Transitioning
June 3rd, 2008 by Brock Brown“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
The above passage was originally written by Marianne Williamson who is the author of “A Return to Love”
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Friends and Family in Las Vegas
April 16th, 2008 by Brock Brown
Spending time with friends and family is very important. We often get so wrapped up in the importance of money or other things in life that we sometimes forget about the most important people in our lives. How many times can we as adults remember when our parents or perhaps relatives were too busy to spend time with us? Perhaps it made you sad from time to time. What can we do about it? Nothing except for to not make the same mistake within our own friends and family. Time often goes by more quickly than we realize.
Pictures from Las Vegas 2008
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Taking Risks to Win
March 31st, 2008 by Brock Brown
I have a habit of falling asleep with the television on. I have a sleep setting on my remote which will cause the television to automatically turn off after a set period of time but sometimes I fall asleep so fast, I don’t even have time to set it. Then I awaken in the middle of the night with an infomercial blaring. Now don’t get me wrong here. I have absolutely nothing against infomercials themselves, but as with all things, I think we need to take the claims with a grain of salt.
The other night I awoke after falling asleep with the television on. As usual, there was an infomercial on and I really did not pay that much attention to it. I just found the remote to turn the tv off. As I was in the process of finding the remote and hitting the off button, I heard the host say, “With this offer, you can’t lose.” As for this specific offer, it may be was true but many life lessons have taught me that is usually not the case. However, it was at this moment that my subconscious mind took over as I fell back asleep in a matter of seconds.
Throughout the rest of the night it seemed like my mind kept repeating, “If you can’t lose, you can’t win.” Over and over.
It may have been an advertising slogan or just a t-shirt slogan from a few years back, but a popular phrase was, “You can’t win if you don’t play.” The continuation of that truism is that if you play, there is a chance you are going to lose. Probably the most basic examples of this comes from the sport of baseball. On any given play, either the pitcher is going to lose or the batter is going to lose. The batter steps up to the plate and he is either going to find a way to get on base or he is going to make an out. The pitcher toes the rubber and pitches to the batter, knowing he is either going to get the batter out or the batter will get on base. Every single at bat results in one of the two players losing to the other.
But if a pitcher never takes the mound, he can never strike anyone out. If a batter never goes to bat, he will never get a hit. If a baserunner never takes a chance of getting thrown out, he will never steal a base.
It is the same thing in life. If you have ever dreamed of opening your own business, but have never done anything toward this goal, you will never know if you could have become a successful entreprenuer. If you have ever dreamed of writing the great American novel, but never put a pen to paper or tapped out a thought on the computer, you will never know if you could have been a successful writer. There are so many things that can be looked at here but I think you can understand the point I am trying to make.
Yes, there is a chance that if you try to open a business it will not succeed, but if you never tried, how will you ever know. Sure if you write a book, publishers might reject it and no one will ever read it, but again, how will you ever know? Of course, if you don’t try, you never have to worry about fear or rejection. If you can’t lose, you can’t win.
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