Hope Is the Beginning

Hope Is the Beginning

Got hope?  I hope so.

Hope is the beginning of every enterprise in the world.  Somebody saw a need and then set about filling that need.  They had hopes of making a difference in this world. 

So … I ask again.  Got hope?

We’re living in hard times.  And yet, I have a hope for  brighter days ahead, more reasonable days, more sensible days.

For now, I’m turning that hope into prayers, and writing what I can, when I can, words of hope, encouragement and inspiration.

Exercise your hope.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

When Plagued with Mediocre - Push On

When Plagued with 

Mediocre – Push On

Mediocracy sometimes run rampant in our lives.  To paraphrase what a friend of mind once said … “You are a mediocre man looking for a place to happen.”

Ouch.

Let me offer this:

Lucille Ball was told to “try another profession” early in her career.  She kept pursuing acting and comedy instead.

John F Kennedy lost his bid for president of his freshman class at Harvard.  He lost a few other posts for which he tried, but became a great US President.

Steven Spielberg's mediocre grades prevented him from getting accepted to UCLA film school.  He found success in Star Wars and a few other blockbuster movies.

Bob Dylan was booed off the stage at his high school talent show.  He took that mediocre moment and turned it into the great BOB DYLAN.

Mediocre is not a lasting ailment, unless we let it be. 

Whatever may be mediocre in your life for now can become stellar, if you want it to be.

Mediocre is a choice. 

So is high success.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

Are You Remaining Ashore?

Are You Remaining Ashore?

We all have choices.  All of us.  And we can make excuses, use all kinds of excuses for doing or not doing a thing.

Consider this:

Sometimes we need to remember why we started on a course to begin with.  What drove us there? 

Sure, there are always dangers, always setbacks, always someone to tell us “you’re crazy”, “you can’t”, “you won’t”, “you don’t know what you’re doing”.

But you knew all that in the beginning, I suppose.

What will it take to get you up and out?

That’s the critical question.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration