Attention: Personal Development PRECEDES Everything!

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." ~Victor Frankl

Wow...have we missed this truth. Too often, we continually try to change the situation, trying different things, different ways, different ideas. All the while neglecting to change ourselves!!  Think about your business, how many times have you tried different things and they didn't work?  That's because Personal Development PRECEDES Business Development!!

Think about the last challenge that you had. Think about all the things that you did to rectify the situation. Sometimes you are able to fix things, but what happens when you don't? Do you ever even think about changing yourself?? I know that most of the time, I didn't. Now, I make sure that I look at myself and see if I need to change.

In dealing with your next challenge today, see if changing yourself will make a difference. I bet it will! Look at yourself from all angles and change what needs to be changed to solve the challenge!

Join us for some Personal Development/Business Development a week from today at the "Your Prospects Aren't Paying Attention To You" workshop.  You will learn the 7 steps to gaining and maintaining your prospects attention.

For info go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1451278745173910/

To reserve your seat: http://mkt.com/mentoring-your-success-2/mm-got-your-attention-yet

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Attention: What Are You Emphasizing?

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." ~Carlos Castaneda 

What are you emphasizing? Are you spending your time on things that matter or things that don't matter? Most people start out working on the things that matter and then are distracted and end up emphasizing the wrong stuff. Then we end up miserable because we don't understand that we are concentrating on things that don't matter. What is it that you are emphasizing?

Susyn Reeve said "When you focus your attention on the people, places, things and activities that you bring you pleasure - pleasure is what you experience." This is part of the reason that we need to doing something that gives us pleasure for our jobs. 75% of workers today HATE their jobs! Is that you? I hope not, because it is a choice. Your choice!

Do you believe in the Law of Attraction?  It works every time.  The challenge for most people is that their focus is on the wrong thing.  They are focusing on what they don't want instead of what they do want.  Is that you?  Start focusing on what you want and you will see the difference, Another way to stay focused is to set goals that keep you focused.  

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

Focus: What Are You Emphasizing?

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." ~Carlos Castaneda 

What are you emphasizing? Are you spending your time on things that matter or things that don't matter? Most people start out working on the things that matter and then are distracted and end up emphasizing the wrong stuff. Then we end up miserable because we don't understand that we are concentrating on things that don't matter. What is it that you are emphasizing?

Susyn Reeve said "When you focus your attention on the people, places, things and activities that you bring you pleasure - pleasure is what you experience." This is part of the reason that we need to doing something that gives us pleasure for our jobs. 75% of workers today HATE their jobs! Is that you? I hope not, because it is a choice. Your choice!

Do you believe in the Law of Attraction?  It works every time.  The challenge for most people is that their focus is on the wrong thing.  They are focusing on what they don't want instead of what they do want.  Is that you?  Start focusing on what you want and you will see the difference, Another way to stay focused is to set goals that keep you focused.  If that s something that you have tried before with little success join us on December 18th at the workshop "Goal Getting & Goal Setting; Creating the Business & Life You Want."  Read more about it here:

Info:  https://www.facebook.com/events/375588015899673

Sign up here: 
http://mkt.com/mentoring-your-success-2/gg-goal-getting-goal-setting

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

Be Present, Pay Attention and Be Ready to Act!

“Most moments in life don't matter much. But there are a few moments in every person's life that DO matter. So one of the greatest skills we can develop is the ability to recognize those few moments that really matter and take action. We need to stand up, pay attention and be ready to act.”

Think about that for a minute.  Most moments in life don't matter much...but there are a few moments in every person's life that DO matter.  Have you developed the skill to recognize those moments or do they just pass by...along with all the other moments that don't matter much?

Most people live their life on auto-pilot, just existing, doing enough to not get fired but not enough to stand apart from the herd.  Is that you?  Are you just existing?  Why??

You were created to bring something to the world and if you don't bring that something to the world, the world will NEVER see it.  Why?  because YOU were meant to bring it to the world!

Stop playing small and become who you were meant to be!

Be present, stand up, pay attention and be ready to act!

Know.  Be Known.  Make A Difference!

“Most moments in life don't matter much. But there are a few moments in every person's life that DO matter. So one of the greatest skills we can develop is the ability to recognize those few moments that really matter and take action. We need to stand up, pay attention and be ready to act.”

I Will Make You Worse

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are often told to "accept people as they are" so as not to bring attention as to who they are. Is this good? Or do we make them worse by accepting them as they are and opposed to what they are capable of becoming? It's important to allow people to be who they are without criticism, but what if they can become so much more? Wouldn't it be our responsibility to help them become what they could become?

I'm the Grand Inquisitor and I'm also an Irritator and Goethe's quote really makes it for me, because so many people are living their lives at 50% when they could be at 80% or 90%. Are you living your life at less than it should be? Are people accepting you and not challenging you to be more? How do your friends interact with you? Are they moving you forward or keeping you where you are?

The world does not benefit from you playing small and if we accept you as you are, we may be not allowing you to become who you might be. I would hate that...so I'll go on Questioning and Irritating. I'm ok with you not liking me because I irritate you. It means that you are thinking about something and that will challenge you and get you out of your comfort zone and allow you to grow.

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

Significant and Important

“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”~Soren Kierkegaard

Are you concentrating on what is "most significant and important?" Most of the time, we don't, do we. We are preoccupied with what is now, with the latest and greatest, with the wiz-bang things.  We see something interesting and then SQUIRREL!!!!!!  Our attention is diverted to yet something else!  Start concentrating on what's most significant and important.

Why is it so easy to "Major in the Minor" things? We know that they are minor things, and yet we spend hour after hour doing those minor things to the detriment of what is most significant and important.  What's a minor thing that you have made major?  I'm sure you have a few...

Stop majoring in the minor things. Start investing your time on the significant and important things. You will have to get clear on what is significant and important, but that can be the easy part.  If you're having a challenge deciding what's significant and important, message me and we can talk about it and set you on the road to those significant and important things.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”

The Amount Of Work Is The Same

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." ~Carlos Castaneda

What are you emphasizing? Are you spending your time on things that matter or things that don't matter? Most people start out working on the things that matter and then are distracted and end up emphasizing the wrong stuff. Then we end up miserable because we don't understand that we are concentrating on things that don't matter. What is it that you are emphasizing?

Susyn Reeve said "When you focus your attention on the people, places, things and activities that you bring you pleasure - pleasure is what you experience." This is part of the reason that we need to doing something that gives us pleasure for our jobs. 75% of workers today HATE their jobs! Is that you? I hope not, because it is a choice. Your choice!

Do you believe in the Law of Attraction?  It works every time.  The challenge for most people is that their focus is on the wrong thing.  They are focusing on what they don't want instead of what they do want.  Is that you?  Start focusing on what you want and you will see the difference.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

What Are You Emphasizing?

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." ~Carlos Castaneda

What are you emphasizing? Are you spending your time on things that matter or things that don't matter? Most people start out working on the things that matter and then are distracted and end up emphasizing the wrong stuff. Then we end up miserable because we don't understand that we are concentrating on things that don't matter. What is it that you are emphasizing?

What are you concentrating on? What you want or what you don't want. Unfortunately, we spend way too much time thinking about what we don't want and that only brings more of what we don't want. Focus on what you want!

Susyn Reeve said "When you focus your attention on the people, places, things and activities that you bring you pleasure - pleasure is what you experience." This is part of the reason that we need to doing something that gives us pleasure for our jobs. 75% of workers today HATE their jobs! Is that you? I hope not, because it is a choice. Your choice! You don't have to stay in that job, it's your choice to stay or leave.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

What Are You Emphasizing?

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." ~Carlos Castaneda

What are you emphasizing? Are you spending your time on things that matter or things that don't matter? Most people start out working on the things that matter and then are distracted and end up emphasizing the wrong stuff. Then we end up miserable because we don't understand that we are concentrating on things that don't matter. What is it that you are emphasizing?

Susyn Reeve said "When you focus your attention on the people, places, things and activities that you bring you pleasure - pleasure is what you experience." This is part of the reason that we need to doing something that gives us pleasure for our jobs. 75% of workers today HATE their jobs! Is that you? I hope not, because it is a choice. Your choice!

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

Do Not Squander Time

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of." ~Benjamin Franklin.

Do you love life? Do you squander time? Why? We all do it. We get so busy doing inconsequential things that the important things get pushed aside. In our over communicated, over saturated, overstimulated, over busy society, our attention is taken away from what is important and we chase after the latest, shiniest new thing that comes our way. SQUIRREL!!!! We squander our most valuable asset, our time.

Zig Ziglar says that "Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days." Not having enough time is a priority issue, not a time issue. We have plenty of time to do the things we want to do, just not enough time to do the things that we may have to do, but don't want to do.

The next time that you are asked to do something that you don't want to do, be honest and say "I'm sorry, but that isn't of enough value to me to do at this time" instead of just saying, "I don't have time." If it is of enough value to you, you will find a way of making the time so that you can do it.

Start giving your time the value it deserves, investing it and not squandering it and you will become even more valuable to others and yourself.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of."

Success That Doesn't Matter

"Our greatest fear shouldn't be failure, it should be succeeding at something that doesn't matter."~D. L. Moody

Are you succeeding at something that doesn't matter? Are you succeeding? Does it matter? To whom does it matter? Why does it matter?

Wow, what a thought. When was the last time that you gave it any attention, to see if what you were working towards really mattered?

We need to constantly analyze what we are working towards and see if it matters, to whom it matters and why it matters. After you have answered those questions, the and only then can you make the determination that the success you are working towards matters.

To be able to answer those questions, you must be able to answer the most important question that there is...Who are you? When you can answer that question, then everything else falls into place.

"Our greatest fear shouldn't be failure, it should be succeeding at something that doesn't matter."

Your Full Attention

"Anything worth doing is worth your full attention."~Michael Masterson

Do you multitask? Why?? It just takes you longer to do the things you are doing. Think about it.

In our "microwave" society, we put value on being able to do 100 things at the same time, but doesn't that just take away from each individual thing that we do? Doesn't it just let us get away with doing the work half-ass? Are you really giving each of those 100 things your FULL attention?

I say no, and it is doing harm to you and everyone who tries to multitask and even the people who we are multitasking for. We have become a society of "average is good enough." We have become a society that doesn't celebrate excellence but only quantity.

Part of the problem is also that we have lost the understanding of what is worth doing. Most high school students now say that what is important to them is "getting rich." Wow, have we lost our way or what?

Think about it, are the things that you are doing worth your full attention, or can you just do them and get by without a lot of thought...

"Anything worth doing is worth your full attention."

Your Attention

"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do, give it to what you do or fail to do."~Buddha

Concentrate only on what you do, not others.

In today's society, we are so caught up with trying to "keep up with the Jones's." Why? Do we really need that fancy car, house, I phone? What is it about what others have that makes us want to have it as well. Are we missing out on something if we don't get it?

Be authentic, be who you are, not what others think you should be. Once you are authentic, you will know what you need to have and what you will want to have, not what you 'have' to have. Think about that for a while...

Do not give your attention to what others fail to do either. It is their failure, not yours to rejoice over or point out. We are all traveling different paths but are heading in the same direction.

If you do pay attention to what others are doing, do it in a way that uplifts and strengthens them. Do not do it in any other way.

"Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do, give it to what you do or fail to do."