A leaky faucet making a constant drip, drip, drip sound
When people don’t flush the toilet or urinal in a public place after using it.
People that come to you for donations but when you ask them for a donation it’s a no.
Drivers that pass you and then slow down in front of you.
Bright blue car headlights.
People who don’t change the toilet paper rolls or paper towel dispenser when it is empty.
People who don’t clean up after themselves.
Getting food that should be served hot and it ends up being cold.
Interruptions around my plate when I’m trying to eat my lunch.
These are just a few things, I’m sure you can think of a lot of things yourself. It’s perfectly normal for you to experience things in your life that bother you and really are very minor but the key to everything is don’t let it continue to bother your life. Get over it and just lightly move on to the positive things in life. Remember a positive attitude is a positive latitude.
We All Make Mistakes
Looking back on your life how many times have you said to yourself these words, “If I would have known back then what I know now I would have …”
We all make mistakes in life and we learn to learn from our mistakes. The beautiful part of our lives is that we do not have to live in the past. Remember that today is the first day of the rest of your life. Now that you know how you would have lived your life through your past experience there has never been a better time than today to move on with your life.
You cannot change the history of your past but the beautiful part of it is that you don’t have to keep living in it. All you have to do is to change your mindset. It doesn’t cost a thing to do. You can do it right now at this very minute. If you keep telling yourself, ”If I would have known back then what I know now I would have …,” you will keep on living in the lifestyle of the past and that is the way your life will continue to be.
Put the past in the past and chart a new course in the path that you walk in your life. Right now I want you to ask yourself, “What have I always wanted to do in my life?” Then ask yourself, “If I pursue my dream is it a dream that if I committed myself to that I could, indeed, turn my visions of dreams into a reality?” “Is it a dream or a goal of mine that realistically I could achieve?”
Be realistic about your visions of dreams that you want to turn into a reality. For example me as a writer and author of this book could not set a goal to be a marathon runner because I have a steel plate in my left leg, a pin in my ankle and two knee replacements, even though that is what I may want to do. Realistically, I decided to choose a goal in my life that I wanted to do and could accomplish which would be writing this book that you are reading right now at this very moment. I wanted to write a book that would be inspirational to everyone who would read it with the goal of the book changing the reader’s life for the better. Had I not committed myself to writing a book with goals of the book enhancing the lives of all our readers and made the commitment to take that day by day step to reach our destination then you wouldn’t be reading this book right now at this very moment. Heck, at the time of writing this book I am 58 years young. Keeping a positive state of mind is everything. It is never too late in your life to commit yourself to accomplishing a realistic goal that you want and can achieve. Think of how good you will feel after you do. In this case because of the commitment and persistence to setting the goal, I was able to turn my visions of dreams into a reality into the publishing of this book that you are reading right now at this very moment and it feels great to know that this could change the lives for the better to all of our readers. Hopefully this book is giving you a new positive outlook on your life and it will if you make it a point to do so.
Commit Yourself to Going the Distance
We all have wants, needs, desires, and goals throughout the entire course of our lives. The question being, “How many of us really acquire the things that we set out to do in life?” One of the reasons that we fall short of accomplishing our goals is that we fall short of the commitments that we make. When you set out to accomplish a goal you have GOT to commit yourself to pursuing that goal each and every day until you reach that goal. Once you break that commitment to going the distance you have instantly ended any chance of ever reaching your goal.
Let me give you several examples:
1 A person who is overweight makes the commitment to setting a realistic goal to losing 25 pounds of weight over the next two months. The commitment being is commiting yourself to exercise daily and eating healthy food everyday to reach that two month goal. Once you break that commitment the goal set becomes null and void.
2 A person makes a commitment to want to learn acoustic guitar. They find a good beginner’s guitar book and make the commitment to practice each and every day to learn that book and go on to the next book. After two-thirds of the way through the book the commitment is broken and the initial goal of learning the guitar is never attained. Realize in life that if you are going to commit yourself to something you have to commit yourself to the very end if you are going to achieve success.
3 A person decides that they want to make a career change in their lives. This time the individual realizes the fact that they have to set their goal and road-map the steps that it is going to take to get there. They determine if this goal for them is, indeed, a realistic one and can be accomplished and then if it can, make that commitment to commiting themselves each and everyday of their lives to disciplining themselves each and every day until that goal is reached. To that person who fulfilled the commitment their visions of dreams then become a reality.
Commitment is just one of the steps required to accomplish your goal in life, but it is a very important one that has got to be carried through from the very first step until you reach the destination where your goal lies and the final step to get there. In some cases commitment to a goal or reward is a lifelong commitment. No one can succeed in life without a commitment to success. Nobody forces you into making any commitment. That commitment is totally up to you. Whether your life remains a vision of dreams or becomes a reality totally depends on if you are ready to commit yourself to making the commitment.
Pay it Forward
As I look through my eyes of Curi Osity I ask you, “Has anyone ever paid it forward to you? Have you ever paid it forward to anyone?” It happened to me and it was a great feeling. He’s my story:
Many years ago I remember returning home traveling from Milwaukee to Minneapolis. Before I left Minneapolis for Milwaukee I had just put four brand new Seiberling tires on my car plus a full size spare tire. In route to Milwaukee one of my tires blew out on the car where the plies had separated. I continued with my journey to Milwaukee. After spending a couple of days in Milwaukee I jumped back in my car and started heading back home to Minneapolis. When I got close to the Wisconsin Dells area while driving on the freeway I had a second blowout. This time I had no spare tire. I was helpless on the side of the road. A gentleman pulled up in his vehicle and told me that he would take me to the gas station to get a new tire. The gas station was about five miles down the road and he waited with me for about a hour until a new tire was installed on the rim that had the blowout. The gentleman then drove back five miles to my vehicle. I offered to give the man money for his inconvenience. The gentleman refused to take any money whatsoever. What the gentleman did say to me was that if you ever come