Setting those goals

I'm in the process of setting some new goals for myself, my companies
and with others. While doing this with others I quickly saw how
understanding the purpose of a goal and how to create them is not
always common sense.

Setting goals is one the hardest things for me.

Your goal needs to be something that is just out of reach and almost out
of your control to maintain. This is not true for all goals you set
but it would be for a short term goal.

My friend was setting goals that are within their control and also
setting them as moving targets. By doing this you are always going to
win, but without truly pushing yourself. You win by hitting the ones
you know you can and by lowering your targets to what you actually
get. Short term gratification with no true personal growth is the
result.

I told him the goal should be "goal" but to him it was reaching for an
outcome he had no control over so how could it be his goal. But that's
how you grow and push your limits, by making the impossible possible.
It forces you to look beyond your current skill set and build new
skills or reach out to others to help.

The beauty of having your goal outside of your comfort zone is that
even if you don't reach it, odds are you grew in the process and are
now more able to reach it next time.

You never loose when you try. But you have to try in order to win.

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THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SIDE

There is always a brighter side to everything. I always feel things happen for a reason. If something seems to be bad, just take a step back and think about how you future is going to turn out because of that happening and then think about how it would turn out if it didn't happen. The best way to do this is to just make note of the bad thing, and as great things happen look back and see if those great things would of been if that one bad thing didn't. LOL ... I know this is like a simple little test but it's so true.

Now about a year ago while I was on site with Dan he made me see it a little different and it makes sense. He told me it's not that things just always work out, it's all about your attitude. If you are a person who looks at the negative then things are not going to turn out good, and even if they do you are too focused on the bad thing that happened. But if you are positive person then everything always works out, no matter how bad they are. Thinking positive and being open to change is key to moving forward and always progressing. So many things have happened in my life that should of made me give up, or just always complain, but I personally choose to be positive and look at the brighter side.

THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD SIDE

Everything depends on the way you look at things.
View every problem you encounter as an opportunity.
There is always a good side to every situation.

The optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune.
The pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the doughnut.
The pessimist sees the hole.

You can develop success from every failure.
Discouragement and failure are two stepping stones to your success.
No other elements can do so much for you if you're willing to study them
and make them work for you.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars..




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YOU ARE WHAT YOU REPEATEDLY DO

I think it's suppose to take 3 weeks of doing something over and over again before it becomes habit. Once you reach that point it's then second nature and you remove the mental motivation and preparation part from doing the basics actions. Then your mind is free to innovate and focus on doing those actions better. Musicians and athletes have it all figured out. Practice and then more practice are the keys to success, but not just success but winning with out thinking. Their bodies know what to do in every situation before their minds even have time to think about. Imagine you being in that state of mind with your own destiny. Life is throwing curve balls at you but because you are so focused on your goal and you've trained yourself on how to stay focused you body and mind are making moves without you even knowing it. you are passing up opportunities that don't lead you to your end goal. You are making decisions that only lead you to where you need to be. You managed to make you whole being focused on your main target of accomplishing that goal. Can you make a decision without over analyzing it, without worrying about the outcome. If you can move through your days this way then you are going to reach your goal much faster.

I write these blogs without thinking, without rereading them or anything. I write these words with the practice I've gone through, my mind is focused on trying to get others motivated and thinking in a certain way that I write these emails/blogs without even thinking about them. I love to go back and reread them after the fact, but for the most part I just trust myself enough to let them flow without thought.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU REPEATEDLY DO

First you make your habits, and then your habits make you.
You become a slave to your constantly repeated acts.
What at first you chose, at last compels.

Your thoughts lead you to a purpose.
Your purpose moves you to take action.
Your actions form your habits.
Your habits determine your character,
and your character fixes your destiny.

Your habits are either the best of servants
or the worst of masters.

Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.

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Seven Rules of Motivation

I was going through the company codex at Spheric and came across this amazing set of rule posted by Dan. I don't think I've ever seen these before and as I read through them it was just WOW. Here are the 7 rules we have listed in our company for all the read and help push themselves forward.

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#1 Set a major goal, but follow a path.
The path has mini goals that go in many directions. When you learn to succeed at mini goals, you will be motivated to challenge grand goals.

#2 Finish what you start.
A half finished project is of no use to anyone. Quitting is a habit. Develop the habit of finishing self-motivated projects.

#3 Socialize with others of similar interest.
Mutual support is motivating. We will develop the attitudes of our five best friends. If they are losers, we will be a looser. If they are winners, we will be a winner. To be a cowboy we must associate with cowboys.

#4 Learn how to learn.
Dependency on others for knowledge is a slow, time consuming processes. Man has the ability to learn without instructors. In fact, when we learn the art of self-education we will find, if not create, opportunity to find success beyond our wildest dreams.

#5 Harmonize natural talent with interest that motivates.
Natural talent creates motivation, motivation creates persistence and persistence gets the job done.

#6 Increase knowledge of subjects that inspires.
The more we know about a subject, the more we want to learn about it. A self-propelled upward spiral develops.

#7 Take risk.
Failure and bouncing back are elements of motivation. Failure is a learning tool. No one has ever succeeded at anything worthwhile without a string of failures.

Number 2 is a big one in my eyes and it's the one that motivates me the most. I'm big on not on just finishing what you start but also leading by example. If you are leading a team and all they know is you never finish what you set out to do, then what are they going to think. And how are you going to react to them when they don't finish a task.

How do you motivate yourself? What are your little kick in the pants tricks?

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Assumptions change your direction

Take a moment and think about how you respond when somebody asks you why you never did something, or why you did it a certain way. You most always say "I Assumed".

Why do we always assume things we don't know and then let our assumptions affect our actions?

I just read this article on "Why assumptions are bad for business" and they explain it perfectly. I found myself reading it and thinking back over the last few years of my life and how a lot of the roads I went down were because of my assumptions. Looking back I can only imagine where I'd be today if I didn't assume but either just asked or did. (Nike got it right "Just Do It").

Over the last year or so I've tried to fully embrace the teachings of "Think and grow rich", "The secret" and just being positive overall. I've noticed that I've been working much harder to remove not just assumptions but also excuses from my conversations. It's made a world of difference thus far and I'll keep practicing this until it's just a part of who I am.

What is one thing you assumed today and how did it affect your actions?

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Where's your seat?

For most of us we know where we sit. Our seat is in a place we are familiar with and in a circle of comftable situations. For all of us we have this place where we can go to relax and not be scared if any unknowns.

Almost all of us have been forced at some point to step outside that circle and sit with people and things we don't know. And for the most part we pull through it and do an amazing job. We don't only do a great job but we grow. We expand our experience, strengthen out confidence and expand our knowledge.

Why is it that most of us choose to stay seated in the known and avoid the unknown? Most people spend their lives not trying to grow but only grow when forced to sit outside.

I feel that myself and the group people around me are always moving our seats around. We each force ourselves and each other to be in those uncomftable positions. The world is always changing and the only way we move forward is by changing with it. Sure we can all let the world push us to change but it's so much more fun being the one deciding the changes we want.

Where are you going sit to at today?

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Sharpening the axe

"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend four hours sharpening the axe..." - Abraham Lincoln

Wow!! What a thought to take all your time preparing for that moment to attack your goal. It's not just about making sure every swing with the axe cuts the deepest but that it takes less swings to chop that tree down.

We are a lazy generation and I know myself I spend a lot of time thinking about the things I have to do. But by doing this I find it takes me much less time to do my tasks and I mostly only have to do them once. Preparation is so important and perfecting your skill and knowing it is key in success.

Attention to details is a must in anything. Why does a basketball player spend so much time practicing free throws? Sure they can prefect the 3 pointer but they know when the time comes a game is won by points on the board and every single free throw brings them closer to that goal.
I use to think it all just happens and things work out, they do but because I'm prepared and take the time to sharpen my skills and layout my plans. Each move I make has a greater impact because of my actions and gives me the chance to complete my goals faster.

I hope we all take the time to sharpen the axe and plan our attack before we just jump in.
How many trees are planning on chopping down this coming year? I know I have a few extra big ones I have my eye on.

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YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHANCE

Never give up. If you find yourself going down the wrong path and then realize that you are farther away from your goal than when you started, don't give up, just keep moving. So many people just stop and give up, so many people don't realize that every goal is obtainable as long as you just keeping focus and working. It's cool to day dream and imagine that goal in your grasps but you need to be acting on reaching that goal. Any time spent on reaching a goal, increasing your knowledge and network, and any time spent helping others, is all productive time. Just stay positive, focused and doing. It's never too late to make your dreams reality.

YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHANCE


Within you at this moment is the power to do things
you never dreamed possible.

In fact, if you did all the things you are capable of doing,
you would literally astound yourself.
This power will come available to you
the moment you change your beliefs.

You know what you are today,
but not what you may be tomorrow.
Always look at things as they can be.

You can do anything you wish to do,
have anything you wish to have,
be anything you wish to be.

Never say never.
You don't know what you can do until you try.



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SEE THINGS BIG BUT KEEP THINGS SIMPLE

Everything is obtainable, no matter how big the goal. Any goal that we put in front of ourselves is nothing more than a set of small goals that lead to the big one. It's easy to get caught up in all the steps that are required to reach the end, but if we take each step along the path as small goals then every day you win, and eventually you take that last step to reach your goal.
On that same note once you reach your goal either you are going to be excited to be there or you are going to realize it wasn't what you wanted. For the case where you find your goal wasn't as you expected it's easy to get discouraged and think about wasted effort and time, bu that is the wrong way to approach it. When you accomplish a goal regardless you need to always step back and be proud that you finished something that you started out to do, then you need to think about all the small goals that lead you there and be proud of your hard work. Then you need to take the lessons you learned along the way as being life lessons that have helped better your life. Nothing is ever a waste of time or effort if you can take a lesson away from it, and if you can look back on the hard work you did and apply that to your next goal. Always be thankful, always be positive and always keep moving forward.

Stop talking and start doing, it's the only way to take your dreams and make them real.

SEE THINGS BIG BUT KEEP THINGS SIMPLE


Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
The key to anything is simplicity.

You can increase your understanding of any subject
by progressing from the simple to the complex.
Divide any complex issue into simple parts,
and master each part, and no project will be too difficult.

By understanding the simple,
you can understand the complex.

Solutions are all simple after you have arrived at them.
But, they are simple only when you know what they are.

Nothing is more simple than greatness,
for to be simple is to be great...



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YOU ONLY GET TO KEEP WHAT YOU GIVE AWAY

This is a classic message that has been true for always. You have to give to get. With Christmas coming up fast what a better time to have a message like this. The biggest joy I get out of running a business is seeing how it effects others lives in a positive way. I love knowing that something I helped build is providing for people, and I honestly don't expect anything from it.

Proof of the secret happens in all our lives, young and old. A few weeks back I was suppose to be onsite during a weekend. My daughter was out playing when it was dark and they saw a falling star and she made a wish. When Jill asked her what she wanted, she told her that she wished Daddy was coming home. The next day I found out I never had to be onsite and I rebooked my tickets to be home. I only found out about that little wish last night and it made me feel so good that through whatever powers that be I was able to make my daughters wish come true.

We are our thoughts and it is so important to always be positive and moving forward. This way of life makes each day a great day, and it keeps you on a path that is always moving towards our dreams.

YOU ONLY GET TO KEEP WHAT YOU GIVE AWAY

It's a universal law: You have to give before you get.

You must plant your seeds before you reap the harvest.
The more you sow, the more you will reap.
In giving to others, you will find yourself blessed.

The law works to give you back more then you have sown.
The giver's harvest is always full.

Those that obtain have little.
Those who scatter have much.

Nature does not give to those who will not spend.


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When you can embrace everything, then, indeed, you have nothing to lose.

When you can embrace everything, then, indeed, you have nothing to lose.

I love this message!! If you live you life always being open to new opportunities and with a willingness to change then you are never at a loss. You'll always have a new direction you can take, and there will always more doors to open.

If you spend your time holding on to the familiar and only doing what you know then you'll end up being left holding an empty bag. The world is always changing and nothing is ever going to stay the same.

In my life I always say things happen for a reason and they work out for the best. But a friend woke me to another way to look at. He said that because I was open to change that was the reason it always worked out. Being positive about the outcome of whatever is going on is going to bring a positive change.

Each of us needs to be aware that our world is changing, kids grow up, technology changes, companies come and go, everything and anything is going to evolve in one way or another. So as long as we stay positive and always keep our eyes open grabbing as many opportunities as we can then we all win.

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YOU CAN BE A WINNER IF YOU PLAN AHEAD

I use to get so pumped thinking I could wing anything. Put me in any situation and I'll pull it off, but I've learned that as cool as this is, it's so much better and more rewarding when you are prepared for your situation. Along with always being focused and knowing your goal. You also need to be planning and thinking about how you are going to reach it. The more you plan, practice and imagine, the easier your goals are going to be to obtain. When I know I have a meeting, and interview, a letter to write or anything important, I always take the time to plan it out and get ready to do my best job. By doing all this you are also better preparing yourself for those times you have to wing it. Athletes and musicians know the key to success, practice.

The more you practice, the luckier you get :)

YOU CAN BE A WINNER IF YOU PLAN AHEAD


You gain the advantage in any situation through one medium: time
You can do things before they need to be done.
You can position yourself ahead of time in the best place.

Think ahead of any approaching action.
Make a plan and you will always have the advantage.

Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.


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THE KEY TO YOUR SUCCESS IS IN YOUR HANDS

Stay focused n the task at hand and never worry about the tasks that follow. As long as your mind knows that there is an end goal to reach and al you have to do is complete simple tasks to get there then anything is possible. But you have to stay focused. It's so easy to think you can do it all yourself and then get so caught up that you loose complete focus. But always remember that no matter how out of control it gets you can always just stop and start over. Everything you do is bringing you closer to your dreams, so just take a deep breath, think about that goal, and then plan you next steps. Running or walking makes no difference, you always send up at the same place eventually.

THE KEY TO YOUR SUCCESS IS IN YOUR HANDS


You cannot do everything, but you can do something.

Only you can make it happen.
No one can do it for you.
No one will do it for you.

Always accept the responsibility for your actions.
Always set a higher standard for yourself.

Choose the thoughts and actions that will lead
you on to success.

Your success is but a determined action away.


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Look for gifts

Every day I also get a spiritual type email and they are just as moving as the motivation ones. Today's tells us that there is always a bright side to every thing. If each of us take the time to look at the situations we end up in and just see what we can learn then all we do is grow. There is very little that happens to any of us that is so bad that we can't move forward. The only thing that should stop us is death, and when that does happen I'm sure we want to be able to look back on our lives and not see a bunch of "should ofs" but a bunch of "great moments". Never worry about others, never think the outcome is going to be negative, and always dream big and expect the best. Life itself is a gift and everyday is great day to learn something new and grow.

Look for the gifts

"In school you get the lesson and then take the test ... In life you take the test and then get the lesson."

-- Unknown Source

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

-- Charles Beard

How is a problem in your life really an opportunity?

Problems invite us to go inside to recognize a bigger picture of ourselves and of life. This bigger picture brings meaning to what is unfolding. When you feel trapped in a problem, see if you can shift your perspective. Ask yourself, “What is my soul inviting me to learn from this situation?” The answer will always revolve around a quality or value, like gratitude, freedom, compassion, love, will, humour or acceptance. The answer will also always promote union rather than separation.

As soon as we find the meaning in our challenge, our resistance to it melts away. Often, awareness of the lesson is all that is needed to resolve the problem. If not, the awareness brings us courage and ways to work through it.

"The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life."

-- Dalai Lama

"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

-- Albert Einstein

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STARTING IS THE KEY IF YOU WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

That first step is the key. You can reach anywhere with out moving forward, and knowing where you are going. It's cool to dream big dreams and it's awesome to be optimistic all the time, but there has to be that point where you crave those dreams so much that you focus your actions to making that dream your reality. I think a good first step would be to write those day dreams down, figure out the goals you want out of them, and then through that you can see the person you want to be. I'm going to start writing all my wants, desires and ambitions down in my log book, so I can always be reminded in the real world the things my imaginations want me to achieve.

STARTING IS THE KEY IF YOU WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

The courage to begin always separates dreamers from achievers. Your willingness to act, to overcome inertia, is your first step on the path to success. You're surrounded by opportunities to be successful. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put your plan into action. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you are, and work with the tools you have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. The first step is the hardest. But you must take it. A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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REALITY IS SOMETHING YOU CAN RISE

I love how it says we are bigger than anything that can happen to us. Everything is overcome able, nothing is impossible to rise above and keep moving forward. All we have to do in rough situations is find the lesson and learn from it. If we took everything that happened to us a like doing a test in school then we would all grow to better persons. We would learn to put embarrassment and worry out of our minds and learn to just live life for what it is ... OURS!!! We can do and be anything we want, we just need to be aware of our surroundings and learn how to make them work for us.

REALITY IS SOMETHING YOU CAN RISE


You're bigger than anything that can happen to you.

The obstacles you face are only mental barriers
which can be overcome by adopting a more positive approach.

Have the courage to confront what you can imagine.

You don't have to be a puppet manipulated by outside powerful forces,
you can become the powerful force yourself.

Courage is resistance to fear and mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
This is where you'll win the battle, in the playhouse of your mind.

Visualize what you want.
See it, feel it, believe in it.
Make your mental blueprint,
and then begin to build.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.



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YOU MUST HAVE A DREAM TO MAKE IT COME TRUE

Our dreams are our reality!!! It's in this message today and it's always in my email quote. We form our futures with our minds, not y what others tell us. There is a reason I cal be corp's the fat cats because all the works are just the scared mice doing as they are told. I personally never want to be that scared mouse ever again and never ever want to be that fact cat. I want to free from the corporate world as a participant and just be a outsider trying to help fix it and show others it doesn't have to be that way. This message isn't too motivating but it shows one other goal I have and it's one I had for about 5 years, and so far I've been doing everything right to make it come true. Obviously being independent with a wife and 2 kids is not an easy goal to obtain, but I've been doing it for the last 3 years. At the same time I'm still focusing on my goal of 37 and my banker tells me that I'm making the right moves to reach that as well. So as crazy as those goals are by themselves they are even bigger combined .. and because of my focus and drive I am making them happen :) What are your big crazy goals? Are you on the path to reach them?

YOU MUST HAVE A DREAM TO MAKE IT COME TRUE


Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams,
and strive to live the life you imagine and you'll meet with success.

The only way to discover the limits of what is possible for you
is to go beyond those limits into the impossible.

Far away, there in the sunshine are your highest goals and aspirations.
Believe that you can reach them, look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and follow where they lead.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.




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EFFECTIVE TIME USAGE DETERMINES SUCCESS

The Daily Guru is back .. yes!!! I haven't gotten and email from him about 2 weeks and it's been hard for me to write stuff without it.

Well today's daily guru is perfect. Yesterday I was so sick I couldn't do anything and it felt like such a waste of time. Being focused and using your time effectively is so important in reaching your goals. I find the key is to take each item you need to complete and break it down into easy doable tasks. By doing this everything becomes simple and obtainable. Keep focused and using your time wisely and everything well work out. You can have all the money in the world and loose it, and you can earn it back. But you can never get back your lost time. Time is money and so precious.

EFFECTIVE TIME USAGE DETERMINES SUCCESS


Everyday you make an investment of your time in your chosen activities.
You cannot save time for later use. You have to use it as it comes.
And you only have 24 hours to each day.

Try to get the most out of the time you have.
Focus your efforts on doing those things that will have the most
significant impact on your life and your work.
Do the important things first and stay focused on them
until they are done.

Nothing makes you more effective than your ability to stay focused.
Challenge yourself to stay focused.
You'll be amazed at how much you'll get done,
when you actually work the whole time you're working.

Your time is precious and cannot be replaced.
Use it effectively with focus and get things done.

Don't serve time, make time serve you.



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Dream Big, Bold Dreams

Big dreams bring big results. I'm using this new daily newsletter for this stuff and it's turning out pretty good so far. Today's shows how Desire and Effort are required to get results. Everybody has big dreams, everybody wants to make it, but only some understand that to get there it takes effort. It's not hard to see patterns in these emails. First you always have to see your goal, then you have to figure out how to get there or take small steps always towards it, along the way you have drop things in your life today to reach it, but if you keep focusing, moving and making choices .. you will get there. Big Hairy Audacious Goal's ("BHAG") are important in this process. The more outrageous the goal the more it becomes something you want. I want to be financially free by age 37, when I tell this to people (bankers, accountants, older folks, anybody) I get that weird look of me being crazy. But you know what, that's my BHAG, that's the thing that keeps me moving forward and personally I think I've been making a lot of the right moves to get there. There have been pitfalls from time to time, but because I believe everything happens for a reason I look at those pitfalls as blessings instead of drawbacks.


Dream Big, Bold Dreams

What invites you to conceive of brave, big, and bold dreams
in your life?

Martin Luther King dreamed brave dreams. "I have a dream
that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed: all men are created equal."

Mother Teresa dreamed big dreams. In Ladies Home Journal,
April, 1996, she shared her personal dream that, "I was to
follow Jesus into the slums... It was an order... And when
that happens, the only thing to do is say yes."

A dream that started with little money and a handful of
sisters is now a worldwide organization with over seven
thousand nuns and brothers, in more than 100 different
countries."

John F. Kennedy dreamed bold dreams. Kennedy stated his
dream in May of 1961. "I believe that this nation should
commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is
out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely
to the Earth."

The dream became a reality on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11
commander Neil Armstrong took a small step for himself and a
giant step for mankind, leaving a dusty trail of footprints
on the moon.

What about your bold dreams? What is in the imagination of
your heart for your goals?

Do you dream in ways that create more meaning to your life?

Take a moment to consider (and even write down) one of your
dream goals.

Now, consider an equation that makes a fabulous difference
between the achievement of a goal or its dismal failure:

D + E = R

D = Desire - What kind of real desire supports your dream?
On a scale of 1-10, how much do you yearn for what you are
dreaming? Can your desire become focused readiness for goal
achievement?

In The Power of Focus, the authors (Canfield, Hansen and
Hewitt) tell a story of a workshop participant who is a
dentist. He told them that he was only in the dental
profession because it was his mother's dream.

He went on to say, "I hate it. One day, I drilled through
the side of a patient's mouth and ended up having to pay him
$475,000." What is the cost of pursuing someone else's
dream? What is the value of pursuing your own?

E in the equation stands for effort. Decide on the effort
that you are willing to invest to achieve your dream goal.
Effort includes time, energy, knowledge, skills, and an
active commitment.

R = Results. The secret is that life changing results
require both your desire and effort.

*Marilynn Mobley, a gifted public relations strategist,
dreamt of an executive position in a premier global
organization within thirty miles of her home at a specific
salary range with job responsibilities that would blend her
strategy skills with her love for technology.

She moved from dreaming to taking specific, relevant and
focused action on her goal. She treated her executive search
as an 8-5 job each day. She gave it her professional energy,
focus and used every resource available to her.

Within just six months of beginning her search, she was
offered her dream position with Edelman, the most
prestigious PR firm in the world. In her words, "I couldn't
have written a better job description for myself. This job
is perfect for me." She now is Senior Vice President and
Strategic Counsel, having already been given new
responsibility in just 18 months that is parallel with her
career growth and interests.

What about you? What is the effort that you are willing to
invest in your dream goal? When are you willing to get
started?

As we close, a powerful quote from Mahatma Gandhi
underscores the truth of our equation Desire + Effort =
Results. "I claim to be an average man of less than average
ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or
woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the
same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
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BY Susan B. Wilson, MS, MBA, CSP
Facilitator, Author, Speaker, Trusted Coach. Visit Susan at
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HAPPINESS LIES IN THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT

There is a reason why so many people that have everything handed to them a re so sad. I would love to see how many people that win the lottery end up being more miserable than before they won. Take some time and recall all the things your life that has made you happy, I would say that a high percentage are things that you did yourself. The harder you have to work the greater the joy that comes from it. Just today Dad and I built this awesome storage floor in my garage and it feels so good that we did it ourselves. Three months ago Dad, Mom, Jill and I built our fence and that was so exhilarating. I love it so much I think we're going to build our next house ourselves :). With every goal you accomplish there is always two pots of golds, the reward you reached and the joy that comes from it.

HAPPINESS LIES IN THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT


Happiness is a byproduct.
You cannot pursue it by itself.

You were built to conquer your environment,
solve problems, and achieve goals.
You'll find no real satisfaction or happiness in life
without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Happiness is in activity.
It's a running river not a stagnant pond.
Happiness is not in having or being,
it's in doing something you love.

The secret of happiness is in having something to do.


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Creating your own reality. This is not magic or voodoo, it's real and I've seen it in my own life. When I put the power of my thought into getting a new house ... I get it. I wanted to have a contract close to home where I could keep working and get more time with my family. As rare as contracts in Canada are I managed to find myself working on a contract in TO for about 6 months. All of these and many other things started as desires and thoughts in my mind and through the power of "whatever" I made them come true. You are the result of your thoughts. If bad things happen then you are thinking about bad things, if good is happening then you are focusing on good things and you are also focusing on the good in the things that are already around you. You could have the everything you want already in your hand, but if you fail to see it then it'll be lost.

REALITY FORMS AROUND YOUR COMMITMENTS



Intense anticipation will transform your possibilities into reality.
Strong desires will in time externalize themselves into concrete fact.
Your desires are the precursors of the things
which you are capable of having and doing.

Weak desires will bring you weak results,
just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The intensity of your desire governs the power
with which your energies will be directed.

When you care enough for a given result,
you'll almost certainly attain it.
All of your dreams can come true,
if you have the courage to pursue them.

Reality forms around your commitments.
Desire is the starting point for success.


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SUCCESS IS DETERMINED ON THE DRAWING BOARD

I love the last line on this one. "No one ever got lost on a straight road", how true is that. This message is another awesome one that blows me away. One big thing I've learned is that you have to willing to give up things to get what you want. So you better want it a lot more than the things you are sacrificing. I personally have given up a lot to get to where I am right now. For my houses I've given up extra income to make sure my apartments keep running (not rented, water bills, condo fees, etc.), I've given up money to invest in BB to keep that going strong, and I can't even measure the amount of time I've given up with my family to pursue a consulting career. Along with all that there are simple sacrifices I've done to keep me on my straight road. The problem is I have 3-4 roads all at the same time.

So again you need to have a clear goal, you need to focus on it, you need to know your steps to getting there, and you have to be ready to give up things to get there, also more important when you do get there .. be thankful.

SUCCESS IS DETERMINED ON THE DRAWING BOARD

It isn't enough to just want to be successful.
You've got to ask yourself:
'What are you going to do to get the things in life you want?'

Your problem is to bridge the distance which exists
between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Planning brings your future into the present
so you can do something about it now.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
All you need is a good plan,
and the courage to press on to your destination.

A well built house started with a definite purpose
and a set of blueprints.
Your plan should provide the pattern for the actions you'll take.

Take time each day to study, think and plan.
Plan your steps, then implement your plan, then review your results.
Do this frequently and make the appropriate alterations to your plan,
and you'll develop the power that will bring you to success.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.


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NEVER SAY NEVER

You can always do anything you put your mind to. I bet if I wanted to and practiced and trained enough I could dunk a basketball on a 10ft net. You'll never know the things you can do unless you try, and thinking about all the things you wish you did or want to do are not going to make them happen. You have to put your thoughts to action. You can loose all the money you've ever made and get it back, but you can never get all the time you've lost. Your time is the most valuable thing you have and it's important to use it to help you reach your goals.

NEVER SAY NEVER



There is no such thing as no chance.
Don't think about the things you can't do.
Think about the things you can do.

No matter what the level of your ability is,
you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

You have powers you never dreamed of.
You can do things you never thought you could do.
There are no limitations to what you can do
except the limitations of your own mind.

Your range of available choices right now is limitless.
Look at things as they can be.


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YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU IMAGINE

Always thinking about your goals is the one sure way to make them come true. With out thinking, planning and working goals are nothing more than dreams. You have to focused on what you want to achieve to make it your reality. The one thing that people always have to keep in mind is that to get those goals you have to give something up. The bigger the goal the bigger the sacrifice. So be prepared to make those tough choices and make sure that the goal you think you want is truly the goal your heart desires.

YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU IMAGINE

Picture yourself in your mind's eye
as having already achieved your goal.
See yourself doing the things you'll be doing
when you've reached your destination.

Your imagination is your mental workshop
where all your plans are fashioned.
Visualize your goals and you'll get your subconscious
to work toward making your mental pictures come true.

Olympic medalists use the art of mental rehearsal or visualization.
They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Decide what you want out of your life.
Sense it before you have it.
See it, feel it, taste it, smell it and imagine
the emotions associated with the attainment of your goal.
Pre-live it in your mind before you have it.
Your vision will become a powerful driving force in your life.

See the things you want as already yours,
and one day, they will be yours.


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RICHES LIE INSIDE YOU, NOT IN MATERIAL POSSESSIONS

When I worked at Verizon my manager always said "It's not about having what you want, but wanting what you have" and I believe that so much. You always have to be striving for more but when you reach those goals you need to be thankful for it. The road to riches is about giving not just getting. The more you give the more you get and that is true for wealth, knowledge and compassion, the three ingredients to the kill app :)

RICHES LIE INSIDE YOU, NOT IN MATERIAL POSSESSIONS


Wealth without enjoyment is little consolation.
Your real prosperity lies in being thankful.
Your real riches are riches of the head and heart.
Satisfaction comes from appreciating what you have.

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.

It's not how much you have,
it's how much you enjoy.


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What are the goals of a Community Manager?

I've taken on the role of community manager at my company recently and it's something I'm excited about. My first thoughts were that the main focus was on building company culture and building a positive atmosphere internally, but as I search the web looking for clues and insight to this new role I find that a major focus of a community manager is external driven.
Links I've found include:

• Hiring a community manager
  
• The four tenets of the community manager
  
• Community Manager Role
• Essential skills of a community manager
• Here is an awesome image outlining the community managers role.
  

I'm cool with this new role and loving the challenge but I'm having a hard time learning how to quantify my efforts and set goals. I'm sure I can come up with some simple goals to start such as:

• # tweets per month
• # blogs per week
• # comments on other blogs/communities per week
• increase site traffic to # by some date

These are goals I can set and I know I can hit, but what about goals for internal efforts? Those are the ones I want to determine but I can't seem to wrap my head around it.

Should my internal goals be on getting employees to blog? to answer questions in the industry? Or should they be focused on more internal culture building?

Please post your comments with sample goals you think a community manger should be setting for themselves. Without goals there is no direction, so please help me find my.

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SUCCESS IS THE RESULT OF WELL DIRECTED ENERGY

Powerful message today. I always say the reason more great things are not being built in this day and age is not because people are not smarter, but because of TV :) We waste so much time watching movies, tv and playing video games. I am a victim of all of these but I've learned to limit my time significantly (plus multitasking helps). One thing I do is say I'm going to spend an hour on a specific item, by doing this my mind knows that I only have an hour and it also starts to think about the task before my hour starts. It's amazing how much you can get done when you just clear your mind and only concentrate on that task in front of you. It's like walking you have to take each step at a time, they all seem small but together they cover many miles.


SUCCESS IS THE RESULT OF WELL DIRECTED ENERGY


The first rule of success,
and one that supersedes all others,
is to have energy.

It's important to know how to concentrate it.
Focus your energy on important matters
instead of frittering it away on meaningless things.

Nothing will add more power to your life
then concentrating all your energies
on a limited set of goals.
You must focus the full power of all you are
on what you have a burning desire to achieve
if you truly want to be successful.

Gather in your resources,
rally all your faculties,
marshall all your energies,
focus all your capacities upon attaining your objectives.
You must be single minded,
and drive for the things you have decided upon.

The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.


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THE FUTURE IS A BIG ADVENTURE

It's been a few days since my last post. I'm coming down from one of the greatest weekends ever, so how can you right about striving for goals when you just finished reaching one. I wanted to go to the Van Halen concert, and I not only made it happen but I was in the second row center stage. Both my friend and I wanted that so bad and made it happen. After that my wife came to TO for the weekend and we turned that into an unbelievable time. From years of hard work I now know how to take the those couple days here and there to enjoy it. These are mini goals that I've reached and when they turn out so great it makes you want to aim even higher for the next one.

THE FUTURE IS A BIG ADVENTURE

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The cards you're dealt in life are less important
than the way you play them.
Every day you face a new deck and new cards.

Carve out a niche for yourself in your imagined future.
Begin immediately to think and feel yourself as successful.
To achieve your goal in life, you need to project your end result.

Focus on your future, not your past.
Prepare for your future, don't live in the past.
Relish your good memories and use any bad ones as lessons in life.

Think of the elation, the satisfaction,
the joy you'll feel when you've achieved your objective.
Carry these ecstatic feelings with you every day
and they will bring your desired goals into view.

Success is waiting for you.


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WANTING TO WIN IS EVERYTHING

You can never give up. In my past emails I always referred to the amazing race and how the player who are so far behind just keep going because they know they have to try, and in almost every case they would pull ahead and stay in the game. The success came from another team either giving up, or making a wrong decision. You always have to be more prepared and more hungry than every one else, by doing that you may not win but you'll always succeed and get that much closer to accomplishing your goal. The beauty of always doing that is that along the way odds are you may not reach the goal you started you to reach but you will always reach the goal that you needed.

WANTING TO WIN IS EVERYTHING

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Success is connected with continuous action.
It's largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You're not finished when you're defeated,
you're only finished when you quit.

The most important quality essential to success is perseverance.
It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You can have a fresh start any time you choose.
Failure is not in the falling down, but in the staying down.
It's not over until it's over.

If you've got the courage to stick it out, you'll attain your goal.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

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YOU CAN SEE THE FUTURE WITH A VISION

In the past I would pride myself on being able to do meetings on a whim, jumping into a situation completely unprepared and coming out a winner. But through being taught and reading I've learned that the prepared mind is a powerful thing. If you pre imagine your situation and get yourself ready for all possibilities then you'll always win. On a side note I think that in a relationship you need to do this together, you can't go into a situation thinking you are right or you have to win. You have to know that there is a team going into the battle together and you have to be ready together. There is always strength in preparation and there is even more strength in teamwork.


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Study your present situation thoroughly.
Go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you.
Visualize the consequences which can follow from each course.
Pick out the course which gives you the most promise and go ahead.

Many successful people use this skill of mental visualization.
They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as already having achieved your goal.
See yourself doing the things you'll be doing
when you've reached your goal.
You can put your subconscious to work
toward making your mental pictures come true.
Go over your day in your imagination before you begin it.
You can begin acting successfully at any moment.

See the things you want as already yours.
Think of them as yours, as already in your possession.
You can live your dreams.


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WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

I normally don;t send these on weekends but the message is just too good not to pass along. We are all only limited by our imaginations. Ask anybody who has made it big, they'll say that they've always dreamed of being successful. It all starts with a dream that is turned into goals and then reality. Dream as big as you can and it can all be yours by simple showing up and focusing on that goal.



WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET


Visualize what you want.
See it, feel it, believe in it.
Your mind is your mental workshop.
You can build anything you want in it.

Make your mental blueprint and then begin construction.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

Use your imagination to perceive your new reality
even when it's not fully materialized.
Remember, you must first clearly see a thing in your mind
before you can do it or have it.

Your imagination will show you how to turn possibility into reality.
The beginning of your success is in your imagination.
First think, then organize your thoughts into plans.
Then transform your thoughts into reality by taking some positive action.

See the things you want as already yours.
Think of them as yours, as belonging to you,
as already in your possession.
Picture yourself as having already achieved your goal.

Dreams and ideas can cross continents and oceans.
They go anywhere you can go.


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SUCCESS IS WAITING FOR YOU

It's never too late, all you have to do is choose. I always feel like I'm late to the game, I've even read "Start late finish rich", because I figured I didn't start when I was 18-20, but it's not the choice of when you start you just the act of you starting. It's a choice and no matter how late you think it is in the game, it's not. There is no age limit on success, and there is no limit on how much success you can obtain.

SUCCESS IS WAITING FOR YOU

There are no age limits on when you can transform your life.
Change is possible at any time.
It is essential if you want to grow.

You have control over your life.
Success or failure is up to you.
You control how lucky you are.
You create your wealth with your effort.

The doubts you'll experience along the way are part of life.
Make a plan to attain your success and stick to it.
Your life is a marathon, not a short sprint.
Accept total responsibility for your actions
and remove 'QUIT' from your vocabulary.

Decide you want success and it can be yours.
Success is always your choice.


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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS ALL THE TIME

What can I say about this one, expect it screams that quote about practice, practice, practice. There is no such thing as luck, it's about being prepared and ready for everything that comes your way. Now not every opportunity is going to be the one you want, and sometimes you have to make the choices to let them pass or jump on them. But the lesson is that you always have to be ready for when it comes, then the rest is up to you.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS ALL THE TIME

Opportunity is around you all the time,
but you have to be ready for it.
When your chance comes,
you must be prepared to take advantage of it.

The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong,
for time and chance happen to everyone.
Take a second look at what appears to be someone's 'good luck.'
You'll find not luck but preparation,
planning and success-producing thinking.

When you're prepared for opportunity,
your chance for success is sure to come.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The tide of opportunity comes to everyone.
Even to you.


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CONCENTRATION CAN OPEN ANY DOOR

Sometime I always jump to the last phrase in these guru messages, they always drive the message home. You're goal is just a dream less you write it down, and think about it. You can't just hope to reach you end desire unless your mind has time to think about it, and how you are going to get to it. Take sports, the coach can't just tell his team to go out and play, they have to have a game plan and setup plays to reach the end goal of winning. But sure the end goal is winning, but you need to have many other goals along the way such as scoring, defending, and so on. The same is true for life and business, you have to know the steps to take to get to where you want to go. Adam and I many times would head out to a new city in hopes we would end up where we wanted, but because we never planned how to get there (and most times we had no idea where we were going) it would be a wasted extra long trip for nothing. But the times we pre decided where to go, then got our directions, we would always end up where we wanted in a reasonable time with no hassles. It's all about finding your goal and building the path towards it.



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The first law of success is concentration.
Bend all your energies to one point,
and go directly to that point,
looking neither to the right nor the left.

Concentration is the magic key
that opens the door to accomplishment.
Success is the result of well directed energy.

You can, in time, become what you earnestly desire to be,
if you set your face in the direction of the thing you want
and bring all your powers to bear towards its attainment.

When your physical and mental resources are focused,
your power to solve problems multiplies tremendously.
To do two things at once is to do neither.

Nothing can add more power to your life
as much as concentrating all your energies
on a limited set of targets.

The rays of the sun do not burn until brought to a focus.


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THERE IS NO ACHIEVEMENT WITHOUT GOALS

Some people think that they always just fall head first into luck, like they just accidentally get the things they want without having to do anything for them. That has some truth, but for the reality that person first had to know that they wanted that something. So at some point that person decided that they wanted that thing, and then they thought about how they are going to get it. So as lucky as it sounds there is a little push from that person and they created a goal which had steps to reaching the end desire. One of my favorite quotes is "The more I practice, the luckier I get". Rock stars and athletes have it figured out!!


THERE IS NO ACHIEVEMENT WITHOUT GOALS



The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives
if you're going to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a place to start and a final destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

What are your goals?
What are you doing to reach them?

Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.


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YOU CAN MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO BE ANYTHING

Success is a state of mind. If we can dream it then we can have it. Once we all make up our minds on what it is we want then it's just a matter of time before it is ours. That length of time is based on desired and focused we are on that. The more you desire to have it the faster you'll have it. Have you ever wanted something so bad it physically hurt? That's when your desire helps turn those dreams into reality the fastest.

YOU CAN MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO BE ANYTHING


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You're special and unique among all the creatures on the planet earth.
You've been endowed with the capacity and the power
to create desirable pictures inside your mind and to find them
automatically printed in the outer world of your environment.

You'll gradually grow into any condition you desire,
provided you first make yourself in habitual mental attitude
the person who corresponds to that condition.

Picture yourself vividly as winning,
and that alone will contribute immeasurably to your success.
All your dreams can come true,
if you have the courage to pursue them.


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SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS

Funny how the last several emails have all been about owning your own life. But this also applies to owning your own business. You have to make those choices and move forward. What I think we always need to be aware of, is to learn from our choices. Not every choice we make is going to be the right one, and we have to open to point out our mistakes and change direction, plus we have to take the lessons learned and apply that knowledge to future decisions. I'm passionate on this because I'm going through this right now and it's so awesome to see it play out, and then when you finally get it right, it's like going from driving at night with no lights, to putting on your high beams :)




SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS



It's your life. You decide what you're going to do with it.
If you don't run your own life, someone else will.
You're in control of your life to the degree that you make decisions.

To control the outcome of anything,
you control the action at the point of decision making.
If you let others make decisions for you, you give up control.
When you control the decisions, you control the actions.

Take charge of your life,
so there is no longer a need to ask permission of others.
When you ask permission,
you're giving someone "veto" power over your life.

Only you are responsible for your life.
Take control and start making those decisions.


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MAKING CHOICES IS YOUR GREATEST POWER

Man, these are getting better and better. We all have the power to choose where we go, and how we get there. Sean opened my eyes to this from and Eminem song, "Loose Yourself". I thank Dan for getting me to read and learn so much. Dan gave me the choice a long time ago to either stay at my job or start something new (I think I made the right choice ;). I'm not living proof of "we are our choices", but I think I'm on the right path. And I know I'm surrounded by people that are living examples of this concept and I love it. I've made the choice to read more, be a business owner, and to surround myself with great people, and I know my choices are moving me in the right direction .. forward!!!

Today's blurb is a little long and all over the place, but yesterday I exposed something that I think ties into today's message and I want to write something quick about it.

I love the concept of that we should never live in the past but always learn from it. If I do something yesterday that pissed you off or totally just ruined our relationship, when you wake up today you now have a choice, "Do I forgive, forget and move on", or "Do I hold the grudge". The amount of energy spent on holding that grudge is such a waste and it prevents us from moving forward. When we forgive, forget and move on we grow so much and it just makes for a better experience. Anyway, the choice is always ours and honestly we can all be where we want to be by just choosing. The person we hold that grudge against could be the door that can lead us to our goal but that grudge is keeping it closed.




MAKING CHOICES IS YOUR GREATEST POWER



While your character is formed by your circumstances,
your desires can shape those circumstances.
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts.
It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.

Nature is constantly at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
You have the power to choose which impulse you follow.

At any time you can decide to alter the course of your life.
No one can ever take that away from you.
You can do what you want to do and be who you want to be.

Your greatest power is the power to choose.


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YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES

All the people who succeed big are big thinkers. I think it's safe to say that no small time thinkers have ever made it big. If the lottery winners dream about their millions when they buy their ticket. I find myself a lot holding my thoughts back because I'm scared of all the things I'd have to sacrifice to get those extra big dreams. But I'm trying harder to just let my mind flow to where it wants me to end up. My dreams and goals are going to be my reality.



YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES



You have to think big if you want to be big.
Your only limits are those of vision.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Big thinking will always come before big achievement.
The greatest achievements always take place
in the framework of great expectations.

If you don't have a dream,
how are you going to make it come true?
Cherish your dreams for they are the blueprints to your ultimate success.

The empire of your future resides inside you.
When you cease to dream, you cease to live.


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A GOOD SYSTEM SHORTENS THE ROAD TO A GOAL

You always have to have that clear vision and plan on how you are going to reach your goals. I myself have had many great ideas but because I never sat down and wrote out my end goal and the steps to get there, those ideas are never going to help better peoples lives :-). With the businesses I've been in that have made it close to that summit of 5 years, there are clear plans. Sometimes we have internal goals that are lost or never reached because we don't make that clear plan, but the companies still run successful because the main goal has been planned out with clear steps on how to reach the end goal. It's an exciting thing to see your goals go through that road one mile at a time, and each milestone you complete brings you that much closer to making that dream a reality.

A GOOD SYSTEM SHORTENS THE ROAD TO A GOAL



Having an intelligent plan is your first step to success.
With a plan, you know where you're going.
You'll know what progress you're making.
And you'll have a pretty good idea of when you can expect to arrive.
Meticulous planning will enable everything you do
to appear spontaneous to other people.

Your goals can only be reached through the vehicle of a plan.
One in which you fervently believe,
and upon which you will vigorously act.
There is no other route to success.

What do you want to achieve or avoid?
The answers to these questions are your objectives.
How do you go about achieving your desired results?
The answer to this will be your strategy.

A good plan permits you to frame your life
so that at some time in the future
fact and your dreams will meet.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.


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YOU HAVE THE POWER TO LIVE YOUR DREAMS.

How far we go in life is truly in our own hands. We have to look at our lives and see the places that we need to improve and be more focused in order to reach the goals we put in place.

I personally have a big problem with making my own personal goals, and visualizing that end target. When I'm on a contract I know going in the end result I have to reach and I strive on that challenge and meeting that deadline. For some reason when I set personal goals I don't always clearly see the end results of my efforts and then I stumble along the way. Sure stumbling is moving forward but it's not a efficient way of getting there. I need to know where each step is along the way, and then slowly pick up speed to get there.

In the last few weeks some may think I've taken a few steps back, but I view my short downfalls to me learning and becoming more aware of my own weaknesses. In the past I would hide those weaknesses or make excuses, but now I acknowledge them and try to correct them myself without others having to tell me. To me that is a big step forward.

It's within each person to be successful and it's their own mind that either helps them get there or stops them.

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO LIVE YOUR DREAMS.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself,
the day you stop making any excuses,
that's the day you start moving down the road to success.

No one else can do it for you.
Only you can make it happen.
You're the only one that has to live your life.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility.
It's up to you to choose the thoughts and actions
that will lead you to success.

Your life will be what you make of it.
Nothing will ever happen by itself.
Success will come your way once you realize
that you have to make it come your way by your own actions.

The power to succeed is yours alone


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ALL KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

This is so spot on!! When I first started my adventure I was told by, Mister Martell (http://blogs.spheric.ca/dmartell), to go read "Love is the killer App" by Tim Sanders (http://www.amazon.com/Love-Killer-App-Business-Influence/dp/060960922X). Reading this was like a shock. Compassion, network, and knowledge are the keys to success. But it's doing these things not with the intention to succeed but to just better yourself and others around you. We don;t all love to read, but there are so many easy ways to gain knowledge, podcasts, blogs, articles, audio books, just asking questions. The more you know the bigger and faster you'll grow, we all remember those early Saturday morning commercials (http://www.themoreyouknow.com/).



ALL KNOWLEDGE IS POWER



You build the power to accomplish your goals when you educate yourself.
This power comes from knowing how to do something.
Power is the product of understanding.

The most successful people in life are the ones with the best information.
People with power are people who know how to get things done.
Knowing how to do something is sometimes
virtually the same as having done it.

Knowledge will come to you
by having your eyes and mind always open.
There is no knowledge that is not power.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.


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THE HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS IS A TOLL ROAD

The messages most everyday are the same. From reading books and listening to people we always hear the same things over and over. We all think it can't be that simple but it is. There is a reason a person from the 50's could write a book on the topic where the principles are still the same today. Make a goal, keep focused, sacrifice, and always move forward.



THE HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS IS A TOLL ROAD




You must give up something to get whatever you want in life.
The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice that will be required.
Everything has a price.

Nothing worthwhile will come easily to you.
Work, continuous work and hard work,
is the only way to accomplish the results that last.

You pay a price if you want to make things better,
and you pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

You'll find no success at bargain basement prices.


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DESIRE IS THE STARTING POINT FOR SUCCESS

Have you ever noticed that if you really want something, not matter how big or out of your reach, if you want it bad enough some how it always seems to come to you. I feel this power all the time, and I think I try and suppress it. I know I want a Jeep for fun, but because I know that if I think about it then I'll have it, so I choose not the think about it at all. I block those thoughts because I know from my own experiences that I always get what I truly want. There are never any contracts in Toronto, and I thought about it so much and wanted it so bad that .. it happened. Now it happened at a time when I should of not taken a new contract but I was given an opportunity where I had to give up my vacation and time at home to get the thing I wanted. So you always have to be willing give up something to get what you want, it's just all about how bad you want it.



DESIRE IS THE STARTING POINT FOR SUCCESS



The first thing that will contribute to reaching your goal
is that you simply want to reach it badly enough.
You must learn how to desire with sufficient intensity to be successful.

If you have the desire you have the power to attain success.
You can really have anything you want in life if you go after it.
But you have to want it.

As a drowning soul desires air,
as a shipwrecked person craves fresh water,
so must you feel that intense, eager, insistent, demanding,
ravenous desire for your success.

Your desire for success must be so strong within you
that it becomes the very breath of your life.
It must be your first thought when you wake up,
and your last thought when you go to bed at night.

You can have anything you want if you go after it with intensity.


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OVERCOMING YOUR FEAR

I'm currently on site with a new client doing a task that technically hasn't been done yet by any customer., so there is a little fear in that. Being brought in as a high level expert in the field there are times where I'm afraid to ask or say things that may sound dumb or stupid, but how dumb is it not to bring them up before your found out. (no worries I bring them up before it gets bad ;)

Why I decided to write this is because I do have a hard time with worry about others and how they think of me. It's even tough to write that but it's a weakness I need to be aware of. When you think hard about it why would I fear others opinions of myself or anything I do. Example, on this job I'm expected to do something unknown so they should expect I would have to try it more than once, or even mess it up pretty bad (only 3 days in so far so good).

Anyway this blog is a little about fear, awareness and also self accepting. You need to know your fears, be aware of them and then work on over coming them. It's like reaching a goal, it takes steps to get there, you don't just set your goal and then it's done. Same with overcoming a fear, you don't just recognize it and then it goes away. You have to work on it, and take small steps to overcome it.

Here is a Daily Guru I got today that is inline with this blog and partly inspired it.

FEAR IS OVERCOME WITH ACTION

One of the greatest surprises you'll experience,
is when you discover that you can do
what you were afraid you couldn't do.

Your obstacles will melt away,
if instead of cowering before them,
you make up your mind to walk boldly through them.

Do the thing you fear and fear disappears.
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them
and only then will you be able to put them aside
and move ahead.

When you face the things that scare you,
you open the door to freedom.

The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself.

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