RIGHT TO THE POINT

October 07, 2008
Let me get right to the point without some headline grabber to pull you into reading this column. Here it is: What is important to you? Now, don't answer too quickly. Take a few moments to ponder the question. Sit back in your chair and allow the impact of this question to settle upon you completely. If you had to answer this one question and your answer was to drive the rest of your life without being able to change it, "What is important to you?"

Too few people really take the time to answer the question honestly. There are flippant answers that appear to mock the seriousness of the question. Some people are so out of touch with their own needs that they quickly answer without honest self examination and thereby spend their life in unfulfilling activities, relationships and vocations. The result becomes a shell of a person who had been so full of dreams, energy and potential but now is bored, resentful and tired of life. These poor souls have filled their inner craving for significance with insignificant familiarities and after spending their day working a dead end job they are found slouched in front of a television being bombarded with watching make believe people living make believe lives. Is this the best we can do with ourselves? I ask again, "What is important to you?"

Now, don't get me wrong everybody needs some type of escape whether it is watching your favorite show on television or some hobby. But what has happened to America as a society and a culture when we have no better personal drive than to watch other people live? It says that we have given up hope, lost our personal ambition and our ability to live life to its fullest. Before Almighty God I have to believe we were created to possess the potential to be more than a couch potato!

Examine what's really important to you.

As you are honestly examining you with what is important go a little deeper and ask, “What are you willing to give up to gain what you really want?"

Every once in a while a person needs to step back and ask themselves these basic questions.

The reason I even bring this issue up is because too many people have failed to know the basics of their own inner workings: physically, emotionally, psychologically & spiritually (that's right SPIRITUALLY - hey, if the more traditional religions are wrong, then you didn't lose anything, but if they are correct it will be hell to pay!).

So, let's get back to the point of my writing. Be honest with yourself (not just because you are in a foul mood at this moment), "What is important to you?" Carry this question a little deeper and follow it up with asking yourself, "What am I willing to give up to gain what I really want?"

When you get your answer drop me a line. You may find that a renewed vigor returns to your daily living as you focus on what is really important to you or you may find that you have given up long before The Reaper sends in his final report.

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