It is good to be a Beginner

Robert Mitchell
July 3, 2015

It is also good to start over. Starting over is hard. Mainly it is hard because of our tendency to have a negative attitude. What do I mean by negative? Fearful, shame, embarrassment, fear of pain, fear of failure, fear of rejection and fear of mistakes. We should not be ashamed or afraid to begin or to begin again which is starting over.

It has been said that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert or master a skill. If you take out weekends and 2 weeks a year for vacation and work on a skill for 4 hours a day that would be 10 years! Wow ten years to become an expert! This is the main reason so many businesses fail within their first 5 years.

business, Leadership, Motivational

Thinking outside the box

Robert Mitchell
June 26, 2015

The problem with thinking outside the box is that most people don’t realize they are in a box. They don’t know where the boundaries of the box that has hemmed them in are. Humans get used to doing the same things they have always done and they don’t see in their minds a new way of doing them. We quit using our imaginations.

I read a study a long time ago that said a 5 year old uses a 100 % of their imagination. When they turn 6 they only use 70 % of their imagination. Within the next 34 years if we are not careful we quit using any part of our imagination. So this study is saying a 40 year old uses 0% of their imagination. My question is why most people lose the use of 30% of their imagination in years 5-6 and it takes 34 years to lose the next 70 %.

Inspirational, Motivational

You really don’t reap what you sow

Robert Mitchell
June 25, 2015

You really don’t reap what you sow

Most people feel that if you do something bad or hurt someone that Karma is going to get you. They say things like “Karma is a b#$@*.” They feel like Karma is the great judge with a gavel in hand ready to dish out vengeance and justice to those that have done wrong, especially those that have wronged them. We have a tendency to judge ourselves with mercy and on our intentions, but we judge others harshly and by their actions.

We should not judge. We do not have to reap everything we have sown, we can reap mercy and grace and forgiveness. It has been written that if someone hurts you, you should treat them with kindness and in doing so, you will heap hot coals on their head.

Motivational

The little things

Robert Mitchell
May 29, 2015

It’s the little things

It is the little things we do that matter the most. It is not the one big thing that matters the most, unless you win the lottery. It is the little things we do every day and the things we do a million times that effect our lives the most, not the one big thing we do.

Whether it is positive or negative the little things we do over and over will create the lives we live. No one ever got obese by eating one big meal, it is the little mouthful bites over and over that causes obesity. No one becomes financially secure by one big event. Oh they may hit it big by one great idea or product. They may write a bestselling book or a movie or become an artist. They might even come up with an awesome marketing plan for a product or service. But they cannot maintain financial security without doing hundreds of small things right every day. We have all heard of stories where someone made millions only to lose those millions from bad choices.

Inspirational, Motivational

Think Outside the Box

Robert Mitchell
May 23, 2015

Thinking outside the box

I read a study a long time ago that said a 5 year old uses a 100 % of their imagination. When they turn 6 they only use 70 % of their imagination. Within the next 34 years we quit using any imagination. So this study is saying a 40 year old uses 0% of their imagination. My question is why most people lose the use of 30% of their imagination in years 5-6 and it takes 34 years to lose the next 70 %.

Inspirational, Motivational, Wellness

Self-talk, faith or fear… you choose

Robert Mitchell
May 19, 2015
faith, fear

Self-talk, faith or fear… you choose

I’m sorry to say, I imagine most people’s self-talk is negative most of the time, we need to change that.

I think we can be positive all the time. The reason for my optimism is that The Apostle Paul said “to the pure all things are pure” and what I think he meant by that is the fact that everything that is created is created for good. The earth is full of His Glory and every good and perfect gift cometh down from The Father of Lights! I think our thoughts are seeds and whatever seeds we water grow. “As a man thinks so shall he become.” The apostle Paul also said that “God created the world with his words and with that same Spirit of faith we speak our world into existence.” It is written ‘whosoever shall say… and believe in his heart… he shall have whatever he says”. We can have what we say and we can have what we think. People ask me when I talk like this “if everything is so good why is everything so bad?” Easy, we believe and think and say the wrong things. Fear is really faith in the wrong thing. Fear is a counterfeit, fear was not created, faith was. Faith is; believing in a positive thing we cannot yet see and has not yet happened. Fear; is believing in a negative thing we cannot yet see and has not yet happened. Fear is faith, but in the wrong thing.

Motivational, Wellness

Step outside your comfort zone

Robert Mitchell
February 21, 2015

Stepping outside of your comfort zone can be uncomfortable. But it allows us to stretch and grow. It allows us to reach our full potential. Not stepping out has the opposite effect, we literally withdraw and shrink.

I want to use practicing yoga as an example of stepping out of our comfort zone and stretching, growing and reaching our full potential. But first let me say that I don’t believe ‘practice makes perfect.” That saying to me is a motivational myth. A motivational myth is when we say a saying over and over and we think that it is true, but it is not.

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Motivational

Second Mile Living

Robert Mitchell
February 17, 2015

Abundance thinking could be called second mile thinking or going the extra mile. That kind of thinking causes you to be worth more than you’re getting paid for. You want to do more than is required. Back in ancient times it was said if someone asks you to walk a mile, walk two. Go the extra mile, think big, be bigger than your mistakes and go after your golden goose that will lay a bunch of golden eggs! It was written if they want your coat give it to them and your scarf. If they slap your cheek turn the other. I want to use these passages because I think they have been misrepresented. I don’t think the author of these sayings was implying that if you are robbed give the thief more. I don’t think he meant if you are in danger of violence roll over.
At the time of the writing the Romans had defeated and conquered countries and were in control. The Roman’s had a law that allowed a Roman soldier to ask you to carry his belongings a mile. The law would not allow him to make you carry it further. People of that day set mile markers out so they would know how far to walk. In that day the law said a Roman soldier could slap your cheek as a sign of respect. Also the law allowed him to take your coat if he was cold.

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