i'm sorry maury, i'm not a gymnast.

A short while ago, I made a list of several goals (twelve, to be exact) that I was going to strive to achieve in my day-to-day life. Some were simple and not very time-consuming; while others were more difficult and required greater dedication and sacrifice. One of these goals was to attempt to write at least one blog post each week (which, unfortunately, has proved itself to be one of the more difficult ones to achieve).

Earlier tonight, a fellow-blogger and good friend of mine mentioned during one of our conversations how she could not wait until she could find more time within her busy schedule to write in her blog more: I couldn't have agreed more with what she said. Her words caused me to re-evaluate my commitment to my own personal goal of writing each week: needless to say, this is the situation I currently find myself in...

For those of you who have read and/or followed my blog before, you'll quickly realize my passion for wrting positive thoughts of encouragement in hopes that some person out there will read what I write and say, "Wow, that's exactly what I need to hear at this time in my life"...and then they will hopefully apply what they read to better their lives, and then, ultimately, "pay it forward" to someone else in need of similar help: a simple chain-reaction to improve the world.

Note: it is important to understand that I get most, if not all, of my post-ideas from real life experiences that I have during the day-to-day events of my life. In other words, I try to constantly find ways to improve my own life, serve other people, or learn new talents, principles, and ideas that will help me to become the person that I not only want to be, but that I know I should be.

Outlining my life as such has proven to be, usually, very rewarding; however, at times (such as this particular time in my life), it has proven as a wake-up call that I am not doing all that I can to become that greater person. It's simple algebra really...

Striving and searching for ways to improve my own life or to help another person --> uplifting/life-changing experience --> blog post idea --> blog --> my microscopic way of improving the lives of people around me --> positive thoughts/feelings --> desire to continue striving and searching for ways to improve my own life or to help another person --> uplifting/life-changing experience --> blog post idea...it's a vicious cycle, really.

The antagonistic point that I am trying to get at is that: lately, I have realized that I have had trouble finding ideas for my weekly blog posts. In reference to the cycle suggested above, this can only mean that I am not committed enough to improving my own life or the lives of those around me.  I understand that my life has been incredibly busy and stressful, but that certainly is no excuse. With that being said, I'd like to openly apologize and publicly re-commit myself to diligently striving towards getting back into the vicious cycle of my blogging experience.



 I do suppose, however, that there can be a lesson learned in what I have just written: sometimes in life, we need to re-evaluate our goals and re-commit ourselves to accomplish that which we have set forth in our lives. Perhaps it can be said that: when we slip, we do not fail; failure only comes from never getting back up. I think it is accurate to say, then, that there is often more power in committing to recommit than there is to initially committing to anything at all.

If there is anything in your life right now that you feel like you have allowed to slip or that you have not put as much effort in as you know you should have, I would implore you to apply and live by the words of a popular 90s song by ChumbaWumba: "I get knocked down, but I get up again; and you're never gonna keep me down!" Commit to re-commit. Do it. Now.


Here's to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc....attempts at achieving greatness.


Cheers.