01/04/12 - Re-aligning My Hopes and Dreams

Up at 7am and at the gym by 8am.  George Washington would have probably been done with his workout by 7am but at least I'm getting better.

After my workout I began going through and cleaning out things in my office.  After all, an organized office is a more productive office (and for the record, my wife will say that I have a LONG way to go.  I say, baby steps to greatness!).  Anyway, as I was cleaning, I found a small picture frame.  In it was an old list on a piece of paper on which I had written all my "dreams".

As I read them again for the first time in years, I felt ashamed.  Almost every item on the list was a selfish, material nick-knack.  I had written:  A home in another country; the same type of Ferrari as in Magnum PI (I loved that show); buying my old house back from my ex-wife and turning it into some kind of a playboy grotto for spite and revenge . . .

I look back and realize that I must have been in a really bad place at the time.  I wrote these petty things as a list of what should have been all my hopes and dreams.  Well, it time to make change.  It's time to change my perspective on life.

Now I have something new to put in that frame.  It's a new dream and something to aspire to.  In place of that horrible list, I now have a picture of someone who I can strive to emulate.  Someone who I can look at with respect and someone who I can look to as a role model for how I want to live my life.

George Washington