Moments in Time...That's Life!

 As we go through each day, most of us never think about the 1,440 minutes that make up each day or the 525,600 minutes in a year. But in reality, our lives are these minutes - moments in time. So, what do you do to make each of these minutes special and precious moments? Do we do our best to value each minute? Do we do something positive - even in small ways - for each of those minutes? Think about it! In his book, "Today Matters", John C. Maxwell talks about making each day one of value - special and positive. What he is saying is that if we hold each day - and each minute in that day - beautiful and special for ourselves, then our lives will be built upon moments of good and positive actions.

Using the analogy of building a house...each moment is a block upon which the next block is to be laid. To be solid, each block must be solid and well made. One block upon the other, one block at a time, we can build a solid, well made, life of value into a mansion of our own lives. 

That's a life that can be beautiful!!

Here's a poem I wrote originally in 2012 and revised in 2014. It is called, appropriately, "One Moment In Time."

One Moment In Time

In the dark there is a light

In the light a darkness rises

Yet, there is just one night now

Just this moment in time

Just one moment in time

My eyes have turned from blue

To the steely coldness of grey

Yet, in the light my darkness rises

Just this moment in time

Just one moment in time

Across the land a pale light rises

A new day comes brightly onward

Yet, soon the silent night is overcome

Just this moment in time

Just one moment in time

I thought the darkness never ending

Surrounding me ever into infinity 

Yet, in it all there is light outward

Just this moment in time

Just one moment in time

Now all of the dark has faded

The blue and black into gold and white

Yet, the light I know now is me

Just this moment in time

Just a moment in time

Just one moment in time

Just my moment in time.

"One Moment In Time"  Copyright, Larry Eiring, 2012/2023

Will you step out of the dark and bring your light into each of your many moments in time? Do that every minute you can and you'll see what a beautiful life you can have!!

 

So....What is the VALUE in you? BTW...Happy Holidays!

 Well, here we are. It's Christmas 2022. Do you feel like you are of value? Do you wonder if anyone cares? Well, first of all, YOU should care. Yes, no matter what you think - you are valuable. I remember ten years ago. Yes, that's right in 2012...I felt like no one cared. But the reality is that I didn't care about myself. Wow...how three-O stupid that was, huh? So, I want everyone to know this.... YOU are valuable. YOU are loved, by someone. And maybe that someone is YOU!! I don't care if you think this is BS, look deep inside of yourself. You KNOW you are worth something. I have worked with a lot of people...and when pressed, they DO find value in themselves. And so will you. Let's walk on this journey together. I promise you; you will find your own value...and a life of hope and dignity!!! Enjoy! 2023 will be OUR year!!

Don't Change - Self-Evolve!

How many times in your life have you been told you should ‘change’ something or another about you? Maybe it was the way you act or the way you work that you were told to change. Or maybe it was even the way you think that you should ‘change.’  Do you remember your reaction to this outside encroachment on your personal being? Did it make you change or did it make you merely alter the next action and your reaction to it? In the end, did anything really ‘change’ about you? I would bet it didn’t. But if you had approached the situation as an opportunity to review and alter your process of reacting, you would have opened the door to “self-evolution.”

Henry Ford once said, “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” We should all see our failures, no matter how small or how large, as the challenges of life from which we can turn into great opportunities. The key to doing this lies in our ability to recognize every challenge, every failure, indeed every interaction in life as an opportunity for us to evolve our way of thinking, our way of acting and our way of being.  It is a natural human tendency to question everything. We do it every minute of every day with everything we see, hear, smell, touch and think. The answers we derive from these questions then direct how we react. We question the actions that come from our reactions and the cycle starts again.

Like you, I have encountered great challenges on the journey of my life. I question what is happening and then react. When my questioning has been focused on everything except the reasons why I let the challenge affect me directly, I ended up reacting in such a way that the challenge reappeared, often with dire consequences. In those instances, I had failed to question fully and failed to learn from the challenge. However, when I questioned much more deeply and focused on why the challenge affected me directly, I ended up questioning my initial actions and reactions. It was in this act of questioning my own way of questioning that I realized what I needed to know.  I stopped becoming a passive and reactive questioner and started becoming an active and proactive questioner of myself. 

None of us likes ‘change’ because it means that we may have to do something or become someone we inherently are not comfortable with. That’s a very natural reaction.  In fact, Morris Massey in his What You Are Is Where You Were When series very correctly shows that by age 21, our values are ‘locked-in’ and become very difficult to change. He goes on to say that only through a ‘significant emotional event’ can we alter our way of thinking and acting. Yet, I believe we can do this every minute of every day. I believe we can ‘self-evolve’ by making every challenge, every failure, every question presented to us as an opportunity to be a better, more content and happy person leading a fulfilling life. That’s what my blog, dedicated to my thoughts surrounding "Mastering the Art of Self-Evolution", is founded upon. This is my opportunity to share my experiences, actions, reactions and questions, both good and bad, to those challenges of life which have caused me to ‘self-evolve’ and ultimately seek out those opportunities which can lead to ultimate personal satisfaction and happiness.

I invite you to join me on this journey and share your own experiences. Let’s question each other and ourselves. In the end, I believe our own personal self-evolutions will collectively help lift the whole of society to a better future.