 ILLUMINATE: How to clean your rose-colored glasses. Quick question: What are you doing Thursday, Friday and Saturday to plan for The Ideal life? How are you illuminating the path that lies not-so-clearly ahead of you? Here's one possible answer: use a calendar as a guide to practice proactive planning for positive presentations. In other words, at least once a month, proactively seek and sow new input to your positively skewed, renewed mind. This new influx of positivity could be a new book of positive poetry, an old book on optimistic thoughts, or even the very old Book of Proverbs, or other proverbial books (as written by various historical, proverbial or philosophical leaders). Of course, you can always check out johnclarkiii.com for fresh content and awesome reMINDers. Along the way, destroying bad habits, bad thoughts, and bad karma is not a bad idea. Likewise, having rose-colored glasses is actually a good thing. Just remember: windshields, thoughts, and even rose-colored glasses eventually need cleaning. These last 10 Dares are essentially a step-by-step guide to proactively clean your rose-colored glasses throughout the day and week. Start, maintain, and end your day with these 10 practical steps to Clean Your Glasses:
As you seek new (positively skewed) input into the mainframe computer that is you, consider the vast options available to you. Your new input could be a short lunch with a friend who always seems to have a sunny disposition. Your new input could be an extended meditation session that you choose to set aside specifically to receive new input from your deepest sense of self. In a sense, you are the best person to plan reMINDers that, despite all of its challenges, life could always be worse. As discussed in my book, The Ideal: Your Guide to An Ideal Life - “To truly change your priorities, you must SEE the need to change your priorities. In order to see the need to change your priorities, you must have the proper perspective. To change your habits, you must SEE the need to change your habits. To see the need to change your habits, you must have the proper perspective.” As you begin to incorporate new input into your positively skewed mind, your path will soon change toward an even brighter landscape, offering greater opportunities to get, give, and grow. Surely, you can set aside one day a month for such a grand opportunity as this! Here's the best part: consider yourself to be a tower of (positive) power. As your height of eye increases, so does your ability to see further, farther, and fonder. With every level of positivity that you add to the foundation of your progressively optimistic life, the higher your perspective becomes. By investing in positive research, reading, and reaching, you will reap an increased ability to illuminate the path ahead and literally see above your immediate problems, past the current horizon of horrors, and far belong the ways of woe. By using a calendar to practice proactive planning for positive presentations to yourself, you will soon be on your way to becoming an optimistic realist. You will no longer take wonderful blessings for granted. For you see, the ability to see is a blessing. Moreover, the ability to see that "the ability to see is a blessing" is, in and of itself, a blessing. Likewise, all of the other everyday miracles become much larger and grander in scope. Your investment of time seeking sunnier dispositions will soon be spent finding brighter spots in a sea of already shimmering solutions. Will life be perfect? Probably not. However, I promise you this: Your life WILL be better. And if your one, specific life can be better... imagine how many other people WE can affect as we effect an evolutionary realization that attitude determines altitude. And the highest of altitudes and attitudes project, promote and propel what seems to be a multitude of platitudes. But here's the thing: a platitude, though seemingly trite, is still a powerful point that is usually rooted in the (capital 'T') Truth. Accordingly, today, I Dare You to use your calendar to plan specific events to feed your soul. After all... (here come the platitudes) - • Better late than never. • Every cloud has a silver lining. • Forgive and forget. • Go with the flow. • Good things come to those who wait. • It is what it is. • Just be yourself. • Money can't buy happiness. • Nobody's perfect. • Strength is something you choose. • Such is life. • This, too, shall pass. • Time will tell. • Tomorrow is another day. • What's done is done. • You gotta do what you gotta do. If you accept and adapt to these illuminating platitudes, will life be perfect? Probably not. However, I promise you this: Your life WILL be better. ********** Indeed… It’s all about YOU. But tell me: What’s your role in your soul, your goal, and for whom the bell tolls? Today, I dare you: ILLUMINATE your world. READ MORE…  John H. Clark III is an optimistic realist. Principal consultant at The PIE Group, 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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