Why Not ME??

So here it goes, my goal in my adult life is to be a motivational speaker. Hey why not me??!! I have gone through crap like many people so I have always wanted to inspire. However for what ever reason my trying to inspire turns out to many thinking I am making a joke. Well this is no joke, but I will use some humor. So here we go.

Tonight on my trip from Denver to Sacramento I was reading an article from the September issue of “Success” magazine. The article was about Og Mandino who wrote the book “The Greatest Salesmen in the World.” The article is written by Liz Davis, talks about how life got very low for Mandino to the point of taking his own life until just a simple walk into the public library changed his life. I picked up this issue to read more about Mandino and since I had read the in flight magazines already I needed something to occupy my flight. This one quote from book The Greatest Salesmen in the World was what inspired me tonight: “I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success. For it is another of nature’s laws that only a habit can subdue another habit.” The book is a quick read and it does very much inspire you no matter what your current employment is or where you are in life, it does not matter. I highly recommend for you to pick it up and read it, and read it again.

I want to take you on my journey to find success and remove negative thoughts in order to get to the next level. What is the next level? Only you know where you want to be and I don’t mean in five years (like in job interviews). Today is where you need to figure out where you want the path that you will create takes you. In his book “The Last Lecture” DR Randy Pausch wrote a simple common sense in chapter 55 titled “Just Ask.” So ask yourself what motivates you and ask yourself “why not me?” This book has changed my life with that one simple principle of, to just ask. Please buy this book and find the “Last Lecture” on the web. If one of those two pieces does not inspire you then I am at a loss. I have just re-read it and after reading it a second time (there will be many more re-readings) I need to do more with my life. For example I want to write very soon to you on how I try and stay motivated after the year I have had: the divorce, seeing my son only every other weekends and the crazy insane travel schedule that I deal with every single week. I need to be a better parent to my son and also stay healthy so I am here on this planet for a long time. Fitness will also be a common thread with in my blog.

We are going to do this together since I still can not find the manual that deals with what life gives us daily. We have manuals for our cars, computers, cell phones, but nothing on just getting up out of bed to get us prepared to face the day with a positive mental attitude. Believe me when I say that has been a struggle for me as well, however I find ways to do it. Simple things like knowing Monday’s and Wednesday’s Nigel the personal trainer I am working with is going to push me is really positive motivation for me. What will get you out of bed?

Well here I go and try to mold this blog with your help. I don’t know where the writing is going to take me but my goal is to express myself to you and see if this will be a good fit for both of us. Please be kind since this will be all about baby steps diving into the blog world and who knows hopefully one of you will actually read this and pass it along to others. Then maybe you can say to yourself "Why Not Me??