Growth Plan (Success Plan)

The John Maxwell Company:

'via Blog this'
So my friend sent me the link to this page and as I read it. Something stood out over the rest, it was, 'Have a personal growth plan'. I mean I think about how I could be, should be, and am better. Though I've never actually thought of an actual concrete plan or written it down. This got me thinking and hoping I could give someone else a light bulb moment who is where I am, hasn't even gotten to this idea, or has but didn't realize it's implications in the idea of leadership. We are all leaders at one point in time or all the time and if we aren't we are followers. Though which ever you are and no matter what stage of it you're in there is still room for growth aka- improvement. Just like when you own a home there is constant need to keep it up or improve it to improve it's value or even to maintain it's value. The fact is we all need constant up keep to maintain or get better. How do you intend to do this, when, and how often will you take steps to improve, grow, or be better. Yep you need a plan for how you intend and will want to grow (improve upon yourself), cause a man (woman) with a plan (map) has a destination (success).

Love Me!

I just want to be loved. I don't want to be a window shopper anymore. I want to be able to afford what the store of love is selling and I want to shop there often. I want them to know me as a regular and miss me when they don't see me. I want to smile like the happy shoppers I see coming in and out of the shop of love. I often find myself asking into the air hoping someone somewhere is hearing my wish. When will I be fortunate to know that same joy I see all around me. I know some live without it but yet my heart yearns for it. I'm not envious of what others have but I want my own. I don't want to share. I want my very own. To feel this feeling I see all around me to genuinely experience it. I've found that I can't beg my way into the store of Love. Nor has wishing worked. So what does work. I'm starting to get frustrated but I can't believe that this can be that hard to just shop in a store where so many people are shopping at. Some of these people didn't even want it as much as me. Look at them so careless with their goods as if it didn't even matter. All I want is Love.

If you only knew!

I've just picked my self off the nastiest floor from the crazies mistake I've made in the past two years. It's so nasty I'm still spitting from the taste. I sure did bite in as if it was food to be eaten but it wasn't even food. I'm still blurred from all that darkness as to what it is I actually put in my mouth. Though I do know I don't want to even kind of do that again. We all make mistakes! It's not the mistake or you questioning your judgement that you should think about but you should focus on what happens next. What happened after the mistake. How did you react? How did you process it? What did you do next? All this is far more important than the actual mistake. Why? Cause it's what keeps you from repeating the mistake over and over again. It's what tells your subconscious that yes, that was something not to repeat. In some cases we leave the wrong imprint in our minds and think instead that we can repeat it if some aspects are different. Let me tell you what you have or are refusing to learn. A Cycle! Cycles are situations you are consciously and subconsciously refusing to learn from. So do you and everyone else who is being effected by your stubbornness a favor and learn! You are not a dog and yes you can learn new tricks.

No! Don't Leave, you are where you need to be.

 Some times in life a place begins to resemble a dead end or a place people go to die(or ideas). When you find that your life seems stagnant even if it's just in one area stop. Be quiet(Be still). Why,  because you are distracted from what is right in front of you. This thing, key, access door, idea, vision is in plain sight but requires you to see, understand, or learn of it's presence.  How can you do this if you aren't teachable, open minded, or even focused. Don't let all the things you have found yourself trapped in, responsible for, required to do, obligated to assist, or just plain involved in to take you off your true target- YOUR LIFE! The opportunity is already there-where you are now. It takes clearing your mind, a new wine skin for a new wine cause if you use the old wine skin for the new wine it will burst and you will be crying over spilled wine. Everyday you are given an opportunity to look at everything around you differently. Do you? Do you check to see all the views of your life to get the best possible angle. It's like taking a picture of  a door frame. In one angle you can see the hinges in another you can see the inside of the frame. Don't run from where you find yourself in life but instead learn how to truly understand where you are from different vantage point. Cause I guarantee you missed something, something that has been there all along waiting for you to discover it. Please see it cause it could be something that changes all our lives or even just yours. People who saw it Bill Gates, Margret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, and some day soon you.

Bitter Sweet.

What do you want? In life you'll ask yourself this question often and other people will ask you this question too. The thing with life is each situation will be different have a different outcome or pressure unique to the surrounding circumstances.  You'll find that you not just question yourself, you make sure. One of the things that make this question a bummer question is when you, at the time the question pops up, don't know the answer. If you've seen the twix advert that promotes you stuffing your mouth with a twix to avoid the need to answer immediately or muffle an unrecognizable response. Then you've definitely thought of other ways to get that result without irritating the person on the receiving end of the behavior. The real truth is not knowing what you want can put you in an awkward situation, a sort of waiting game. Waiting to see if something will just help you to instantly know what you want. How do you figure out what you want? What helps you to decided ? Do your rules and way of handling the situation change with every time you're faced with decisions. The bitter truth of life is we will always doubt ourselves. But the sweet truth is through doubt we can find truth. Hit or miss any choice is always better than no choice.