 Tick, tock... As we embrace yet another sunrise, sunset, and the days and nights in between, ask yourself... "What would I do if someone gave me $10,000 a day every single day... ...for the rest of my life?" How would you spend it?
Better yet, what would you do if someone gave you even more money... say, perhaps $50,000 a day for the rest of your life? Would that sizable gift change how you spend your everyday life? Let’s take it one step further... To what would you pay your attention if someone gave you something even more valuable? What if you were given $86,400... and you could always receive the same amount - $86,400 (every single day) - but you had to spend all of the funds in the account by the end of the day... yet also have the same $86,400 replenished again and again on each successive day for the rest of your life? In other words... What if you absolutely had to spend a daily gift of $86,400 every... single... day - and you could spend it any way you desired, albeit with two very specific limitations:
Would you spend the gift carefully? Frivolously? Wisely? Judiciously? Generously? Miserly? Gratefully? Hatefully? Would you give it away freely and untroubled, despite knowing that the gift would someday stop? Beginning today, I challenge you to accept and understand one powerful fact:  Life, in and of itself, is a gift. We did absolutely nothing to earn it. This great gift of life is exactly 86,400 seconds short (or long, depending on your perspective) every… single… day. These gifted seconds may be ours tomorrow. On the other hand, this may be the last time we will ever read such ridiculously Truthful words. Here’s the Deal: - - - - - - - - - - - - By paying attention to the gift of life, we are immediately wealthy. - - - - - - - - - - - - Oh... and we (you and I) are the ones who decide what’s important to us. Aloha, John Your mission for today:  John H. Clark III is an optimistic realist. Principal consultant at The PIE Group, and Executive Director of TeenBuilding USA, [a non-profit 501c(3)], John believes better development of leaders is what we (all) need. And to be better organizations, we need more good leaders, not followers. To build better leaders, we must start with the individual (you, she, he, and me). Described as “an innovative leader,” John teaches leaders, organizations, and individuals how to inspire each other. With a bold goal to inspire a worldwide community of optimistic realists who continuously accept, adapt to, and achieve the bold and beautiful concept of The Ideal Life, John is leading a movement to inspire people to apply his trademarked mantra {Accept. Adapt. Achieve! ®}. An innovative business manager and retired naval officer, John is fascinated by leaders and organizations that make the greatest impact within their organizational culture and within the “real” world — people who “get it.” Over the course of his life as a military leader, corporate mentor, and innovative content creator, John has discovered a wealth of insight about how we think, act and communicate within our respective work/life environments. As a career naval officer, mentor, educator, and optimistic realist, he has devoted his life to sharing insights to assist in our quests to become better at what we all do – live @ work! An optimist with a penchant for writing about realistic solutions to the challenges of everyday life, John is the author of 3 books: a leadership-development insider, The Ideal: Your guide to An Ideal Life, a teen-focused guide, Getting Out: Expert Advice for Today’s Teens, and the Christian-based book, God’s Heartbeat: A Powerful Premise for Leading a Christian Life. He delivers a unique and refreshing point of view to life's seemingly overwhelming situations. Through books, blogs, and everyday conversation, John's message resonates with an empowering blend of ideals that enrich, uplift, and “authorize” people to set and achieve goals far beyond current mindsets. His trademarked phrase is a winner:  |
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