The one.

The blog posts this week (Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday), will focus on the person who perhaps holds the world’s most important job. It’s not the President, not the King, not the quarterback of your favorite football team, not the guy who created the iPhone and not the founder of Facebook. Besides they’re all guys and you probably would agree they don’t hold a candle to the person who, for at least a brief moment, and hopefully many, many more, wielded the greatest power over your existence, your Mom.

Mother’s Day is this Sunday and although you get a day to think about it, I think you might agree it’s worth more than 24 hours of contemplation and celebration.

I’ve got one, a good one. My Mom is caring, loving, nurturing and fortunately for my family, still around. I got a good head start in life because of her and I, as do so many of us, owe her a debt of gratitude. Motherhood can be the world’s most rewarding and most thankless job all at the same time. Being a Mom means sacrifice, it means opening up your heart so wide, so vulnerable, filled with love, worry, hurt, joy and laughter that a Mom’s center muscle might just be the strongest of them all. To be a Mom that heart needs to have a tough skin and at the same time be completely porous and transparent. To be a Mom means you give completely, sometimes unrecognized, sometimes void of gratitude, but give nonetheless because you already gave so much of yourself, your own flesh and blood, you can’t help but love, teach, and nurture until it hurts.

And sometimes it does hurt, because to get it right you’ve got to reprimand your own, get tough, fight back and then turn on a dime…to be tender, thankful and loving. Find another who can juggle these emotions, one who has a heart that can handle the twists and turns, a heart that can take the beating and then start beating again, in awe, wonder and pride for those to whom they gave life. It’s no small feat, in fact it’s a feat at which the world marvels, for those of us who aren’t, it’s nearly impossible to comprehend, yet in most cases we witness it being accomplished with such subtle grace under pressure you don’t even realize it’s happening.

It just so happens we take a day each year to give thanks and gratitude to Mom, though there really aren’t enough days in our lifetime for this, for they gave us life, help us live it, and that’s why it’s just about… life.

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.
Mark
(Coming up Thursday: being a Mom, the best quotes from those who live it. And Sunday: celebration and respect in The Sunday Series).

Mark Brodinsky, Author, Blogger, Financial Services
It Takes 2. Surviving Breast Cancer: A Spouse’s Story
#1 Amazon Best-Seller
Get the book: www.spouses-story.com, www.amazon.com/author/markbrodinsky
Email: markbrodinsky@gmail.com

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The Sunday Series takes a week off to witness some inspiration, as we are immersed in a day-long event which brings athletes from all over for some intense compeition. The opening ceremonies begin in just one hour (7:30am). The Sunday Series returns next week with more stories of inspiration, courage and hope. Hope you take the time to join me then.

Mark

Mark Brodinsky, Author, Blogger, Financial Services
It Takes 2. Surviving Breast Cancer: A Spouse’s Story
#1 Amazon Best-Seller
Get the book: www.spouses-story.com, www.amazon.com/author/markbrodinsky

markbrodinsky@gmail.com

“But how?” shouldn’t even be a question. It shouldn’t even be a statement: “I don’t know how.”

The how is everywhere, it’s down the street at your local library, it’s at your fingertips online on your computer, or even closer, on your phone. The how is as simple as asking someone who has done it, or is doing it. Don’t waste your idea, your talent, or your why because you say you don’t know how. You’re cheating yourself and the world out of something which could become remarkable because YOU possess that much power and inspiration.

Feeling insecure? Then Google Sean Stephenson, the “three-foot giant” who has overcome all odds and created an unbreakable character, his mission is to rid the world of insecurity. He says we don’t have an inspiration problem, we have an implementation problem. He says it’s a “but” problem, too many people fail to take action on their big idea, or their dream,by sitting on their “buts”. His goal…to not let the challenges of life take you down, or keep you down. Just check out his short film, “You Got This”, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpfF-9oXEA4).

You not only got this, you have it in spades. The trick is to figure our what “it” is for you and then stop making excuses, get off your “but”, do the little things, the seemingly trivial activities every day which will drive you to realizing your goal and life’s desire. The smallest of steps make a huge difference in the long run. Just do it, just persevere. I know a guy who likes to write, inspire and then publish. 🙂 A couple of days a week he writes a blog and once a week he shares other people’s stories which seem to transform many, including himself. It works, it’s making a difference and it’s simply a small step to a larger dream and expanding his why.

So don’t worry about the how. The resources are endless, ask, inquire, seek out the answers, take your why and figure out a way. Do it for you, do it for us.

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.
Mark

Mark Brodinsky, Author, Blogger, Financial Services
It Takes 2. Surviving Breast Cancer: A Spouse’s Story
#1 Amazon Best-Seller
Get the book: www.spouses-story.com, www.amazon.com/author/markbrodinsky
markbrodinsky@gmail.com

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