Optimism Thought of the Week

We Start With Nothing

Take a few minutes and reflect back on the most impactful accomplishment that you have made. Now I want you to think back to what were the beginning stages of that accomplishment.

The point of the assignment is to consider the fact that “we start with nothing.” It’s a flat surface that we build upon, and we decide what we use in the building process.

We cannot become discouraged if what lies before us seems to be an empty space. We ourselves must use life lessons, which are our bricks, and start building new things, in order to accomplish a better tomorrow.

Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

In The End

The things that consume the most of our time today, in the end will it really matter? We never appreciate the importance of time until it begins to slip away from us. It then becomes especially important in life which battles we choose, and how to live life to the fullest.

Each day is an opportunity to hit the reset button, and make any necessary adjustments from our yesterdays’. We will rarely have the perfect day, but we will have an opportunity to approach our day with a different perspective.

In the end survival isn’t enough, triumph is what we want to achieve.

Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

Self-Value

When it comes to self-value do we add more each day, or do we subtract from what is already there? Our own self-value is something that we have complete control over. How we perceive ourselves sends signals to those around us, and therefore others at times react towards those signals.

What can you do today that will increase your self-value for tomorrow?  Our contentment and satisfaction with our lives should never cease, as long as we are able to wake up to a new day, and be persistent in looking for ways to grow.  

Once we have become satisfied with where life has brought us, our own growth comes to a halt.

  – Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

The Building Process

In order to have a strong foundation in life it may take of years of building before everything falls into place.  Before you begin the building process, you have to create a solid plan and have a vision of what the end result will look like.

Without a vision the design is uncertain and the end result is almost always less desirable. Our vision is formed within us, and is not duplicated in the mind of others. Its uniqueness is what makes it extraordinary.

If someone says that you can’t, it should increase your ability to propel, if someone says you can, it should cause you to become unstoppable.

  – Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

Destined

Most of us when planning for a vacation we generally plan ahead and already have the destination set.  The more we plan ahead the more excited we get for when the vacation comes along. It wouldn’t be as much fun if we were to wait to the day of the vacation and wing it.

When you have a destination in mind to where you would like to go, the journey getting there is the joy of it all. If you have a destination in mind today of where you want to be in life, how much thought have you put into it?  Do you actively work on it every day, do you keep it as a roadmap until you reach that point?

Pick a destination point in life of where you would like to be and get excited about it, as you continue the journey of obtaining it.

  – Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

Being Thankful

The equation of our life represents many different elements, but the end result is the sum of the person  we are today.  When we consider the good and bad, the joys and sadness, the victory and defeats, we still manage to stand.

Being thankful is not only appreciating the good things that life has to offer, but learning to embrace the trials that have been placed upon us.  If you are able to read this post, you have persevered, and now have the courage to move forward.

When we look at the overall equation, the elements in the beginning never appear to make sense.  We therefore must remain optimistic, that the end result will bring us to the sum, of where we desire to be.

Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

The View

If today was the day in which we hit the reset button and set out for something new, what would that be? What does the perfect view look for you? We often allow others to paint our view, and realize later it becomes distorted. Our view originates from the inside, and is independent from others around us.  We are responsible for our own vision.

Our vision is unique, a gift or talent that is given to us, in which if we can visualize it, there is no doubt that we have the ability to carry it out. Our naysayers can either give us increased power to accelerated growth, or they can be the flat tire that will slow you down.

We must decide what the overall picture would look like. Who will be in your picture, and who has to be removed? 

 Photography Owned and Courtesy of Nick Lerma

  – Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

Road Blocks

You ever find yourself driving along your regular route either to work or home, and there is a road closure or construction that forces you to change direction? You can either stick it out or wait for traffic to move along, or you can detour and go a different route.

Suppose instead of waiting in traffic you find a different route, and you’re able to continue on with your journey.

Life itself provides us with roadblocks that forces us to make decisions, whether to stay or change the route. If you decide to change your route, you experience something unique, which takes you out of your normal pattern.

Roadblocks in life are designed to take us out of our normal pattern of thinking. When a roadblock appear we may become upset, but it has its set purpose. The roadblock forces us to change direction and take advantage of a different type of outcome.

  – Glennel Hardy

Optimism Thought of the Week

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