PROACTIVE VS REACTIVE

Being proactive will help us achieve more. It will improve our relationships, our health, our careers, our moods, our thought pattern and just about every area of our lives. Pro-activity is definitely more positive, progressive, productive and less primitive than being reactive!

When I achieve my goals and aspirations I can then confidently help others achieve theirs.  Pro-activity says I am responsible (response-able; have the ability and freedom to choose) for my life.

  

In contrast, being reactive, I allow myself to be controlled and others decide for me. Humans are ruled largely by emotions and we get edgy, angry and slighted easily. When that happens our reactions to such unwelcome offenses can be pugnacious and ugly. This can be minimized with being proactive.

Choose well.

WRONG WALL

At times we are so engrossed, so determined, so focused, so skillful, so busy climbing the ladder of success that we overlook to check whether the ladder is on the right wall!

GOOD TAKE

Act 1, Scene 1

CAMERA!

ACTION!

He : I've fallen for you.

She: What took you so long?

He: I waited for you to grow up.

She: Has it really been forty years since our first hello?

He: You bet! And for forty years, you've confused me, coerced me, confounded me, contradicted me and just about turned my life upside down, inside out.

She: Complaining?

He: Used to but then I thought, what would my life be without you in it!?%^#*

She: winks wickedly.

He: I've watched you grow from an impetuous adorable young girl to an admirable formidable grand dame. And woman, were you a load!?@#%^

She: leans forward and purrs....

He: But I've fallen hard for you, kid. You have my dying devotion. I would go on bent knees but my pants are too tight!

She: It's okay. YOU'RE okay...

Director yells: CUT!!!  GOOD TAKE!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!  You add spice, diversity, music, culture and color into my life. 

And in return I hope for another forty years to affectionately and leisurely 'torment' you!

GOOD WORD

You never know when a good word from you can change a man's destiny. 

How often you've wished that someone had spoken out in your favor especially when you were in dire need. And how disappointing and devastating it was to have met with blatant disregard, blank look and deafening silence.

Yea, do try as much as we can, to put in a kind word and give a deserving individual the breakthrough that has so long been denied him. 
Your deed will not go unnoticed.

STIGMA

Best selling author, Rick Warren says, "Life is not about you!"

Sorry, you have been misjudged, misunderstood and mistaken for the villain! Guilty, but then the judge and jury were biased. And so, the verdict doesn't really count. Some day there'll be a retrial, maybe not in your life time. But a real trial there will most definitely be, not a fiasco. 

Meanwhile the punishment meted out at this mock assembly was harsh and unbearable at the beginning. You took it in silence. You were outnumbered, remember?

But with time much of the associated stigma eased and even the urge to retaliate ceased. In its place, peace, pardon and near perfect balance reign. Finally, a closure. 

Sad times, unfair treatment, poor decisions and flighty friends are all part of life and shouldn't be taken too seriously! 

One year; three years; five years; ten years down the road after an unpleasant experience, you'll wonder what all the fuss was about. It won't matter, not really.

After all, life is not about you!

LIVE HONORABLY

Sometimes we need to renew our vows to ourselves!

Vows to love God with all our heart, mind and soul

Vows to care for our mental, physical and spiritual well-being

Vows to take care of family, loved ones, friends and associates appropriately the best way we can

Vows to serve country and community in areas where we are best suited

Vows to treat every human being with kindness, respect, compassion and dignity

Vows to live honorably and die valiantly.

Do you take these vows seriously and uphold them as yardsticks to live out your days in joy, purpose and significance?

I do.

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID

There's a saying: "You can't fix stupid!" And so you'll always have people who will do dumb and dumber things out of spite, malice, jealousy and of course, money. The kind of people who would foolishly, deliberately, even irrationally cut their nose to spite their face and think that's pretty! 
Not very clever indeed but then the last thing in a deranged person's mind is reason, logic and simple good sense. 
Pity ... such a pity.