The 7th Inning Stretch

It’s time to declare your life a drama free zone. Stop letting drama suck the life out of you and steal your time. Drama is entertaining so we like to get involved in it. But it’s also an unnecessary time waster that kills us one wasted minute at a time. Let that baggage go.

I know it sounds like an oxymoron but impatience wastes time. Whether it’s not trusting the process or reactionary leadership, impatience does more to slow the process and create additional work than anything else. Be Patient.

We all know those people who are never content. Never happy. Never grateful and always grumbling. It’s a huge waste of time because this distracts from life. It pulls you away from the things in life to be grateful about and focuses on problems. Joyful people look at problems as an opportunity to do something. Joyless people just see the world ending.

Anchor • Stop Wasting Time...Hate

In this episode I debunk the saying that “Ideas are dangerous.” More importantly, I discuss how success is a result of million dollar work not million dollar ideas. If you want to do something great, it’s going to take effort and a lot of it. That’s why passion matters so much because you will do a lot of work for little pay.

Today I’m talking about letting go of once of the heaviest bags that we carry and that is the concern of what other people might think. We let this hold us back more than anything else and I’m telling you to let it go.

Today I’m talking about the danger of feeling entitled to an opinion or perspective. We trap ourselves within a small world when we feel entitled to an opinion because that entitlement leads to a position and a position must be defended...right, wrong or indifferent.

Today I’m talking about growing old gracefully and showing the world the wisdom that you have earned. Stop hiding it and share it. And remember that life doesn’t end at a certain age but rather it ends when you quit.

A friend of mine wished me a happy birthday this week and said “another year wiser.” I responded with the funny thing about wisdom is the wiser you get the dumber you feel. I find this to be more and more true everyday. It’s not what I know but what I don’t know that I now understand. If only we could remove the hubris of your and age, maybe we could work together for a better future.

It’s easy to forget to take care of number one first. We find joy in helping others and being of service to others, and we also worry about being selfish. But loving yourself and taking care of yourself first does not mean not loving or mistreating others. Actually, I think it’s easier to mistreat others when we mistreat ourselves.