Showing posts with label improve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label improve. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2014

The World Needs YOU!


Don't be overwhelmed when thinking of this.
 
It's like I said on the podcast (links below) - this doesn't mean you have to strive to be the owner of a huge, nationally known business or anything like that.
 
Nope.
 
It simply means that YOU become who you were MEANT to be! (Just as it says above from Dani Johnson).
 
"To become" indicates an ongoing process, does it not? "To become" indicates that you are continuing the process and that it is not done as of yet.
 
I would even suggest that this is a process that NEVER ends as long as we live. We ALL continue to "become" the person we were meant to be each and every day.
 
Too many times we settle for less instead of striving for more or to be better.
 
Whoever you are, whatever your "lot in life" - do all that you can to improve a little each day so that you can become a "better" version today than you were yesterday.
 
Become the Dad you were meant to be. Become the Mom you were meant to be. Become the husband, the wife, the son, the daughter, the brother, the sister, school teacher, bus driver, garbage collector, etc. that you were MEANT to be!
 
"Wait, you mean I was MEANT to be a garbage collector?" Not necessarily. Sure, it is something that is NEEDED in our society and, if that is what you do for a living, you should become the best you can be at that job.
 
Here's the bottom line. You may not be doing what you were MEANT to do yet. You may go through years of doing other things before you find THE thing that you feel you were meant to do. But, here it is...are you ready?
 
BECOME THE BEST "YOU" THAT YOU CAN.
 
THIS is what you were meant to be! The best YOU.
 
Stop trying to be like someone else. The world needs YOU to be the best YOU that there is.
 
Do that and I believe that the rest will take care of itself.
 
This is but another reason that it is so important for you to immerse yourself in as much positive material as you possibly can. You and I need all the help that we can get in becoming a better person each day.
 
You CAN do it....it's all up to you, friend.
 
Be sure to...
 
"Make it an AWESOME day! (Who else is going to do it for you?)"
 
Mike
 

                                         Start your home based business HERE

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Making Yourself Better


(be sure to check out the podcast on iTunes or on the RSS feed)

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." - Jim Rohn

We've talked a LOT about the fact that we live in a world that craves "easy". A lot of people - it seems especially so with our youth - see other people being successful in many different ways and they want to have the same thing without doing anything to "earn it".
Young boys (and girls) of all ages want to become a professional athlete but aren't willing (and don't even understand how much) to put in the hours and hours and years of hard work in order for that to even be a possibility. For years now I have watched young couples get married and go immediately into a lot of debt so that they can live in as nice - if not nicer - house than their parents and have at least as nice - if not nicer - furnishings IN that house. All the while not realizing that it took their parents years in order to provide those things for themselves and their family. Thousands of people flock to Hollywood or Nashville hoping to be the next great thing. They've read stories of some that were discovered working as a waiter or a waitress or while singing on a street corner and they think that it really IS that simple and easy. They don't realize how FEW that "few" really is when compared to the thousands that seek the same fame. It's not easy so they quit and give up.
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." What a great quote to have posted on the front of every high school yearbook or, better yet, diploma.
Easy is easy. Wow, that was obvious, wasn't it? But, because "easy" is so easy, ANYONE can do it and many ARE doing it. "Easy" is the job that is labeled "entry level position" and usually has the lowest hourly wage attached to it. Interestingly enough, even though ANYONE can do it, there are many that will NOT do it because it is "beneath them". They want the "management" without the hassle of WORKING their way up to that position. They want the bigger paycheck but without actually EARNING that paycheck.
Does that describe YOU? I hope not but, let's be real here, it's not just the young people in our world that follow this "easy" philosophy - many times they learned it from us in the first place!
This is the lure of the "get-rich-quick" schemes that are so prevalent today.
Now back to the diving board scenario that I have used all week long. Many will watch a skilled diver do some amazing things as they leap from that high dive and enter the water with very little splash. Yet, again, not many are willing to put in the hours of work that it took that person to develop that skill. Here's a hint - when things LOOK easy that usually means that someone has put in the time and effort to develop the skill to make it appear so!
Whatever it is that you are searching for...whatever it is that attracts you...seek to become BETTER in order to succeed rather than wish for it to be EASY. Remember, anyone can do easy. Is that what you really want? I didn't think so.
Join me again tomorrow as I finish out this week's articles featuring quotes by the late Jim Rohn. But, until then, be sure to...
"Make it an AWESOME day!"
Mike