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How to Define Your Life Values

As you stroll through life, you will find opportunities that will present you with a VALUE choice. Your response speaks volumes about your character.

There's no right or wrong. Only your inner voice guides you in your destiny's direction. One selection moves you away. Another moves you closer to the person you want to be. 

Values are your GPS to navigate life—rules you choose to follow. Honesty, integrity, family-focused life, and work-life balance are all examples of positive Values. Others are not so positive.

My number one Value is to do my best to do the right thing based on my rules. If I mess up, I say, "I'm sorry," and try again.

Something to think about.

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Breaking Bad Habits the Easy Way

Have you struggled to break a habit?

Bad habits are not good. They will mess up your day. They are also not permanent. You weren’t born with bad habits and are not required under penalty of law to keep bad habits. 

Since there’s no real reason to keep bad habits, let’s replace them easily.

Nobody likes to give up what’s comfortable - even if it’s not serving you. Instead, start a new behavior and replace the bad before it messes up your life again. 

Breaking bad habits is doing new behaviors instead of old behaviors. No muss. No-fuss. Be consistent and persistent, and you will forever wipe that old habit away.

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Success From Doing Nothing

Before I begin, I want to define what I mean by doing nothing.

I don’t see doing ‘nothing’ as something unproductive. Instead, I see ‘nothing’ as a protected personal space between your thoughts and actions. 

It is a place that provides a contemplation and planning opportunity before launching into massive and focused action design to reach your outcome and achieve your goal.

It is a holding space where inspiration, desperation, motivation, and even intimidation bubble into your consciousness and await your next action.

Instead of moving your thoughts immediately into action mode or never moving at all, both of which cause unnecessary drama, you purposefully quarantine your thoughts until you are assured of your success plan or decide to take a new direction.

Doing nothing looks like this:

1) All thoughts and potential actions arrive in your mind and are held for evaluation.

2) Unless based on a previous decision and cleared for instant action, you always take the time to ensure that your actions will lead you to your vision.

3) If you don’t know the absolute endgame of your journey, you are still on another path. Don’t step until you know where you are on your new path.

Ultimately, doing nothing is a place in your mind where you choose your path, direct your actions, and create your legacy. It is a place of personal respect built into you and will allow you to impact yourself and the world around you significantly.

I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of good thinking when doing nothing. That time is priceless.

If doing something takes you off track, you might be better off doing nothing - at least for a little while.

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Change Anything in 3 Steps

Is a title like "Three Steps Required to Change Anything" an oversimplification of what it takes to get what you want?

Or… is it the acceptance that everything is simple - until we complicate it?

If you guess the second, you will get along just fine.

So, what are those three steps?

The first step to getting anything you want is to KNOW what you want. Many will argue that the first step is the most difficult. Like they say, "work with the outcome in mind." I don't see it this way and believe it's not more complicated than what follows.

Next, you need to know how to accomplish your goal by establishing a framework or roadmap. No, you won't see every step you must take, but unless you are living under a rock, you will know the significant accomplishments that must happen. Just look around, and you'll see them everywhere.

Finally, you must take consistent and disciplined action toward your goal with every waking moment. You take longer to reach your outcome every time you allow your focus to drift.

So, there it is. While many nuances will challenge you, the basic steps to getting what you want are simple -

Know it. Map it. Do it.

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Believing in Your Future Self

I’ll never forget the day a mentor of mine said to me —

“You have to become the person you want to be before becoming the person you want to be.”

What? 

So, do I have to fake it until I make it?

Heck no! I’m not going to change who I am - no way!

“No. You’re not changing who you are. It’s just that you have to understand that in the future, you will have a different set of beliefs than you hold right now. That’s called growth. Whatever you believe, you will become.”

At first, I thought he meant I would have to sell my soul to the devil and take on beliefs, not mine, to get what I wanted. But one day, I realized that day-to-day living is changing me anyway. I may as well make a choice myself.

My thinking went like this —

If I hold a self-image because of what I believe, all I have to do is create a future self-image, decide what that person would believe, and design a set of rules and actions that make those beliefs happen.

What’s the best part?

There’s no waiting. The very minute you decide what you believe, everything begins to change.

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Is Your Morning Routine Focused

You hear a lot about using morning rituals to get more done. But what if you could use your mornings to get more done for YOU?

In the fast-paced world we live in today, there seem to be two groups when it comes to how to use mornings—personal and productivity. Once folks remove themselves from the craziness of jumping out of bed, taking care of the kids, and hitting the drive-through, they choose one of the two. 

But what if there was a third group that was more satisfying?

Before I go on, I need to admit that I didn't use to be a morning person and didn't like getting up early at all. I even quit my first couple of jobs as a morning radio host so I could sleep. 

Later in my career, I would hit my desk at 5 AM and pound through my to-do list as fast as possible. I must have been saying, "I…MUST… GET… IT… DONE!" That didn't work well because I didn't see the purpose of getting out of bed early if it was only to work.

For a few years, I spent my mornings reading and meditating before heading off to the gym. I got in better shape, but my bank balance was less, and my future goals were seemingly unreachable.

Then, one day, out of pure frustration and sporting a brand-new I don't give a heck attitude, I asked myself a question that changed everything -

"What's the first thing I should do tomorrow morning that, if I do, will allow me to live a life of my design?"

Notice that I didn't ask about work or what was on my to-do list. It had nothing to do with getting more done or getting in better shape. I focused on the lifestyle I wanted to live - and it was life-changing.

In the years since I made that decision, I've started my days doing the most important thing I deem required to live the life of my choosing, and I've been happier for it.

I've also come across dozens of morning do-gooders who are getting everything done except what they dream of doing, and when they realize it's not their fault, everything changes. They get caught up in the buzz of life, and everyone does. But, the minute you focus on YOU before anything else, you start making real progress.

When you focus on what is important to you, you get what is important to you.

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The Secret to Taking Action

Is today the day that you self-activate and step into your power? After all, your dreams are waiting.

Feeling intimidated and unsure of the next step on your life journey is easy. Nobody likes leaving their comfort zone - even if it will someday make them feel more comfortable.  

Remember this.

Everything in life happens when you realize that you control your destiny. Even if you do nothing at all, you are in control.  

Deciding to walk your true path is a simple act of self-activation. It is choosing to remove yourself from the masses and stand up for yourself. It is exploring the possibility of life and making a difference.

Is today the time to declare your power, self-activate, and show everybody who you are?  

Don’t wait. The world is waiting for you to come out of your shell.

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Traveling From Intention to Success

An epidemic infecting dreamers worldwide is nothing more than a dream buster.

Living a happy life, enjoying excellent relationships, and making more money? It seems that everyone has intention.

Some intentions are good. Some intentions are bad. In any case, moving from having intentions to succeed requires two steps:

1) Intention becomes actionable when you DECIDE to follow through on your intention. If not, nothing will happen. When you do, move on to the next step.

2) Once you’ve DECIDED to follow through on your intention, ACTION is required. What kind? Actions that form a direct path to your anticipated outcome.

Become someone who knows what you want, decides to do it, and follows through until you get it. That’s how you become unstoppable!

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Where You Should Put Your Focus

I was speaking with a young man who was doing something familiar. He was living in two realities:

1) He had finished school; one reality was pursuing his dream career. 

2) While he worked toward his dream, he earned a job certification to pay the bills.

During our conversation, he said something that got my attention. “I’m hoping I can get a good job supporting my dream.”

My ears perked up. Years of Coaching allow me to hear de-focused and dream-erasing thoughts loud and clear. 

Yes, everybody needs to pay their bills. However, what you focus on is what you get.

When the certainty of earning income becomes your focus, dreams disappear. What you focus on is what you get.

Most folks don’t notice their dreams are gone for twenty years. What you focus on is what you get.

Focus your mind and actions on turning your dreams into reality. Whatever you do to earn a living alone falls into the category of necessary and temporary.  

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Motivation to Always Reach Your Goals

You’ve heard if you want success, you must go after your goals with consistency and dedication. You must want it for yourself—more than anybody wants it for you.

YOU are the engine that drives your dreams.

Others will help, but in the end, your actions are the only thing that will lead to the reward.

I remember when my kids got older. I had a talent for manifesting what I wanted in life, and my Son asked, “Dad, how do you always seem to create what you want?”

I said, “YOU must decide that you want it before you can get it. You are the engine that drives your dreams.”

I laughed when he said, “Is that telling me to make my bed when I was a kid?”

One more thing.

Some people think when they reach their goals, they can take a break. Not so. Permanent success does not come from temporary actions.

Your real reward will be all the new opportunities in your life. Everybody loves a winner.

YOU are the engine that drives your dreams. Always remember that.

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