The Glass is Not Half Full or Half Empty; it’s Just the Wrong Size!

The Basics:
If you see the glass as half full, get a smaller glass and enjoy it

Your goal should be to fill the glass of life everyday. Fill it the way a five-year old fills a glass of milk. Everyday of your life should be so full that it is about to spill over onto everything else.

Did today go as well as it could have? The answer to this question must always be, YES. If not, your perception needs to be changed so your reality can follow.

If your day could have gone better, it would have gone better. Don’t fool yourself. Your day goes exactly as the combination of you and the days events force it to go. You can look at bad event in its worst light or put some unrealistic spin to make it seem like it was good, or you can simply accept it for what it was and learn from it.

Take the time to plan for tomorrow to be better. Are you feeling sick? Then make the glass a bit smaller. Are you feeling incredibly confident? Then make the glass a bit bigger. Your goal should be to fill the glass everyday. Fill it to the top with just a bit spilling over. Fill it the way a five-year old fills a glass of milk. You know what I mean. It should be filled so high that just picking up the glass will spill something. Then lean over and drink a little bit out of it before you pick it up to start tomorrow.

If you do this every single day, you find yourself expecting a full glass at the end of everyday. If you expect a full glass you will usually ensure that you have a full glass. This is because, of course, you are responsible for everything that happens in your life. If you want the glass to be full, then stop looking at it and fill it up!

I find it odd that the happiest people in the world are never the richest or those with the most stuff. They are seldom the people who live in the "best" places". Truly happy people are told to "get real". Sometimes they are mocked because of their attitude. Fill your glass, live your life, be happy.

Always Play Offense

• Play to control the game
• Learn the rules
• Devise a strategy
• Get a coach
• Train and Practice
• Play Hard to Win

This is another one of my personal favorites. It is so easy to do, but so many people never play the game this way. Think about any team sport played with a ball. There is one team who “owns the ball” and the other team is trying to stop them. The owner is the Offense. The Pursuer is the Defense. Ask yourself: What if a team always treated the ball as if it were theirs?

Ask any of the great defensive teams of all time and they will tell you the same thing. Their goal was not just to slow down, pursue or get in the way of the success of the other team, their goal was to CONTROL the game. They felt like they owned the ball even when it was in the other team’s hands. It is often said that “defense wins championships.” Face it, OFFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS, especially when it’s played 100% of the game. If you are always playing offense, then the rest of the world must always be playing defense. This is true whether you are playing a sport, working in an office or just living your life. The best a defense can do is guarantee a tie. Even worse Defense’s greatest goal is to make sure that NO ONE wins! Life is a game that is all about winning. Whether it be small skirmishes with yourself or big battles against a foe, Offense is the only way to win.

STOP. THINK.

How many times has playing the “waiting game” worked well for you? How many times have you gotten what you wanted by not telling anyone you wanted it? Don’t let things fester and grow worse, play offense.
In the end, you control your life or it will continue to control you. You need to constantly be asking yourself why did that happen to me, or why did I get what I wanted? Be honest about the answer. The answers to these questions will give you the patterns to you DEFENSIVE TENDENCIES (WRITE IT DOWN). Once you know these you can crate offensive strategies to attack yourself and win the next time the same event occurs again, because it will

Get off your butt and take some chances in life. Actually, not “in life”, but “in your life”. It’s your life and you can either own it, PLAY OFFENSE and reap the rewards, or you can play defense and see someone else win.

Life really is a game. Always play offense and you will always have a chance to win.

What is this site all about?

BE HAPPY. HAVE SUCCESS. BE CONTENT. ON YOUR OWN TERMS!

This blog describes some simple, and not so simple, concepts that will help you be happy, successful and content. Working through these concepts may take days or years. You will need an open mind and soul as well as persistence.

Some things will seem familiar, others may cause you to doubt my abilities and/or sanity. You don’t need to trust me, simply apply the concepts. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have used these concepts in the past and have defined their own happiness, success and contentment.