Super strange day. Very eventful…
My first really MASSIVE internet marketing deal fell through…
Came to the realization that my laptop is shot…
Cracked up my car on my way to Ben’s office…
But all I can seem to think about is a story I had with the gas station guy this morning when I was picking up my daily Monster.
First off, I gotta make mention, there was a massive fire on the east side two mornings ago. At least ten people lost their homes, four local business owners lost their restaurants, and a historic east-side block lost part of its identity. Luckily, no one was seriously PHYSICALLY injured, but lives changed in a huge, huge way…
Flash back to the gas station conversation story.
My gas station guy told me one of the owners of one of the businesses was in his store yesterday afternoon and was near tears… gas station guy told him “things will look up”, but the former business owner told him that working at the restaurant is all he’s known for the past ten years… said he knows nothing else.
Then the quote that I can not stop thinking about. Former business owner of a near decade said:
“Some days I made money… some days I didn’t… but everyday I was happy… this is the first day in ten years I am not…
How powerful is that???
Now I’m not recommending you go into business to lose money, and I’m not telling you that you should be happy every single day or you’re doing something wrong. But what I am thinking, and have been thinking about all day long, is this:
How are you feeling about yourself when you look in the mirror before you go to bed each night?
Are you sad?
Upset?
Disappointed?
Unhappy?
Or
Are you HAPPY?
If more times then not, you find yourself outside the happiness realm, you need to make some MAJOR changes in your life. And you need to do so immediately.
Now I don’t know specifically what those changes are, but I bet if you sit down and think about it hard enough, you do.
Find your passion and run with it. That should make you happy… don’t you think?
(I wrote this article a couple of days ago and it took a bit to get it up on the blog)