Peak(er) Performance Mindset

Beliefs

Slow down to move faster.

Patterns of thinking = mindset = qualities of actions and results.

opportunityisnowhere

How do I see that?

"now here" or "nowhere"

Interpretation, focus, can be altered.

EP = Exceptional Performance
K = Knowledge
S = Skills
P = Planning
M = Mindset

EP = (K + S + P) x M

Where M is 80% of result

Moving towards Peak(er) Performance:

Look at stance - draw myself up. Take a wide stance.

Take a deeper breath - makes me more resourceful.

Look at my Beliefs:
- Which ones drive me forward?
- Which ones hold me back?

Mastering Motivation

Using my posture. Breathe in and roll shoulders. Wonder Woman - clenched fists on hips. Take a standing big X pose.

Zoom out of daily tasks to whole life - look at it like parts of an orchestra.

Look at my ribbon of life - cut off what gone - cut off a third for sleep - cut off another quarter for eating, driving and waiting - not a lot left, is there.

Look at a "Balanced Life Wheel" - 2 years ago - now - in 2 years time.

Take each part of my balanced wheel and throw each one out, like a plane trying to gain altitude. Keep going until only two left.

Focus on those two. Look at outcome desired. Take MASSIVE action - then fine tune based on efforts.

Take the "aircraft" approach - check progress to destination and adjust course.

Children are great at "dance" approach - they keep having a go and adjusting.

Keep a "Win-Learn-Change" Journal.

Move from a "Blame" mindset to an "Aim" mindset.

Jump across "Excuse Valley" - what can I CHOOSE to take 100% responsibility for?

Anything that gets in the way of my desired goal can be an excuse.

I can choose to take MY response-ability for all that occurs.

I can CHOOSE TO participate in the creation of my own destiny.

Success leaves indicators.

I can CHOOSE TO set inspiring goals - seeking great clarity - working to improve the likelihood of success.

Zig's Affirmation - in front of mirror

I, _________________ am an honest, intelligent, organised, responsible, committed, loyal, sober, teachable person.

I clearly understand that regardless of who signs my pay-cheque, I am self-employed.

I am an optimistic, punctual, enthusiastic, goal-setting, smart-working, self-starter, who is disciplined, focused, dependable, persistent, and a positive thinker.

I am an energetic team-player who appreciates the opportunity that my employment and the free-enterprise system offers me.

I am thrifty with my employment resources and apply common-sense to my daily tasks.

I take honest pride in my competence and appearance and am motivated to be and to do my best to enable those parts of my sense of Self to be helpfully expressed.

These are the some of the qualities which enable me to more effectively manage myself and help me express myself more meaningfully in my interactions with my world.

I'm at the top - Zig Ziglar

I _____________________ am at the top because I see failure as an event, rather than it saying anything about my SELF.

I am at the top because I know yesterday ended last night - today is my brand new day.

I am at the top because I have made friends with my past, am focused on my present, and am optimistic about my future.

I am at the top because I know that a success, a win, doesn't make me - that a failure, a loss, doesn't break me.

I am at the top because I am filled with faith, hope and love - I live without anger, greed, guilt, envy, or thoughts of revenge.

I _______________ am at the top because I'm mature enough to delay gratification.

I am at the top because I have moved my focus from my rights to my responsibilities.

I am at the top because I know that not standing for what is ethically right, is the prelude of being the victim of what is criminally wrong.

I am at the top because I am secure in who I am, am at peace with others and know what I stand for.

I am at the top because I have respect for my adversaries and give love, respect and kindness to those around me.

I _______________ am at the top because I understand that others can give me pleasure, but genuine happiness is mine because I do things for others.

I am at the top because I am pleasant to the grouch, courteous to the rude, and generous to the needy.

I _______________ am at the top because I love the unlovable, give hope to the hopeless, give friendship to the friendless, and encouragement to the discouraged.

I am at the top because I look back with forgiveness, forward in hope, downward in compassion, and all around with gratitude.

I am at the top because I appreciate that I am great amongst people, by being the servant to all.

I am at the top because I recognize, accept, confess, develop, and use, my physical, mental and emotional capabilities to the glory of, and to the benefit of humankind and all living things.

I _______________ am at the top, and moving OVER the top, because all these things are true in my life.

I am at the top, and moving OVER the top because I am pointed solidly in the direction of my true SELF - and I work to make these things even more true today and each day.

Quotes as positive affirmations

My many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks

When I feel that life is passing me by, I jump on!

As a wise person, I make more opportunities than I find

My desire creates my power

I can’t lose them all

My money talks – the secret is for me to hold onto it long enough to hear what it has to say

My wishbone still needs my backbone to make things true

As I make my good habits, they make me

My mistakes are my stepping stones in my successful life journey

What I SAY is what I get

When I believe I can, I can

As a person willing to have a go, I am a person who is free

I have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.

I have the courage to change the things I can.

I have the wisdom to work out the difference.

By now it is obvious: there is no security in working for an organisation anymore.
The only place to find real security is within myself and in my ability to anticipate and respond to a change in my organisation, my profession, my region and my industry. – Waitley/Tucker

The 15 Timeless Secrets of Happy People

How we achieve happiness can be different for each one of us. Our passions, expectations, life experiences, and even our personalities all contribute to the level of happiness we experience in our lives. Some people find happiness in their careers while others prefer the bliss found in their marriages or other intimate relationships.

No matter how you define happiness for yourself, there are certain universal and time-proven strategies to bring, and sustain, more happiness into your life. These 15 timeless secrets of happy people can be adapted and even customized to fit your needs. Over time, these strategies will become positive and life-changing habits that will begin to bring more happiness, joy and peace into your life.

1. Notice What's Right
Some of us see the glass as being half-full while others see the glass as half-empty. The next time you are caught in traffic, begin thinking how nice it is to have a few moments to reflect on the day, focus on a problem you have been trying to solve, or brainstorm on your next big idea. The next time you get in the slow line at the grocery store, take the opportunity to pick up a tabloid magazine and do some "guilty pleasure" reading. Take all that life throws out you and reframe it with what's right about the situation. At the end of the day, you will be more content, at peace and be happy. Take the time to begin to notice what's right and see the world change.

2. Show Gratitude
How many times do you say the words "thank you" in a day? How many times do you hear these same words? If you are doing the first thing, saying the "thank you" the latter will naturally happen. Learn to be grateful and you will be open to receive an abundance of joy and happiness.

3. Remember the Kid You Were
Do you remember how to play? I'm not referring to playing a round of golf or a set of tennis. I'm talking about playing like you did when you were a child - a game of tag, leap frog, or street baseball when the bat is a broken broom handle and the bases are the parked cars. One way to find or maintain your happiness is to become the kid again and play!

4. Be Kind
There is no question that merely watching acts of kindness creates a significant elevation in our moods and increases the desire for us to perform good deeds as well. Kindness is indeed contagious and when we make a commitment to be kind to ourselves and to others we can experience new heights of joy, happiness and enthusiasm for our lives.

5. Spend Time with Your Friends
Although an abundant social and romantic life does not itself guarantee joy, it does have a huge impact on our happiness. Learn to spend time with your friends and make the friendships a priority in your life.

6. Savor Every Moment
To be in the moment is to live in the moment. Too often we are thinking ahead or looking ahead to the next event or circumstance in our lives, not appreciating the "here and now."
When we savor every moment, we are savoring the happiness in our lives.

7. Rest
There are times when we need the time to unwind, decompress, or to put it simply, just "to chill." Life comes at all of us hard and fast. Time, as do the days on the calendar, keeps going forward at its own natural pace, which is not always the pace we would choose. Fatigue, stress and exhaustion may begin to settle in on us faster than we may think, or notice. The best remedy for this is indeed rest.

8. Move!
The expression a "runner's high" does not infer an addiction, but a feeling or a state of mind - a state of euphoria. There is no question exercise, or any physical exertion, elevates your mood and enhances a more positive attitude as well as fosters better personal self-esteem and confidence. Indeed, one way to increase your happiness is to move!

9. Put on a Happy Face
Sometimes we have to fake it until we make it. I'm not suggesting that we not be honest, real or authentic, but I'm suggesting, sometimes, we just need to put on a happy face and keep moving forward. Researchers claim that smiling and looking like we are happy will indeed make us happier. Studies further show that if we act like we are happy then we can experience greater joy and happiness in our lives.

10. Pursue Your Goals
The absence of goals in our lives, or more specifically avoiding to pursue our goals, makes us feel like we are stuck and ineffective. The pursuit of goals in our personal lives, in our relationships, or with our careers, is the difference between having a mediocre life or a life full of passion and enthusiasm. Pursue your goals and watch your happiness soar.

11. Find Your Calling
Some find meaning in religion or spirituality while others find purpose in their work or relationships. Finding your calling may be much more than accomplishing one simple strategy for increasing your happiness, but having a sense of purpose - of feeling like you are here for a reason - can perhaps bring the greatest joy of all.

12. Get into The Flow - into The Zone
Flow is the form of joy, excitement and happiness that occurs when we are so absorbed in an activity we love that we can lose ourselves and time seems to stand still. What creates flow is unique to each one of us. To find and sustain true happiness in our lives, we must get off the sidelines and get into the flow.

13. Play to Your Strengths
One way to achieve flow is by understanding and identifying our strengths and core values, and then begin to use these every day. Once we aware of our strengths and we begin to play to our strengths, we can better incorporate them in all aspects of our lives.

14. Keep Perspective
Know when to say "when." What gives you joy and happiness the first time may not work the second time. Too much of a good thing may begin not to feel as good if the "thing" becomes more of a routine, or an expectation. Set healthy and reasonable boundaries for yourself and keep it manageable.

15. Appreciate What You Have
Want exactly what you have - know that what you have, can be lost in the blink of an eye.
Hold on to it, treasure it, and let it cover you with love, comfort and happiness.

Written on 10/02/2010 by Alex Blackwell. Alex writes for his incredible readers at "The BridgeMaker", an honestly-written blog about faith, inspiration and personal change.

A Price to be Paid - Edgar A Guest

I'd like to tell all people

And I wish I knew the way

That for all the future offers

There is a price for me to pay

For who would be a Doctor

And soothe and save the ill

Must earn with years of study

The wisdom and the skill

It matters not the station

Or profession or the trade

Success has certain charges

Which must at least be paid

One is patient study

With which I knowledge buy

Another, after failure

Is the pluck again to try

It's this I'd tell all people

Whatever I wish to be

I might be in the future

If I will pay the fee

For it's only by devotion

And courage respect is earned

And long and patient effort

That wisdom can be learned

Accomplishment - Success - Greatness

I am
Designed
for
Accomplishment

I am
Engineered
for
Success

I am
Endowed
with
The Seeds of Greatness

13 Tips to make ANY YEAR (or day) one to Fondly Remember

How to grab onto what you want and follow through

Published on December 30, 2012 by Dr. Bill Knaus, Ed.D. in Science and Sensibility

Like practically everyone else, you have something that you want to do to improve and enjoy your life. However, how do you stop procrastinating and get moving in the direction of your choice?

You want to lose weight, exercise, and feel less stressed. You tell yourself you’re too busy to do that now. You want to write melodic music with memorable lyrics. You tell yourself the muses must come to you before you can sing and write. You want to make new friends. First, you have to read all the books ever written on overcoming social anxieties. As the New Year rolls around, you think, “I’ll make another resolution - I’ll stop procrastinating."

Let's look at how to fulfill the good promises that you make to yourself. To help celebrate 2013, here are 13 self-help ideas for making personal changes: one for each month of the year and one extra to make a baker’s dozen.

1. Making meaningful personal changes can start as a sloppy and inconsistent process with many false starts and setbacks. As you start to get your bearings, you may experience yourself striding surefooted.

2. Why bite off more than you can chew? It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with trying to catch up on every personal change that you ever wanted to make. Pick what is most important. Start there. However, include time for practical priorities, such as taking care of your car payments.

3. Keep perspective on what is most important. Use the autobiography trick. What are you lacking in your life that is within your capability of doing that you want to include in your autobiography? (Achieving a dream may take a lifetime of chipping away at barriers as you stride in the direction you truly want to follow.)

4. Change is challenging. Why distract yourself with promises that you suspect you won’t fulfil? Instead, get started and keep doing what has enough meaning to merit attaining.

5. Check the validity of your commitment. Do short-term and long-term benefits analysis to assure that the change you have in mind has enough value to make the sloppy process of change worth the effort. For example, the short-term benefits of continuing to smoke include better concentration and avoiding withdrawal symptoms. The long-term benefits of quitting enable you to save money and probably achieve significant health improvements and longevity. You have to give up the short-term benefits to get the long-term ones.

6. Personal changes, such as learning to speak up for yourself, normally involve uncertainty, discomfort, and work. That’s why wishes for quick personal changes fizzle fast. You may prefer to wait to be certain and feel comfortable. That delay strategy rarely turns out well. Make accepting uncertainty and discomfort part of your change plan. Paradoxically, you may feel more certain and comfortable about executing a meaningful and healthy change.

7. Set clear goals. Here are three goal-making standards: (1) The goal is meaningful. It's something that has a clear value for you. (2) It is measurable. You can objectively assess your progress. (3) It is attainable. You have a reasonable chance to accomplish what you set out to do.

8. To increase your chances of following through, make sure you are clear with yourself about what the goal entails. Suppose you want to act more confidently. What would acting “more confidently” look like? What difference would you observe in your thinking, feelings, and actions? Use action as a guide. Act as if you were in control of your change actions. The actions you take to follow through empower you to do more of the same.

9. Goals without plans are like having a destination and then putting on blinders hoping you'll magically get there. Map the path. What will you do first, second, third, etc. Since change is often a sloppy process, expect to find blocks and impediments. Plan to detour back to the path that you mapped. Of course, if the map is wrong, plot a different way.

10. Put a different twist on action planning. Consider using backward planning. Start by imagining that you’ve made the change. Then follow the steps you took in reverse order. What step did you take before you achieved what you resolved to do? What was the step before that? Follow this approach and you do what a Zen archer might do. The archer visualizes an arrow moving back from the target to the bow. The archer sees the trajectory, releases the arrow, and hits the target. Use this flip technique as a planning aid.

11. Consider that small improvements count! If a major league baseball player hits 300, he's doing an excellent job; if he bats 350, he's a superstar. Yet what is the difference between those two levels of success? The 350 hitter gets one more hit in every 20 times at bat. That small difference makes a big difference. Remember, becoming an achievement superstar doesn't mean hitting 1,000. It means taking steps that cumulatively add up. (Your prefrontal cortex may be fast to grasp something new, but it takes primitive brain regions time to adjust to a change. Incremental change can help the brain accommodate to change.)

12. Instead of procrastinating, you make a goodwill effort to follow through. Support your goodwill efforts with the “do it now” principle. According to this principle, the key to getting things done involves consistently doing reasonable things, in a reasonable way, within the time and resources that you have available in order to increase your efficiency and effectiveness and sense of accomplishment and happiness.

13. As you plan for a change, create multiple incentives to support it. For example, follow action with appropriate short-term rewards that are a normal part of your daily routine, such as drinking coffee or reading the newspaper. By making “natural” rewards follow goal-directed actions, you may discover that you can persist with vigor.

At the turn of the year, resolving to change is common. This resolution making time is an overrated tradition. There is nothing magical about the turn of the year for making a change. If you want to make a change, you can start any time. Is now good for you?

Take a golden moment to step forward.

© Dr. Bill Knaus

Guidelines for Happiness - As Affirmations

• Why blame others for making me unhappy? I take responsibility for making myself happy by putting myself in a happy frame of mind through positive exercises.

• I give myself permission to make myself happy — even if in so doing, others choose to make themselves unhappy.

• I make time for myself to do things which are positive and bring me pleasure and enjoyment in the short-term.

• I do things for others and my community without expecting anything back in return.

• I sacrifice short-term pleasures and put up with short-term discomforts in order to achieve longer-term possible gains.

• I accept the fallibility of others and myself.

• I look at the reality of a situation and let the emotional content wash by me.

• I take a chance at things at work or in my personal relationships, even when I might not immediately, or ever, succeed! Possibility of success ALWAYS exists through learning - the certainty of failure exists when I do nothing.

• It doesn't matter much what people think about me and what I am doing.

• I see uncertainty as a challenge — I embrace it as the possibility of success.

It Couldn't Be Done - Edgar A Guest

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,

And I with a chuckle replied,

That "maybe it couldn't," and I would be one

Who wouldn't say so til I tried!

So I buckled right in with the trace of a grin,

On my face - if I worried I hid it.

I started to sing as I tackled the thing,

That couldn't be done, and I did it!

Somebody scoffed, "Oh you'll never do that!

Well, at least, no-one ever has done it!"

So I took off my coat, and I took off my hat,

And the first thing they knew I'd begun it!

With a lift of my chin and a bit of a grin,

Without any doubting or I'll quit it,

I started to sing, as I tackled the thing,

That couldn't be done, and I did it!

There are thousands to tell me it cannot be done.

There are thousands who prophesy failure.

There are thousands who point out to me, one by one, 

The dangers that wait to assail me.

And I'll just buckle in, with the trace of a grin.

I'll just take off my coat and go to it.

I'll just start to sing, as I tackle the thing,

That "cannot be done," and maybe, I'll do it!

I think and I am - John Lees

If I think I am beaten, I am.

If I think I dare not, I won't.

If I prefer to win, and I think I can't,

Then it's almost certain I won't!

If I think I'll lose, I'm lost.

For out in the world I find,

Success begins first with my will;

It's all in my state of mind.

If I think I'm outclassed, I am.

When I begin to think high, I rise.

I know to believe in my efforts before

I'll ever reach for a prize!

A battle may not always go,

To the faster or stronger one,

But sooner or later, I'll most likely win,

A time I believe I can

My Wage - J B Rittenhouse

I bargained with life for a penny,

And life would pay no more,

However I begged at evening,

When I counted my scanty store.

For life is a just employer,

He gives me what I ask,

But once I have set the wages,

Why, I must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,

Only to learn, dismayed,

That any wages I asked of life,

Life would have willingly paid.

Posture Affects Performance

Video: - Amy Cuddy - Posture Determines Performance

Our non-verbals DO affect how we think and feel about ourselves and how we PERFORM.

The position we put our bodies in can affect our mind.

Our PRESENCE is a mixture of how

Passionate

Confident

Authentic

Comfortable

Captivating

Enthusiastic

we are............

 

Our body posture can change our minds;

our minds can then change our behaviour;

and our behaviour then changes our outcomes!

 

It is not "Fake it till you make it."

 

It is "PROJECT it until you BECOME it."





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If I Had My Life Over - I'd Pick More Daisies

There have been many versions of this poem. The earliest one apparently was attributed to Nadine Stair. It appears first. What follows is, according to Benjamin Rossen, a copy of the earliest verifiable publication of this material. It can be found in the Reader's Digest, October 1953 issue, where it was attributed to Don Herold (1889-1966), author and humorist.

Nadine Stair

If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I'm one of those people who lived sensibly and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

Don Herold

Of course, you can't unfry an egg, but there is no law against thinking about it.

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less bran.

I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles. You see, I have been one of those fellows who live prudently and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I have had my moments. But if I had it to do over again, I would have more of them - a lot more. I never go anywhere without a thermometer, a gargle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had it to do over, I would travel lighter.

It may be too late to unteach an old dog old tricks, but perhaps a word from the unwise may be of benefit to a coming generation. It may help them to fall into some of the pitfalls I have avoided.

If I had my life to live over, I would pay less attention to people who teach tension. In a world of specialization we naturally have a superabundance of individuals who cry at us to be serious about their individual specialty. They tell us we must learn Latin or History; otherwise we will be disgraced and ruined and flunked and failed. After a dozen or so of these protagonists have worked on a young mind, they are apt to leave it in hard knots for life. I wish they had sold me Latin and History as a lark.

I would seek out more teachers who inspire relaxation and fun. I had a few of them, fortunately, and I figure it was they who kept me from going entirely to the dogs. From them I learned how to gather what few scraggly daisies I have gathered along life's cindery pathway.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefooted a little earlier in the spring and stay that way a little later in the fall. I would play hooky more. I would shoot more paper wads at my teachers. I would have more dogs. I would keep later hours. I'd have more sweethearts. I would fish more. I would go to more circuses. I would go to more dances. I would ride on more merry-go-rounds. I would be carefree as long as I could, or at least until I got some care - instead of having my cares in advance.

More errors are made solemnly than in fun. The rubs of family life come in moments of intense seriousness rather that in moments of light-heartedness. If nations - to magnify my point - declared international carnivals instead of international war, how much better that would be!

G.K. Chesterton once said, "A characteristic of the great saints is their power of levity. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. One 'settles down' into a sort of selfish seriousness; but one has to rise to a light-hearted self-forgetfulness. A man falls into a 'brown study'; he reaches up at a blue sky."

In a world in which practically everybody else seems to be consecrated to the gravity of the situation, I would rise to glorify the levity of the situation. For I agree with Will Durant that "joy is wiser than wisdom."

I doubt, however, that I'll have much affect with my creed. The opposition is too strong. There are too many serious people trying to get everybody else to be too darned serious.

My rituals determine my success

Tony Robbins Video

Ordinarily I make progress once I validate what is possible.

I achieve recognition of what is possible and what I am capable of through a daily ritual.
 

The thing that I do daily will determine my success.

I am clear about WHY this ritual is important!

I condition my mind daily, to build momentum.
 

To get ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN.

Work on a daily basis to fill myself with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY!!

Alice Herz-Sommer - positive in a concentration camp

My mother taught me some valuable lessons. She died, along with my father in the concentration camp, but her lessons live on.

1) To KNOW things - study; find out things; practice things; get skillful and knowledgeable.

2) To BE THANKFUL - everything is a present; focus on the best things; I know about the bad and I see the good.

3) To BE HAPPY - meet the world with joy; I lay for two years on the frozen bare dirt with my son and I laughed - what five and a half year old would not laugh under those circumstances?

How hard is my life? I can rise above my petty notions as she rose above monumental hardships - because she found what was good in it and knew that "people complain. Complaining changes nothing."

"I know about the bad, and I see the good."

Alice Herz-Sommer - Everything is a Present

I can choose to be optimistic

Alice Herz-Sommer at 107

Alice Herz-Sommer at 108


Alice Herz-Sommer on her son

How to have the best year ever.... Jim Rohn

I welcome all experiences! I never know which experience will turn something on.

I'm aware that to build a wall to keep out disappointment will also keep out happiness.

Look at my PHILOSOPHY + ATTITUDE + ACTIVITY = MY RESULTS.

Ask of myself to MAKE MEASURABLE PROGRESS in REASONABLE TIME.

Not that I am wrong - I have messed up!

I can go anywhere from here.

I have bought the wrong program; gotten the wrong results.

Get another program. Try something else.

"Truth will set me free" to amend my progress.
Awareness precedes progress.

Day that turned my life around -

Disgust - enough is enough;

Decision - inspiration, I will do what it takes;

Desire - I want this so bad I can taste it, it is happening;

Resolve - I promise myself I keep going UNTIL it is done.

These are the catalysts for change.

ASK:
WHY
do the work; put in the effort? Look for and activate MY drivers.
WHY NOT
see what I can do; what I can see; heights I can reach?
WHY NOT ME
with self-compassion, unconditional self-acceptance; setting goals; going forward?
WHY NOT NOW
get it together; it's a great time to start this process; to really get with it and go forward?

Get my cycle moving in an upwards, positive motion, amending what is possible and celebrating what is available.

6 days practice, persistence and patience - 1 day of rest.
Rest too long and the weeds start to take the garden.

Ask myself "What am I avoiding?"

"What do I want?" - MY evolving vision or goal.

"What is a next step that I could choose to take?"

I REPEAT THIS WHOLE PROCESS, WITH FEELING, OFTEN!"

 

Goals and achievement take time - having a goal or vision is like steam in a steam engine;

avoidance is letting it stay as water, for the moment....

I MAKE STEAM, WITH FUN!

 

Video How to have Your Best Year Ever! - Jim Rohn

No Better - No Worse

"My Mother taught me something when a teacher was putting me in the back of the class and ignoring me. My Mother said

'You are no better than anyone else.

And no-one else is better than you.

You are as good as anyone else.'

That lesson stuck with me all my life and it is how I have lived my life."

Ralph Davila

Medal of Honour

Consider "Keep On, Keeping On" - Author Unknown

Colonel Sanders went to more than 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found an interested buyer. The fact that I can buy Kentucky Fried Chicken today attests to his perseverance.

Thomas Edison tried almost 10,000 times before he succeeded in creating the electric light. If he had given up, I would be reading this in the dark!

The original business plan for what was to become Federal Express was given a failing grade on Fred Smith¹s college exam. In the early days, their employees would cash their pay-checks at retail stores, rather than banks. This meant it would take longer for the money to clear, thereby giving Fed Ex more time to cover their payroll.

Sylvester Stallone had been turned down a thousand times by agents and was down to his last $600 before he found a company that would produce Rocky. The rest is history!

To truly succeed requires some commitment to my goal.

Often people have quit just short of success.

I’ll have one more go.

When I really believe in what I am doing, I’ll give it what it needs to go forward.

I just might succeed.

There is no such thing as failure, really.

Every action produces an outcome.

It may not always be the outcome I am looking for, but it is an outcome nonetheless.

When I monitor the results of my actions and keep correcting what is not working, I am getting closer to the outcome I am looking for.

Persistence overcomes Resistance.

As was said about President Calvin Coolidge: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not. Un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Keeping going in the face of obstacles can allow a miracle to happen!

That miracle might just be me J