The Best Day Of Your Life Could Be Today
"Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new everyday. Because every 24 hours you have the opportunity to have the best day of (your) company's life....Harvey Mackay
Last Sunday was Father's Day and I made a post about how it was somewhat special as I live in the Greater Cleveland area and the Cleveland Cavaliers were playing for an NBA Championship. It was Game 7 between the CAVS and the Golden State Warriors and against all odds the CAVS, led by the incredible LeBron James and the young superstar Kyrie Irving, pulled off the upset and won the Championship! Let me tell you it was an amazing feeling to have a Championship team finally arrive in Cleveland! The parade that occurred a few days later in downtown Cleveland was spectacular, with an estimated 1.3 million people flooding the area to express their gratitude to the team.
This series between the CAVS and the Warriors can serve to illustrate a few important life lessons. The CAVS were down in the series 3-1 and pretty much all of the experts expected the Golden State Warriors to close out the series. After all...no team in NBA history had come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the championship.
The CAVS can be symbolic of you! Perhaps things have been tough for you for an extended period of time. Perhaps much longer than you expected. You may have sustained bruises to your ego and your self confidence may have suffered a bit. Life can be way more grueling than any sporting event can be. It can be merciless at times.
The key to surviving it all is to "keep on keeping on." Sustain the belief in yourself that you can overcome any obstacle given enough time. You just have to get through it all. Along the way if you're doing the right things; keeping a good attitude, working hard at whatever you're doing, helping others as much as you can despite your own hardships and/or limitations, then life will surely take notice. Life will introduce you to people who will help you if you allow them to. Opportunities will present them to you if you are open to them...looking for them. They may not be the opportunities or people that you were expecting. That matters little. What matters is your ability to persevere and your ability...your resolve...to see yourself through whatever it is life throws at you.
On any given day things can change for you. A conversation. A Help Wanted ad. An idea. A chance encounter. A friendship developed. A relationship blossomed. So many different things. Any given day holds the potential for the pendulum of good fortune to swing in your favor. The best day of your life could be today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after that. That is one of the most beautiful things about life.
Until next time...
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Here's this week's video: It's awesome. The Butterfly Effect.
