It a is funny thing in life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.....W. Somerset Maugham
The Pit Bull and Poodle Test.
With the new year upon us, a lot of folks use the end of one year and the begining of a new year to assess their character, their accomplishments and to to evaluate how they stack up to what they want to be and do.
I guess that is why alcohol sales soar through the roof at this time of the year, because for some, reality can be brutil. I mean, who wants to appraise his life when he's spent the past 12 months unshorn, sitting on his steel beam-reinforced, duct taped couch watching CNN, while complaining about life and politics as he grows fatter by the day.
Sure, introspection is painful, and brutal assessment of where we are and what we'er really doing is about as appealing as eating a morning Bagle with Joan Rivers while she's tripping on acid after just getting fresh lip implants. Nevertheless, sometimes we have to do the uncomfortable in order to go on to greatness.
Having a great family, a successful career or a killer business is not easy. If you and I want to achieve what we dream about in life, then we have to get an attuide, and not just any attitude, but a pit bull attitude. Life is hard, and you and I cannot be thin skinned little tea cup poodles and expect life to give us what we want.
The pit bull epitomizes courage and persistence. They are scrappy warriors who will not back down. They face difficulties with a win-or-die perspective. they love the battle, they love the heat, they love the fight.
If you are looking for an easy way to succeed, for someone to carry you into greatness, you'er in for the shock of your life. It is not out there. Young people if you think life is going to be trouble-free, you'er about to have your rose-colored glasses removed, snaped in two and stomped into the ground, which, hopefully, will improve your vision. There is no easy road to a successful family, career or life.
The road to sucess is paved with road kill, and the road kill are all the glassy-eyed, weak, unprepared poodles that're looking for a free ride. But life is a battle where only pit bulls survive and thrive.
Here is the Pit Bull and Poodle Test, to help you to judge and adjust your attitude. So if last year sucked because you were acting like a poodle, this next year won't because you will have taken on a Pit Bull Attitued.
Pit Bull Test
1. Do you have a definite purpose backed up by a burning desire to see it fulfilled.
2. Are you continuously in action working on your plan.
3. Is your mind closed towards all negative and discuuraging influences from foes, friends, dysfunctional parents, music, books, tapes, T.V. ect.
4. Do you hang out with people who are greater than you in what they have accomplished and who utterly challenge you to excellence.
5. Are you self-reliant and independent.
6. Do you take responsibility for your life, both faliures and successes.
7. Do you hate it when you waste time.
8. Do you look at life as a game to be played and played like a champion.
9. Have you become impervious to criticisms of pusillanimous men and women.
10. Do you boldly face your fears with fath and move towards your goals.
Poodle Test
1. Do you often complain about your life.
2. Do you avoid association with people who have accomplished more than you.
3. Dose your life seem futile and your future hopeless.
4. do you feel self-pity.
5. Are you envious of those who excel you.
6. Do you worry a lot.
7. Are you overly cautious and negative.
8. Are you indifferent and lacking in ambition and enthusiasm.
9. Do you constantly use excuses and alibis to explain why you haven't accomplished anything.
10. Do you often fantasize about lying on the front passenger seat of a Cadillac with a pink ribbon in your hair with your favorite chew toy.
If you checked more in the Pit Bull category, then congrats I'll see you at the top of the mountain next year.
If most of the checks fell to the Poodle side, and you want to get out of your poodle-funk then hold on to your lug nuts, it's time for an overhaul. You can change. Being a Pit Bull is not by chance, it is by about choice. You're transformation from being a little Fi-Fi is going to be difficult however, the life you're about to experience is way better then the stuff you're about to leave behind.
You'll find, Ms. Poodle, as you begain the transformation into pit bull that you are no longer timid, mousy or backward looking. Instead, You're audacious and courageous and not afraid to confront obstacles that hold you back from what you want from life.
Have a Pit Bull New Year!
The Pit Bull and Poodle Test.
With the new year upon us, a lot of folks use the end of one year and the begining of a new year to assess their character, their accomplishments and to to evaluate how they stack up to what they want to be and do.
I guess that is why alcohol sales soar through the roof at this time of the year, because for some, reality can be brutil. I mean, who wants to appraise his life when he's spent the past 12 months unshorn, sitting on his steel beam-reinforced, duct taped couch watching CNN, while complaining about life and politics as he grows fatter by the day.
Sure, introspection is painful, and brutal assessment of where we are and what we'er really doing is about as appealing as eating a morning Bagle with Joan Rivers while she's tripping on acid after just getting fresh lip implants. Nevertheless, sometimes we have to do the uncomfortable in order to go on to greatness.
Having a great family, a successful career or a killer business is not easy. If you and I want to achieve what we dream about in life, then we have to get an attuide, and not just any attitude, but a pit bull attitude. Life is hard, and you and I cannot be thin skinned little tea cup poodles and expect life to give us what we want.
The pit bull epitomizes courage and persistence. They are scrappy warriors who will not back down. They face difficulties with a win-or-die perspective. they love the battle, they love the heat, they love the fight.
If you are looking for an easy way to succeed, for someone to carry you into greatness, you'er in for the shock of your life. It is not out there. Young people if you think life is going to be trouble-free, you'er about to have your rose-colored glasses removed, snaped in two and stomped into the ground, which, hopefully, will improve your vision. There is no easy road to a successful family, career or life.
The road to sucess is paved with road kill, and the road kill are all the glassy-eyed, weak, unprepared poodles that're looking for a free ride. But life is a battle where only pit bulls survive and thrive.
Here is the Pit Bull and Poodle Test, to help you to judge and adjust your attitude. So if last year sucked because you were acting like a poodle, this next year won't because you will have taken on a Pit Bull Attitued.
Pit Bull Test
1. Do you have a definite purpose backed up by a burning desire to see it fulfilled.
2. Are you continuously in action working on your plan.
3. Is your mind closed towards all negative and discuuraging influences from foes, friends, dysfunctional parents, music, books, tapes, T.V. ect.
4. Do you hang out with people who are greater than you in what they have accomplished and who utterly challenge you to excellence.
5. Are you self-reliant and independent.
6. Do you take responsibility for your life, both faliures and successes.
7. Do you hate it when you waste time.
8. Do you look at life as a game to be played and played like a champion.
9. Have you become impervious to criticisms of pusillanimous men and women.
10. Do you boldly face your fears with fath and move towards your goals.
Poodle Test
1. Do you often complain about your life.
2. Do you avoid association with people who have accomplished more than you.
3. Dose your life seem futile and your future hopeless.
4. do you feel self-pity.
5. Are you envious of those who excel you.
6. Do you worry a lot.
7. Are you overly cautious and negative.
8. Are you indifferent and lacking in ambition and enthusiasm.
9. Do you constantly use excuses and alibis to explain why you haven't accomplished anything.
10. Do you often fantasize about lying on the front passenger seat of a Cadillac with a pink ribbon in your hair with your favorite chew toy.
If you checked more in the Pit Bull category, then congrats I'll see you at the top of the mountain next year.
If most of the checks fell to the Poodle side, and you want to get out of your poodle-funk then hold on to your lug nuts, it's time for an overhaul. You can change. Being a Pit Bull is not by chance, it is by about choice. You're transformation from being a little Fi-Fi is going to be difficult however, the life you're about to experience is way better then the stuff you're about to leave behind.
You'll find, Ms. Poodle, as you begain the transformation into pit bull that you are no longer timid, mousy or backward looking. Instead, You're audacious and courageous and not afraid to confront obstacles that hold you back from what you want from life.
Have a Pit Bull New Year!