So, what have I learned in 50 years
about growing-up and the rules of life?



1. When your life isn't happy and nothing seems to be changing, its often best to leave your failing comfortable life, your home and your predictable security.

2. Any time you leave your comfortable life, you will enter a strange new world.  Then you must stay until you have made it your own.

3. There is power in love and in your dreams.  Live the best life you can and this power will find you.  

4. When you get several warnings and you fail to act, it will eventually be too late to avoid the results of your behavior.  If your life is failing, make those changes before someone else imposes their choices or makes your changes for you.

5. You can never measure your strength, your power or your influence when you are sitting.  You can look with a distorted view when you are the only source of information.  Its in action. we see our best.

6. Fear is a part of any new experience.  Its healthy.  Its normal.  Its sometimes out of your control…does that bother you?  Just remember that the alternative of no change is worse.

7. If you don't believe in a force greater than you, just leave your comfort zone and enter a new world.  Then, often, watch “that force” protect you and make your life catapult to higher levels.

8. I try not to predict or judge the outcome of any life.  I’m tired of being wrong.   But, I do recall that anytime I have left my comfort zone and walked new roads, I have always been pleased with my ultimate destination.

9. There are laws and rules that exist in life…and we can not run from them, avoid them or defeat them.  If we defy them, we will most likely sustain injury.

10. Measuring behavior, punishing behavior, predicting behavior or judging behavior are easy skills to learn and profitable professions.  But, too often, they don't help people and they don't make the world a better place.  If we are to make this world a better place, we must take the gloves off and "get dirty".  

Now, live your life…

Brad




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