Today's Thought..
JOSEPH MENDOZA
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Unknown
As a Life and Business Development Coach I see entirely too many people willing to allow themselves to be led by outside circumstances. What you sometimes see as circumstances
that block the path to everything you want in life are of no importance. If you are to be successful in anything, personal life, business or any other aspect of life you must create for yourself the circumstances that serve you and your goals.
Don't tell me it's not possible to create circumstances that serve you. If you've created until now circumstances that don't serve you (and you have) it is then just as easy to create circumstances that do serve you.
What lies within each of us is the ability to create exactly what we want in life. I know that to be a fact because I do it everyday. I've been doing it since I was eight years old and perhaps at this point in my life I do it almost as naturally as breathing.
I never stop to wonder if I can... I just do.
When you finally acknowledge the power you have inside you and use it to serve you, your life will begin to become magnificent. You have brought yourself to where you are today by your thoughts. If you want to move forward from or just change where you are,
simply change your thoughts.
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JOSEPH MENDOZA
"Achievement is largely the product of aspiration and expectation."
- Jack Nicklaus
It is a fact that nothing is ever achieved without some effort... be it physical or a matter of thought and belief. Everything that has ever happened began with a thought.
Achievement in any field of endeavor will not occur unless someone first has the thought to achieve. Once, however, that thought has been thought it is out there in our Universe and is thereby put into motion. If you are truly committed to that thought and
are willing to put aspiration and expectation... and of course, real physical energy behind it, it becomes yours and all you need to do is continue to do what it takes to create the achievement of your thought, aspiration and expectation.
JOSEPH MENDOZA
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
- Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is no doubt an authority on climbing hills. Given his commitment to make the world a
better place he has endured much... including spending a significant portion of his life in prison.
How Mandela became who and what he is, is a question many have been asking for many years. Some insist that it was his destiny and that he had no choice but to be who he is and do what he did. Others will tell you that he, in fact all of us, choose ourselves
for the life we live. I'm in that last group.
If we were predestined to be one thing or another in life there would be no reason for us to even get out of bed in the morning. We could just slouch around all day and wait for our fate (whatever it is) to show up in our lives.
We are each given a gift which is that special thing that we most love to do. We each have something that we can build on to make a difference in the world or at least our own little corner of it.
As for the reference to climbing one hill only to find that there are many more hills to climb, it is no doubt Mandela's way of saying that once we find our path, it is the beginning of the journey. Many experience some degree of success and sit back resting
on the glory of that one success. We, I believe, are intended to not only find our path but to follow it all the way to the end of life's journey.
JOSEPH MENDOZA
"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."
- Josh Bilings
Hey, we can learn much from a postage stamp, can't we. If for whatever reason the stamp fails to remain stuck to the letter, the letter will probably not arrive. If it does, the intended recipient
will have to pay the price when it does.
Well, that's kinda silly but it is an interesting comparison, isn't it? While there is a fine line between sticking to something and knowing when it really is time to get yourself unstuck, if you look inside yourself, the answer will be there.
The right answer to all questions is within you. Learn to trust that inner voice.
JOSEPH MENDOZA
"Don't waste time counting your days - instead spend time making your days count."
- Amanda Curtis Kane
How important these words are! Unfortunately, all too often clients come to me to lament the fact that they are "whatever" age and feel they have not used the days of their lives as well as
they could have. How unfortunate that is... not the fact that they've not used their time on this earth well, but the fact that they have chosen to spend the time they have left in a lament.
It is never too soon begin to be all you are capable of being... and my bet is that you haven't begun to be all you can be. You were put on planet Earth with a gift, a gift that was intended to be used for the good of the planet. Unfortunately some people have
yet to unwrap that gift.
Until you get past all you are not and have not done... and begin to be all you were meant to be, you will continue to count the days you have left instead of making the days you have left count.