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John Lovato Jr's Blog – November 2016 Archive (2)

Good Vs Great....Where do you fall in?

The Good vs Great Mindset frustrates many.

What it is, most of you guys can relate to this, we have something called minimum standards in the fire service and most people meet minimum standards. They're a one-year firefighter their whole career, that's their choice. There's others that want to master the craft and keep going on and challenging themselves and learning more. I want to call them the great. You have the good, which is minimum, you might not agree with me on…

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Added by John Lovato Jr on November 14, 2016 at 2:49pm — No Comments

STOP WAITING FOR HELP…..

Learn to overcome the learned helplessness mindset

We have built a society where problems are solved by others

We continue to think that we need others to solve our own problems

So we wait….and wait…..and wait for this unknown person to come make all our problems go away.

Meanwhile we do nothing but complain.

Problems are solved by work being done by those involved.

You are the one you have been waiting for.

You…

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Added by John Lovato Jr on November 5, 2016 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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