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Be in the moment

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing. – Phil Jackson

In today’s world where multi-tasking is what we do, it is uncommon to find someone who is fully engaged in what they are doing. I admit that I often have the bad habit of doing one thing (or several things) when I am thinking of something else. In fact I have a friend that often tells me to “be in the moment” to which I sometimes reply “I will, as soon as I get an extra moment to be in.”

All kidding aside. I believe that we cheat ourselves when by being in such a rush to get to the next thing. I think that in the hurrying we lose our joy.

The movie click is an example of this. In the movie the main character, a husband and father, is given a remote that allows him to speed up the, what he considers to be unnecessary, parts of his life. So he does, obsessively. Before he knows it he is an old man with no wife and children who dislike him. He wasted his life and the opportunity for building bonds with those he loved because he did not want to be engaged in what he was doing. In the end of the movie he got a do over, lucky him, we do not get such a blessing.

We all have one shot at this life and to get the most  from it we have to fully live it.

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Don’t wait

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh

The key to doing anything is to realize the fact that you sometimes can be your own worst enemy. You have to ignore that voice and plough ahead full force if you are to do anything worth doing.

Time is short

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Inside every one of us is a seed of greatness planted in hopes that one day it will grow into a beautiful life. Unfortunately for so many of us that seed gets covered with years of garbage that keeps it from germination. That, then keeps us from stepping out and doing the things that we were born to do causing us to lead someone else’s (not our real life). In order to get that seed to germinate, we need to shake off the garbage and cling to our passion.

Great little story

Below is a story that teaches the importance of viewing obstacles  as challenges to be overcome, instead of roadblocks that keep us from being all that we were created to be.

You may have heard about the death of 47 year old Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor Randy Pausch last week from pancreatic cancer. Pausch was most famous for his “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” speech made last fall just after he learned he had months to live.

With wisdom, good humor and a total absence of self-pity, he ruminated on his life’s lessons. Audiences loved it and, within weeks, his “last lecture” became a giant YouTube hit and led to a best-selling book, The Last Lecture. He was interviewed on ABC’s Primetime in April and much of that interview was rebroadcast this past Tuesday.

He told the packed auditorium during his speech that he fulfilled almost all his childhood dreams – being in zero gravity, writing an article in the World Book Encyclopedia and working with the Walt Disney Co.

The one that eluded him? Playing in the National Football League.

“If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you,” Pausch said.

In the talk, Pausch also talks about the importance of tenacity. “The brick walls are there for a reason,” he said. “The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”

(Contributed by Don Hawks found here http://www.sermoncentral.com/illustrations/illustrations-about-tenacity.asp)

Get the book “The Last Lecture”  here

The Last Lecture