Life’s “teeth and ambitions are bared, so be prepared”
One of my favorite things to do is to listen to Disney movie songs with my children. Occasionally, we will sit for hours listening and singing along to some of our favorite songs. From Aladdin’s A whole new world to the Lion King’s Kovu’s lullaby, no song gets missed. One of my favorite songs is Scar’s Be Prepared. The song says, “something’s about to happen and you should be prepared”.
A few years ago, I came home after work and began to complain to my wife about how my day was horrible. Being the person she is, she looked me square in the eyes and said. “Get over it!” In other words, stuff is going to happen. The quicker you accept that and deal with it, the quicker you can move on to the things that really matter.
In later discussions she would remind me that life is not fair! Good things do not always happen to good people, and bad people don’t always get what’s is coming to them. So, deal with it, and press on. How do you do that “BE PREPARED!”
Here is what I have discovered over the years. Just as the song says, Life is brutal! And like a lion, it comes at you with teeth and ambitions are bared. it is up to you to be prepared to deal with it.
Here is how you prepare yourself:
1. Recognize that it is your fault! You are in your current situation, good or bad, because of the decisions that you have made up to this point in your life. Accept it! Accept the fact that if you want to stay or move out of your situation, that it is your decisions and your action that will get you there.
2. People don’t really care about you! You are being used. the quicker you learn that, the better off you will be. People don’t care about you unless you are affecting them. How you are affecting people will determine the role that they will play in your life.
3. You will get out of life only what you will allow! Stop letting people treat you poorly. Not everyone lives by the golden rule. The law of the jungle seems to be more prevalent. Don’t allow people to walk all over you. Accept and demand to be treated with respect.
Remember, you control your life. Your decision and actions determined where you are now, and it will determine where you will be 5 years from now. If you are not where you want to be in life, only can get yourself to where you want to be. Take control!
Corey Stokes 