Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
I hope your solid. After all, you should be with all the practice you’ve had up to today. You can make yourself a hero. In fact, have you made yourself a hero lately? I’ve felt we’ve needed some more heroes.
Your life is yours to direct. So let me ask again. How are you at directing?
Stay Positive & You Create Your Own Tranquility, Your Own Tale
Are you meeting anyone new? Are you connecting with a mentor? Are you seeing old friends? Are you attending a MeetUp? Are you gathering with your tribe?
Can any week be considered “fulfilled” without being with people. Not just around people, but with people?
How about the most important tasks. Do you have those on your agenda?
What about time to relax, recoup, regenerate? Actual time resting, not playing Angry Birds, not sending emails, not surfing the web.
I’m not one who believes you can have balance each and every day of your life. I am one, however, who believes you can have balance each week. But only if you have it scheduled.
Stay Positive & What Do You Have Planned?
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I’ll finally admit it… Identifying your passion, discovering what it is you really love to do, finding your purpose is a damn difficult thing to do.
For some it seems to come so natural. That, too, I once believed. I don’t anymore. Being more forward with you, I thought I knew I always wanted to be a writer, an entrepreneur and a PR guy (even though I didn’t know the term PR at the time). “It’s just who I am!” I would tell people.
Investigating my past, though, I can’t recall the moment when I knew. There was no epiphany, no wide-realization, no godly pronouncement of my passion.
After scrutinizing my past, I realized that it was through a series of forcing, tricking, and driving myself to love the things I did that lead me to declare I was a writer, I was an entrepreneur, I was what I now know is called a public relations strategist.
I didn’t always love writing, but I was always finding ways to love it. (Still am.) It started with poetry because I knew I couldn’t fail. It moved on to bullshitting school papers because I could mock the system when I received the same grade as someone who spent weeks on the same paper, and I, only hours. Writing became more fun when I could write love letters and make women blush. And starting this blog? Best decision of my life for reasons it would take a book to detail.
I didn’t always want to be an entrepreneur either, but I always found ways to love it. (Still do.) I started my own vending machine business with my dad because I loved eating the leftover candy. I helped run a card shop because I loved collecting pokemon cards at the time and got to watch old batman movies when no one was in the shop. Instead of a lemonade stand, I had a beanie babies stand because it connected me with more kids my age.
I didn’t always want to go into Public Relations, but it was a knack of mine finding ways to love it. (Still is.) Meeting new people and going to events alone was rough, but I made business cards for myself. They made me feel I deserved to be there even though I didn’t have an established PR business. I went to dozens of Toastmaster (public speaking org) meetings, not because I was fearless, but because I could learn from others’ failures so I didn’t make the same when I finally forced myself to the podium.
Passion isn’t really something you seek out on purpose, it’s more of something you come across. You don’t need an “aha” moment to realize what it is you’ve been put on this world to do. You get there by finding reasons to love what you’re already doing.
Stay Positive & You’ll Do What You Love, When You Love What You Do
But, it’s not about what you deserve. Remember the saying that Perks of Being a Wallflower so joyously reminds us of? “We accept the love that we think we deserve.”
But, in reality, it’s not just love – it’s money, it’s friends, it’s the education, it’s the surprises and it’s the weird life turns. That’s why I do my best not to think about what I deserve. Rather, life is better lived leaving it at wanting what you want and accepting what you get.
Forget what you deserve, what you think you deserve, or what anyone else thinks you deserve. If we would first stop limiting ourselves and refusing what other people or life offers us, then we could finally start being constantly amazed with life.
Stay Positive & Who Doesn’t Love Being Amazed
Garth E. Beyer
What if I told you the most unknown fact about life is that you end up putting in the same amount of effort to do as little as possible as you would if you had the bar raised and hopes high?
And all that fills the divide is passion.
And passion is the single best indicator of whether you are on the right path or not.
Makes you wonder why you considered the easy route in the first place.
Stay Positive & Life Gets Simple When You See The Facts
Garth E. Beyer
You want to break them in, but not ruin them.
You’re meant to make mistakes, take risks, bend over backward, scrape your knees, face your fears, stumble, and get a little bruised up.
Shoes are meant to be run in, bent in a way they’re not supposed to and be held there for awhile. They’re meant to be ran in on different turfs. It’s called breaking them in.
Most importantly, though one is meant to do all of this, you don’t want to break, rip, or destroy the shoes completely.
Similarly, neither do you want to become jaded, pessimistic, or immobile.
Stay Positive & Note, It Takes A Lot More To Break Yourself In Than It Does A Pair Of Shoes
Garth E. Beyer
