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Light vs. Darkness - Love vs. Hate

1/25/2016

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Having celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here is the USA last week, that celebration got me thinking about a few things. There were many quotes I found from him but this one connected to me right away.  

When there is darkness, only light can drive it away, not more darkness.  So this could be the darkness of a room, or the darkness and negativity that are present everyday of our lives.  The same connection can be said about hate and love.  Only love can drive away hate, not more hate, anger and negativity.  It’s become clear to me that I also need to have less negativity, hate, anger, and all around general BS in my life too.  It’s a conscious choice of mine to continue working on making that happen.

It’s also been said that with the choices we have in our lives, we can choose to work with light or positivity in life.  We can also choose to be the source of it or even to be the mirror that reflects it.  Remember that the mirror helps the light get to places that normally maybe wouldn’t see it.  It’s the same in life with love and positivity.  It’s a conscious choice that we have the opportunity to make every day in our lives.  We don’t have to be the source of the light, but we certainly can reflect or pass on the light and positivity that we find.

In today’s world it certainly seems that we need more lights along with more mirrors.  No matter where we are and what we do for a living, this is always one of those important tasks to take on to not only help ourselves, but also to help others that are around us too.  There are so many messages that Dr. King shared with us that are still being shared today.  More importantly, they are still relevant today and are still needed too. 
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What can you do to help with this message in your life? Maybe more importantly, what can you do to help those around you with this message?  You can either be the light source or be the mirror that the light will reflect.  A good choice either way.

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Great Philosophy To Look At For Ourselves

1/10/2016

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"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." — Oprah Winfrey
 
What a great way to start thinking for the start of 2016.  There are certain people in the world that we should listen to, Oprah is one of them.  The results that she has in many areas should show us that listening to her might help us in some way.  Some people may not like her, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn valuable lessons from.  I for one, like her and admire her for what she has done throughout her life and I realize she has some valuable lessons that I can learn from.

There are two huge lessons in this quote.  First, we are indeed responsible for our own life.  We can think on our own, make choices on our own, get up and do things, go places, connect with people we want to connect with, choose our career that we want to go after, choose what we say, etc., the list goes on and on and on.  It all has to do with our habits and our thinking.  The input we put into our heads, the information that we choose to let affect us – that is what helps or hurts us as we go through life.

The second part is equally as important.  Those choices and decisions we make, not only affects us in the here and now, but it also sets the table so to speak about where we go in our future too.  It’s so important to recognize the fact that the choices, thoughts, decisions, etc., that we make today, does indeed affect the direction of our tomorrows. 

The sooner we take responsibility for ourselves and our futures, the sooner we can go into a great direction that will make a difference in our lives.  It also makes a difference with each and every person we come into contact with too as we do affect others.   Notice, we affect others – as other people affect us too.  It’s a fine line of how much we let others affect us and our lives.  We have to look towards surrounding ourselves with good people.  Those that add value to our lives and are a positive influence on us.  This helps in our making decisions and choices that truly affects our lives and our futures.  It’s true on the other side too.  If there are people that influence us that take away value, that affect us negatively – there are results that come with those relationships too.

Always remember this too – we affect others as well.  Are we adding value to others?  Or are we taking value away from them?  Which one do you want to be?  A few good thoughts to get us going into 2016.
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Dream Big & Work Hard - Not Just For New Years

1/2/2016

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"Dream big, work hard." — JJ Watt

Simple quotes can not only be easy to remember, but they can also offer the most powerful punch too.  Since its simple, that draws me to it even more.  If anyone knows anything about who JJ Watt is, then you can see why this quote has some extra power behind it because that is what that guy is all about on the football field.  

Now that the holidays are over and the new year has begun – it’s always an interesting time for us to take a hard look at ourselves and look at who we want to become in the new year.  One of the factors for me personally, and I’ve seen and heard this out there more and more is that why is it only at the start of the new year do most of us look at ourselves and see what we want to change?  This should be going on every single day of our lives!  There are plenty of days that I do indeed do this.  It seems the truth is that there are more days that I don’t do this.

One of the keys is try and live a life of constant self-improvement.  It’s not just a new year’s thing.  It’s got to be an everyday type of thing and really more importantly, it has to be a lifestyle thing.  It’s so crucial to keep those dreams out in front of us and then apply a good and hard work ethic to chasing after those dreams.  One thing I’ve also found is that it’s so vitally important to hang out with people that help nurture and encourage your dreams since that helps you to work even harder on them.
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So as this 2016 gets started, I know I have to do a lot more to dream bigger and work even harder.  I certainly do not want to have to keep re-starting on my goals and dreams like I’ve done so many previous years.  So instead of having all these resolutions to start the year off, why don’t we all look at changing our habits, changing them in a new direction that will help us to improve our entire life and not just one or two general things that we probably won’t stick with for very long any way?  I’ve heard it said that most New Year resolutions are given up on by January 15 or so?  I don’t want that to be me.  How about you?
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