How's this for a new saying aha ha - “the fact that its April, is no April fools joke” aha ha ha ok ok ok so that is shockingly bad! A ha ha ha but it does highlight the fact that time she is a cruising! I hope you are all well!! Above all I hope you are relentlessly pursuing your happiness and that your silence has only been that you were in the trenches. Fighting the battle to unshackle ourselves from our fears and daring to grab happiness at each turn. The battle that is won or lost in choices and the battle whose outcome may very well make up the story of your life…
I had a read through my list of goals for 2007 and am shocked at how far off track one can go ah aha ha - thank goodness we are in April and there is still plenty of time to steer this ship to the desired destination. The bigger question is rather why one goes off track at all, but that, like many other questions is one for each of us to answer.
None the less, today, like any other day is a good day to think about how we are progressing thus far, to have a look at our lives and think… how is this ship going?
I thought this be an apt time to send this, one of my favourite passages, on the “Power of respect”. By Milton Kamwendo.
May each day bring you each- that much closer to discovering your own greatness!
The Power of respect!
Respect is not seen through what we say but what we do.
The key to greatness is to respect greatness enough to pursue it.
To unleash our greatness we must respect our goals, purpose and callings in life enough to pursue them. Ardent and resolute pursuit is the proof of respect. The goals that we are pursuing respond to respect. If we respect them, we move faster towards them. If we do not respect them we spend a lot of time and effort in fruitless endeavour.
There is a Persian proverb that says,
"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn".
This is an important principle. Many of us want the rose, but we do not respect the thorn and hence life pricks us badly. Everything, which is nice in life, always has a price that we must pay in full and in advance.
If we want the pride and prestige of a qualification, we must respect the studies enough to diligently work through them. If we want to increase our wealth, we must respect our money enough to look after it, learn about it and to invest it wisely. If we want great marriages we must respect them enough to invest in them.
Our values determine what we will respect.
Goethe was right when he said, "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes.
The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labour on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
Respect your goals enough to pursue them with all your might. Today is the tomorrow that you were talking about yesterday!
Take massive action to your greatness.
