Now or Later

By M-Power

In his book, Luck By Design, Richie Goldman points out that you are going to have to figure it out now or later:  there are certain laws in life that can’t be avoided.  Among the absolutely predictable and certain laws of life are that you WILL experience pleasure, pain, loss, gain, disappointment, success, frustration, satisfaction, death, and life.  How you respond to each of these defines who you are and the course of your life. (Hint: you handle all of these the same way… with gratitude, grace, and humility).   Life is not going to hand you what you want; you’re going to have to create it. – Richard E. Goldman  

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Everything That Doesn’t Look Like That

By M-Power

I snapped this picture this morning of a stick that I keep on my desk.  When I show this to people they are sometimes amazed that a stick could be carved to look like a chain or a cage with two freely moving balls inside.  They sometimes ask, “how did you do that?”  My favorite answer, “I just cut off everything that doesn’t look like that.”  What a great analogy for life.  Get a clear picture in your mind of what you want your life to look like, and then set about cutting off everything that doesn’t look like that. 12 month loans bad credit direct lenders no guarantor   Knock the “T” Off the word can’t. –       Norman Vincent Peale

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