Being Average

I'm more than halfway through reading John C. Maxwell's "The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth" and I am very much enjoying it.  Possibly another book that has changed my life (the other books being The Bible and The Blessed Life)  But there is one passage in the book that explains "Being Average" that I found very interesting that I had to share it:

"Too many people are willing to settle for average.  Average is what the failures claim to be when their families and friends ask them, 'Why they have not been more successful?' 

Average is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. . .which one are you?

  Average is run of the mill, mediocre, insignificant, non-entity.  Being average is the lazy mans cop-out  its lacking the guts to take a stand in life, its living by default.

Being Average is to take up space with no purpose, to take a trip through life and pay no fare, to return no interest in God's investment in you.

Being Average is to pass life away with time than to pass once times away with life.  It's to kill time rather than work it to death.

To be average, is to be forgotten once you pass from this life.  The successful are remembered for their contributions, the failures are remembered because they tried.  But the average, the silent majority, is just forgotten.

To be average is to commit the greatest crime one can against oneself, community, humanity and God.

The saddest epitaph is this, 'Here lies Mr. and Mrs. Average, here lies the remains of what might have been except for their belief that they were only average.'  "

Powerful passage and makes you want to do and be better.

Keep on evolving,

Mr. Robinson

STFU and Do Something

I have this voice in my head that likes to pop up whenever I am unhappy about something.  It never fails me and on many occasions it has been there faithfully to push me in the right direction.  There were many things that I have been be unhappy about. . .

• I just got out the hospital and I lost 5 lbs because of my stay.  I was lean before, now I'm damn near skinny. . .unhappy
• This wedding I'm paying for got my finances looking questionable. . .unhappy
• Even in instances in past relationships. . .unhappy
• My place is a mess. . .unhappy
• I'm kinda bored. . .unhappy.

 Whenever those unhappy thoughts popped in my head the same voice would come back and just say one thing:

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT"

Once I heard this, I immediately got back to action and bypassed being in a pity party attitude.  I got a plan to gain my weight back, made a budget to save and put money towards this wedding, got out of those past relationships, cleaned up, and found something to do.

I've found that being unhappy is a choice and the voice in my head refuses to be in that state of mind.  So the next time you find yourself in a rut, a funk, feeling down and just unhappy.  Ask yourself, why you're there and then STFU and do something about it.

Post Valentine's Day Rant

I was going to write this post last week when it would seem more relevant but I got busy.  But I said to myself, no matter how late the day I'm still going to blog this.  So here it is.

Last year, I wrote a Valentine's themed blog entitled 'Part Time Valentine' where I just had a flashback of a conversation I had with a female friend of mine back in high school.  Check it out when you get a chance.  This year, as Valentine's Day came and went, I noticed alot of the same thing.  We have the posts about those who love Valentine's Day. . . . We also have the bitter bitches. . . .But I'm going to focus on the ones that say 'Valentine's Day should be everyday'.

Is it really though?  I'll add my two cents but my good friend Patrice L. said it best when she wrote this in a fb status:

"My V-day twitter rant...

Valentine's day CAN'T be everyday. People have jobs and children and shit to do. That's why there IS a day set aside for all the lovers of the world to stop everything else and recognize it. Let it live. I hate when people say ! Valentine's Day should be everyday"! No it shouldn't. That takes the fun out of it! Should you show your s/o love and affection and let them know they're appreciated everyday? Of course! But all the extra shit for Vday is not, cannot, should not be an everyday thing. That's like saying your birthday should be celebrated everyday because you should celebrate everyday you're alive. While this may be true, who the hell has the time, energy, or even the WILL to do that?! So can we please cut the "Vday should be everyday" nonsense?! Cuz it shouldn't."

Whether you like it or not, she has a point.  Valentine's Day should be celebrated in that one day.  Of course you  should love and admire the person you are with everyday but all of the extra stuff just isn't possible every single day.  Of course it's good sometimes but it if was received EVERY SINGLE DAY, it would lose it appeal and its flair.

Test post

I downloaded this blogger app to my itouch so I can blog while in the OR. Ill see how this goes and how much patience I have for it. I keep telling myself that I would like to get back to my random blog. Then I realized that if you keep talking about it that it will never get done. Stop talking and do it. So here I am, I'm back. This won't be a daily thing but I may try to get something down maybe weekly. Topics will range from...well, whatever I want to write about that day. In the meantime, keep on evolving people.