A Lesson From The Road Runner
Here is another story to help keep you focused on your dreams and goals
The previous story gave the lesson from a Tightrope Walker, who reminds you to Always stay focused on the goal and yet still be in the moment.
Now let’s look at a lesson from the Road Runner
In the “Road Runner” cartoon, the Road Runner is always frustrated and being chased by Wylie Coyote. There is always the scene where the road runner is racing ahead and as he gets to the precipice of a cliff, he darts behind a bush without Wylie Coyote seeing. So Wylie Coyote continues the chase and doesn’t see that he runs past the edge.
Now visualize this scene of Wylie Coyote running with nothing but air beneath him. When does Wylie Coyote start to fall? He starts to fall when he looks down. When he looks down and realizes where he is, fear sets in.
Fear is paralyzing!! Fear is one of the most common excuses/reasons that hold many back from realizing their dreams and goals.
Always look ahead towards your goal. If you are not looking ahead now, you will be looking back later.
Never look down and let fear take over.
Never look back. If you are always looking back your future will look like your past.
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Part of the Eye Of The Tiger series
Another New Beginning
As we begin another New Year, we make promises/resolutions to ourselves with an eye towards reaching our dreams and goals.
We begin the New Year with lots of enthusiasm towards reaching those dreams and goals. Inevitably, for most, that enthusiasm wanes over time.
There are lots of new beginnings. There is a new year, a new month, a new week, a new day, hour, minute…… Each new is another opportunity to reignite the enthusiasm you had at the beginning of the last new. If we celebrate each new as another opportunity, we can renew that enthusiasm and keep it burning. So cherish the new of every new and especially every moment. With every new remind yourself of your dreams and goals. With those reminders you will keep the enthusiasm in the present.
“The beginning is embedded in the end, and the end is embedded in the beginning”. – Sefer Yetzirah 1:7
For a new beginning to truly be a new beginning means not being anchored to the past. It is an opportunity to leave it behind. Leave the past behind, except for remembering the lessons you learned and create the present……Enthusiastically!!
Now with all that enthusiasm, remember that it is the Doing!! “Wishing and hoping… and planning and dreaming”*, – “Won’t get you where you want to go”**. It’s the doing that will get you the results.
“When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done”. — Lou Holtz
Happy and Meaningful 2018
* from “Wishing and Hoping”,Dionne Warwick
** from “Words of Love”, the Mamas and Papas
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Happy and Healthy New Year 2018
Healthy and Happy New Year!!
As we prepare for another new year, another new, another beginning, we look forward to all that we wish for. The good that we wish for ourselves, is the good that we wish for others and vice-versa.
For this New Year, let’s do more than just wish. Let’s plan on making this a “Happy New Year”. Let’s make this the year where our deeds make our wishes reality. A year where we tap into “all of our possibilities” and potential to be the human we are destined and created to be.
We have no control over what is sent our way. To make it a happy year, let us focus on that which we do have control of; what we say and what we do.
All that we need and the world we all wish for is in our hands.
There is this story of a great old wise man, a seer, who was coming to a town to speak. Many, many people waited with great anticipation for his arrival and then went to hear him speak. Among them, was this one young and skeptical man, who went simply to challenge the wise man. After the wise man spoke, there was a Q&A. When it was the young mans turn, he put out his cupped hands and asked the wise man what was in his hands. The wise man replied, “two little birds”, which was right. The young man was stunned, but he was still skeptical, so he asked whether they were dead or alive. The wise man knew that if he replied, “they’re dead”, the young man would open his hands and the birds would fly away. If he replied “they’re alive”, the young man would crush the birds in his hands. The wise man’s reply was
“the answer is all in your hands.”
Healthy and Happy 2018
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Happy Day of Giving Thanks 2017
We so quickly and casually say “Happy Thanksgiving” that we often miss and forget that it’s a day for actually giving Thanks. Of course, so is every day and we begin everyday with Thanks.
What are you Thankful for?
Who are you Thankful for? Thank them!
Thank You for being a friend of The Spinning Rabbi
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