons For Living, a monthly electronic ezine, and numerous workbooks relative to personal development and growth.
