Decide: How To Avoid DisasterWritten by Clyde Dennis
Where do you want to be in a year? In five years? In ten years? Is what you’re doing now -- way you’re living, your friends, your habits, your focus -- Are all of these things moving you in direction of your goals? How does it look?Are your habits kinds of habits that person you’re going to be in two years would have? Are your friends or associates, or whatever you call people you hang out with types of people you you’re going to be in five years will want to know and be with? What about things your mind gets hung up on? Your focus. Do you even know what your focus is? If you and I were sitting together right now (and pretend we are) What would your answer be if I asked you where you’re going? What are you focused on accomplishing or achieving? You are certainly focused on something. Either consciously or your subconscious has chose something for you. Which is it in your case? Did you choose or has world chosen for you? Have you taken 10 minutes and made a conscious decision about what definition of your life is going to be? That’s really all it would take. In reality, even less than that. Think about it. Have you ever been so fed up with something that at one point you just decide—that’s it, no more. I’ve had it! How long did it take you to come to that decision? The real truth is you did it in an instant. It may have taken you years to get to point where you decided to decide but, decision itself was made in an instant. A second. You have that same force, power and ability to get yourself moving in direction of your choosing at any given moment if you would but decide to do so. Don’t be one who gets ten years further down road and be left thinking, wondering, wishing you had decided to do something. Do it now. Decide.
| | Life – The TeacherWritten by Clyde Dennis
You’ve probably heard phrase "repetition is mother of learning" well apparently it’s also mother of teaching. Often it seems, Life – The Teacher uses tool of repetition to imprint into our brains lessons it’s needing to impart to us. At least this has been my experience.It has become clear to me that life gives same tests over, and over and over again until we demonstrate that we’ve learned lesson by passing test. This teacher seems more than happy to show us again and again why it may be a bad idea to take a particular action, or choose one direction over another. The good news here is that it works both ways. Like any good teacher choose properly and life smiles. Choose improperly and life corrects. Sometimes I wish and think that it would be simpler and easier if teacher would just make all of my decisions for me and let me know exactly what I’m supposed to do, but of course that’s not way it works. In this teacher role life is just an administrator, not an advisor or counselor. Life is there to administer and grade tests. Once you pass test however, Life records your grade and moves on to next lesson. But don’t completely discard lesson you’ve just learned as over because it’s not. You may not see or have to deal
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