What's in a Word

16 seconds

You know this, and I’m going to remind all of us of it again. 

What’s in a word?

Hope

 Healing

  Inspiration

   Renewal

    Refreshment

     Instruction

      Correction

       Guidance

        Direction

         Forgiveness

What’s your word for those near you today?

P Michael Biggs

www.up-words.net

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The Impossible Always Is

22 seconds

Don’t you hate “impossible?”  “Impossible” always looms large and uninviting.  It’s the invisible barrier that always stands in the way. 

UNTIL!

Until it’s done …

Remember when running a four-minute mile was impossible?

Remember when landing on the moon was impossible?

Remember when _____?

Fill in the blank. 

P Michael Biggs

www.up-words.net

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When We Look Back

15 seconds

When we look back what do we see? 

There is value in occasionally looking back. 

Did we do well?

Did we answer appropriately?

Did we act responsibly?

Did we do our best?

Did we represent our cause with integrity?

There is real value in sometimes looking back. 

  

P Michael Biggs

www.up-words.net

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Every Day Power

31 Seconds

Do you realize the control and power you have in every day you live?

You may not write a whole novel in one day, but you can

write on it every day, and if you string enough “days” together you've got your novel written.

Bridges, houses, skyscrapers aren't built in a day, but they are built over a bunch of days. 

I’m not as healthy today as I will be tomorrow or next month, but I’m way better than I was a year ago.  My muscles and body can prove it.

“Every day, in every way, 

I’m getting better and better.”

   ('Coué, Émile)

As Julia Cameron says, “Just show up.”

P Michael Biggs

www.up-words.net

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Grunted Lately

38 seconds

  When we do grunt work we do work that doesn’t come easy.  It takes “work” to produce work.  Some of my writing days are like that.  I love it when the ideas flow, and other days, I have to dig the words and sentences out one at a time. 

And then I look back on what has happened and I say, “Well done.  Good grunt work.”

Grunting is in style you know?  Everyone has to do it sooner or later.

We grunt in …

Marriages

Raising kids

Making money

Doing our taxes

Digging ditches

Mowing lawns

And a thousand other ways.

Now, put your nose to the grind stone.

Sit down and focus.

Think.

Read.

Turn off all iGadgets

Grunt it out.

You’ll love the results.

P Michael Biggs

www.up-words.net

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