What is your community's purpose?   

What could you make your community's life about?   

Does it attract people?  

 When you have a purpose for what you are doing, it raises the bar of your participation in life.   

You are compelled to reach, to stretch, and to go beyond your most base concerns.   

It makes you get out of your selfish self.

Have you ever really thought how much weight relationships have on your quality of life?  

Perhaps you have ignored the importance of relationships to the point of neglect or willful ignorance.   

The new insanity is trying to get others to be different so you can be your best self.   

It does not work that way.   

You learned how to be in relationships from watching everyone around you during your childhood.   

So how do you fix that to make better relationships within your community?

Your sense of personal power is directly correlated to the strength of the relationship between you and what you say. 

Keeping your personal promises is the single most underused, undervalued, and ignored source of power for people.  

Promises don't have feelings to consider; they also don't' care about the weather or how much money there is or what people think.  

They stand there alone in the universe, calling you to be your greatest self.   

Your promises are the future, your feelings, the past, and the the choice you will have to make every day between now and when you die.

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That is a question that you, as a community, need to ask.  

Are we willing to live in our community the way it is?   

What are you tolerating?   

What are the things that you pretend aren't really a problem or that you are avoiding addressing?   

When you really start to analyze why you do what you do, then you can change. However, if you just say "we are willing to live with it the way it is," then that is what you get.   

Maybe all of your community members do not feel the way your leaders feel. Maybe your leadership is fine with how it is but other people are not fine with how it is. Then you need new leadership or a way to work around the leaders.

What is Father's Day  

To some, it is a day that celebrates fathers.  

To others, it is a day of stress.  

Do you know the difference?

Behavior is self-sabotaging when it creates problems and interferes with long-standing goals.  

People are built; they are not born.  

The time you make a decision to believe.  

People are programmed to think about/do about/the things you think about and you do and get.   

Do you have a Mental Health effort in your economic development strategies?

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Ultimately, healthy people are happier, more productive, and less prone to accidents  on the job than those who aren’t in good health.   

People don’t resist change.   

Their programming resists change.  

How you handle change determines how you handle stress.

In light of your past experiences, your current circumstances, future hopes and dreams, where do you need to begin making consistent deposits of time?  Everyone has the same amount of time. 

There is 24 hours in a day for every person in the world.  

Why do you use your time the way that you do?   

Remember - You NEVER run out of time.

What does mental health have to do with an entrepreneurial ecosystem?  

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