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 "Nature" Postcard "Nature" Articles "Nature" News  "Exterminators" Postcard "Exterminators" Articles "Exterminators" News  "City Skylines" Postcard "City Skylines" Articles "City Skylines" News  "Patriotic" Postcard "Patriotic" Articles "Patriotic" News  "Colors" Postcard "Colors" Articles "Colors" News  "Law" Postcard "Law" Articles "Law" News  "Education" Postcard "Education" Articles "Education" News  "Cleaners" Postcard "Cleaners" Articles "Cleaners" News Dare to be Different by Shawn IrvineI want you to try using your wit and imagination and your natural God given abilities.Think about your life at this moment.The only missing ingredient to your success in the future is a self-imposed discipline that will make you try harder and work more intensely than you ever thought you could. The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself. Don't wait for things to get so drastically out of hand that someone else must impose discipline in your life. That would be tragic. How could you possibly explain the fact that someone else thought more of you than you thought of yourself? Your life, my life, the life of each one of us serves as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, and lack of direction and ambition ... or, an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued. As Sir Winston Churchill once said:"The price of greatness is responsibility." Anyone can do it! Old or young, male or female, regardless of education,talent or qualifications and visualise your future. What are your dreams, your hopes and ambitions? Do you even have any? Of Course you have --- everyone has hopes and dreams but having them pales into significance when you think of what your doing with them. So what ARE you doing with them and even more importantly when do you plan on doing it? Tomorrow? Forget it ... Tomorrow never comes. Next week? Forget that too as that is Exactly what you will do ... FORGET IT! The time to do things and take action is straight away. You must learn the importance of doing things "NOW" and what that really means. You can use the past to learn from your mistakes, but you must look to the future to plan your accomplishments. Focus your actions on the now the present. If you think about it, my friend, it is always now that really matters the most. Yesterday is past and tomorrow never comes. It is always today and now is the time to act as, "Forever" is really a combination of all your now's. And what you do with your nows determines your future. So live and act in the now frame of mind. I think we spend most of our time worrying or thinking about something that will happen - or may only be a possibility - in the future, instead of focusing on what needs to be done now. Or else we fall into the trap of delaying, = "I'll do it tomorrow," or "I don't want to think about that right now." or "I'll do it later". How often do you complain that there just aren't enough hours in a day, or you don't have enough time? Time is a very special gift, so use it wisely. Don't waste precious moments in worrying or projecting. Use time to act, to do. When you focus on the "now," you'll be amazed at how much more time you seem to have, and how much more you can accomplish. About the Author |
