HOW ALLIGATORS AND SMARTPHONES ADAPT Made Simple — Even Your Kids Can Do It
Hi, thanks for stopping by to read another Win It Minute. I was recently walking around a lake in beautiful Windermere, Florida. Amongst the lakes is such beauty, but underneath that beauty, there’s alligator’s lurking around, but yet we love it. A Quote I’m reminded of is, “When you’re finished changing in life, you’re finished.” When Benjamin Franklin said that he had no idea what our society would hold and today we have to live in the fastest changing society ever, hands down. I mean, think about all the changes that you encounter on a daily basis just with technology, with the people around you, it’s so connected. Think about it, 20 years ago you do not have email. 10 years ago you didn’t have Facebook. What did you do without Facebook and email? I mean, you just think how connected you are, how if you don’t go five minutes, even sometimes a minute without The Win It Minute, then you go crazy. So you need those things. You adapt to them. You don’t even realize. Our brain is so capable of adapting to things that you’re actually hardwired for it.
Some ancestor of yours was better at adapting to other people in their lives. And that’s why you survived. The survival of the fittest, way back in the day, was all about adapting to your environment and being the quickest to adapt. And if you look at changes as opportunities, not obstacles, you’ll succeed the fastest in today’s society. You can do anything you want and you can grow as you go if you have the right mindset. A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it. So adapt to the things around you, look at new obstacles and new challenges as opportunities, not challenges. And you’ll have a Win It Minute day.
All the flowers of all the tomorrow are in the seeds of today.” You know, the creation of a thousand trees could come from one seed. These thousand year old trees came from one seed at one point and do you know what a common house fly and a thousand year old oak tree have in common? They all live a lifetime and what you live in your lifetime, how you make an impact on others makes such a big difference. Your lifetime is not measured just in time. It’s measured in the impact that you can make on other people.
As a good friend noted to me about the game of Monopoly, at the end, no matter who wins the game, it all goes back into the box. Just like us. Everything we acquire in our life goes back into a box, except for the impact that you make in other people and your friends, your family, your kids. That impact is felt for generations like these trees or Alligators that have been around for generations. It’s like this, you have the seeds in the Palm of your hand. Think about your positive thoughts and your positive words as those seeds. You can either keep them to yourself and have small victories and eat a little bit today or plant those seeds and watch them grow in other people and they can turn into a huge oak tree, or a new job, an opportunity.
Change is the only constant in life….and Change should be viewed as an opportunity not an obstacle to plant a seed to Win the day!
So get out there, make it an awesome day, and win the day the alligator way. #Wintheday #Winitminute
