What do you get excited about? Seriously, what excites you? You know the feeling. There is something you are doing, thinking about and now you can feel it is about to happen. Your heart beats faster. You can’t stop smiling. You have been looking forward to this and now the time has come! On board an oceangoing ship, after days at sea, the knowledge that in a few days you will arrive in port creates this excitement. Everyone on board starts to think about what they will look forward to … [Read more...]
Time To Take Out Your Head Trash?
Our human minds are always thinking thoughts. In fact, experts say the mind thinks between 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts per day. This translates to an average of 2500 – 3,300 thoughts per hour. What we do not know for each person is how many of these thoughts are positive influences or negative influences on our lives. After all, it is a fact that the brain controls everything in our body. Time to take out your head trash? Any oceangoing ship or boat carries ballast. Ballast is material … [Read more...]
How Solid is Your Focus and Values?
Our focus and our values are guiding lights for our lives. Like a lighthouse guiding a ship at night from the sea to port. It’s not that these are forever in cement never to be changed or adjusted. However, careful thought and consideration must be given before that happens. Your focus and values have to remain true to you and more important you to them. This isn’t always easy. There will always be outside influences and distractions which will test your ability to remain true to your … [Read more...]
Did You Change Your Mind? Again?
Did you change your mind – again? What influences us to often change our mind? Out at sea, in the open ocean, a ship underway is able to change course fairly easily. When the ship’s wheel is turned for example 10 degrees or 15 degrees right (starboard) the ship begins to move in that direction. How quickly it responds does depend on how long the ship is, how heavy, how fast through the water it’s moving ahead and where the center of gravity is for that ship right then. In addition, the … [Read more...]
Stuck Sucks!
Being stuck sucks! Oh yes, I’ve been there many times too! Whatever your plans and goals are – finding a job or another one, starting your own business, improving your communication skills to connect better in business, your personal life and relationships overall or another or multiple ones – one thing, ONE THING, is for certain – you know when you’re stuck – and that’s right now! Back, back, back in the day when ocean-going ships were powered by wind without any engines – when there was … [Read more...]
