How To Change The Banner of Your Life

Banners are generally used to advertise or identify people or groups of people (tribes, military or political parties) or to declare the standards or purposes of groups or individuals.  According to Webster, a banner is: 

1)  anything regarded or displayed as a symbol of principles; 
2) the ensign or the like bearing some device, motto or slogan as one carried in religious, political or military processions; or 
3)  a degree or level of requirement, excellence, or attainment.

Whether we realize it or not, we all carry a banner of our lives around with us.  Not a literal streamer or flag banner, but a banner of our beliefs, standards and principles.  Our life banners are displayed by every thought we think, the words we speak and every action we take.  So, in the spirit of the CapitalOne Credit Card commercial I have to ask,

What’s on your banner?

As the great quote by… well... no one really seems to know who said it, says:

Watch your thoughts, they become words. 

Watch your words, they become actions.

Watch your actions, they become habits. 

Watch your habits, they become character.

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Essentially, the banner of your life is an advertisement or display of your character declared by your thoughts, words and actions.

Life Flashes: When Life Resembles An Episode of Lost

Have you ever experienced a life “flash” moment like those depicted in the television hit series Lost? You know, one day you’re simply going along in one direction, the flash happens, and suddenly you find yourself headed in a different direction? Doesn’t it remind you of the electromagnetic time continuum flashes that happen on Lost? Life flashes are the kind of colossal moments that make you want to bang your head against a hatch and say, “What in the*hecky-heck-heckfire* just happened here and what do I do now?” (*_*You may insert your own superlatives here or refer to Lost video in sidebar to the right.)

I am not going to attempt to postulate on quantum physics or parallel universalism theories by comparing the show’s flashes to real life flashes. Lucky for you, I know absolutely nothing about either one of those subjects. However, I have had a few real-life flash moments, so I do have some ideas about the process of surviving them.