Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’

Yesterday’s Problems, Today’s Motivations

Posted: April 13, 2011 in Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It
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Put yesterday behing youYesterday’s Problems, Today’s Motivation…. Think about that for a few minutes.. Are you done? Or consumed? I can say that this statement consumed my mind. Thoughts began to flood my mind; Am I concentrating on my yesterday or am I continuing to move forward? Have I allowed Yesterday’s problems to completely rule my today? It’s very tough to swallow if you decide that the answer to any of those questions is yes. It then puts you in a predicament, does the fact that our answer was yes create a problem for today that will hinder us tomorrow? This can obviously become an extremely vicious cycle that I sure don’t want to face everyday. Yesterday is a bruad term/time period the yesterday hanging us up can be the literal yesterday or the past month, or year, or years. When you have a problem in your past that seems to hold you back and for some reason you can’t break the hold it has on you today that problem may as well of happened today. After putting some thought to this It is clear to me that we need to use Yesterday’s Problems as today’s motivations. I know, this is another one of those things that I am saying that is a lot easier said than done, but we are built to handle these types of situations.

I started to really try to apply this to my past in my mind this morning and when you honestly think about all the times that something has happened and instead of using it as a building block for the next day or the future in general we tend to lean towards dwelling on the bad and letting it restrain us from moving forward in our journey. It is truly like the cup half full or half empty statement.. Unfortunately far to many of us carry around half empty cups and that is not by the doing of anyone but us, We are the bartenders for our own party, and whether you have a full cocktail or not is completely up to you. I know if I keep asking you to take a minute and think about this or that you will be reading this forever but once again im asking you to stop and take just one minute to look at the past week or two of your life, make sure you are honest with yourself and evaluate if you have allowed a problem of yesterday limit your today… Now that you have used that minute to evaluate your last few weeks you either (A) are like me and you are thinking; Wow, I really am allowing yesterday to dictate my today or (B) You are the optimist of all optimists and you are already working to ensure you build on every problem to continue moving forward and if that is you congratulations you are in the minority on this one.

I am clearly making the decision to no longer allow yesterday’s problems to discourage me or hold me back from furthering myself. Instead I will be making Yesterday’s problems tomorrow’s motivation. Knowing that people all over the world and in many different walks of life are reading this, it is clear to me you may not agree with me at all and that is perfectly fine but I would encourage you to think about this and apply it to your thoughts and then do yourself a favor and “Turn Your Thoughts Inside Out.”

Raymond

All In Or All Out

Posted: April 12, 2011 in Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It
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One Foot Out Okay, this is probably the first absolutely spontaneous post on my blog yet. Not that I stood in front of a mirror and rehearsed what I was going to write on the others but this one just came into my mind due to a recent conversation with a few people I know. Have you ever made a decision about something in your life whether it be a big or small decision and when you made the decision you were 100% on board. Then when you finally decided to make the leap to put the decision into practice you found yourself keeping 1 foot back in the old and only going one foot into the new? I think at some point we all have but I really started thinking about this while working and I can’t seem to come up with an answer as to why we do this sometimes. Can it be that we are never really sure what we fully want? Or maybe we are wired to not want to let go of things that we experience and we want to just hold on to a piece of everything.

If you are unsure of what I mean I will give you an example, think about when you were a teenager and in high school, You have lots of options as to what you can do with yourself after high school but we all eventually had to choose. I know some of us chose and off we went but it’s more likely that you chose what you wanted to do and started doing it while part of you still said, ” Maybe I want to go try this.” Now this is obviously not a bad thing, I personally am the type of person that likes to try multiple things just to see if I can do it and do it well, were the issue comes in for me is when I decide to “try” something but I do not give it my all because I want to continue to “try” this other thing. It has taken me a long to realize that I will receive much better results if I am either All In or All Out.

Taking the All In Or All out approach has multiple pros and cons depending on what you are applying it to. For instance, the things that I know I like to try or things such as spray paint art, building things and other hands on activities that when going all in can become very expensive but rewarding at the same time. The other more serious side of the All In All Out mentality is when you are applying to relationships or religion and things that affect others. I’m sure a lot of you readers are married or have children, let me ask you; would your spouse or kids appreciate you not being All In? Ha, I think not… Take a look at religion for one second, if you are devoting yourself to a religion does it do you any good to be partially in? I’m not sure about you but I don’t think it does. Its like if I said,”I’m going to take anger management classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Cage Fight on Saturdays.” Unfortunately I do not think I would succeed at either unless I took the all in mentality to one or the other.

I think I may try to consciously make the decision to be either All In Or All Out when it comes to making decisions and what kind of change this can make. Once again, you may not feel the same about this topic as I do and that is why I will always finish my posts encouraging you to click on the comment section and make your mark here and “Turn Your Thoughts Inside Out.”

Raymond