OXYGEN

 Oxygen

Let’s think about oxygen. We all need it. Deprive yourself of it for a few minutes and you’ll be desperate for it.

From another point of view, consider this ...
What gives you oxygen? In other words, what inspires you?

Popular motivational books tell us this is our ONE dominate passion. Some call it “our driving force in life.”

I’ve identified my oxygen. It is writing and podcasting. When I first started writing I feared that I would someday run out of ideas and then what?

That has not been the case. It seems one idea leads me to the next, and the next, and ten more after that.

My long-time college friend Harold once told me to slow down in working on my book ideas. He felt I had too many going at once.

This I know ... You will lead a really fulfilling life once you find out what and where your oxygen comes from. And when you do, it just might drive you to places you never dreamed of going.

P Michael Biggs 

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration 

Today's Accomplishment

 Today’s Accomplishment

Every day, when we awaken, we are faced with abundant opportunities. And what are we going to do with those opportunities?

Love this ponderable from poet Mary Oliver.

I wonder what it is

I will accomplish today?

~Mary Oliver

P Michael Biggs 

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

Three Important Principles

Three Important Principles

Principle #1:

If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it. 

Check!

Principle #2:

If you do not ask, the answer will always be NO. 

I wonder if the adage “You have not because you ask not” is applicable here?

Check!

Principle #3:

If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.

This is why I like to sit up front.  Take notes.  Ask questions.  It’s the beginning of ‘fend for yourself’.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

Pay Attention to What You Pay Attention To

Pay Attention to What 

You Pay Attention To

What a novel idea … pay attention to what you pay attention to.  That one idea is what helped launch my writing life, and a few other interests in my life. 

Pay attention.  It’s said in a hundred classrooms on a daily basis, I suppose.  And well it should be said. 

It’s more than just noting a thing.  Paying attention is looking deeper than the surface demands.  We peer into a thing, as it were.  And this includes our lives. 

We don’t just offer a passing glance at a thing of interest.  We stop, analyze, ask the “why” and “what if” and we dig down a bit or a lot. 

There is so much to grab our attention these days.  This post is a reminder to slow down.  Ponder, look beyond the surface, and bring to our attention more than just what caught out attention in the first place.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

Don't Kill Thirst

Don’t Kill Thirst

Now that I have your attention, this one thought is important.  Hope you’ll remember it.

Don’t Kill Thirst!

We kill thirst when we punish the one who asks ‘why’. 

We need inquirers.  We need the inquisitive. 

That’s how things get changed. 

We find answers to the ‘whys’ and the ‘why nots’.

Something to think on,

in about 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration