VICTIM OR VICTORIOUS

Bad things happen ... to all of us.  I remember listening to a Les Brown program on tape and he said, "The messenger of misery is at someone else's door, at your door, or on his way."  That stuck with me because it helped me to understand that bad things can happen to good people.  For so many years, I felt that was so unfair.  It is unfair, but it's life.

We don't control everything that happens to us and we don't always have control what circumstances we find ourselves in, though most times our circumstances are the results of our past decisions and actions.  What we do control is what  we think about, what we focus on, and what we desire as an outcome.  If you think this is airy-fairy fluff, just think back to a time when you had a voice-mail message on your home or cell phone from someone important in your life and all that was said was, "Call me right away!  Please!!"  Now, after hearing that, almost everybody would think, Oh my goodness.  Something must be terribly wrong.  Let me call and find out what the emergency is.  Yes, it could very well be an emergency, but I've actually had messages like that left and all the person wanted  to know is where I was, or what shirt size I wore.  Important information?  Maybe, for the caller's need.  A life or death emergency?  Absolutely not.

The point I want to drive home is that you shouldn't make matters any worse in your mind thant they need to be.  Don't ignore problems, but don't dwell on them.  Focus on a solution and how you want things to be.  Victims, whether innocent or not, are helpless and have no power.  The victorious have enormous power and take challenges head-on.

RENEWED AND IMPROVED

For those following my blog, thank you for your support and patiience.  I do sincerely apologize for not keeping it up to date.  Yes, the courses I teach online keep me very busy.  Yes, I've had some urgent matters come up, and I have been very busy with a number of other things.  But you know what?  Those excuses don't hold water.

When I was going through the process of becoming a member of the noble fraternity of Kappa Alpha Psi, I clearly remember hearing this when I didn't have something I was supposed to or I wasn't fully prepared:

Excuses are tools of incompetence,
and those that make use of them,
seldom do anything else.

I never forgot that.  So I offer no excuses.  I just want my readers to know that they will see a much better and more frequently updated blog from Michael E.