Hello friends. A very passionate speaker teaches us about how our ever-changing and evolving lives in business as well as in life can often be right in front of us, but not be seen. Enjoy this clip:
Los Angeles Author, Life Coach, Speaker and Host Steve Truitt shares his wisdom for living life outside of the 'No-Zone.'
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Joy - chosen
Happiness is a choice. Like when we chose our favorite peanut butter, the color of our new car, the college we want to go to, which bill to pay this month. Choice is all around us, and is the only thing we have control over, yet we seem to think we have no control - no choice. Why?
How many times have you said out loud... "I have no choice." Are you sure you didn't? Are you sure you don't?
There's a wonderful distinction between choice and decision. Decide, roughly dissected, translates to the murder of the alternative: De (the other) Cide (murder). When we decide, we automatically remove the other options and find we have to defend our decision... "I did this because..." Decisions are therefore not powerful in the scheme of things. Choice, however, is a powerful entity which requires no defense. "I chose this because I chose this."
Living in choice makes us strong, resolute, complete. Choosing allows us to have what we want without explanation, without apology, without a story to back it up. We choose because we choose. End of story.
So... today I choose joy. Do I have issues? Yes. Do I have problems? Yes. Do I have setbacks? Yes. I have all those things, but THEY DON'T HAVE ME. And that is where the power comes. You can't stop life from coming at you, but you certainly can choose to not be affected by it. Life will always present challenges, disappointments, despair, and so forth. But you don't have to be given by those outside circumstances... you can CHOOSE to overcome them. All of them.
Choose joy today. It's the same as choosing sadness - same energy - it's just directed in the direction of your most powerful destiny.
Know yourself, don't NO yourself!
How many times have you said out loud... "I have no choice." Are you sure you didn't? Are you sure you don't?
There's a wonderful distinction between choice and decision. Decide, roughly dissected, translates to the murder of the alternative: De (the other) Cide (murder). When we decide, we automatically remove the other options and find we have to defend our decision... "I did this because..." Decisions are therefore not powerful in the scheme of things. Choice, however, is a powerful entity which requires no defense. "I chose this because I chose this."
Living in choice makes us strong, resolute, complete. Choosing allows us to have what we want without explanation, without apology, without a story to back it up. We choose because we choose. End of story.
So... today I choose joy. Do I have issues? Yes. Do I have problems? Yes. Do I have setbacks? Yes. I have all those things, but THEY DON'T HAVE ME. And that is where the power comes. You can't stop life from coming at you, but you certainly can choose to not be affected by it. Life will always present challenges, disappointments, despair, and so forth. But you don't have to be given by those outside circumstances... you can CHOOSE to overcome them. All of them.
Choose joy today. It's the same as choosing sadness - same energy - it's just directed in the direction of your most powerful destiny.
Know yourself, don't NO yourself!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Nice Guy's Finish
There was a study released today which determined that "Mean People Make More Money." It's an interesting study, but one that shows a dangerous trend: To have the American dream, you have to be a jerk. The study - like most others - doesn't attempt to preach the benefits of a life lived doing good deeds for others, it only states the results of an investigation. In fact, most information from studies are only meant to deliver facts about trends and human behavior.
In the same news cycle was a story about a police officer who was shot outside of a McDonalds by a suicidal drug addict just minutes after the cop bought cookies for a 13-year-old boy and delivered sage advice encouraging the boy to work hard and follow his dream of being an NBA star.
The slain police officer in this story wasn't trying to get ahead by stepping over the weaker people in his way to achieve the goal of more, more more - he was risking his life every day to protect and serve those who needed him. It was his dedication to betterment of his fellow man that drove him on his path to success, and success for him was a life in service of others.
There is no difference between the jerk who leaves nice guys in his wake to have more things, and the police officer who lost his life doing good for others - each man will one day be underground and all they will have left will be what others say about them.
List of nice rich guys: Warren Buffet, Richard Branson, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard.
Anger and mean behavior comes from fear. There is no shame in being a nice guy, no reason to succumb to anger and mean behavior just because you fear being poor. You want to make money? good... you can be assertive and go for what you want, that's the American way! But mean behavior, treating others poorly, or looking down on others who have less is not American, it's not anything - it's just not necessary.
Good deeds, like the one the slain officer did moments before his senseless death, define us long after our money, toys, and greed get snatched up by our ungrateful, spoiled kids!
Know yourself, don't NO yourself
In the same news cycle was a story about a police officer who was shot outside of a McDonalds by a suicidal drug addict just minutes after the cop bought cookies for a 13-year-old boy and delivered sage advice encouraging the boy to work hard and follow his dream of being an NBA star.
The slain police officer in this story wasn't trying to get ahead by stepping over the weaker people in his way to achieve the goal of more, more more - he was risking his life every day to protect and serve those who needed him. It was his dedication to betterment of his fellow man that drove him on his path to success, and success for him was a life in service of others.
There is no difference between the jerk who leaves nice guys in his wake to have more things, and the police officer who lost his life doing good for others - each man will one day be underground and all they will have left will be what others say about them.
List of nice rich guys: Warren Buffet, Richard Branson, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard.
Anger and mean behavior comes from fear. There is no shame in being a nice guy, no reason to succumb to anger and mean behavior just because you fear being poor. You want to make money? good... you can be assertive and go for what you want, that's the American way! But mean behavior, treating others poorly, or looking down on others who have less is not American, it's not anything - it's just not necessary.
Good deeds, like the one the slain officer did moments before his senseless death, define us long after our money, toys, and greed get snatched up by our ungrateful, spoiled kids!
Know yourself, don't NO yourself
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Steve Truitt Coaching Page on Facebook
Hello all,
Please follow this link and 'like' my Facebook coaching page. It's good karma!
My Facebook Coaching Page: http://goo.gl/Px2RK
You can also follow me on Twitter @stevetruitt
Know yourself, don't NO yourself!
Steve
Please follow this link and 'like' my Facebook coaching page. It's good karma!
My Facebook Coaching Page: http://goo.gl/Px2RK
You can also follow me on Twitter @stevetruitt
Know yourself, don't NO yourself!
Steve
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