Are you UPGRADING?

Let’s get right to the pointe! What does it mean to upgrade? Upgrade refers to the replacement of a product with a newer version of the same product.
Okay then, I have just gotten a new laptop to take with me on trips, I am upgraded. Oh and I also purchased a new outfit for work (I am looking good now)-I am upgraded. Am I? Really?
Now let’s put the material items away and really talk about upgrade. I know your first question is “What are you getting at now?” or What else can you upgrade?” Cutting to the chase-I am talking about upgrading yourself-your body, your mind and your spirit! Can you really do that? Won’t that take too much time? I wouldn’t know where to begin!!! Psst, Mr. Covey, can I borrow you for a minute? Steven Covey may have said it best-”BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND” Yea, yea , yea-wasn’t he talking about leadership or something like that? Didn’t he have some habit or addiction he couldn’t break?
Well I fully believe if you take this one quote and plug it into your life goals, it can make a world of difference in the effects of your upgrades.
1. You have to know where you want to go.
2. Find a way to get there.
3. Figure out where you want to go next.
Figure out where you want to go next? What does that mean? Are you crazy? Yep, if you are going to upgrade and not lay down stagnant, you have to keep pressing forward, you have to keep learning, you have to keep reading, you have to keep working out. You have to keep on keeping on!!!!
I feel like I am ranting a little.
To wrap this up, continue to upgrade yourself everyday. Do something for yourself. Read, write, workout, study, play, anything so that at the end of the day you are better off.
And the tip of the day- it is always easier to maintain a slow steady pace forward than to stop and stagnate and try to restart again.