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Today's chapter is one of my favorites...in this day and age of overload of information, it can be extremely challenging to know who to listen to, when to listen to them and how to live our life with clarity, focus and purpose.  In fact, often times we can be so overwhelmed with "stuff" that we find ourselves starving at the banquet.  Enjoy this segment and Be blessed my friends :)

Starving at the Banquet

Picture yourself ten years ago. Remember that kid? If you wrote a letter to that person, what advice would you give? Take a minute and think about it.

What hard-won lessons have you learned that you would love to teach your younger self? What pain could you have avoided? How could your life be better if you’d only known what to do?

I asked those questions to a group of professionals not long ago, and they were quick to respond.

“I’d save more money. I wouldn’t beat myself up over my failures. I’d get a start on my dreams a long time ago,” they said.

I was impressed by the wisdom they had gained through what must have been much struggle and heartache.

“So, are you living that wisdom now?” I asked them.

Silence.

I looked to my right, then swept back to the left.

Heads remained oddly still, and the attention that I’d held to that point seemed to melt into glazed stares.

I folded my hands together and breathed deeply.

“Why aren’t you doing these things that you obviously know are good and true?” I asked somberly.

A few moments passed.

“Because I’m stupid,” a man said.

The audience laughed.

Then he went on to add, “Dumb is uneducated, but stupid is a choice. Even though I have all this knowledge and wisdom,” he said, twirling his hands around his head. “I’m choosing not to act on it. So I must be stupid.” There were a lot of heads nodding and murmurs of, “Me, too. I’m pretty stupid, too.”

“Okay,” I said, “since stupid is a choice, what do we need to do to get un-stupid? What do we need to do today to get different results tomorrow? We must choose to go in a different direction starting right now.”

The Feast

The problem with most folks isn’t a lack of education. Most people have been through a lot. They’ve seen a lot, learned a lot. They know where to go if they have questions. They have all the tools and resources they could possibly need within arm’s reach using Uncle Google.

The problem is that they aren’t doing anything with everything.

It’s like they’re sitting at a fabulous feast, buffet tables lined in every direction, and all they need to do is pick up a plate and help themselves to the food.

But they don’t. They stand there hungry, doing nothing, complaining that there isn’t anything good on their empty plates.

If they’re not careful, they’ll starve to death.

So, when the latest, greatest guru or expert comes along and offers them a half-chewed, regurgitated bite of a cupcake, they take it and think it’s delicious and nutritious. All that amazing food is waiting, full of nutrients and flavor, but it’s easier to take the chewed-up leftovers that someone else puts on their plates than to do the work themselves.

Eating someone else’s leftovers is not a pleasant analogy. Yet think about how often people take up someone else’s opinions instead of thinking for themselves....

Want the problems and more importantly the solutions to this limiting mindset? Get your copy today and stop starving yourself :) 

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