Imagine you are living in the year 10,000 and Jesus had still not returned, would that bother you? What about the year 120,000 or 1,200,000?

Not talking about regrets. I'm talking about a process of learning that we all go through.

When I started writing a bicycle I fell a lot. I changed my behavior such that I didn't fall a lot anymore.

My first wife committed suicide. The pain of that event kept me from ever wanting to get into another relationship. Once I was able to get past the pain and the emotion that I had suffered through, I was finally able to get into a relationship. It was a learning process. Learning how to get past the thing that was keeping me from enjoying something that I really enjoyed in life. Which was marriage.

In the process that I went through to learn how to speak in front of people. From groups of five to 5,000, one of the things that I had to give up was the thought that everybody was judging me. I didn't really consider that they wanted to hear what I had to say. Because another thought that I had had was that I really didn't have anything worthwhile for anybody to want to listen to what I had to say. I had to give up those thoughts in order to continue on with my goal of being able to speak in front of people.

I'm not talking about regrets. I'm talking about a learning process. And one of the things that I learned, was it what was keeping me from experiencing the types of freedoms I really wanted to experience, which things that was going on within me. Thoughts that didn't work anymore given my new set of goals. Emotions that didn't work anymore given my new set of goals. And behaviors that didn't work for me anymore given my new set of goals.

But I get it.

It's Thursday. Almost time for the weekend. I hope you have a freaking awesome weekend!

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