Be Bold…Be Brave…Live in the Now

  Written by Zelphina Pierson on May 14, 2010 10:59 am

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I would like to share a story about a guy named  “Norm“. I am sure you know him. Far from your average guy, happy to have finished college with a diploma and maybe a degree. Oh No, Norm is the guy with all of  the degrees  from the multitude of various colleges  he has attended for any number of reasons.  A very intelligent person by anyone’s standards…right. For him just putting on his shoes and socks is a ritual. This is the guy that when he puts his socks on he makes sure they are never worn on the same foot twice in a row ( so not to wear out the big toe area) and turns them inside out for even wear. He puts on one sock , one shoe at a time. Most of the world puts on sock , sock ,shoe , shoe. To each their ow

Now, just a bit of back ground on Norm. His wife left him, has remarried and has children with her new husband. He now lives ( for the last 10 yrs.) , temporarily in a dank ,dark, depressing little apartment. He thought about paining it and even knows what color. However, Norm claims he is waiting for the future to clarify itself enough so that he either fix up his apartment, move to a better place or back in with his wife and family….you know the one that is already remarried. But since Norm doesn’t come to hasty conclusions he has not quite wrapped his head around that fact yet.

But Norm figures if he paints the apartment, the carpet needs to be replaced, as do the curtains and of course the furniture must go. But if he is going to go through all of that why not get a better place. Then you have to hunt for one, sign a lease, change your phone number, address…..May as well buy a house. Then you have the bank and credit checks. And what happens if he falls in love. What if his new wife won’t like his new house, in the neighborhood with the crummy schools.

Better yet his first wife may realize she made a mistake, come back to him and now he is paying for the house for his second wife, tuition to private schools for his children from his second marriage. Before long Norm will be in need of therapy, and you know how expensive that is.

Norm’s view…. New paint in the crummy apartment could end up costing an arm and a leg. Sure Life is a risk. When the sun starts to die and gets so hot it turns the surface of the earth into boiling rock, his new house will burn, and his insurance money and the deposit money on the nonexistent children’s nonexistent private school will be down the drain. Included will be carpenter ants, inflation, depression, famine, floods,
and athlete’s  foot.

See, Norm tries to live today and tomorrow  and next week and next year and next decade and next century all at the same time.

So for all the Norm’s out there STOP IT !!!!  Tomorrow may be changed by a choice you make today, but the world WILL NOT come to an end because of it.

Be Bold, Be Brave, Live In The NOW…..Make a great Choice and download Success In 10 Steps

Zelphina Pierson
Mentor with a Servants Heart
580-229-3629 (anytime)
zelphinapierson@gmail.com
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Zelphina was once a professional failure before coming across a great Master Mind Group in Mentoring For Free. Now this once nobody is making success an obtainable achievement for herself and anyone who works with her. Get to know more about her  on her Face Book page and through her other articles here on BN.

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