On Your Mark...Get Ready...Get Set...GO !!!!

If you are like most people this announcement makes you think you are at the races. Spectator or runner this gets your adrenaline pumping. It is exciting to cheer someone on to do their best. That is my goal here to cheer you on to do your best.

Every home must have a manager. Sometimes this happens by default, but someone must manage. If this task has fallen to you or if you have chosen it I want to encourage you in knowing that you have the most important role in life. You possess the skill to help each and every family member in your home have a positive “Launch” into the day.

In order for us to do our best we must be at our best. We need to launch from a platform that sets us up for accomplishment.

What is the “Mark”?  The “Mark” is your destination for each and every day. Where do you need to be? What do you need to do? How are you going to do it? Why does it need to be done?

What is “Get Ready”?  “Get Ready” simply means you must be prepared to hit your “Mark”. What tools do you need? How much time do you need? What training do you need? Will you need help?

What is “Get Set”? “Get Set” means to hold fast don’t get ahead of yourself. To have a solid “Launch” you must do so from a solid foundation of preparedness. Then hold steady, don’t jump the gun, listen, wait for it…….

GO GO GO

I challenge you to remove you and your family from the high speed race track and place them gently in a foot race. Ask yourself the questions as I have asked them above.

Do you know your “Mark”? 

Are you willing to put the work in to “Get Ready”?

Will you choose to slow down and wait for the right timing so that can “Get Set”?

Before you blow the whistle or fire the fun or shout out the “Go” signal….make sure you have plan that helps you to “Launch” you and your family from a solid daily platform that sets you up for success.

If you fail to plan you have planned to fail.

You can do it….hang in there…practice makes perfect…don’t give up…the hardest things in life are hard work and well worth it.

We can not have a gourmet life on a drive thru investment.

Just Curious

It seems as though this has been a year of recovery for me. Medical situations, emotional situations, family situations, friendship situations, spiritual situations. But something miraculous happens when you are recovering. Recently I am recovering from gallbladder surgery. Years ago they kept you in the hospital for at least 10 days for this procedure, now they send you home within hours of leaving the O.R. I have had a good recovery so far, I have no more stomach pain for the first time in five years. I had no idea I had gallbladder problems we actually sort of found out as an after thought. It seems that in our era of specialists in the medical field that it is hard to find one Doctor to look at the whole person, rather they only look at a piece of you. I actually had a Doctor, hold on wait for it, he decided to look beyond his specialty and voila!!!!

I think that we are all guilty of this in our own lives. We have all asked this question, "Who's job is it?".  Or made the statement, "It's not my job!". Why do we do that?  When did we become a society of people always trying to put it off, on to the next person? You see this everywhere from Washington dictating how restaurants will serve food and what the ingredients will be, (because apparently we can not be held accountable for our own choices) we are angry at the schools for teaching about sex (and then get mad when our teenagers become parents). We seem to spend a lot of time telling other people what they should and should not do for us, in relation to us and then when the responsibility check comes due we still want to steer that in someone elses direction.

Perhaps, now I am going way out on a limb here we should start being accountable for our own actions. Easy now don't fall over it is just a thought. What if we actually starting parenting our children, you know the little darlings that you are always trying to show off and take credit for all the great things they do and then if they screw up you don't have enough fingers to point at everyone who is responsible. By the way it only takes one finger pointing at your own heart to be responsible.

I know this seems like quite a ramble but the news if full of reasons why our country is a mess, Washington is a mess, your neighbors are a mess, your children's classrooms are a mess, your church is a mess. Well what do you expect if "NO ONE" is responsible for their actions then who my friend can fix it.

So here is my challenge for each reader. Look at your own life with the same microscope you are looking into others. How much actual time are actually spending with your children? How many actual meals has your family had in the last week together? How  many meals did you cook? How much money have you spent, trying to "make it better" rather than just doing it right the first time? How many people have you blamed this week for the state of your life?

For the next seven days try to take full responsibility for your actions. Try to go out of your way to be a good parent, wife, husband, sister, daughter, brother, aunt, uncle,son, mother, father...well you get the idea. Try actually being the best you possible and take ownership of that.

There is no true accomplishment that comes through false means. What are you taking credit for that you did not do?  Who are you blaming for things you did?

During my year of recovering in one form or another I have come to realize that I have been carrying burdens that are not mine to carry and in the process ignored some that were mine and they lay neglected. This is my fault and mine to correct.

We must stop enabling those around us to fail because we won't let them succeed. We must be accountable for our own actions and stop worrying about everyone elses punishment.

So grab a notebook and your favorite beverage and map out the next seven days you just might find the better you has been napping and is ready to be awakened and put to work.

Blessings and Hope to you all
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