WISDOM KEYS FOR ACHIEVING 'MAXIMUM YOU'

WISDOM KEYS FOR ACHIEVING ‘MAXIMUM YOU’

ALL of us occasionally need new information and inspiration to motivate and mobilize our next steps. I read some insightful perspectives on personal achievement, authored by Professor Daniel J. Yovich.  They should prove beneficial so I’ll share with you:

The starting point to personal achievement and self-actualization begins with definitive purpose, coupled with a burning desire for achievement.  Equally important is accurate thinking and timely planning.

General background knowledge is important.  The person who has a broad knowledge of many fields and an abundance of cumulative experience can come up with new, significant and creative ideas much easier and more rapidly than the individual with specialized knowledge in only one field.

Collect and file notes, clippings, and ideas that seem interesting, provocative and original.  Ask yourself, “How might I be able to use or improve on this or that?”

Participate freely in hobbies and engaging activities.  Read at least one book every month.

Travel!  There is a big learning experience out there, and it need not be expensive or international.

Continually ask “Why?”  “How come?” and “Who says so?”  Then ask again and again!  So-called ‘dumb questions’ are often penetrating questions in disguise.

Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing things.  Go on retreats, or simply choose to meet new people.

Be open and receptive to your hunches as well as to others’ ideas.  Ideas can be fleeting and fragile.  Listen positively to them and jot them down in an idea book or journal.

Stop...look...and pause!  In other words, pay attention to yourself, to others and the things around you.  This is how we continually learn.

Adopt a “let’s try it attitude!”  All of history’s big ideas and breakthroughs originally were risks.

Polish your self-image until it says YOU are important!  No matter what we are thinking or feeling (positively or negatively) it comes across loudly and clearly.

Choose to be bold, courageous and curious.  Weak people seldom accomplish things of significance.

Carefully sift fact from opinions and assumptions.  This is vital.

The world seems to tolerate mediocrity.  Choose to be a winner!  An innovator!  An explorer!  There is room at the top for everyone.

Laugh freely and often.  Consider this: “Life is a bubble...so why worry and trouble?”  Overly serious people are often ‘bores’ in disguise.

Think BIG!  It takes the same amount of energy and effort to think “BIG” as it does to think “small.”

It doesn’t really matter where you’re from or what education you possess.  Rather, it is “what you do” and “how you do it” that really counts!

If people say, “it can't be done,” ask them...“What have YOU done up to this point that qualifies you to say it can’t be done?”

Reflect on Isaiah 43:18-19, “Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new!”

Our sincere thanks to Professor Yovich for sharing such cogent and relevant thoughts!  

In closing, one of the late Texas bishops spoke the following sage words about the actions and attitudes of so many people: “They want to be BIG so bad…but LITTLE is eating them up!”  WOW!  Friends, why not allow the Holy Spirit to elevate our thinking and doing?  In the process, we  must carefully examine and evaluate our motives.  In the words of Solomon, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!