Blog #714: Wrong Words. Wrong Places.

The email was one sentence.
It was a question that hid a comment.

“Don’t you get exhausted from overachieving?”

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Here’s my answer.

Dear friend…

To answer your question…

“No.”

Maybe…

What you call “overachieving,” I just call…living.

Thank you very much for your question.
I hope my answer gives thought to your world.

Thank you for reading this week.

With gratitude…

S.

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Let’s talk about staying.

Lives become passionless when people quit looking forward.
When we run or hide from possibility, we get glued to “staying.”

Staying down.
Staying defeated.
Staying rejected.

That erodes passion.

Staying negative.
Staying hopeless.
Staying bitter.

That destroys passion.

Staying unhealthy.
Staying unmotivated.
Staying uninterested.

That kisses passion goodbye.

Because I understand this…

I’m not a stayer.

It would be a waste of my one great opportunity.

To create, to explore…to live.

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The words we use are more than words.

They’re mindsets.

It’s a problem.
It’s a disaster.
It’s a nightmare.

It’s a step.
It’s a challenge.
It’s an opportunity.

How we see what happens to us triggers the degree of our effort in trying to make things happen for us.

If we continually think wrong words.
We continually stay in wrong places.

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Thank you for being here today.

S.

PS: It’s coming! As of October 15th, 457 cities have declared Extra Mile Day. And the number grows daily!

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