The Challenge

I few months ago I came across a quote pasted onto the side of a building that moved me.

As I am feeling a bit boisterous tonight this quote trickled into my head and I thought I would offer up a challenge.

The quote was, and I paraphrase it:

I find TV to be extremely educational, when it is turned on I grab a book and go into another room

I believe there is such a vast amount of knowledge and learning to be had in good books that this quote resonated with me.

Here is my challenge to everyone: I believe North Americans spend WAY too much time in front of the TV. Simply for 1 week record how many hours you spend watching TV. Doesn’t matter what you’re watching just everyday write down the hours you watched and at the end of the week tally it all up.

What you do with the number at the end of the week is completely up to you, but I would encourage you to reflect upon it. Think about whether the time was beneficial. Think about your life, do you have everything you really want in it? Money? Love? Family? Could this time have been used to pursue what is lacking in your life?

There are many ways you can reflect on your use of time. I challenge you, just for curiosities sake, find out how much TV you watch; who knows you may find some extra time to live your hearts desire.

 

 

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Choice

Life is a beautiful endeavor. We are so blessed to be a part of the universes greatness. However, I do occasionally catch myself at a loss for gratitude; especially when things are not favorable. I have gotten into the habit of catching myself and correcting myself, but as a societal whole I feel there is room for improvement.

There is nothing wrong with being grateful for our shortcomings in life, in fact I rather encourage it(It makes things a lot more fun!).

I do often wonder though if many of us are cognizant of the fact that everything we have in life is a direct result of our own choice. It took me a long time to realize and come to terms with this fact.

It is so much easier to make reasons or excuses to describe our lack of. It’s a habit that requires a lot of presence, but taking responsibility for our actions is the first step to achieving marvelous things in life.

Let’s take this for an example: let’s compare life to a gear box in a car. Can we all agree that to get the car moving we must put it into first gear and get the wheels rolling? And that you must physically choose and act to get the car rolling?

Can we compare this to life now? Have you ever noticed that one day when you looked at a calendar 3 years have gone by and nothing has changed? Similar to leaving a car in neutral?

Ever notice how you always end up achieving the same undesired result? Maybe you’re in 5th gear going down the wrong highway. Sometimes in life we need to slow things down(downshift), put the car into reverse, and change directions. The key is to be aware and to notice what you do and don’t want. It can be as simple as changing gears in a car.

Take a moment and reflect. Do you spend more time blaming others/circumstances for your shortcomings? Or do you thank life for it’s lessens and take action to correct?

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The Pursuit of Happiness

When we come to the conclusion that we are not happy with any aspect of our life we are faced with two possible paths:

1) Continue doing what we are doing and be unhappy or,

2) Make a conscious choice to change what we are doing.

This may seem like a no brianer. Hey this isn’t working. I am going to make changes. But, why don’t we follow through with this?

Its’ uncomfortable, I don’t like risks, seems like a lot of work, and so on and so on. One of the largest challenges however occurs when adversity rears it’s ugly head.

There are different levels of adversity and majority of it is easy to brush off, but what about the more difficult stuff? Like when you get adversity from your family? Or your close friends? How about adversity from people that you look up to?

Have you ever encounter adversity and let it stop you right in your tracks? Why is this? What has to happen to you to prevent this? It’s all just a mental game.

Weight out the options. Whats more important? Your ego or your happiness? Remember that this is YOUR life and you are making these changes to make YOU happy. Is the reason why you’re making changes larger than the opinions of others? If yes, continue with your changes and ignore the adversity.

You have to remember that you’re living your life. If you feel that you need to make changes to certain aspects then adversity or opinions don’t factor into your decision making. It’s your life not theirs. People are going to tell you you’re going to fail and that you won’t succeed.

These are their opinions. They don’t know your reason why and if your reason why is big enough then there is nothing that is going to stop you from achieving your result.

You must decide whats more important. Don’t let adversity out-weigh happiness.

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