Today is November 18, 2014...25 days from my 50th birthday on December 12th.
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| Tiger Woods On Merv Griffin Show |
"All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten."
This 30 second video shows a 2-year old Tiger Woods (yes, that was already his nickname!) on Merv Griffin with Bob Hope in tow. When you watch it and juxtapose it with the next 30 years, you are left with no doubt...
If only we all had a video tape of our childhood to review. It would reveal our greatest inherent and natural gifts. It would reveal our first nature. Not the second nature gifts we developed to make a living, or fulfill the desires of others...but it would reveal the essence of who we are.
For most of us, our childhood was a time when joy was pure, all games were played in earnest with our best effort and we were true to ourselves. We laughed with reckless abandon at the silliest things and cried with no shame regardless of who was watching. That freedom of emotional expression birthed passion. For those of us where passion was nurtured, it turned into purpose.
For others, the practicality of life turns our true purpose on its head. We adapt to what the system says and somewhere along the line, many of us lose that zeal for life. We are not pursuing purpose but enduring prison terms...life with first possibility of parole at 65 (retirement).
Brandon, you are being an idealist - it is too late to go back and relive a distant past. Yes, I am an optimist and idealist. At 25 days from 50, I am not ashamed to say so either! Do you think it too late to change or redirect your life?
It's never too late! Here are three simple steps to getting back to where you belong;
#1 - Review Yesterday - From your childhood to yesterday, there are clues to who you are and what you were designed and destined to be. Your best talents and the things you love (and hate) are working to direct your soul and spirit - if you listen. Yes to review...no to regret. You can't change yesterday but it can impact and inform your today and tomorrow.
#2 - Assess Today - Do you feel on track or off-track? Are you pursuing life with a focus and determination that will help you cut through the clutter of ordinary and mediocre or are you just going through the motions? Look hard at where and who you are today. Be honest. Deep down, you know if you have gone astray from the real you.
#3 - Project Tomorrow - Dare to dream the dreams of your youth. Doesn't it feel energizing (if only for a moment) to allow your imagination to show you a possible future? And it is possible. Like the seed that remains in the packet for years, your dream still has the potential to blossom. Get that child-like zeal and energy back! If you are still able to dream, you are still more than able to do!
So find some pictures of yourself as a child. Look intently and deeply. Everything you are today is wrapped up in that precious seed of your youth. Everything you are supposed to be is wrapped up in that seed. Everything you want to be is in there...look again...trust me, its there!
Look at these pictures. To those of you that know me personally to those that only know me through my writings...my essence is in these pictures. The writer, the speaker, the optimist, the idealist, the thinker, the strategist, the father, the husband, the reader, the runner, the golfer...
Everything I am is in there. I can see it clearly and I am determined to be all that my seed was designed and destined to be.
Go back to kindergarten because...
All I Really Need to Know...
25 to 50!
Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success!
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