Saturday

Inspiration from a 30 tonne Caterpillar

You wouldn't think that watching earthmoving equipment would spark so many ideas. There was a construction site a short walk from where I used to live. Throughout the day, when I felt like taking a break, I'd wander over to see what was going on. Crazy as it sounds, I found it therapeutic to watch these large machines breaking up huge slabs of concrete and rearranging enormous amounts of soil.

Anyway, you’ve probably heard of GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out. It usually refers to the fact that if you put non-sensical data into a computer, it will give you equally non-sensical output. In the area of personal development, GIGO has also been used to describe what happens if you feed your mind with garbage.

Getting back to my construction site. There was a machine that had a big hopper at one end and a conveyor belt at the other end. Somewhere in the middle there was a crusher and muncher (that's an earthmoving term ; )). All the garbage, the huge broken bits of concrete and rubble, were piled into the hopper to be crushed and munched however, what rolled off that conveyor belt at the other end was anything but garbage. It all came out as perfectly useful, clean filling to be spread over the ground as a base for the foundations of the brand new apartments that were being built.

As I sat there and watched I just thought, you know what? Our minds are capable of doing this too. No matter what rubbish has gone in over the years, we have the ability to convert any garbage into a solid foundation to build our new reality on.
We really do!

We’ve all had dreams that have been crushed and pummeled and whacked around by others who tell us to “get real”. Why do we allow that to happen? Why do we give the reins of our life to someone who isn’t prepared to get off the couch and make their own life better?

It just doesn’t make sense!

So, even if your dreams might look like a pile of rubble at your feet right now, know this. You can pick them up, dust them off and begin again. Use the power of YOUR mind to create your own reality. A reality that you will be pleased with and joyful in. And isn’t that exactly what you intended your life to be?

Friday

Opportunity is All Around You

The people that really succeed in the world
are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, they create them.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity in your life is where you are right now.
Properly perceived, every situation becomes an opportunity for you.

Your destiny is not a matter of chance,
it's a matter of the choices you make.
Being successful is not something you wait for,
but rather something you achieve with effort.
Things won't turn up in this world until you turn them up.

You develop your opportunities by applying
persistence to your possibilities.