Gather Greatness

                *My Vision*

I’m buiding a place where like-minded individuals might choose to gather,

 a place to grow,

 a place to share

 a place to learn.

It will be highly sought after, frequently visited and always remembered.

A place to gather value:

Value in your personal life,

Value in your business life, and adding

Value into the lives of those around you.

Are you tired of living a life of  mediocrity?    Do you have more inside you ?    Would you like to be someone Great!

Is your answer yes……………..or really yes?

For me the answer is really……………………………YES!

Do you feel you are an *average guy* or *average girl* ???   Maybe somebody told you this,  or an IQ Test-Score from the past embedded this idea in your subconscious mind.  Whatever the source, it’s time to reconsider the validity, as well as the consequence of your belief.

If you continually reinforce the idea that you are *average* …. how does this help you to advance your life? 

1. Would you like to become *better than average*?
2. What would that look like for you ?
3. Could you put forth just 1 % more effort to becoming a *better than average person*?
4. What about becoming GREAT!

I challenge you to take just one small step this week, to becoming  *A Better You*.  

Don’t sit around and gather dust……….  Gather Greatness !

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I invite you to go there NOW,    now…………………. while you are thinking about it !!!

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Hope to see you there.

Bill

*On the Road to Greatness*

 Define failure as learning.

 When a toddler falls down, do we say, “Man, he really messed up!”

or, more likely,

“Wonderful, he’s learning to walk!”   However, when you fall down—blow the sales pitch, get passed over for the promotion, lose your job—often you feel as though you’ve failed.

Worse yet, you may define yourself as a failure.

 It is better to view failure as a temporary and necessary step on the way to where you want to be. Just like falling down is a predictable and inevitable process for a toddler learning to walk, so, too, are the occasional failures that occur along the way to success in whatever you attempt.

 In fact, it’s hard to improve if you don’t fail, because lack of success delineates clearly where opportunities for improvement lie.

So, when you do fall down, don’t label yourself a failure. Instead, recover quickly from temporary disappointments by asking

1. “What can I learn from this?
2. What worked and what didn’t?
3. How can I do it better next time?”

Then, follow the toddler’s example: Get up with a smile on your face and try again, knowing you are better for the experience.

This excerpt if from a longer article, you can read on my previous post,   ”There’s a Fortune in Failure.” by Dr,Gary Bradt.

Not Reality.Actuality. 

This is the new catch-phrase I keep seeing on the Television.

There is definitely a surge in interest, in wanting to view the here-and-now.  People are fascinated by the forensic, the unspeakable, the inner workings of the human mind. 

What makes people, ………well,…….. people. 

We are no longer satisfied with how something works, but the actuality of…………. the smallest fragment of motivation lying beyond each action.

The human being and the mind that controls him, is unique, but also very much alike to every other person.  

We all are Human.

What we must keep in mind, is……………………….

It is up to each individual to guide their emotions and channel their actions. 

As Benjamin Franklin taught:  We must develop a set of Values.  

Without a Value-System in place, individuals follow their instincts rather than their intelligence.

They don’t stop to consider, the way we live affects not only our existence, but changes the lives and destinies of all those we come in contact. 

Also, our decisions not only affect the here-and-now, but have the power to affect several generations to follow.

We may be living in Reality but we are affected by the Actuality.

This may be contrued as meare ramblings of my mind, or ………………………………?

Consider these thoughts:

• Be careful what you wish for………………..
• ………………..it starts with one small step.
• We can only reap what we soe,  so……………………………..

Man was not born in a vaccuum.  We are all in this together.  What we do affects our future and the future of all those to come.

So, for the sake of all men,

• Gather your Talents,
• Gather your Treasures,
• Gather your Greatness

Not Reality.Actuality.

Then,  Become someone Great!!!

I hope to meet you *on the road to greatness*

Bill

www.gathergreatness.com

On President’s Day, I am again reminded of my all-time favorite quote.

From one of the Great Presidents,

John F Kennedy,

the words resound in my head,

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

What a bold statement! 

What a man of character and value!

He was a man of action…………. and acted with the best interest of the people he served.

I have recently changed some of his words, to suite my own goals.

 ”Ask not how you can benefit from your customers,  but how they can benefit from you.”  Are you truely providing

 value to them?

I have always been more gratified  by “turning the table,”  looking at the world though other peoples’ eyes. 

1. What do they want?
2. How are they feeling?
3. How can I help them?

Will they be able to call me…….. a person of value?…….and someday a friend?

I will only achieve my Greatness……….by helping others to achieve theirs.

So I challenge myself and I challenge you,

to live by this motto,

“Ask not what others can do to serve you, and your needs…………… but what you can do to serve others, and help them achieve their dreams.”

Gather Greatness!

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Bill

Act Now! 

Sometimes it takes some discomfort in our life, before we realize that it’s time to act.

I have a story from my younger days, much younger days, that may lead you to think.

 I was 10 years old and beginning my 5’Th grade in elementary school. Up to this point, my educational journey was fairly relaxed. I showed up for school everyday and put forth a minimal amount of effort to learn the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic.

 Things were about to change, and change in a big way!   She was only about 5 foot tall, dressed in a black robe, a black veil, and a white facial garb. A little stocky and with her sharp nose she kind of resembled a penguin. Sister Philip Marie, she wrote on the blackboard. She was my new homeroom teacher, specializing in American History.

There was a big problem.

 I couldn’t remember dates and had no desire to learn history.

I knew I was in for trouble.

If teachers singled out a student to make an example of…it was me!  I couldn’t seem to do anything to please her. It couldn’t be my fault. She just didn’t like me. How did she always find out when I hadn’t completed my homework? In consequence, I spent several afternoons after school pounding the chalk out of the blackboard erasers and doing mundane cleaning tasks.

A couple of months into the school year, we all received our quarterly report cards. Two F’s surrounded by a swarm of D’s.

My parents were not impressed, and my life, as I had envisioned it, was about to take a drastic nosedive.

How it got back to me, I can’t remember, but if I didn’t buckle down and start getting better grades, I was looking at a repeat performance with my favorite teacher.

If that wasn’t bad enough, my brother Bob, a year my younger, by default, would now be in the 5’Th grade with me. Ugh… As I was the oldest of 8, I couldn’t bear the embarrassment of this happening. I was expected to be the role model for my younger siblings.

Looking back, I have to thank Sister for holding me accountable. It was either do or die! She cut me no slack, but I learned a ton of important lessons that year.

I got myself organized, developed my power of concentration and started taking responsibility for my actions. Until I changed, until I started to do the things necessary to succeed, I would not receive what I wanted. 

For the first time in my life I clearly understood the concept of being result driven.

This was my first actual lesson in the real world.

I am also pleased to report that one of the sweetest sentences I have ever read, was shared with me that year, “Promoted to the sixth grade.” 

Act Now !  

Gather Greatness !!

Become someone Great !!!  www.gathergreatness.com

I have found myself traveling the same road for quite some time.  I have gotten comfortable doing the same things, day after day, without too much thought.  Even if the consequences were somewhat painful, I chose comfort over change.  Maybe comfort is the wrong word; it may be familiarity.  Most people don’t like change and continue to stay with something they are familiar with, versus trying to improve.

I realize the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence,   but should this stop us from even dreaming of becoming something more? 

I believe the road less traveled will sometimes lead you in the right direction. 

1. Are you tired of being just average?
2. Have you forgotten you goals and desires?
3. Are you making a difference in your life or someone elses?
4. Isn’t it time to make a change?
5. Don’t you have more greatness within you?

The answer to all these questions for me is YES!  

If you feel that you are ready to make a change, follow me on the journey of a lifetime. 

 I am in the initial stage of creating a newsletter for like-minded people.  Join me at www.gathergreatness.com