Author: cbarney.45

Whatever you focus on gets amplified. If you focus on your lack of sleep and tell yourself that you’re tired, guess what? You’re going to feel even more tired! If you focus on the positive, you will train your brain to look for the positive. The same goes for the direction of your life. If you wander around aimlessly, losing days, weeks, months, or even years, you will probably be “average” in most aspects of life. There is nothing wrong with average and if you’re content with this, then more power to you. But if you want to live an extraordinary life, first, you need to define what is extraordinary. Then you need to reverse engineer how to get there. And finally, you need to start focusing on that and taking action steps towards achieving those goals.

Where do you want to be in 10 years? What do you want to be doing? Have something in mind? Good. Now figure out what you need to do to get there. Otherwise 10 years will pass by in the blink of an eye and you’ll be wondering what happened to your life.

 

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

Choice…you get to make the choice whether to feel happy, mad, sad, or anything else. Nobody is “making” you feel anything. Only you have that power. You have an extremely limited control on what happens in the world. What you do have control over is your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. Why would you ever choose to be mad instead of choosing to be happy?

“A problem shared is a problem halved. Happiness shared is happiness doubled.”

Make sure you are not putting yourself on an island. If you need help, ask for it. If you’re having trouble with something, share with others so that you all can brainstorm potential solutions. That being said, if you’re happy, make sure you’re sharing that with others too! Happiness is contagious. Your mood, whether you realize it or not, affects those around you and how they act towards you. If you’re happy/positive/optimistic, they are more likely to be the same when they’re around you. Go out and spread joy today.

This is the first of what will hopefully be many posts regarding my daily thoughts. I have always been interested in becoming the best version of myself, but didn’t really have a clear idea of what that meant, especially when I was younger. I still do not have a clear picture of what it is that I need to do, but the goal of these posts is to think out loud, share what’s on my mind, and hopefully figure out this thing that we call life, together.

Over the past several years, I have had an intense desire to better myself in every way possible. I don’t know if it had to do with me being in a serious relationship for the first time (Allison and I have now been married for a little over two years), my dad getting sick, recovering, and then passing away, or just realizing that I wanted to know what the real meaning of life is (I’ll let you know if I ever figure that one out). So, after years in the making of improving my mind (reading the Bible, philosophy, business, finance, history, biographies, and the occasional non-fiction or science fiction books), I’ve decided to share my musings with the world.

My intent here is not to show that I have it all together. In fact, I’m sure you’ll see quite the opposite if you read this blog for a while. Instead, what I’m hoping is that I can put these thoughts out there and we can collaborate, refine, and republish our new collective thoughts. I am open to changing my mind, or having it changed for me, as long as I can see the merit in the other sides’ point of view.

Some things that I post on here may be controversial. I know that you will not agree with everything that I have to say. But I hope that you realize that anything that I post is not meant to be malicious in any way. What I am posting is supposed to be mostly thought-provoking, occasionally humorous, and sometimes it will just be me venting my frustrations.

Anyways, I hope that you journey with me on this path to living our best life. Please feel free to comment on any of the blog posts, but remember, we want to build the world up, not tear it down. So please keep your comments respectful, even if you are disagreeing with my own or someone else’s opinion(s).

Thanks for visiting! Have a wonderful day.

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