Does Your Direction Match Your Destination?

Does Your Direction 

Match Your Destination?

Now that is perhaps one of the more astute questions I’ve asked of myself and of you, my reader, in a very long time.  Oh, we are all headed in some direction, I suppose.  But is it compatible with our ultimate destination?

Really and truly, I don’t think this blog requires a lot of words, phrases and metaphors from me from this point on.  I think I’ll leave this large topic with you.  It is, after all, your call.

This is what is

on my mind today.

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P Michael Biggs

Hope~Encouragement~Inspiration

It's About What They Could Become

It’s About What They Could Become

Let’s talk a bit about human potential.  Had you seen me when I was ten, you wouldn’t have been very impressed.  Nor at 15, 18, or 25.  Oh, I had a few successes by then, but my real becoming didn’t happen, in my opinion till much later.

Meet Larry.  He was in my youth group back in the 70’s.  As a young teen, Larry was a nice kid and would do anything for you in the world, if he could, but to think he would come to earn a doctorate and pastor a few large churches?  No way.  Not Larry.  He didn’t fit the mold for that kind of success and good stuff to be happening to him. 

Somewhere along the line, Larry was paying attention.  He went to college, the same one I attended, graduated and went back to his home state and pastored a small-town church.  That lead to larger churches, and ultimately to seminary, and with each success, each bit of learning, Larry grew.  He BECAME!

I’ve got to tell you this personal thing.  Once Larry wrote me a note and said this: “Of all the good influences in my life, you were the first.”

Oh my.  That is encouragement to this encourager.

This quote is in my files and it prompted this idea tonight.  I’m not sure who originally said it. 

“It’s not what they are now.

It’s what they could be.

It’s all about human potential.”

You see, you and I are in the human potential business.  Our job is to grow people up into the man or woman they could become.  We cast a vision of what their potentiality is when in full bloom.  We believe in them.  We encourage them.  We coach and empower others so they can grow wings and develop sureness of foot.

And when they take off … wow!  What a moment.

That’s about as good as it gets for those of us who like to be people builders.

Something to think on,

in less than 60 seconds.

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P Michael Biggs

Offering Hope

Encouragement

Inspiration

A Word about Vision

A Word about Vision

(This story came from Bits and Pieces (December 2016).  The author is unknown and this is an abridged version, in my own words.)

A railroad crew was hard at work making repairs to a section of track.  A train rolled up on the track nearby and men in suits began disembarking.  A tall man in a blue suit noticed the crew and approached the men. 

He spoke, “Ted, is that you?”

“Yes, it is” Ted responded.  “It’s good to see you, Dale.”

After a brief chat the men parted.  They shook hands and promised to do a better job of keeping in touch.

After the suited man left, a co-worker asked Ted, “Was that Dale, the head of the railroad?”

“It surely was” replied Ted.  “One of my good friends.  You see, we started out on this job on the same day.”

“So, how is it you’re here laying track and he’s now president of this company?”

“It’s simple” Ted replied.  “I had a vision of working for the railroad.  Dale had a vision of running the railroad.”

The end.

Except …

There’s a lesson in there somewhere, isn’t there?

I write, because I want to touch the world … THE WORLD, with my words.  I don’t just want Carolyn, my siblings, and my step-kids and a few friends to read what I generate. 

My vision?  I want to write the blog heard round the world.

What is your vision?

This is what is on

my mind today.

P Michael Biggs

It's All About People Blog Site

Offering Hope

Encouragement

Inspiration

Reinvent Yourself

Reinvent Yourself

Forever now, I’ve heard a phrase that goes … “You can’t reinvent the wheel.”

No, but man alive, how mankind has reinvented the contraptions that use wheels of different sizes, shapes, speeds, colors and uses.

What do we talk about when we talk about reinventing self?  I’ve had nine different careers.  Have I reinvented myself in each of those situations?  Perhaps.

I started out wanting to be a drummer.  Not just a drummer, but the world’s greatest drummer.  I would sit and listen to Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Joe Morello for hours.  I would emulate their drum licks and try to do what I heard them do.  I got better, but I never made the list of the great drummers of the world.

Then I became a music director. 

And then retail sales manager of a department.

And a few other great opportunities. 

Today I am a self-proclaimed writer.  How did I get from wanting to be the greatest drummer to being a writer who wants to write the blog heard round the world?

I reinvented me. 

It was difficult at times.  Humbling mostly.  Subject to critique at times.

And here I sit.  Writing on a lovely Saturday morning before most of my neighborhood is awake. 

I am reimagining myself.  EVERYDAY.

It’s called reinventing.

P Michael Biggs

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Offering Hope

Encouragement

Inspiration