Series of Eventful Moments

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Series of Unplanned Events

Life itself offers us a series of unplanned events, and within those events we have to determine what type of reaction we will have towards them.  The series of unplanned events at times are not pleasant, but yet are necessary in order to sustain growth.

The series of events that may be happening in our life today, may serve a greater purpose, and contain a vital ingredient, in order for us to succeed tomorrow. 

Out of chaos comes greatness, if we choose the right perspective in viewing the situation that is set before us.   

  – Glennel Hardy

Snapshot

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Snapshot

When was the last time you have taken a snapshot of a period of your life, and later reflected on it to determine what had developed? A snapshot is an important part of measurement in our life to determine if we have grown, or if there is an area of opportunity that still exist.

Take the opportunity today and seize the moment, take a snapshot of it, start the clock, and measure your progress. Make today count, as it lays the ground for the foundation of tomorrow.

  – Glennel Hardy

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The Wow Moment

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The Wow Moment

You ever experienced a “wow” moment. A “wow” moment is something that you never would have expected, and when it happened you couldn’t wait to tell everyone about it.  In order to truly appreciate the “wow” moment, you had to be open minded of your expectations. 

Today based on things we have become accustomed to, our expectations are preset which leaves us no room for the “wow” moment. The “wow” moment still occurs within our surroundings, but are generally not noticed, unless we pause and seize the moment.

When did you experience your last “wow” moment?

 

 

  – Glennel Hardy

The View

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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

A New Season

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A New Season

Throughout our lives everything runs through multiple cycles. Some things will last us a lifetime, and some will end unexpectedly. We’re all called upon to do certain things, which makes us unique from those around us. The thing that you may enjoy doing today, may end, preparing you for something new.

Growth has spurts. You start small and you grow large, generally above your expectations.

We may get disappointed when things come to an end, but for every end there is a new beginning.

When you come to the edge, take a leap of faith, jump into the unknown, don’t fear it. – Glennel Hardy

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Seizing the Moment

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Seizing the Moment

Greatness is a process that is developed over time, and it’s mixed with success and failures. The best opportunity to reap the rewards of success, is when you have made a comeback after a major setback. Greatness is a combination of patience, and standing on top of the bricks that were thrown at you.

The perfect time to invest in ourselves or in others, is not when things are in the right conditions, but when we are at our lowest points. There is an absolute joy to witness someone rise to the top.

The key to greatness is taking the opportunity to seize the moment, appreciate the lessons that life has to offer us, and look forward to a better tomorrow.

  – Glennel Hardy

A New Chapter

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 A New Chapter

At any moment in our lives we can be called to write a new chapter. Beginning a new chapter can sometimes be painful, depending on how the previous chapter ended.  The most important aspect of the new chapter is the rebuilding process. 

The rebuilding process brings us back to the basics, down to our lowest common denominator. We arrive empty and we leave out full.  We have the ability to create as many chapters as we desire, however at times we can’t always determine when a chapter will come to an end.

When that time comes to begin that new chapter will you be ready to create it?

 

 

  – Glennel Hardy

Flight Plan

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Flight Plan

 

Generally when we board a plane along with other passengers the plane has a destination point. Before boarding the pilot along with the co-pilot go over the flight plan, and check for storms coming along the way.

With the knowledge of the pre-trip, the pilots are able to determine the way they will approach their destination, and any potential threats along the way.

As the plane departs from the gate and taxiing towards the runway, it waits its turn before taking off. Once it reaches the main runway, it rumbles, and the engines are running full blast, and before you know it, you’re looking at the ground underneath you.

It’s important that each of us have a flight plan, and know where we are headed before we leave the gate. Once we are ready to take off, it’s just us and the ground below us. Remind yourself there will be turbulence, and storms along the way, but always keep your destination in mind. – Glennel Hardy

Summing It All Up

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Summing It All Up

The sum of who we are today represents our trials and tribulations, along with our joys and triumphs. We cannot expect to have joy without learning how to experience and embrace sadness.  We cannot expect to enjoy the triumph of victory, without knowing what it’s like to be defeated. 

The sum of who we are today takes the good and the bad, our joys and sadness, our victory and defeat, and represents the person you see in the mirror each day. 

We will have the bad days, also the days in which our faith will be tested, our optimism levels will be low, but we can never forget, we have persevered in the past, and we will continue to persevere in the future.

  – Glennel Hardy

Road Blocks

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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

 

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

Waiting Our Turn

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Waiting Our Turn

Have you ever found yourself on a runway waiting in line to takeoff, you’re anxious to get to your destination?  Generally, if you’re at a busy airport, you will find that the plane you’re on is waiting its turn to takeoff.  Once it gets the okay to takeoff, engines run at full throttle, and before you know it, the plane is ascending in the air.

Today some of us might find ourselves waiting our turn to takeoff.  We sit on the runway of life, and wonder how much longer it will be.  Patience plays a vital part in our overall success.  As we sit for our turn to takeoff, we must remember the importance of waiting our turn, and when we finally receive the word to proceed, the joy we will have once we takeoff.

  – 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

The Hand

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The Hand

When playing a game of cards it’s never as simple as it seems.  You’re not sure what your opposition holds, you’re only aware of the hand that you were dealt.  You look at your hand, and it looks as though you have been dealt a very bad hand.  The illusion is that my hand is so bad, but we forget how bad that hand of the person that is sitting next to us is.

The hand that we are dealt has value depending on how well it’s executed.  The opportunity will present itself to place the right card down, and trump the move you’re ready to make.

 

  – Glennel Hardy

 

Perform

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Perform

If you ever watch a live performance of a symphony, you have your conductor, along with the orchestra, and the hosts of instruments.  Each member of the orchestra know when to play their part, the conductor is bursting with energy, and all the instruments come together, playing a wonderful symphony.

Life itself works as a symphony.  We look for cues from the conductor, we master the instruments which are our gifts and talents, and together we perform a symphony.  The more we use the instruments that are given to us the better our performance becomes.

 

– 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