Where do broken hearts go?

Whitney Houston's once famous song has me thinking on where do broken hearts go? Can they find their way home?

I'm waiting to get a break from being sad. I'm thinking how long it's gonna take before this bad, bad feelings go away. I was re-reading my journal this morning and something I wrote last year (journal entry: 21 feb 2007) got me thinking. Sometimes the danger we face in life is making our own happiness dependent on one person. And when this person hurt us, we render ourselves powerless.

This is a hard lesson to learn, it's easier said than done. I need to constantly remind myself this each day.
We need to learn to love ourselves first. And treat ourselves with value and respect. That way, even when we are hurt and down, our spirits will not be broken.

Psalm 147:3 says "He heals the broken hearted & binds up their wounds"

What's the Real Secret of Success?

The great automaker Walter Chrysler once said "the real secret to success is enthusiasm". Steve Chandler in this book - The Story of You said, it takes more than enthusiasm, it takes excitement.
I believe it takes both.

When people get excited and have enthusiasm in what they do, they make a success of their lives.

Most of the time, people wait for excitement to happen in their lives. It's like they take a ticket and wait for their turn. For something. For someone.

The thing with excitement; it doesn't work that way. Excitement, just like enthusiasm is an inner phenomenon. It starts within us, not outside of us. People released from solitary confinement get excited and have enthusiasm when seeing the sun shine.

This excitement they feel is created by their perspective of life. Their excitement is based on how they see things. And how they see things in life depends on the lens they are wearing which is called the story of them.

What's the real secret of success for you?

What's the height of your success?

Harold Thurman Whitman once wrote “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.

People often lose games, lose money, lose their career and lose a spouse to divorce without becoming a loser. When we lose at something in life, it’s often very easy to create a ‘loser’ story around it. However, we should compose a ‘brave’ story that says “I am brave, bold and unafraid of losing. I even laugh at defeat”.

We could actually do that but we rarely do. Instead, we almost always draw conclusions about ourselves when things go wrong and spin a tale around those conclusions so that we end up living inside a truly painful story.

We love being victims. We should lose our victim stories. The past is history. We should not see ourselves as a loser. Why? Because that’s simply not our story.
These victim stories do not serve us. They stifle us.

Instead a daily mantra might help: “The depth of your struggle will determine the height of your success”.