Many people avoid the experi- ence of taking a self-assessment; perhaps they feel it would be too painful or they worry they will not like what they see or that it might be too late to change. To go through life without taking a look at the map might give us a sense of security: “If I don’t look at the map, I won’t know how lost I really am.” But such an attitude means we will also never end up where we want to end up. The other attitude – “I just can’t get there from here” – is also very likely untrue. We can almost always get there from here; we just have to be willing to pay the price. And the price is almost always making a change inside ourselves. Procrastination is the greatest enemy of success. The idea that we can always do it tomorrow keeps us from ever getting started. Tomor- row never comes! If you want to do it, do it today! Now is the time! Take a look at your map! Do not delay any longer. To wait any lon- ger is wasting your life. Push the button. Flip the switch. Get on track with your life today!
Getting on Track with Life
A MESSAGE FROM CEO FRANK VANDERSLOOT
Life does not wait for us! It contin- ues to go on whether we are ready for it or not. Our bodies get older… our children grow up…birthdays go by…time goes on. We cannot stop it – in fact, the older we get, the faster time seems to go. Time is our most precious com- modity because it is the stuff life is made of. To waste time is to waste life itself. While I’m quite positive that there will be a life after this life, I’m not really sure what it will be like. And I don’t believe we can count on being able to catch up in “the next life” with everything we wanted to do in this life. To me, that means we need to be really careful with how we use our time here and now. One of the greatest tragedies I can imagine would be for someone to come to the end of their life and realize that they had not accomplished the purpose for which they were born. I cannot imagine a worse hell than that! Once our time is used up, there is no way to get it back; there is no way to redo or relive the time that
we have spent. We can change before it is too late, but we cannot go back. What a wonderful time to be alive on this earth! Our lives are so much better than if we would have lived just 100 or 200 years ago; we have so much more opportunity than those who lived then. Life is more convenient and more pleas- ant. We live in this great age of jet travel, television, electric heat, microwaves, the Internet, and mos- quito repellent. The opportunities of what we can do with our lives are boundless. I believe that access to these opportunities gives us more responsibility than those who have lived decades or centuries before us. I can’t think of a more won- derful time to live. I really want to make the best of it! We have all experienced key moments in our lives when we have given ourselves a wake-up call and decided to get pieces of our lives back on track. Those are great moments! Without them we could wander great distances from the
road we want to be on without even realizing we are off the pavement. The wonderful thing about these moments of redirection is that no matter how far off track we have gotten, we usually do not have to take time traveling back to our desired road. All we have to do is press the button inside our souls, decide to get back on track, and start out immediately in that direc- tion. And although we can also eas- ily get off track again just as fast, we can stay on track with our lives if we have some method of contin- ual self-assessment.
When we assess our lives and determine things are not how we would like them to be, we have a choice: we can blame everyone else, lament our circumstances, and wish everyone else would change; or we can take charge of the only thing that we really have control of – ourselves – and decide to change what we do and who we are. As long as our motivation for that change is love for others and a desire to do good, rather than anger and vindictiveness, we can accomplish great things, and we can experience dramatic changes in our lives.
Sincerely,
“As long as our motivation for change is love for others and a desire to do good, we can accomplish great things.”
@FLVanderSloot
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