What are you all about?  What do you believe in?  What is your mission in life?  Why are you here?

In order to feel engaged and I alive I think you need to have the answers to these questions, so let’s give it a try.

List your key Core Values — the things that really make you tick.  A bit deeper than words like honesty, love, etc. — write out a few of the foundational things that need to be present in life in order for your passion to come forward. 

For example: Physical fitness and activity; Care, compassion and service to others; Openness, Honesty and Transparenecy — those are a few of mine. 

Next, take a few minutes to brainstorm or refine your mission.  My life mission is to help others align with their gifts and passion in order to live in that passion in every second of every minute of every hour of every day.  Imagine a world where everyone was doing this.

When you have come up with your Core Values and Personal Mission Statement, chime in here — let me know what you think and, if you’d like, share your Values and Mission Statements in order to inspire others.

Live Large!

Rob

- Physical Fitness

Happy New Year my friends.  We have another week at home and we just got back from working out at our local club.  Wow!  It’s full of New Year’s Resolution work out people.  The regulars all complain about the fact that every machine is full and that all of these “resolution types” jam up the place in January.  Just January.

I think that’s pretty sad.  The thing I think is sad is that lots of folks get their hopes up and they muster the energy TO GET STARTED, but they don’t make a plan TO KEEP GOING.  This is why I’m dedicating the entire year in 2011 to helping my readers KEEP IT GOING.

Each week I’ll put out a new post with a tip to help you keep moving forward with your 2011 goals.  Let’s share information with your posts and help each other grow in the direction of our intentions for 2011.  We’ll share our goals, resolutions or intentions next week — but first let’s reflect on a couple of things.

Write these things down:

1)  What were your major accomplishments in 2010?

2) Who are the folks who can help you the most with your dreams in 2011?

3) What are your major strengths?

Let’s GO!

Live Large,

Rob

            –  Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the late Spring of 1979, I had just finished my first year of college and I was ready for a break. I had worked for the BLM on a fire crew the previous summer and planned to do so again that summer.  I had three weeks until I had to report to work, so I decided to make the drive from Idaho to Tehachapi, California to hang out with my Mom and Step-Dad in their Airstream trailer for a couple of weeks.

My Step-Dad — Jim –  was a cropduster at the time.  We would get up at 4 AM and head out to the fields where I’d either flag or load for him.  Jim was an amazing pilot and I’d watch him navigate over, under and around trees and powerlines in that bi-wing, Ag Cat plane. 

When it got too hot to fly, we’d back to the trailer, into the mountains or out into the desert for an adventure.  After a couple of weeks of that, it was time to make the 12-hour drive back to Idaho to start my summer job.

I left at 6 AM in my ‘73 Pinto Station Wagon, loaded up with my Mom’s chocolate chip cookies and a full tank of gas.  The drive was incredibly beautiful and meditative.  I followed the route that skirts the east side of the Sierra’s, the foot of Mt. Whitney, through Lone Pine, Bishop and Tonopah — and some of the most beautiful and desolate parts of Nevada you could ever hope to see. 

As I was crossing into Nevada, I started to get a prompting to turn the car around and go back.  I as 5 hours into a 12 hour drive — so I wrote it off to missing my Mom and kept going.  With each mile that I drove, my heart got heavier and the voice inside got progressively louder.  After an hour of this, I pulled off to the side of the road to gather myself.  My head said to keep going, my heart said to turn around and go back.

This was before the days of cell phones and I wasn’t within 50 miles of a town, so I was on my own in making this decision.  I broke into tears — and sat there for about 10 minutes — in my Pinto Station Wagon, crying, with a half-eaten bag of chocolate chip cookies in the seat next to me.   When I finally made my decision, it was as if 1,000 pounds had been lifted off my chest.

I turned the car around and made the drive back to Tehachapi — pulling in my Mom and Jim’s place at about the time I should have been arriving in Idaho.  My Mom, as usual, was understanding and congratulated me on listening to my heart.  My Dad, when I called him, was equally understanding.

I didn’t make it back to Idaho in time to be on the BLM Fire Crew that summer.  Instead I worked various construction jobs and decided to take the next school year off — a very different path than the one I’d been on.

What if?

I have no idea what would have happened if I’d not listened to my heart that day and stayed with My Agenda.  I do know what it felt like when I made that decision — and it has guided the way I navigate life’s intersections and crossroads since that confusing day in the Nevada desert.

Peace,

Rob, Mary & Wes

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