Viral Happiness

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Sometimes, my life feels splintered.

Can you identify with that at all?

One travels through life, making progress upon progress, and then life pulls you in several directions at once. Family needs, business needs, community needs, personal needs – your singular vision falters and scatters into myriad directions.

And, instead of feeling whole, you feel splintered.

That’s the way I’ve been feeling for the past few days. Too many objects demanding my focus. And a focus splintered is weak focus.

You don’t make progress with weak focus.

“An organism at war with itself is doomed” Carl Sagan

When your focus is divided, it is almost as if you are at war with yourself. Your forces, instead of being gathered and pressing onward, are rushing in different directions, losing their momentum. Your progress is doomed.

So, we have identified the problem. What, then, is the solution?

Thought. Genuine, purposeful thought.

Whenever I begin to feel this type of mental weakness, I know that I have been ignoring my thinking time. And this case is no different.

I am making time for all sorts of activities, but not purposeful thought, prayer, and meditation.

I am serving others while ignoring myself. And, if that condition persists, I will soon have nothing to offer others.

Even though I blog and write ebooks and practice self development, I am not immune to forgetting that, as Steven Covey teaches in The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, I must “sharpen the saw.” It will not stay sharp with neglect.

Like beautiful orchids, we all need careful tending and feeding.

I need to feel whole.

I believe I’ll start thinking right now.

Tomorrow is 9-9-09. The symmetry & alliteration offer a moment of significance, a clear touchstone for planning and action.

And that special date offers you an opportunity to begin something special, something of real & lasting significance in your own life.

What have you been putting off?

What wonderful accomplishments are you planning when you say, “I’ll get around to it…someday.”

Well, friend, 9-9-09 could very well be that day.

I am using that particular date as my own personal touchstone, my own personal reference for some wonderful goals.

I have set specific goals to be reached in 2 months, in 6 months, in 8 months, & in 12 months…all dated from 9-9-09.

You may be thinking that this is nothing more than a gimmick…you may be saying that 9-9-09 holds no more significance than any other date. After all, they’re all just numbers on a calendar.

And, you know what? You would be absolutely correct.

There is nothing special about any date or any moment unless we make it so.

Allow me to repeat that, “…unless we make it so.”

There is nothing magic about a specific date. The key is in what we do. Success is always about what we do.

But couldn’t you use a little magic?

Why not conjure some now by using this unique date to start building something special in your life.

Use it as a springboard to greatness!

And when you have succeeded, when you have built that castle you know you deserve, when you have forged a golden link in the chain that is your life, when you are basking in the joy of your accomplishments, then you
can look back and say, “This seed of greatness was planted on 9-9-09.”

If you don’t do it now, when are you ever going to get around to it?