Failures

How often have you tried something and failed? Failures can often cause us to build emotional walls, to protect ourselves. The bad thing about that is those emotional walls. we often hide behind. Which offers a faults sense of security. That is what I call living life on a feeling. Now I'm not saying we don't feel the pain of a failure. Those feelings are very much real. Hiding behind our fears keeps us from living life to our top potential we have. Also it can often cause us to live unhappy, and in a unproductive life. Yes we should use wisdom in life and be smart in our decision. Even taking the time to think somthing thru. I like this saying. "Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom" Jim Rohn When we learn from our failures we grow and gain wisdom. Which makes us better from our past experiences to the next go around. The best way to look at failure is it's not and opption. Thing may not always turn out the way we want or planed. That gives no reason to ever quit trying, because we are afraid of failure. Steve Harvey says it best. "You just have to jump." The first step is always the hardest. Just my thought for today. JM

What About You

Very few people get it when they are in there 20's and some may get it in there 30's. Hopefully by the time they are in there 40's they got it. Some are really hung up and it takes to there 50'or longer before it clicks. The age old question. Is this all there is. I'm talking about the question of life. When I was 38 I became very restless with how my life was going. I just didn't do anything about it, until I turned 40. The nagging thoughts of my purpose and my priorities in life where much to be desired. The just working eating sleeping day in day out routine, just wasn't cutting it anymore. How to get out of that rut was a challenge with in it's self. For the fact was I didn't know where to began. I just knew I had to. The day dreaming I had always done about how I wished life would be wasn't working. I was going to have to take some action. That's when I learned about on purpose living. Not very many things just fall in our lap. Well at least anything worth having that has any value of life to it anyway. The began stages of anything that has a long road ahead. The road of life will be traveled. You can choose to travel it or just stay in the ditch. When I made up my mind that I wanted my life to be different. To have some kind of purpose I did know where to start. I just knew I had to start. The first thing I did was pray and ask God for help. Then I began to started getting my mind off myself. I looked for opportunities to help and uplift other people. I also have read lots of books to challenge me and grow myself. I also had to quit useing the exues. I had uses for so long that I do not have enough education. The other thing was I had to do was quit comparing myself to other people. Also stop wearing about what people thought of me. All those fears had stopped me for years. I have always enjoyed lifting people up and get them thinking. At least for the past few years anyway. I Love to write what's on my mind. As you can tell my grammar skills are not that great. I offen use to let that stop me. Then I decided if my grammar is a hang up for someone and they can't get passed that. Then my stories I write are not for them any way. So the question remains. What is your purpose? Are you living life? When is the last time you did somthing that made you feel alive? These are all questions I couldn't answer a few years ago. I was living life by breathing eating and sleeping. That was it, exciting huh. Now I live life with passion and on pupose. Do I always feel like it? Nope! I just made up my mind I would. I can't control many things in life for sure. I can't change everything around me. So I have learned to quit trying to change what I can't change. I plan ahead of time. I'm not going to let those kinda of things bother me. I tell myself. Here was a big one for me always being right is highly over rated. I don't have to prove or argue with someone to prove a point. Well since I said that I just as wells add this. Holding a grudge or staying mad at someone does nothing good for me either. The person that I'm mad at really don't care. There off having a good time and I'm all stressed and mad. So I'm letting a mad upset state of mind run my life. I have to ask myself really is I worth it. No it's not to me. Now learning to let things go takes alot of practice for me. I have to say this to myself alot over and over. Let it go, let it go, let it go. You see all these kind of things where stealing my life. When these thoughts feelings and emotions. Flare up everything was all about me. I just want more from my life than day in and day out living. What about you?