I think its best to Pursue relationships that enable you to cultivate your own true beliefs and aspirations. It certainly makes for a great positive role model example for others to follow in.

Make friends and try to be in relationship with everyone you know ... however, watch your time and ensure that your time is used wisely, aligned with your life purpose.

Thomas Edison wrote, "Good things come to those who wait, but only what's left over from those who hustle."

Are you going to wait to get into high quality relationships in your life, ... Or are you Ready to Go For It and become person you truly want to be, having others in your life who feel same way?

When you think, decide, and take action on one single idea, you are a much better person than someone who learns hundreds of ideas but who does nothing.

The faster you move;

the more experiences you have and more lessons you learn,

the smarter and more capable you become,

the more ground you cover,

the more people you meet,

the more opportunities you discover,

the more doors open for you,

the more energy you have,

the more enthusiastic and confident you become,

the more creative and competent you become in any area,

the more you get done,

the more capable you become of doing even more.

Develop deep-down habit of action orientation.

The more you *try,* more you will *tri-umph.*

But we can't let that stop us. Sometimes, we overstay our welcome. You see it in sports when a once great athlete tries to stick around for one or two more seasons too long.

But, nothing is forever, much less any one job.

Probably, one of hard things to deal with is feeling of being replaced. I've been lucky. The last two jobs I left, I was not replaced. Well, at least not right away.

It takes away option of being able to go back. In a sense, you're stuck with decision and have no other real choice but to move forward. And that, despite what we feel, is a good thing too. Safety and security are can be worst things for us at times. They keep us grounded, they keep status quo, and longer we stay, harder it will become.

There are countless hall-of-famers in all walks of life. Sad thing is not everyone gets to be enshrined in hallowed halls like they do in Cooperstown, Canton, or even here at bowling hall-of-fame in St. Louis.

One thing those we immortalized have in common is that someone else at one time or another replaced them, just like they had replaced ones before them.

It's part of whole circle of life I suppose. Even though so often it feels as if we are going nowhere and life as we know it is just standing still, it's not. It's constantly moving forward. And we will all reach these points of decision at one time or another.

Let's hope we don't start asking ourselves "What If" when it's our time to go.