The person you tell yourself you can’t be

Orlando Inspirational speakers

 

(photo: Another accidental photo from yesterday. This one from an 80-minute run behind Walt Disney World before going to Gold’s Gym.)

Is your life organized enough so that you can occasionally push yourself?

Congrats if it is.

Prayers if it’s not.

Expect one set back after another. That’s what every successful person (that you tell yourself you can never be) does.

Forever.

Yes, successful people have a key trait that is developed through trial and error.

It’s called perseverance.

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A tree does not grow overnight

Inside view of Allen's Creamery in Windermere, FL

 

(photo: A 55-year old Master’s athlete and a 13-year old just beginning to explore exercise)

It was 6.3 miles one way. After cooling down, we ate a small breakfast, visited the Windermere Library for old times sake, and then began a challenging ride home.

Later that evening, the Mom told the dad, “It’s really great that you are doing this with him”.

What began softly and quietly a few months prior (for a NYC school trip with lots of walking), is continuing.

A tree does not grow overnight. But it does grow.

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They would die if they didn’t burst open

Iowa flower buds in late May
On one side of the Iowa City front yard….

 

Iowa flower buds in late May
… on the other side of the same Iowa City front yard.

 

Flower buds can not help themselves.

They would die if they didn’t burst open.

And their bursting open is invisible to the naked eye.

Our spirit of service to others happens over a long period of time as we move from selfishness to selfless.

Almost invisible to the naked eye, until one day it’s a beautiful blossom (of a human spirit).

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Easy way to feel amazing grateful and overwhelmingly blessed?

Mid Life Celebration book reviews
Can too much of a good thing leave us feeling insecure?

 

Feeling in advance the feeling that we want to feel is one of the most generous and underused blessings ever.

Want to feel amazing grateful and overwhelmingly blessed?

Just do it.

Once we start remembering to feel this way, we start feeling this way all the time, without having to remember.

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Assuming the position

Flip chart with insightful summary about life purpose
Yeah, we all have discretionary effort in us – especially in the morning

 

Dear Son, when the daily writing began five years ago so did something else – and it was on the same exact day.

Daily.

Everyday.

Assuming the position.

In prayer, knees on the floor.

One-thousand eight-hundred twenty-six consecutive days…

And counting.

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