“My life is a message. I will make it what I want it to be.”

Welcome to our second edition of my Blog post for the month of December. As I continue my blog post, I told you last week we would start discussing what I have developed over the years as my personal “Ten Daily Actions to Live By.” These actions help me to live my life the way I want to live it. We all need to have a goal and a plan or we will end up just living. I heard a saying before where the speaker asks the audience how many of you have a life insurance policy. Most of the room raises their hand, and then the speaker asks how many of you have a mission statement? Very few in the audience raise their hand. The speaker makes the comment, “We are more prepared in life to die than to live!” Well, I don’t want you to be that person so maybe these next several blogs will help you find your mission in life. Now, I want to be the first to tell you that I do NOT succeed every day but I make an effort to live by these actions.

My first action is: “My life is a message. I will make it what I want it to be.” I strongly believe you get in life what you create. What do you expect? You expect whatever you are thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life. What influences your thoughts and actions? If you write out your goals and plans you are more likely to accomplish them. Your mind is like this empty glass. It will hold anything you put into it. The brain has a conscious and sub-conscious part that is very powerful. Do you feed your mind with the positive or negative talk? Remember if you put in the negative, what actions do you think you will take on a daily basis? Remember garbage in garbage out!

What are you going to allow your thinking process to be? Being proactive in your words and actions are not by accident. It is by design because of the choices you make daily. Our mind is like a garden the more we water and fertilize it with positive soils the more we will reap come harvest time. The books we read, listening to CD’s on motivation, and attending training sessions to engage our mind and heart drives our behavior. Remember your thinking process will drive your expectations…which will drive the message of your LIFE!

Sam Walton once said, “High Expectations are the key to everything.” So, why not have a high expectation for your life? Remember the first daily action, “My life is a message. I will make it what I want it to be.” YOU are in the driver’s seat of your life. Make your plan today to make the life you want. You don’t know what tomorrow will bring so why wait. If you are waiting for someone else, remember it is only up to YOU!

Make it a GREAT week!

Gary Wilbers