Growth is Balance

During this time of Spring in NY, one can see growth taking place all around. New flowers, plants and leaves on the trees are beginning to come out. It amazes me that each plant, tree or flower needs certain ingredients and conditions in order for it to grow. Such a delicate balance is needed. Too much, or too little of one thing can offset the balance and hinder, or even kill a living thing.

Balance is so important in our own lives. Just look at balance and our bodies. What an enormous task it is to keep our bodies in shape and in good running order. We all need a certain amount of food, water, oxygen, sleep, and exercise in order to stay healthy.

We can also look at the other major areas of our lives and apply the same concept of balance. We have mental, emotional, social, spiritual, family, and financial areas to contend with. What a challenge it is to try and keep everthing in balance.

Is your life in balance? Are you receiving the proper nutrition in each area of your life? Are you living in the best conditions possible that will enhance your growth? OR do you feel out of balance, and not growing like you should?

Maybe you have neglected some areas of your life, or are spending too much time in other areas. Do you feel out of balance, stressed out, or losing control of your present situation?

Take some time to assess where you are at, and what you need to change in order to be in balance.
Picture how your life would be, or what it would look like if it were in balance. You may need to make some changes in order to become more balanced.

The work you do in keeping your life in balance will produce growth that will fill your life with joy, happiness, success, and fulfillment.

Strive for balance. Work for balance. Maintain balance. Choose balance. Live a
balanced life.

David Croston
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Growth is Commitment

Well, it was another day at the YMCA running around the track. Boy do I struggle to get there. There is always a battle that goes on in my head. Should I stay home, or should I go. I felt like just staying home and taking a nap. But I knew If I didn't go I would feel even worse.

Well I'm at the track running around and around, thinking I might just shorten my run by ten minutes. After all, what difference is ten minutes going to make. Again the struggle to decide, but the choice was made to go the full thirty minutes that I committed to.

I don't know about you, but I always seem to try and find the easy way out, with the least amount of effort, trying to get away with as much as possible. But I have learned that if I try and cheat and lower my standard, then I stunt my own growth!

Life sure does require a lot of discipline each and every day. The word discipline means TO STICK TO SOMETHING. It has taken a lot of discipline to write to you two times per week. But I have set my standard, and even if I don't feel like doing a darn thing, I know I have committed to writing to you each week.

I would like to encourage you today not to give in to lowering your standard, keeping your word, or carrying out a task that you said you would do. Integrity is quality that we all should strive to have. Don't commit If you don't plan to complete.

All growth depends on action. If you fail to act you fail to grow. If you rest, you rust. And don't forget to reward yourself for a job well done. I have completed my run, and have finished this message. Now I will reward myself with a SMALL dish of ice cream.

David Croston
Motivational Concepts and Training


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Your Season of Growth

To be committed to memory:
Growth is the result of responding to change in a positive way.

To GROW means:
To Spring-Up, To develop to maturity, to be able to grow in a certain place or situation. To increase in size, to expand, to become, to increase in wisdom, to have an increasing influence, to become increasingly acceptable or attractive, progressive development, to grow toward or arrive at full stature mentally, physically, and socially.

Well I am glad winter is over and Spring is here. Living in Upstate NY, I don't care for the winter too much. I would much rather have it warm than cold. The change in seasons can be a great way to look at and compare the seasons of life. Have you ever noticed that there are periods of time in your life when everything seems to be going wrong, or bad things seem to happen all at once. You feel like your sort of in a rut, or maybe you have been waiting for things to change and you experience delay after delay.

Having worked with many people that have been layed off, there is the uncertainty of ever finding a job. A person could go several months before becoming re-employed. Resume after resume, interview after interview, but still no job.

You may have gone through or are still going through a season of winter, but winter will end spring will appear. You have grappled with trouble, calamity or hardship. You have met adversity head on in a spirit of determination and courage, and you are responding in a positive way, letting go of the past, and looking forward to the future.

Look for the trees to bloom, and the flowers to blossom. Change is happening in nature and yourself. It happens so slow that you don't even realize it. You are becoming a better person. You have learned to deal with life in a better way. You have become stronger, wiser, and more mature.

You have decided to respond to life in a positive way, no matter what difficult situation you face. You have decided that whatever the circumstance, you will do your best, and forget the rest. You are an example and model of a person that can overcome any adversity that appears before you.
You are ready for a new season of growth.

David Croston
Motivational Concepts and Training


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What is Growth?

In order to experience growth more, you may want to be more understanding of what the word means. The words we use have many meanings. Many times we dont't take the time to delve deeper into those meanings.

As you look at and study each meaning, you may want to pick one that stands out more than the others. It may provide you with just the insight that will trigger you to move forward in a certain area of your life. All set?
Here we go:

To GROW means:
To Spring-Up, To develop to maturity, to be able to grow in a certain place or situation. To increase in size, to expand, to become, to increase in wisdom, to have an increasing influence, to become increasingly acceptable or attractive, progressive development, to grow toward or arrive at full stature mentally, physically, and socially.

Growth is the result of responding to change in a positive way.

David Croston
Motivational Concepts and Training


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Time to Grow

Growth is the result of responding to change in a positive way.

Many of the things in which we face are not fun. We all go through hardships, trouble and calamity. This world is full of adversity and difficult situations.

We must look at each adversity as an opportunity for growth. You may have had a situation in your own life where you thought that it was all a big waste of time, and energy. You may be questioning why you ever had to go through what you did.

Well "for every adversity that you go through, there is always the seed of equal or greater benefit. A seed has to be crushed and broken in the ground before it can begin to grow.

If you have been crushed lately by someone or something, it's time to GROW. it's time to look for a way to respond positively to this situation. It may not be easy, but it must be done. Too many people spend too much time wallowing, and not moving on.

Hold your head high. Rise above the situation. A new day is dawning. Look forward to a better time. You have done your best. Forget the rest. This is growth. We stuggle, we learn, we overcome.

David Croston
Motivational Concepts and Training


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GROWTH

Growth is an activity that affects everyone of us in some way or another. It involves change. We go through many changes in our lives. Some changes enhance our growth. Other changes hinder our growth. The key lies in how we react or respond to change.

Growth is the result of responding to change in a positive way.

For the month of April, look around you and become more aware of all the growth that is taking place. Look at the people that you are in contact with each day, and how they are growing. Look at nature and the ways that you see growth. Look at the past and reflect on all the growth that has occurred in your life. Look at the present and determine how you are growing now. Look into the future and decide how you would like to grow in the days and weeks to come.

Decide that each day will be a day of growth for you. You may have to do some things differently; you may have to stretch a little, you may have to come out from your comfort zone, but the rewards for responding to change in a positive way will be of great value and benefit to you.

David Croston
Motivational Concepts and Training


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Rubber-Ball Theory of Career and Growth

Rubber-Ball Theory of Career and Growth

Growth in our career and even our personal growth is like a "rubber ball". Height of your growth is based on your hard work, like a maximum height that can be reached by a rubber ball is decided by the vigor with which you through the ball in the air. Once it reaches the maximum height, it will start its downward journey, like a bad time is our personal life. It will continue to fall, inch-by-inch, like our bad days, from worse to worst, until and unless it reaches the bottom and touches the ground and then only it will "bounce back".

Take the examples of Lance Armstrong (USA), Amitabh Bhachan (India) and Michael Jackson (USA), there was time in their life when each passing day was worse then death, but they bounced back. At the time of struggle and trail most of the time, we give-up, but we forget that good days or bad days and all days will pass away and we must continue to give our best, each time, every time, all the time.

What do you think about it? I am awaiting your inputs, your feedback.

Have a great day and take care.

Keep Smiling. Keep Growing.

Regards
Sanjeev Sharma


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