QUESTIONS:
“Each now is but a moment on the trail of all nows
A friend of mine first introduced the first three of the following questions to me I added the other two, and thought to present them all to help frame issues of relevance and importance to anyone desiring clarity and direction in their life. THE QUESTIONS - AS FOLLOWS
1) a) If you could be any age at all what age would you choose to be?
b) What age would you be if you didn't know how old you are now
2) If you could live anywhere at all where would you choose to live
3) If you could have anyone at all for your mate, who would it be, or what would he or she be like
4) If you could choose to be doing anything now in your life or for your life's work, what would it be
5) If you could change any aspect (s) of your life what would it/they be
When asking these questions of yourself and honestly answering them, one must keep in mind the "Serenity Prayer" as follows
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference
After answering "The Questions," keeping full cognizance of what can be changed and what cannot, The next step is TO JUST GO MAKE THEM HAPPEN. Begin immediately by implementing the necessary changes indicated as a part of your life. Not all at once
Plan and stage them in to your daily routine. Use the "Eating the Elephant," technique. (Question: how do you eat an elephant? Answer: One bite at a time.) Also make sure you have an exit strategy for whatever you will be
THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO IMMEDIATELY START TO BE TRUTHFUL TO YOURSELF PERHAPS THAT WILL ENTAIL MAKING CHANGES, PERHAPS IT ENTAILS ENHANCING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE OR ARE THE ANSWER LIES INSIDE OF YOU, DEEP WITHIN YOU. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO FIND THAT PLACE DEEP WITHIN YOU WHERE THE ANSWERS ARE, THEN QUESTION, BUT LISTEN LOUDLY
Today is a new day. Use it as you like. Waste it or use it for good. What you do is important because you are trading a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. Leaving in its place something you traded for it. Gain or Loss. Good or Evil. Success or Failure? What will you have? Don't regret the price you paid for today tomorrow. What you are and what you become, will be determined by what you do today. Once today is past, it is lost forever, never to :
Footnotes: (1)The Horse Whisperer-Nicholas Evans
(2)Two brothers and their late father went to lunchand these questions were discussed
(3)Introduced to me by my friend Neil Cantor
(4)Excerpt from a note my father taped to my bedroom door,the night before I was leaving home to become a musician, when I was about 22 or 23
