Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Hey Smartie Pants!

I wouldn't have considered this notion as important before reading this article.  Want to be successful?  Consider that it's not just about your IQ.  How about your interpersonal skills, moral code, and the self-confidence of your body?  Sure, those things seem like no-brainers...maybe they're more important than the goods of your brain after all.  Seems to me these traits would be requisites of someone with a high IQ, apparantly they're not exactly the same thing. 

Read this interesting article that explains what some scientists are determining you need to succeed:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/intelligence-is-overrated--what-you-really-need-to-succeed.html

My personal keys to success: 
- Possessing the knowledge that others seek and being able to communicate that knowledge. 
- Putting others needs ahead of your own. 
- Being honest and open with yourself and others. 
- Being committed to the task. 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Time of My Life


As days go by, I look at how I want to spend the time of my life.  To me, every moment is the time of my life, for if it's not now, when is it?  I try to enjoy, enrich, seek, understand, and identify happiness and its understudy, compassion. 

There was a day recently that I spent thinking about what I would like for my future professionally.  I loved some of the ideas that I thought about exploring.  But some of the things I want to do have a long road.  Do you ever feel a road is too long when you don't know what kind of payoff will come from it?  Do you initially get excited about your ideas and then talk yourself out of following them through?  I've done this myself, many times.

I've decided to go to massage school.  I believe it will be easy for me.  This is not to say I think you should only do something because it's easy.  Go after something achieveable that has strong personal benefit to you.  I believe being an LMT will have payoff in many ways:  I can take better care of my clients.  I'll have a skill that is in line with my personal value system (take care of others).  As well as diversity in income.  I can get a job abroad if necessary.  Would I do it if I thought it were going to be overly difficult?  Decidedly not.  It will still, however, be a challenge in terms of scheduling and knowledge base.  I'm excited to learn!  It's almost as though I don't even leave the "highway" I'm already traveling to explore this new venture.  And it comes with opportunity.
One thing is for sure in my life:  I love opportunity and challenge.  How are you creating opportunity and challenge for yourself in your life?  For it's those things that create the time of your life.