TIME CANNOT STAND STILL

The earth moves around the sun. If the earth stopped moving around the sun, it would fall into it and burn up.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can stay aloft without moving forward. All other birds fly forward or fall to earth.

If I do not improve, I regress.

We all have met people who seem to have given up on life. They drag themselves through the day with little joy and seem to get almost nothing out of their day. For them, time seems to be standing still.

When we observe these people we are tempted to console ourselves with some thought like, "at least they are not getting any worse." They are getting worse.

Time does not stand still. Neither does the earth even though we do not feel it moving. Neither do birds. Even the hummingbird can only hover for a short period of time. Eventually, it must move forward or it will fall.

If I do not improve, I regress. The same goes for you. The same goes for everyone.

Improvements do not need to be very big to be significant. In fact, almost all success is an accumulation of very small improvements. Think about all the things you have done in life. How many resulted in a dramatic change in who you are and what you do? Very few. Maybe none.

But I am not the person I was when I was born. Neither am I the person I was when I started school, or when I got my first job, or when I was fired from my job for the first time, or when… Name a point in time. I am not the person I was then. Neither are you. Neither is anyone else.

Living is about changing. The change can be for the better or it can be for the worse. But we all change constantly.

If you are not moving up, you are falling. The only way to stop falling is to grab something or someone and pull. If you are not falling too fast, you may get by with a small pull. If you are falling faster, you will need to pull harder. Sometimes you will be falling so fast, you will not have the strength to stop your fall on your own. Do not be afraid to grab onto me. When the time comes, you can be assured that I will grab onto you. Even if that time never comes, you can be assured that I have grabbed onto other people when I needed to.