…Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
Education begins with an experience. It isn’t read, it’s walked through.
We must claim our role(s) in the stories we are experiencing, because it’s our experiences that will enlighten the chapters that are approaching.
When’s the last time you invited yourself to be involved in your life?
There are some things words cannot say…we call those things actions.
There’s an aftermath that occurs when actions are taken because of one’s values…we call that aftermath the music.
Your music speaks where words fail and shows what actions cannot.
Music is your holy to-do.
Keep running the same play and see if that wins the game for you.
Keep making the same calls and see where that gets you.
Keep thinking the same thoughts and see where that takes you.
Keep watching those same reruns and report back.
Keep saying we’re in the same recession we were in 4 years ago.
Keep ordering the same super-sized fries.
Keep doing what you’ve been doing and you’ll get to keep getting what you’ve been getting. I think you want more than that.
If I have any regret at this point in my life, it’s that I haven’t taken more and greater action towards bigger and greater dreams.
Try this mantra on: How different today can I think, act, and speak in order to create the tomorrow I’ve always envisioned?
Changed World > Same Old, Same Old
Today is July 27, 2012.
Your successes and your failures today are all a byproduct of action in your previous days.
Success is your responsibility.
Happenstance is a lie.
Luck is only a reality to those that are fluent in laziness.
You didn’t get here by chance.
You did this.
Own it.
Tomorrow’s success is contingent on today’s action.
Gandhi once said…”Action expresses priorities.”
I’m going to start referring to this as A.E.P. And today A.E.P. becomes tattooed all over my office, car, and even my hand (with marker).
In other words…
The only thing I can find that precedes an action is a decision. So the question for the day is, how are you going to decide to act?
Ashton.Gustafson 