Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last

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There is so much good and sound advice and counsel regarding how best to live your life. It seems to be readily available and always at your fingertips,…IF…a person really wants to receive it. This good counsel is recorded in so many different books, letters, essays, movies, and all the other varied and different means of communicating. All of this wonderful advice is, of course, totally worthless if it is never sought after, learned, and subsequently put into action. This is specifically the reason why I personally believe that reading is the single best method of mental preparation for success and personal development of your own self image that exists in people’s lives today.

Now I am not talking about the reading of fiction books or books simply from the author’s imagination. What I am talking about is reading the truth, the facts, the actual happenings just as they occurred as was documented by eye-witnesses or from the study and compilation of recorded facts surrounding any particular event, circumstance, person, place, or thing. By learning about what happened, how it was handled or dealt with, and who handled it,…a person becomes well able to learn and understand what is best to do as the very same type of problems, challenges, blessings, and benefits begin occurring in their own lives.

A major portion of most people’s lives is comprised of the same or similar actions, efforts, activities, challenges, defeats, and victories that have previously occurred in their own or in other people’s lives who have gone before them. I can hear my parents words ringing loudly in my ears as I am typing this article: “People are doing today the same or same type foolish things that they were doing fifty years ago.”…or….“The same foolish mistakes are being made today that people were making twenty-five years ago.”

Now the fact remains…that has always been in place, and that will continue to happen in the years ahead…that…“In America, history proves beyond any reasonable doubt, that Americans do not learn anything from history.” It is for this reason that people just continue to (generation after generation) make the same foolish mistakes and errors.

So how does a person break this repeat performance syndrome? Well the process is relatively easy, but it is the making of a decision to change and then following through on it by actually doing something about it,…that always presents the problem or the challenge.

Here is my suggestion to start the process in your life. Begin with changing yourself first before you start helping others change their lives. Clean up your own house first before traveling the neighborhood teaching others how to clean up theirs. Start to enjoy each and every day that you live….regardless of what is going on, what is happening, or even what is attacking you. Make the most of every day. Now trust me, you cannot accomplish that very thing without knowing where you are going in your life and setting some goals of achievement to assist you in completing the journey.

The second thing I would suggest you do is to take a little time each night before retiring and think about and even preplan what you intend to do with the coming new day. Use up the hours in each of your days as a child would use them,…by doing things you want to do and enjoy doing,…and do the right kind of things that cause you to be happy. You see, there are no guarantees of how many days you actually get. Only God in heaven knows the number of your days that you will live on this earth.

Thirdly, I would encourage you to learn from the mistakes of your predecessors. Older people will always tell you: They rarely regret the things that they did,…only the things that they did not do. In other words, get out on the edge. Try some new and different and scary things that you have never tried doing before. Add some new excitements to your life. Travel to places you have never been to before. Stretch yourself out into the fringe of fear….why?…Because the fringe of fear is always where you will stumble upon the opportunities for your future success.

Fourthly, Don’t spend your life intending to do something. Start Now! Start doing something new and different and exciting that gains your attention and subsequently attracts your participation.

You are never to old to try something new. It is those new attempts at doing different things that add vim, vigor, and fired-up vitality to your life and to the lives of others around you.

United States President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said it as well as it has ever been said: “And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count,…it is the life in your years.”

 

Peace and Love to All of You……………….Poppa Bear

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