The Freedom To Succeed

From Success http://www.success.com/article/rohn-the-formula-for-success-and-failure Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as to repeat it every day? The answer is because he or she does not think that it matters. On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important. A minor oversight, a poor decision , or a wasted hour generally doesn't result in an instant and measurable impact. More often than not, we escape from any immediate consequences of our deeds. If we have not bothered to read a single book in the past 90 days, this lack of discipline does not seem to have any immediate impact on our lives. And since nothing drastic happened to us after the first ninety days, we repeat this er...

I like having a short "power statement" as a daily trigger to remember and focus my goals and ambitions. Statements like "just do it" and "decisions determine destiny" and others can have a strong impact on us if we allow them to become more than superficial statements. Sometimes it can be the push to get out of bed and do things you may not necessarily feel like doing. Until certain things become habits there will be a struggle to implement them and it is a battle you have to engage every day until you have mastered them. There is a good spread in the ages of my kids.  I chose to take them backpacking at some point in our life before they were ever born. It was 1972 when I decided that I would take my future family on a wilderness adventure.  We did not go until 2004. Sounds crazy, doesn't it. How could I decide 32 years ahead of an event that by appearance sake I would not have much control over? Sometimes I have wondered why I wasn't mor...

Posted by Charlie Brown Not every seed will germinate and not every plant will produce fruit or flower. One of the great principles of this earth, if not of the universe that has always helped me to focus on choices is the "Law of the Harvest". The fact that one little seed holds within itself the prospect of endless other plants and seeds. Every plant can produce multiple additional seeds and each succeeding planting and harvest will expand its seed forever.  What happens when we apply this principle to the opportunity we as human beings have to create life? Look at the scripture in John 12:24. "Truly, truly I say unto you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds." Other translations of the Bible say something slightly different in this verse. How does a seed die?  Don't they have a power locked up inside that can remain inert for an indefinite period and when put in the ...