On The Eve of My 52nd Birthday

I know I said I'll talk about Optimal Thinking in my last post, but I'm setting that aside for right now.


Wednesday will mark the 52nd year I've been here on Earth. I've been through a lot, having gone from good Lutheran altar boy, to revolutionary communist, to Buddhist, and now taking radical thinking one step beyond. Now believe me, I much enjoy being 52. It's a LOT better than when I was 22 or 32 or even 42. All that time I didn't really have the maturity to know what Life was all about. O sure, I thought I knew everything when I was younger, but really...come on.


My Goals to-day have more to do with creating a legacy, rather than accumulating things. I want to leave this world a better place than I found it. I want to make Life a little easier for those less fortunate. I want to have people say after I leave this mortal coil that my life had COUNTED for something.


So celebrate each year you're here. I have been so blessed for having gone through all that I have and have survived. I could've wound up in prison for some of the things I've done, but I wasn't. I did have to endure karmic retribution for what I've done. It was a miserable life for awhile, but I got through it. Now I am grateful for what I have to-day.


Anyway, I intend to enjoy my birthday. You should enjoy your life too.


To your Greater Success,
TIm

ThanksReceiving

On this particular day, there is lots of commentary about the necessity of gratitude. Every good personal development resource has emphasized the need for it, and all such material is readily available.


HOWEVER, to-day I'm going to talk about the need to be an excellent RECEIVER of blessings. When you receive a compliment about something, an excellent recipe, an article of clothing or something you do that helps someone else, do you say "O it was nothing" or "O this? I just picked it up at The Thrift Store" or "Hey, that's what I'm paid to do" ? 


If you have ever said anything like that STOP IT. Simply say, when you receive a compliment of any kind, "Thank you." That's it.


You are deserving of Great Things and Great Experiences. Remember this, on this Day of Thanks.


To your Success,
Tim

Surround Yourself With People Smarter Than You

I am grateful for all those people who are smarter than I am. The people @ Google for example, I depend on their search engine for my work as a coach; this blog hosting service, Blogger, I couldn't design or do code if it would kill me (though I'm not ruling out learning this in future); my supervisors @ my current job for knowing how to co-ordinate the workplace.


It can go on and on; the people who perform the music I listen to; grow my food; perform medical services...these people are indispensable and I must strive-and so must you-to be excellent at what I do so that when I'm gone it will be hard to find someone to fill my place.


The jobs I've performed in the past, when I've left someone can easily take my place-loading & unloading trucks, mopping floors, operating a cash register, stocking shelves. But what I'm striving for NOW is to provide a unique service, to positively impact the lives of as many people as I possibly can.


And surrounding myself with people smarter than I am and being grateful for them is key.


ACTION STEP: Make a list of all the services you depend on. Then list the people who do them and then ask yourself "How can I grow to be the one others depend upon?"


To Your Excellence,
Tim