Did you know the average human year isn’t what you were taught in school; fifty two weeks or twelve months? Unless it’s leap year the truest shape of our annual path around the galaxy is 365.242199 days in length.
And how many of those point 242199’s has your boss made you work? If you collect enough of them doesn’t that qualify you for some serious overtime pay or better insurance?
I’d love to be the fly on a wall, “Sir…I read on a blog today that we’ve put in an extra .242199 amount of time…I’m thinking you owe me 11.645338 cents.”
It’s television ratings time, I’m shocked Channel Three, Nine and NBC 6 haven’t used these shocking facts to uncover the names of employees who are still owed money, “Tonight at five; companies could go belly up because backlogs show they haven’t paid their share of the point 242199 extra day people have worked.”
It doesn’t seem like much until you mix it in with some good dirt; walk around any McDonald’s parking lot and you’re bound to find another penny or quite possibly a dime to go with those 11.645338 cents in your pocket. We are living the good times!
But who’s willing to take the step to cover their financial butt?
Don’t forget willingness is nothing more than desire. I call it junk talk; wishful thinking, a passing thought or a wow that would be cool moment often heard around campfires, backyard BBQ’s, standing in the long lines at Carowinds, sitting at a red light uptown or on my Uncle Willie’s farm in Ranchester, Wyoming where the hired help sit and discuss the days plans at 5am while throwing down incredibly greasy bacon, hotter than life eggs and toasts that’s been stacked higher than the chimney across the room.
What we constantly forget aren’t the happiest of times but rather how to grow an idea and or willingness into a physical fire breathing I did this reality. Willingness is a mosquito that lands on your arm but never finds the time to suck your blood.
Effort makes your moment into a success story.
Yes its true “will” comes from a deeper being or higher reality but what lacks knowing and or knowledge fails to escape the surface of your colorful eyes.
Oh my god that was even too deep for me! But true!
My entire life I had the willingness, desire, passion and way to write books and deliver them to readers in far away countries but because I allowed myself the right to hold a wishful thought higher than creating a path of effort all six books now published sat in boxes completely hidden from a potential passerby.
I made it my inside joke; when I turn 65 every book idea jotted down inside these daily writings will one day become books sent out to dance on the steps of a wandering imagination. I had a heart attack at 47...what if I never make to 65?
True power, a performance worth holding, an event be it a wedding, graduation, leaving your dusty old pain in the rear job to putting the last brick in the foundation of a walkway leading to your flower garden; true power cannot exist until you’ve reached beyond the stages of willingness.
How can you do this? Millions of people go to work everyday believing their only hope isn’t to have a roof over their head but an insurance card in their pocket. There’s got to be a better place to dream! Knowledge is the shell that teaches the rest of you that it’s ok to let go.
I’ll never forget Master Harris calmly reminding his black belts, “On test day; I’m going to work you harder than any time in your life. You will be challenged to quit. I will put you in situations that confuse your mind body and soul so much your only desire will be to sit down and if you elect to do that I’ll make you hold a brick over your head until the test is over. With effort there will be success. Effort will put you on the black belt path. As difficult as it may seem always remember my right hand is firmly wrapped around the belt you wear and I will not let you fall off the mountain.”
People get into martial arts to kick, punch and slam by way of knocking down intruders you’ll probably never meet. We get really really good at protecting our tough little selves wishfully thinking that one day we’ll be Masters only to learn such desires melt like ice cream unless you gain the knowledge of a real world and allow it to be shaped on your black belt path; which in essence could be your banking job, stock person position at a grocery store, answering the phones or checking people out at the gas station on the corner.
Breaking bricks seems so manly until you put the vision to use during a day when coworkers have consumed so much of your time the thought of breathing steals from the company’s path of wants and needs. Moving through the mountain takes effort. Thinking about it is nothing more than baby bruises on your fingers because you elected to pull your hand back before destroying the clay.
It’s a new week; work it like you mean it. Put in an extra point 242199 days full of knowledge and effort and for the first time you might touch the edge of holy hole in the wall Batman…this is great!
Anyone on this giant blue marble in the sky can bowl a perfect 300 game but it isn’t going to happen by just showing up…
Be conscious of yourself and all things you’ve invited to the circles you’ve drawn in the sand. By being aware of where you put your “will” helps to create knowledge required to make it real. I laugh hard when people tell me they once wanted to be a radio disc jockey; with their attempt at sounding radio, a voice that’s been roughed up by arguments with the images in the mirror I hear a sound that’s completely out of tune but rather than chase them away the laugh becomes a serious look, “So…what stopped you? If today was our last day on earth would you be the jock that wouldn’t go to work or the Broadcaster that would guarantee his listeners a safe passage?”
Do you really think NBC’s Brian William’s wanted his Sunday night to be interrupted when President Obama elected to share with the world the news about Osama Bin Laden? His black belt path says no moment passes that he doesn’t wait for the call to set desire aside to complete his journey toward a horizon generated by his trust in effort.
Effort turns dreams, desires and wishful thoughts into paths that will one day inspire people you’ll never meet.
I’ll always believe in you first…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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