I just found this. Very cool. Read it over 5 times and absorb it. Have a kick ass day!

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat on his strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbour. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth – we’re chickens.”

So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.

- Anthony de Mello (1931-1987)

Is that you ? I mean stop and seriously think about it. What have you done this year to make yourself any different than the people you sit around at work?

Is your attitude any better than it was a year ago?

Do you have any more goals? Have you actually done any of them?

How are your finances? Are you investing yet like you should be ?

Stop thinking about this stuff and start doing it. How hard can it be to sit down right now and write down 5 goals. Five very simple goals that you could do in the next 2-3 months. It is not hard. Type them up in Wordpad, enlarge the text, make it a pretty font, center it, print it and put it on wall right next to you – I dare you.

If you are not going to do this simplest of things to stop being a chicken… well then.. enjoy sitting on the eggs!

As I blog more in the future you will see adopt this philosophy:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/03/09/simple-posts/

You don’t have time to read any deep intense poo about the meaning of life, how to squeeze productivity out of every waking moment. If you want that go read Steve Pavlina or something like that. He is a deep intense guy. He is a pro. I am not. In the future my posts will probably be less than 40 words a pop. That way you can read it, say “That is cool” or “that is crap” and move on.

Do you have a passion? Can you name it? Can you name your top 5 passions right now on paper this instant? If not then you need to stop reading inspirational/motivational blogs and get a pen and a piece of paper. Now. Get up from the computer and take some action.

Mine are:

The care and feeding my family

Knowledge Gaining

Financial Independence

Music

Aviation.

In your spare time you might also take a read at http://www.tupelokenyon.com/2007/01/08/your-passion-as-your-compass/ . S/he also provides relaxing music to listen to while you are reading their blog.

That is …. of course…. after you handled your business and got your passions on paper.

Still reading? Still nothing on paper? Then where do you hope to go in life?

Do you ever have a dream? Do you have many? I do. I do every day. And I believe most people do. Every. Single. Day.

One of my dreams for my family is to be able to build a house.

And it just might be coming true. There are so many things working in our favor right now that this finally may happen.

I can almost taste it.

If you have ever had a dream like that you think might happen. Don’t give up hope. Imagine it every single day.

 I just might happen if you believe it enough.

As this dream matures and takes shape I will be posting more on it. If you live in Northwest Oklahoma City you will be able to actually see this physically come to fruition.

Have a most excellent weekend.