Setting Sail Through Transitions: Are we depending too much on the predictable?

Smooth Sailing...This is an often quoted phrase descriptive of a peaceful and predictable state that most everyone would love to exist in. The quote infers that your affairs are in order and that you are the captain of the S.S. My Life sailing towards your proper future. In other words, you believe to be resourced and well equipped for the predictable. The statement smooth sailing is also often associated with the phrase "famous last words." The problem with a smooth sailing aspiration is that life has never promised to be predictable. So why then do we struggle so much when it isn't? Could it be that the state of predictability that we associate with our smooth sailing is an infiltrator to be wary of instead of longed for?

Investing your time today or spending it?

"Today you're going to do one of two things with your time.

You can invest it or you can spend it." - Nick Saban

Have a dream? Have a goal? Then let's get with it!  Today is Monday and for some the prevailing culture of today has convinced them that Monday's are bad days. The start of a long week. Ugh!  Why are we allowing this type of low living mindset determine our lives when the reality is that Monday marks the beginning of opportunities to be had.  For successful minded people, Monday morning is a starting gun for opportunity. 


Still, we all need an attitude adjustment once in awhile, because the truth is that life is tough. However, we can't let the tough demands of life suck out the flavor of living.  Recently, Nick Saban, the Head Football Coach at the University of Alabama, made a speech to begin their summer football camp. No matter what your opinion of Coach Saban is, or your opinion of football, the outlined principles in his message are timeless and Coach Saban's success is indisputable.  Today, we can either invest our time or we can spend it on fruitless perpetual motion activities. If you need a fire up speech to get you moving one step closer to a life you envision,  I believe this one will give you the extra charge that you need. 

Win Today!

Victor

YOU ARE HERE

I wake up with a yawn.

The beaten path is familiar as are the same steps of routine that take me through the day.

Out the door here we go.

So much to do in the immediate now that my potential will have to wait.

If only I could grasp.

If only I could arrive.

"When I grow up" seems farther away each day I live.

Where's the starting gun?

The finish line is almost here.

I hear my breath and feel the elements.

Life is happening now without me in it.

I must admit that I missed the sign.

But now I've come to realize what it said.

YOU ARE HERE.

No more banking on the potential that kept me sane at night.

Its now or never to begin my journey.

YOU ARE HERE.

Pack what love I have and leave behind the bitterness that decorates my walls.

I'm leaving now to meet my life.

What I hoped for hasn't waited for me.

Yet, I'll take the first step to consummate our treasure.
Me and life together as one.

Author - Salvador Cross

Win Today!

Victor

Digital Street Smarts - 6 Suggestions for Managing Your Digital Self



Half Human Half Digital - Art by Nick Gentry

 I am a self-declared old school type of guy. Yet, the inevitable has now become my reality.  Welcome to the digital age! Like most Americans, my work communications rely more heavily on email than actual voicemail. As a matter of fact, if I really want to get an answer in a timely manner, I have to text instead of email or voicemail. This post is not a complaint or a nostalgic call for the return of the good ole days, but rather a statement of observed behavioral norms that must be recognized in order to navigate and manage our "digital-self" both socially and economically.