Trust, Choices, and Using Your Phone as a Weapon

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies, so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 

— Marilyn Monroe

Coffee in hand, no coconut oil, I’m in a hotel. Hotels do not have coconut oil. So no promises on today’s word soup. 

I’m chewing my Nicorette gum, so I’ve got that part of the equation, but the oil is my fuel. We shall see what idea this old-aging brain can develop this morning.

I just took a call from a fellow insurance agent. A young man, a leader, a current and future rock star in the insurance industry.   I have a few of these young men and women that I share ideas. They are competitors and friends.  They give me fuel, and I give them my thoughts.

We were talking about a few things, and I said hey, what message must I need to share today, he quickly responded: “before you can trust others, you must first trust yourself.”

How many people call you early morning and can enlighten you to such wisdom.

So, Kyle here is my stab at your word soup pitch. Trust, do you trust yourself. Do you make decisions and then second guess the decision you made?

Let me remind you that the decision you make is always the right decision. No matter the choice, it is made and then you must deal with the consequences. 

There are no bad choices; there are choices with consequences. Before you make a choice or a decision, you must use logic, facts, and not feelings to make the best choice for you and your family.

I should say that in my past I have not always made the best decisions. Today, I have learned to put my feelings aside and look long-term at every decision I make. 

Every day you have choices to make.  You guide your own decisions and only through personal and professional development do you begin making the more effective choice.

Today you will make many choices or decisions.

When do you get out of bed?

How many prospecting calls you make.

Who or where should you eat lunch.

Should you send that naughty text to that woman in your business group?  What do you say when your wife finds out?

These are all questions or decision that various people make.

Stop using your feelings to make choices. Your feelings will get you in trouble.  

You feel tired?  Get up earlier to work hard so you can go to bed early and get the rest you need.

If you are in sales and you are not prospecting, you are dying.   Make one prospecting call today!

Who needs your time, who do you need to reach out to remind them that you care about them. What restaurant provides the quality fuel you will need to complete your day with energy?

We all want excitement, energy, and love, but if you are in a relationship, what kinds of things might happen if you begin using your phone as a weapon.  

Every day you make choices, and you must trust yourself to make the right choice. Life is a game show; every right answer moves you closer to the big prize. Every wrong answer moves you back a square and could lead you to get kicked off the show.

As my friend, Kyle stated, “before you can trust others, you must trust yourself, ” and trust has everything to do with logic and facts.

Our kid played volleyball last night. Her team played amazing, they lost in the 5th game, we had a choice to be upset and angry at the loss, but we choose to look at the positives. 

We don’t learn from our wins, we learn from our losses.  We decided to be happy.

No matter what happens in your life today, you have two choices. You can embrace the message contained in the situation or reject the lesson.

If you win, why did you win?

If you lose, why did you lose?

Life is about choices, but also the way you react to the outcome of that choice.

It’s Thursday, how is your week going. You have one more day to get your projects, work, and accomplishments knocked out before another weekend shuts down your factory.

Wait, does your factory open on the weekend? Mine does, my factory is open every day of the year, I have successfully intertwined my work within my life so much that I don’t see my “work” as “work,” I see my work as my life. 

Embrace your vocation and what it is you do for others. Don’t stop because it’s Friday, do something good for you or your company on a Saturday or maybe even on a Sunday. Live your work and work your life. 

If you don’t love your work, quit, do something else. Find a job or duty that matches your skill set and begin living the life that you want and not the life that you have.

Ok, that’s it, I fear I was all over the board this morning, but alas I got up a little late. Our kid’s game finished late; I’m still running on Mountain Time in an Eastern Time Zone. Tomorrow I should be back to ET. Until then, think about the choices you make, the trust you have in yourself, and then and only then can you begin to trust others.

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies, so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 

— Marilyn Monroe