Your Life Can Only Get Better When You Get Better

If you change your thoughts, you can change your life.

What do you spend your waking time thinking about? Do you think of ways to improve and get better or do you think of all the reasons why it won't work? Or do you think about it as someone else's responsibility?

Thoughts to Get Started On:

1. Change the way you think about things. Think like a winner.

2. Imagination is the key to creating that new life and that new reality that you want. Use your God-given imagination.

Fact on how the human brain works: Whatever you can imagine and dream about, you can develop the abilities and talents to make that a reality through discipline.

3. Let go of the past and move on. So many of us are living in the past that we can never enjoy the present through anger, fear, doubt, and unforgiveness.

4. All you need to live the life you want, to achieve and have the things you like to have, and to change your life the way you want it to change is already inside of you right now. You just have to learn how to tap into it, how to develop it and bring it out.

God blessed all of us with talents and gifts that we haven't really fully utilized or many times we don't even understand that we have them.

Two exciting words for me are: Beginning and Becoming.

You can make a decision to have a new beginning. Life becomes exciting. Tomorrow is a fresh new day to be the man or woman that you are meant to be. Then, start becoming to be the person you want to be.

There are some pitfalls:

1. Fear of Change - Your success is directly related to your ability to handle uncertainty. The greater uncertainty you can handle, the greater your success can be.

2. Stop Growing - Learn to compete with yourself not with others. Complete and not compete with others.

3. Loss of Self-Belief - We stop believing that it's possible for us to make things happen. It takes time, discipline, energy and support.

"How do I get better?"

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to BELIEVE that you are capable of making it happen.

Belief is a major concept. Belief becomes fact. Whatever you believe to be true is true.

Believe in yourself - that deep-seated belief that you have what it takes.

Believing in yourself is a choice. It makes no difference where you are or what is happening to you. It's an attitude that you develop over time.

You must choose to believe that you can do whatever you set your mind to; anything at all because in fact, YOU CAN.

From the latest brain research, you can learn almost anything if you have:

1. Proper training
2. Coaching - have someone to hold you accountable.
3. Practice - it's up to you to take action.

One thing you have to learn to give up is using the words "I CAN'T". It disempowers and weakens you.

3 Things You Must Have to Be Able to Change for the Better:

1. Willingness to learn.
2. Teachable spirit.
3. Open mind.

Change your Belief System.

Change your attitude - not a positive attitude because it is difficult to be positive 365 days a year 24 hours a day but have a winning attitude.

Confidence-Building Strategies:

1. Everyday remind yourself that you can do it.
2. Read inspiring biographies. Read about people who have done what you want to do.
3. Be thankful and grateful.
4. Build excellent support. Have people around you that encourage you and challenge you.
5. Push yourself to reach your short-term goals.

"Future intentions determine present actions."

4 Principles in Developing Relationship (with yourself):

1. Everyone can be motivated in some way.
2. People do things for their reasons not yours.
3. Overextension of a strength becomes a weakness. Take time to relax, reflect, recharge and refresh.
4. You do not motivate people; you create an environment where they can be self-motivated.

Successful people know they must compete with themselves not with others.

Make today a little bit better than yesterday; make tomorrow a little bit better than today.

Personal growth

You will never outgrow the limits you place on yourself.

Why is it that some people are able to achieve so much more out of their lives than others?

Why are some people able to produce such outstanding even extraordinary results?

Is it because they have a lot more talent?

What they have is STRONG BELIEFS.

This gives them extraordinary strengths to fight on against all odds and win.

Your belief defines your expectation.

If you believe that ___________________ then that is what you will expect from yourself.

If you believe that something is impossible that it cannot be done, will you take action? The answer is NO.

Medical science has proven the human mind cannot tell the difference between actual experience and what is vividly imagined.

Whatever we choose to believe becomes true for us.

Let this be your moment of change.

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Are Your Goals Empty Or Full?

My sales manager gave me and each sales team member a big yellow envelope. He then asked us to write down our goals for the year, place them in the envelop, sign and seal the envelope and pass them in.

I recall this event vividly as it was my first sales meeting ever. It was 1980 and I had just joined an office equipment sales team. Being new to sales I did not know what to expect so I went with the flow. I recall the feeling of empowerment as I wrote my goals down - a feeling which lasted at least until late afternoon. To this day, however, I do not recall the goals I wrote down.

The Price Is Right
The TV game show 'The Price is Right' has been on air almost continuously since the late 1970's in one form or another. Contestants are asked to "Come on down" by the host and exhibit outbursts of emotion as they are overwhelmed, with audience encouragement, as the progressive list of prizes is unveiled and then given the opportunity to win.

What would happen if the curtain was drawn back and there was nothing there and the host said "Tonight you are going to name your own Prize".

I suspect, after the initial shock and stunned silence, the contestant might make some suggestions for the prize pool.

I, like most people on the planet, find it is much easier to let others determine goals. We wait for the curtain to be drawn back, our goal revealed and we get excited at the prospect of a large reward.

Engagement
Game shows have done well in all cultures. I can recall a few 'winners' however it is more common contestants will leave with just a small prize. Often you will see a contestant who could walk away with a reasonable prize risk it all for the chance to 'win it all'. After all, they came with nothing they may as well take the risk.

The reason this happens is the contestant has not yet taken ownership of what is already theirs. Contestants who have clearly defined outcomes, for example 'a second car for the family', will take a reasonable prize pool as they mentally take ownership of a well defined preset goal. Once a link is established with a goal they are totally engaged with it is easy to stop and take the prize.

Goal setting is probably the most talked about topic in business and sales. Nearly every business plan template I know includes a section on specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time-framed goals, or similar. In sales goals are set for sales volume and margin often with account or territory specific goals.

Most business and sales goals, however, like New Year's resolutions, are either abandoned within the first few weeks of them being set or, if engaged with, create limits in the mind o the person the has been set for. The key reason for this is the goal is not linked by the person setting out to achieve it to one of their own goals. Even if a goal is emotionally accepted, the plan to achieve that goal needs to be set and embraced as well.

Empty goals
When challenged most people are able to rattle off a few of their life goals;

• "I will be a millionaire by the time I am 35"
• "I will run a triathlon"

While both of these goals are great, to achieve them you need to embrace them as your own and commit to actions to make them happen.

If I was working in a sports store and my manager said "This year everyone in this company will run a triathlon this year" most people would accept it as a goal intellectually but not engage. This is like in the game show opening the curtain and finding out what you are playing for. In this case it might not be so pleasant.

To embrace a goal you need to be fully engaged emotionally and intellectually.

• "I will take my love of natural products, identify ways to make this into a thriving business and create a lifestyle around this where I can bank one million dollars by the time I am 35"
• "I will set daily, weekly and monthly goals for cycling, running and swimming so I can successfully complete a triathlon before I turn 30"

Perhaps the sports store manager could engage everyone, and perhaps get a few others to join in, by saying "This year I will be doing a triathlon to support the Children's hospital. If anyone want to join me the store will support you with all the equipment you need. I would also encourage others to support this cause by supporting this important cause". Leadership, allowing everyone to engage in a personal goal in the best way they can without feeling guilty.

The difference is the new goals are personal and easily embraced emotionally and intellectually. They allow for setbacks and mixing up of short term goals to ultimately achieve what your main goal.

From that first sales meeting I learned the power released in the process of setting goals and the importance of creating goals. It is in embracing the goal as your own, creating the daily, weekly and monthly target and measuring the small successes where he real power of goals lie.

Today's question and actions
Who is setting your goals? Are you in charge or are those around you setting default goals? Here are two things you can do to take charge today;

1. Identify four or five things which you are passionate about. These could be simple things like "I want my son to talk more with me about what is going on in his life" or challenging like "I will climb Mount Everest". Whatever it is you need to be fully engaged with the goal and really want it to be so.

2. Take some time to plan out what you need to do every day, week and month to make this a reality. Make at least three calls with you son each week. Walk further up the Devil's staircase each day.

Setting goals is great. It is setting goals you are fully engaged with which will change your life.

Have a great week!

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