ARE YOU CONVINCED YOU CAN DO IT?

Are You Convinced You Can Do It? 

Harvey Mackay, author of Swim with the Sharks once said this.

The hardest sale 

you’ll ever make 

is to yourself.

Once you’re convinced 

you can do it,

you can.

What have you done once you convinced yourself you could?

Businesses have been launched.
Political offices have been earned.
Large bank accounts have grown even larger.
The big LEAP has happened because someone screwed their courage to the sticking place and made the leap.

It starts with conviction that the THING can be done by YOU! 

Well then ... GO DO IT!

P Michael Biggs 

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration 

Get Naked

 Get Naked 

Have you ever been naked in public? For most of us it’s no fun.

I’ve had a few dreams of running naked or in my underwear. So glad when I awakened.

Here’s the good side of getting naked, thanks to Seth Godin and his book

What to Do when it’s Your Turn

Get naked.
We become naked when we say ...
~I made this.
~It’s my fault.
~It was my idea.
~I decided to do it.
~No place to hide is the only place to be.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing naked, alone, boldly.

P Michael Biggs 

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

What Could Be?

What Could Be

I’m glad my parents didn’t give up on me when I was three, or ten, or fifteen. 

I’m glad I didn’t give up on myself when I made my first feeble attempts at some serious writing. 

You see, we have to look down the invisible road called ‘the future’ and imagine what a life might look like, or to see some possibilities in a person’s dreams and hopes.

What could you be?  I don’t know, and I hope you have some good and steady hands of friendship holding onto you as you find out.

We need believers in our lives.

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

I Know Fear and I Know Peace

I Know Fear and I Know Peace

I know fear when being shaved in preparation for heart surgery.

I know fear when having an angiogram to look at my heart blockage.

I’ve known other fears.

And in the middle of those fears, I know and have known peace from the God of my understanding.

And HIS peace trumps all fears.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

Sometimes We Try Again

Sometimes We Try Again

When things go wrong, it’s easy to walk away.  If we say something that is disagreeable, it’s easy to never want to speak up again.  If we write a song no one listens to, it’s easy to quit writing songs.

Ah … but to try again and again.  To keep experimenting with our voice, our tools, our talents and our ideas.  That is the key to becoming a contributor to life.

Will you and I dare to try again and again?

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

When Disappointment Shows Up

When Disappointment Shows Up

Read the title again, please. 

And now, the question.

Is failure the final word or is it just a stumble and fall?

Failures are not a life sentence.  Setbacks aren’t the final word, unless you want them to be.

Hold to that possibility.

There is life after defeat.

I know this personally and professionally.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

Aware of the Achievable

Aware of the Achievable

Are you aware of what you can achieve?  Then, perhaps, your journey is about to begin. 

I started writing poetry the day I convinced myself that I could possible write poetry.

I began my career as a musical director the day I overcame my shyness and let my musical side shine.  It was an October Sunday in my Dad’s small church in Tennessee and I was in the 11^th grade.

I hope you brush up against some possibilities for your own life.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration