“I can’t wait to get back to work!” I never believed in my life that I would utter those words. That was because up until two years ago, I never really liked working. Who does, really? But as I sat around during the holidays, taking a much needed siesta from my self-employed life, I developed …
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“I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: ‘If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.’” ~William Pitt Chatham
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I love sleep. LOVE IT! But I am realizing more and more that I need to apply myself and get up early if I want to accomplish my goals each day. More importantly than getting up early, is using the time you have in the morning to get yourself ready mentally, spiritually, and physically for the day ahead.
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I often say to people that I am still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. They laugh, I laugh, we laugh together. They tell me I’m funny. I deflect the praise and then graciously accept it in my slyly humble way. But in reality, I am DEAD serious. I truly believe that there should be a healthy bit of Peter Pan in all of us. And no, I don’t mean the brand of peanut butter. I’m allergic to peanut butter so having a little bit of that “Peter Pan” in me would have my wife racing for my EpiPen®. I’m talking about the boy who could fly and refused to grow up. I don’t mean we should be immature, but we should be willing to look up at the moon and think that we could one day walk on the face of it.
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In this episode, we discuss how the next step in our journey may not be the final landing spot, but we still need to prepare ourselves for what we can learn and apply so that we are better prepared when the next opportunity comes along. With each step forward and each lesson learned, we are becoming better-equipped to do what we’ve been created to do when the time comes.
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“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” – James Baldwin
As we enter a new year, it is tempting to put the previous one in the rear-view mirror and never look back. In this episode, I discuss how it important that we not forget the journey that has brought us to where we are. In many ways, it can be our compass for the road ahead.
