Posts Tagged ‘Action’

My dad’s my hero. He’s loved me when I wasn’t lovable. He’s encouraged me when I needed encouragement. He’s challenged me. He’s supported me and has provided me with a guiding example. He has made me laugh, and is to this day an awesome story teller.

His greatest attribute is that he’s a doer and not just a talker. While everybody else was having a committee meeting Dad had already done what needed to be done. He’s a man of action, and he loves my mother(see photo).

I have observed him as he led our family through acts of dedicated service for many years. And as I think about who he is, and the wisdom he’s imparted to me – not always by word – but in many ways by deed – here are eight facets of the wise advice that I’ve caught from him. I am my father’s son, and I’m proud to call him dad – and trust that I can be the shining example he has set for me to follow to my own children, and his grandchildren.

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If you want to change your future, and yet continue to do what you have done in the past – right up to your present – you are sadly mistaken.

In order to jolt yourself out of your complacency, and a future that will simply be a replay of your past and present – except for one thing – you’re older, you must take your present by the scruff of the neck, in fact take your future by the throat, and change your habits that have brought you to where you are today.

So if you are not fully satisfied with the results of your life to this point, then you need to take drastic action.

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Be your own super-hero today by taking action.

Don’t be a spectator in the game of life. Be a participator.

Surround yourself with a team who will stand with you, fight for you, and believe in you. And discard the loser’s strategy – of  ‘Ready. Aim. Fire.’ That in most cases leads only to ineptitude and inaction.

Join the ranks of the achievers and believers who live their lives by the ‘Fire. Aim. Ready.’ philosophy.

With your manual  in one hand and your sword in the other, attack the enemy of your life – procrastination – and engage in mortal combat as you learn from the wealth of experience you are gaining whilst in full flight and full fight.

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Initiative, and the ability to take initiative, defines the life of the achiever.

The initiator refuses to live a life that is always put on hold – waiting for someone else’s permission to move forward. Know this – that the only permission that you require, to be all that you have been created to be, is from you yourself.

So start that business. Buy that property. Attend that course. Read that book. Find that mentor. Reach that goal. Begin today, because you have given yourself the permission to go, to flow, and to grow.

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‘Often the best way out is through.’

All of us at some time in our lives will feel hemmed in, surrounded, blocked, hindered, or delayed by life’s circumstances. This is not the time to run, nor to even stand still, resigned to the seeming fate or thought that this now is to be your lot in life.

We were never born to stagnate. We were never created to crumble. We were brought to planet earth to conquer and to overcome.

And so when your enemy surrounds you – that is the time  to take up arms and declare war. Wild animals know this, for a wild animal, when it is backed into a corner – this is when it is most vicious. For it knows that there is only one way out of their predicament and that is to go forward.

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