Chances are you have quite a few conversations during the course of your day. Some, of course, have more than others but no matter how many people you talk to in a day the most important conversation you will have will be the constant conversation you have with yourself.

Do you lift yourself up?

Do you speak words of hope and encouragement?

Do you fill your mind with positivity and optimism?

You may be bombarded with negativity from the outside but you need to control that as much as you can.

You must control your own personal thought life. It has such an impact on your mental and physical well-being as well.

Words of hope?
Words of truth?
Words of power?

Speak them to yourself first and they will then flow to those around you and those you lead and influence. Don’t take your most important conversations for granted. They really do matter.

I’m cheering for you.

#leadership #motivation #coaching #bebetter #beblessed

Sometimes we get anxious about the future. Don’t settle for a short-term fix when the end game is what really matters. Trust that there may be something better out there for you but it will happen when the time is right.

What you are doing now is preparing you for that something better and it (the present moment) must finish its work in you as it prepares you and helps you become better.

Stay the course and give your best today where you are because where you are today needs the best you. If there is to be something better it won’t happen without you doing what you need to do well today.

Change is hard. Some days it starts first thing in the morning as you try to get out of bed on a cold winter morning.

It is so comfortable and under the blankets and you know that the moment you get out from under them it is going to be a shock to the system and it is going to be uncomfortable for awhile.

But what eventually happens? You get used to being up, your body forgets about being tucked under the comfort of the blankets (hopefully) and you move on with your day.

The moment we accept the fact that change needs to happen, is going to happen and that being uncomfortable for awhile is part of the process the sooner we can move on with whatever changes may need to happen.

To grow, to be better today than you were yesterday you need to accept the comfort in being uncomfortable. If you are uncomfortable you have an opportunity to be better.

Embrace being uncomfortable. It’s the only way to truly experience the changes that you need and desire.

#leadership #motivation #coaching #bebetter #beblessed

What dreams do you have in front of you today?

You probably already know there is no magic formula to make them a reality. Sorry, you won’t find it here either.

Everybody has dreams but very few have the perseverance to continue to pursue them. If your dream is worth it here is what I suggest you do.

Get up!
Show up!
Keep moving!
Chase it!
Pursue it!

If you think you can achieve your dream without doing any of those things then your dream is not big enough and you need to enlarge what it is that you are pursuing and dreaming of doing.

There are lots of dreams but fewer realized because we think the dream should happen in our timing.

The dream will happen when we’re ready and when the time is right.  Our job is to be faithful to today by showing up, doing the work and keep running toward our dream. 

The time will be right when the time is right.  Keep moving.

#leadership #motivation #coaching #bebetter #beblessed

Do you see that speck on my windshield inside the red circle? That bug speck could really grab my attention when I was driving if I let it. I couldn’t let it though. When I did focus on the little speck it took my eyes off of the road ahead which was very dangerous. Keeping my eyes on the road was what’s important. The big picture and the journey ahead not the messy stuff.

The same is true of our goals and our vision. If we stay focused on the little obstacles that may be in our way we will never get to the place we are trying to get to. We will become preoccupied with things that really don’t matter which can be very distracting and ultimately dangerous for us.

Don’t let yourself become panicked by something that wasn’t there a minute ago and can be wiped away so easily. Stay focused on your journey and your destination. Wipe off the messes that may be trying to distract you and focus on the right things. The things that really matter.

Focus on what’s ahead of you.