The thing about rocky movies is that you get to see rocky grow through through the years. You get to see how he struggles through life.You get to see the toll it took on him losing Adrian alll the people he has in fact lost in one way or another. And what I see in the end just came to me about a 1/2 an hour later – “If you’re lucky, you get to live out a few of your dreams. And if your like most of us -alot of things didn’t work out the way you planned”. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️ THAT’S ME! I don’t know about the dream part though.

I think 🤔 people who tell it like it is -don’t get nearly enough credit.

I think the main problem for me and my relationships is that I learned a long time ago about what a relationship could look like.. Possibly what it should look like From an intellectual standpoint-what people had to offer was unacceptable to me acceptable to me -in spite of the fact that what I had to offer probably wasn’t acceptable to them either. Did you know that people can desire the highest standards from others well at the same time walking around with entirely low standards themselves 🤔. I mean to say come a person can be entirely aware of very high standards of conduct, expect them from others, yet not have the slightest inkling of them -insofar as they themselves are concerned 😟

It’s not a good thing to not have a basic awareness of who you are. And even then, without proper perspective -awareness for most, is somewhat useless.

Every person who is successful has one thing in common:

“WHY”

But not your ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill “why”.

You receive and then you do. You do and then you receive. Many times we want to receive first -and then we do. Many times in our relationships, we do not do until we have received first. In many cases, we lose what might have been given to us due to this faulty reasoning, due to this due to this stubbornness, due to this arrogance, due to this mistrust.

Chew carefully in your later years -no need to demolish food to swallow it if you change your diet!

I saw a sign in my dentist’s office many years ago that zip “Floss only the teeth you want to keep”. I say the same thing about working the 12 steps – Work only the one’s you want, designed to improve a specific area of your life that you want to improve.

Bringing awareness of things to people they are not naturally aware of -can be tricky! Even dangerous!

The difference between what a man wants and what a man needs is that what a man wants is “hit and miss” while what a man needs is always “on target”.

What a man wants:

•A man doesn’t always know what he wants;

•What a man wants isn’t always what he needs (often times, he in fact substitutes what he needs with… and his fellow man, greedy, power-driven, mad with envy… seems more than willing to accommodate him in (t)his endeavor);

•What a man wants isn’t always beneficial

The notion that you can’t trust anyone…

Is for people who refuse to take any risk whatsoever. Now then, you can’t be a positive force in the world without putting yourself at some kind of risk.

Afterthought: People who live by the rule “Don’t trust anyone”, either lack the ability to distinguish untrustworthy people from trustworthy people -or they’re too loathsome or lazy to even try. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️

To say it! (People do this one ALLLLL THE TIME)!

To do it! (People don’t do this one ALLLLL THE TIME)!

In the end:

People care about what you DO -not what you SAY.

People care about what you SAY -not (JUST) what you DO.