I haven't written anything in QUITE a long time, but something really hit me today. I was watching the movie Groundhog Day and there was a thought that came to me quite a few times near the end of the movie. If you don't remember the movie, then I suggest you go to www.crackle.com and watch it again so you know what I mean. AFTER you read this blog of course...Today is my Birthday, so I thought I would share some wisdom with all of you today. I figured I will give you something for my Birthday instead of the other way around for a change. How is that? I hope you don't mind.

Well anyway, what I was saying... Just like Phil Connors(Bill Murray) we seem to be going through the same thing over and over again sometimes. But we think it is some kind of curse just like he did! We wonder why we keep getting cut off in traffic or why we keep getting passed up for a promotion, or why we can't seem to sell our house when we need to right? Well what if we just aren't paying attention closely enough?

At the beginning of the movie, after the third day reliving February 2nd (Groundhog Day) he starts reacting to what is going on around him. He hits the guy that comes up to him and introduces himself as Ned Ryerson and he watches an old man step ankle-deep in the puddle that he had been stepping in for days.

He then starts memorizing everything about his producer, Rita, so he can hopefully get her to sleep with him. He learns EVERYTHING about her to do his very best to get her to fall in love with him and spend the night with him. But it doesn't work incidentally and she ends up slapping him over and over and over again. Until finally he decides to tell her what is going on. That seems to work better than the other way did, so he starts going in another direction. He starts to look out for other people instead of himself and to do things that better himself instead of trying new ways to kill himself or try to get the girl to like him.

This is much like our own lives. If we would stop trying to figure things out and just do what we want to do, we would be much happier! Instead of trying to figure out how to get the girl, we just start being ourselves and doing what makes us happy and stop worrying about what other people are going to think of us!

Yes, I know it is just a movie. But this was not a movie based upon fantasies. This was a movie based upon real human emotions and real thoughts that go through peoples' heads on a daily basis.

There are SO many things I could pull from this movie, but the one thing that I wanted to comment on today was what happened at the end of the movie. At the end of the movie Connors had become good at MANY things; Ice Sculpturing, throwing cards into a hat, playing the piano... How did he get good at these things? He did then EVERY day for six months!

What would you like to get good at? I mean really good at? What if you practiced it for 4 hours every day for six months? Do you think you would get better at it? I know there are some of you reading this that have objections like, "I have to work" or "I have to sleep" or "I have a wife and kids"... Well the list goes on and on. I am challenging a select few of you to be BRAVE and throw off EVERY thing that is going to stop you from getting good at this ONE thing that you want to get good at in the next six months.

I know you can do it because I got so good in six months that I didn't want to stop! And I have continued working hard for YEARS and I am not going to stop EVER! Take the challenge or not... The only person that is going to win or lose is...YOU!!!

So it is completely up to you... Have fun with this!!!

I don't want to hear from you right now...Anyone can say, "Tyler, I'm going to do it!!!" I want you to do it for six months and THEN and ONLY then tell me the results that you have had!

I like the quote that says, "Tell the world what you will do, but first show them!" I cannot remember who said it, but it is something to live by.

So get out there and SHOW the world what you can do by getting a little bit better EVERY day!

To your success,

Tyler J. Forest