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Passion

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Passion

You ever sometime wonder what drives you and what gives you the passion and the energy to move forward?  When times are rough and it seems as though you are running out of steam, passion is the remedy that solves it.  When we exercise the opportunity to do what we love to do every day, it will never get old, we will thirst for more of it.

Like I have done myself, stepping outside of my comfort zone to follow my passion was not easy.  At one time I failed in writing research papers, photography was a challenge, and mentoring others I could not see myself ever doing.  Passion is growth, passion is patience, and passion can be subject to failure, until we find the perfect ingredient in making it right.

If you’re not following your passion today, passion will stay behind you and on your case until you give in, it almost always wins.  If your days are tough, add a little passion, change the ingredients, if you desire another flavor out of life.

Is today the day in which we enlighten our passion, and we discover the one thing that we really love to do? 

  – Glennel Hardy

Time for Change

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Time for Change

Imagine if we experienced 365 days of summer, with excessive heat, or winter with below freezing temperatures, constant without change.  We have our four seasons, and each year, I look forward to the fall, after a long hot summer. 

Now imagine our own lives of repeating the same routine, everything remaining constant, and not a new season to look forward to.  Change in our lives represent a season, something that may have been excessive, we’re now looking for relief. 

Change is not beautiful, change is sometimes harsh, but change promises to make us a better person, before the season ends.  Once we truly appreciate a brand new season of change, it no longer becomes frightful, it becomes second nature.

Are you ready for the next season in your life?

  – Glennel Hardy

After the Fire

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After the Fire

After a fire, whether it’s a forest fire, or a structural fire, we do our best to salvage what we can from the aftermath.  Although a fire can be a complete devastation, most of us can take something away from it of value. 

In our lifetime we have been burned, it may had seem that we lost everything, but out of all the devastation, we’re able to save something from it.  We will get burned, fires will come, but whatever we can salvage from it, can help us rebuild once again.

 

  – Glennel Hardy

Moving or Standing Still

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Moving or Standing Still

If you ever came across a railroad crossing and a train was approaching from a distance, it was somewhat difficult to determine if either it was moving or if it was standing still.   Furthermore, if it was moving it was even more difficult to determine the velocity in which it was traveling. The signals at the crossing would be our only guide informing us not to proceed. 

Like a train we may come to a point in life that we feel we are not moving at all, it may seem as though we are standing still.  A train is constantly moving, though it appears to be standing still, it’s deceiving to the eye.   In order to change the mindset of standing still, we need to continue to move forward.  Though it may appear that we’re standing still, we never know how close we are in reaching our next checkpoint.

  – Glennel Hardy

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Triple Track

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Triple Track

We’re all destined in our journey in life to do great things, and to become that in which is far beyond our realm of thinking today. We may look around at those that have traveled the roads before, and wonder “how did they get there?”

We may get to the same destination, however, we may travel on a different track to get there. The journey that one takes is like a train ride, some pleasant, and some bumpy. Both trains arrive at the same destination at different times, but both will have different stories to tell.

The truth of the matter is, there is never a single track to get to a destination, there are always multiple tracks, to bypass the main track. We cannot be discouraged by one’s journey, and say we will never make that trip, we must create our own journey, and create the new track, in order to arrive at our destination.

– Glennel Hardy

Connect Everyday

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Everyday Connections

Each day were given the opportunity to introduce ourselves to someone new and strike a conversation, which begins the “everyday connection.”  Our “everyday connection”, could be our solution to problems, our future companions, or mentor or friend.

“Everyday connections” is a growing network, that inspires the close-minded to become open-minded, the pessimistic in becoming optimistic, and the weak to become stronger, and the heavy-hearted to find joy again.

– Glennel Hardy

Looking Forward

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Looking Forward

The challenges that we face every day could either be seen as obstacles or could be seen as opportunities. If we see our challenges as obstacles we do our best to avoid them, and not to ever repeat the circumstances that lead to them.  If we start to view our challenges as opportunities, we began to develop, prosper, and grow from each one we encounter.

If tomorrow frightens you because of the challenges that you may face, what if you were to look at those challenges as lessons well taught. We never appreciate a true challenge until we declared victory after succeeding the challenge. 

  – Glennel Hardy

Baby Steps

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Baby Steps

 

Before we mastered the art of walking and running, we also mastered the art of falling down. As a baby perhaps we were so excited in moving along, taking those giant leaps, only to fall flat on the ground in defeat.  Of course our defeat didn’t stop us, because once again we attempted to walk until one day we took our first successful step, and we begin walking.

As an adult we will come across various steps that we must take, they cannot be made in single bounds, they require “baby steps.” We keep moving forward until we get it right, if we fall flat, we get back up, and we try again.

Glennel Hardy

Welcome Fear

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Welcome Fear

Fear is something that we tend to steer away from each chance we get, but we know that it always lurks somewhere amongst us. Knowing this does it not get tiring steering away from it, or avoiding it? What if one day we did the ultimate, and welcomed fear in order to take the next step forward?

Fear has encouraged the strong to become stronger, and has continued to weaken the weak. It only resides on our own self-belief and our perception, and allows us to determine, how we will continue to proceed forward. – Glennel Hardy / Photo Courtesy of Evan Curtis

Beyond Our Preset Limits

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Beyond Our Preset Limits

If you ever taken a road trip I am sure you may have notice semi-trailers traveling alongside with you making their way down the highway.  For the safety of everyone on the road, the 18-wheelers are equipped with what are known as governors.  The purpose of the governor is to regulate or limit the speed of the vehicle.

At some point in life we as a society place governors within ourselves.  We determine what our limits will be, and how much effort we will extend to make things happen.  At one point in time we must determine what will help us in overriding the governor within us, in order for us to continue to be successful.

  – Glennel Hardy

Standing Tall

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Standing Tall

We were always told growing up to stand up straight, and how important it was to have great posture.  Standing tall however goes beyond posture, its facing adversity head on, it’s facing the winds of change, and it means to outlast the different seasons that come along the way.

When we plant ourselves and refuse to be moved, pushed, or wavered against the values that we have sworn to protect, that is when we have reached our true height of success.

  – Glennel Hardy

Leap of Faith

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Leap of Faith

The greatest success stories of all time, have come from those that at one moment in time, took a “leap of faith.”  Taking a true “leap of faith” is the action of moving against the naysayers, and believing in something greater than yourself.

It’s easy to be a part of the majority, but it’s much harder to stand with the minority, or at any given moment, when you must stand alone.  When the time comes along, “will you take that leap?”

  – Glennel Hardy

Sharing Our Story

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Sharing Our Story

If I were to ask who the best storytellers you ever heard are, who would you say? I would say some of the best stories ever told were by people that I most respected, either by friends or my mentors. The truth of the matter is each one of us have a story to tell. Events happen within our lives because it gives us something to share with others.

Our lives are full of never ending stories, events of greatness and disappointment, happiness and heartache, joy and suffering, but above all we manage to rise to the top once again. When we rise above our circumstances, and find our way once again, we must again share our story to others. What’s your story?

– Glennel Hardy

Fitted For The Moment

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Fitted for the Moment

At any given time we’re called upon to go above and beyond that in which we have set our own expectations. The moment that we rise to the occasion and complete that which we thought we would never accomplish, a tremor rushes through our body.

We all at several points in our lives are “fitted for the moment.”  It’s the moment that the greatness that has been instilled within us comes forth, and wonderful things begin to happen.

– Glennel Hardy

No Regrets

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No Regrets

Is there something today that you have set aside for a while that’s important for you to fulfill?  What exists within you that have not yet made itself known to others?  I have struggled with this for years.  Depending on the gifts and the talents that are given to each one of us, we as individuals have plenty to offer to society.

Time is a valuable resource, we’re not sure how much we have left, and we can’t make up for what we’ve lost, but we do have the moment before us.

– Glennel Hardy

Chapter One

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Chapter One

If today we were to start fresh in the way we think and the way we see life, what would Chapter One look like for you?  We’re like a book, one chapter ends, and another chapter begins, while some chapters are longer than others.

To bring this into a much broader perspective, people view us as they would a book.  They learn from us, they observe us, and they take notes.  What would Chapter One look like for you?

– Glennel Hardy

A New Route

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A New Route

Do you ever find yourself following the same routine every day in which, if your routine is interrupted in any kind of way it throws you completely off?  How willing are we to take a different path that doesn’t look as familiar?

I believe we miss out on opportunities not because they don’t exist for us, but because we don’t change our pathways of thought.

– Glennel Hardy

Proactive vs Reactive

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Being Proactive Versus Reactive

Proactive is creating or controlling a situation by causing an outcome, rather than responding to it afterwards. On the other hand reactive is acting in response to a situation after it has occurred.

Have you ever found yourself constantly fighting fires, from the same person constantly reporting the fire. The art of preventing the fire is finding the root cause of it, and taking action to prevent it.

Being proactive is the key. By constantly putting out fires, it’s wasted energy, which if used effectively can be productive.

Determine who starts the fire, if by teaching them to be proactive doesn’t work, don’t respond to the fire. – Glennel Hardy

The Plan

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The Plan

How often do you daydream? How often do you have the desire in wanting to do more? I love the weekends because I generally spend the time, daydreaming, and it gives me the opportunity to think on what’s next.

I believe life should always be what’s next, instead of saying I’m stuck. Life gives us the opportunity to interact, to meet new people, to learn different things. We have a “right now”, what are you going to do about it? – Glennel Hardy

Remain Steady

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Remain Steady

Have you experienced a bumpy flight when a plane was withstanding turbulence when coming across an air pocket? Like planes there are certain times in which we will experience some bumps along the way. Our journey to getting where we need to be, is not the most comfortable of all rides.
We must remain steady and keep in mind that the turbulence we experience is temporarily, and necessary, in order to get us where we need to be. – Glennel Hardy