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Have you read these posts?

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Time marches on.  Information comes and information goes.  While the newest information is often the most relevant, there is no denying the wisdom of the past.  Timeless, evergreen content is everywhere, you just have to find it.  There may be a few posts that are several years old that resonates with you so much, it changes your life.

If you are looking for life changing content, check out the blogs and content from these amazing people:

Seth Godin

Tim Ferriss

Dan Miller

Below are some posts you may have missed from this site.  Some are popular, but most are just personal favorites and in no particular order.  Thanks for reading

How to read a book

What’s Your Story?

Hiking and armadillo classification

Strive to be the best???

What are you complaining about?

Prejudice, being different, and what we tell our kids

The power of never and always

Creativity, Classical Music, and TED

Turkey day and thanks giving

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Today is Thanksgiving.  Some are out shopping, some are working, some are spending time with loved ones.  It is a holiday for everyone to reflect on the good (and the bad) in our lives and be thankful.  After reading today’s blog post by Seth Godin, A great way to give thanks, I have a new perspective.

I believe everyone on Earth is hear for a reason.  It is important you figure out what that is.  Life is much more fulfilling when you are operating within your purpose.  I know my purpose in life, at least, I think I do.  I’m not sure if I will ever be 100% confident, but I feel I am headed in the right direction.  But for my life to have meaning, I have to apply my life purpose.  I have to use that purpose to do important things.  I need to take advantage of the privilages I have been given.

So today is Thanksgiving and we should all be “thanks giving” for what we have.  There is no better way to show your appreciation than to work within your purpose, to really take advantage of all those privileges, and to do important things.  If you are not doing that, what are you waiting for?  What is the world missing out on by you not fulfilling your purpose?  What could you accomplish if you were…

My super-secret business plan (shhhhh)

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I have a business plan.  Very few people have ever seen it and it is effectively, super-secret.  I worked on this plan for months and months, editing the financial forecasts, adding detail, investigating the competition.  This business plan was the best I’d ever done (strangely enough, the only one I had ever done…)  Then, life happened…..

Today, I was trying to catch up on some blog posts.  I happen across this post by Seth Godin about having a plan.  It was concise (as are most of the posts by Seth Godin) and thought provoking.  It made me think of my own business plan and how it developed.  Along the way to starting a business, I have learned that a business plan is a great resource.  Everyone will tell you, with good cause, that you need a business plan.  Business plans are the foundation upon which great businesses are built.  What is better that starting with a solid foundation?  What is better than having a business plan?

A mission. 

I want my business and my life to have a mission.  I don’t want to be derailed by a minor setback, major failure, or anything else in between.  I want a mission.  I want to change the world, even if the only part I change is my own little corner or the life of one person.  I want to look back on the story of my life and know I have accomplished something important.  I want everyone who looks at my life and my actions to know that I am fulfilling my mission.  I need to have a mission.

What is your mission?

How are you accomplishing your mission?

Are you working hard enough at your mission for the world to see?

I have a mission……