February 2, 2012 By 3 Comments

GroundHog Day! What Shadow will you Cast?

After watching the movie GroundHog Day with Bill Murray where every day  for Bill’s character was the same . It gave him the opportunity to improve it a bit more and correct anything he wanted to correct.

A Day to Reflect

I take this day to reflect on my accomplishments and compare to how I have spent many other GroundHog Days in the past.

I clearly remember how I started doing this exercise when in February 2, 2006 I woke up at a crappy hotel room in Blossburg, PA very close to Punxsutawney, PA where the famous groundhog named Phil is monitored to cast his shadow. I ended up realizing I wanted to change a few things and that I was truly not completely happy with the life I was currently living. Working out of New York and living out of luggage from hotel room to hotel room is not the lifestyle anyone wishes . I worked towards changing this and I think I have done a great job at changing my lifestyle to have more control of where I want to be at.

Things have Changed and Improved

At the moment although I find myself re-inventing my business I find myself as a Small Business Owner, a dad with a Beautiful Daughter , an awesome business and life partner (@lucymfel), a small group of awesome friends (I would like to list them all), living in the tropics not having to worry about cold winters, and most importantly finding myself in great health.

Overall instead of looking for the Shadow I am making sure that where I cast my shadow in the future brings myself and those around me lots of progress.

I am grateful for all the blessings I have at the moment and for all of you who supper me continuously.

My cousin Berni Xiong  would say that we learn from our mistakes and my other good friend Robbie Vorhaus would say to focus on One Less thing we want to remove from our lives and One More thing we want to add into our lives (at least that is my interpretation.

What Shadow have you Casted?

What things can you fix so in the future where you cast your shadow it brings lots of benefits and blessings? 

 

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  • Ksmith80

    No doubt that you would be able to turn something that I only see as entertaining, such as(Groundhod Day) and give it a deeper meaning.  Interestingly enough one my courses in Ethical Leadership is based on casting shadows.  The author of our text does a great job “Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership Casting Light or Shadow” by Craig Johnson.
     Awesome post Raul.  Thank you for sharing.

    • http://raulcolon.net Raul Colon

      I will have to check Craig’s Book. Thanks for giving me your feedback. To a certain extent you did motivate me to get this post out today! :)

  • Kofla Olivieri

    Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies .
     http://www.koflaolivieri.com/blog/2012/02/we-petition-the-obama-administration-to-appoint-a-special-prosecutor-to-investigate-widespread-corru.html