"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."~ Stewart B. Johnson
Are you getting ahead of yourself or are you trying to keep up and get ahead of your neighbors and friends? See, our society has made it a game about keeping up with the Joneses. All the advertising is directed at making you feel as if you need everything to keep up. And if you don't, well, you might be thrown out of Scottsdale!! I mean, come on, we have a reputation to uphold here...
How shallow have we become to buy into that crap? I sure hope that we are finding our way out and just worrying about keeping ahead of ourselves. That's where growth is! That's where change is! That's where happiness is!
Take a moment to think about how you can 'outstrip your yesterday by your today.' What would it take to make today a better day than yesterday? That's all you have to do...consciously think about how you can make today better than yesterday...and then do it!
When you realize that even the poorest American is in the top 97% of people in the world as far as wealth goes it might change your thinking. Or that 60% of the world doesn't have running water or indoor plumbing, or that 50% has never made a telephone call, you will realize that our job is just to get ahead of ourselves and not anyone else.
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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Not Conforming to Stereotypes From Others
"I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me." ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Are you conforming to the stereotypes that others have defined for you? Why? I mean really, why? Were you told that you needed to be this way or that way and you did it? What were you thinking?
Here's a favorite quote of mine, "It's none of my business what you think of me." See, if I make it my business what you think of me, then I change who I am to gain your acceptance, trust, love, whatever. But to really live that quote, you need to be confident in who you are, and know who you are!
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” Too many people today are only pushed by their problems and aren't led by their dreams. Be led by your dreams! But make sure that they are your dreams and not someone elses...
You, and only you, get to choose how you spend each precious moment of your life. Choose carefully and well. It is always your choice.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me."
Are you conforming to the stereotypes that others have defined for you? Why? I mean really, why? Were you told that you needed to be this way or that way and you did it? What were you thinking?
Here's a favorite quote of mine, "It's none of my business what you think of me." See, if I make it my business what you think of me, then I change who I am to gain your acceptance, trust, love, whatever. But to really live that quote, you need to be confident in who you are, and know who you are!
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” Too many people today are only pushed by their problems and aren't led by their dreams. Be led by your dreams! But make sure that they are your dreams and not someone elses...
You, and only you, get to choose how you spend each precious moment of your life. Choose carefully and well. It is always your choice.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me."
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
You Creating Success or Mediocrity?
“Believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.”~ T. Harv Eker
I know that you believe that you create your success, but do you believe that you also create your mediocrity? Well guess what? Hate to break it to ya, but YOU DO! Too often we blame others, parents, teachers, spouses, the economy, when it is our responsibility, our choices, our decisions.
Don't give your power away by blaming others, because that is what you are doing. Take responsibility for you actions and create the life that you want. Your "personal brand" should be all yours, not someone elses.
You are in charge of EVERYTHING that happens in your life. EVERYTHING. Take back you power today, right now, this moment. You create your success, you create your mediocrity. It is your choice!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
“Believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.”
I know that you believe that you create your success, but do you believe that you also create your mediocrity? Well guess what? Hate to break it to ya, but YOU DO! Too often we blame others, parents, teachers, spouses, the economy, when it is our responsibility, our choices, our decisions.
Don't give your power away by blaming others, because that is what you are doing. Take responsibility for you actions and create the life that you want. Your "personal brand" should be all yours, not someone elses.
You are in charge of EVERYTHING that happens in your life. EVERYTHING. Take back you power today, right now, this moment. You create your success, you create your mediocrity. It is your choice!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
“Believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.”
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Go Where There Is No Path
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is it so hard to follow Emerson's advice? Because it is easy to follow the path rather than creating your own path. It's easy to do what everyone else is doing, but at what cost? The cost you pay is that you become another me-too person or a me-too business!! Is it worth it to you to break away from the me-toos?
Go instead where there is no path and leave one. Be the trailblazer! Roger Bannister was a trailblazer. He broke the 4 minute mile when scientists said that it was impossible for the human body to be able to run that fast. Here's the thing, everyone after him that has set the record in the mile has just been faster...but not a trailblazer. Think about that for a while.
Where can you be a trailblazer? Have you ever thought about that? I challenge you to challenge your imagination and come up with a way that you can be a trailblazer! Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere else!" Are you ready to go everywhere else?
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Why is it so hard to follow Emerson's advice? Because it is easy to follow the path rather than creating your own path. It's easy to do what everyone else is doing, but at what cost? The cost you pay is that you become another me-too person or a me-too business!! Is it worth it to you to break away from the me-toos?
Go instead where there is no path and leave one. Be the trailblazer! Roger Bannister was a trailblazer. He broke the 4 minute mile when scientists said that it was impossible for the human body to be able to run that fast. Here's the thing, everyone after him that has set the record in the mile has just been faster...but not a trailblazer. Think about that for a while.
Where can you be a trailblazer? Have you ever thought about that? I challenge you to challenge your imagination and come up with a way that you can be a trailblazer! Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere else!" Are you ready to go everywhere else?
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Monday, April 25, 2011
Impossible is In Your Own Thinking
"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."~Robert H. Schuller
Are you living towards your dream? NO, you're not? Why? Has your dream become "impossible?" Maybe it's just too hard? That's just a story that you are telling yourself. Remember, your brain is not your friend!! It wants to keep you safe, it will challenge your dream, sabotage your dream, but it is the only thing that is keeping you from achieving your dream...Your thinking. “When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why." Stop thinking in impossible.
Hello?? Anybody home??? Did you hear me? The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in YOUR OWN thinking! It is your choice how you think. You get to decide! No one else has any say in the matter (unless you give them power over you). What is holding you back? What are you waiting for? Wouldn't your life be so much better living your dream than what you are doing now???
"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."~ Anthony Robbins
Master YOUR dreams! Go after them. Don't let whatever has stopped you up until now to keep you from creating your dream life. Stretch your capacity and focus all your resources on achieving your dream! Do it NOW!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
Are you living towards your dream? NO, you're not? Why? Has your dream become "impossible?" Maybe it's just too hard? That's just a story that you are telling yourself. Remember, your brain is not your friend!! It wants to keep you safe, it will challenge your dream, sabotage your dream, but it is the only thing that is keeping you from achieving your dream...Your thinking. “When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why." Stop thinking in impossible.
Hello?? Anybody home??? Did you hear me? The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in YOUR OWN thinking! It is your choice how you think. You get to decide! No one else has any say in the matter (unless you give them power over you). What is holding you back? What are you waiting for? Wouldn't your life be so much better living your dream than what you are doing now???
"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."~ Anthony Robbins
Master YOUR dreams! Go after them. Don't let whatever has stopped you up until now to keep you from creating your dream life. Stretch your capacity and focus all your resources on achieving your dream! Do it NOW!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
Friday, April 22, 2011
Do You Believe in Impossible?
“When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.” ~David J. Schwartz
Our brain is the greatest computer ever designed. It is a million times more powerful that the most powerful computer and when you believe something, you mind will bring the things to you that validate your thinking. Henry Ford said "Whether you think you can or think you can't you're right." If you believe something is impossible, then guess what...IT IS impossible...FOR YOU. But it is not impossible for someone who believes is it possible.
Here's another view on possible and impossible “If it is possible, it is done; if impossible, it shall be done.”~Charles Alexandre de Calonne Wow, is that powerful? If it is impossible, IT SHALL BE DONE. Do you think this way? Can you think this way? Break out of your self-imposed mediocrity and attempt the impossible.
And don't let the realists stop you, you know who they are, the ones who are always saying, "Oh, be realistic." See, a realist is really a pessimist in disguise. Go for it. Attempt the impossible and when they come to ask you how you did it, just say "It's a secret...but it has something to do with belief..."
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
“When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.”
Our brain is the greatest computer ever designed. It is a million times more powerful that the most powerful computer and when you believe something, you mind will bring the things to you that validate your thinking. Henry Ford said "Whether you think you can or think you can't you're right." If you believe something is impossible, then guess what...IT IS impossible...FOR YOU. But it is not impossible for someone who believes is it possible.
Here's another view on possible and impossible “If it is possible, it is done; if impossible, it shall be done.”~Charles Alexandre de Calonne Wow, is that powerful? If it is impossible, IT SHALL BE DONE. Do you think this way? Can you think this way? Break out of your self-imposed mediocrity and attempt the impossible.
And don't let the realists stop you, you know who they are, the ones who are always saying, "Oh, be realistic." See, a realist is really a pessimist in disguise. Go for it. Attempt the impossible and when they come to ask you how you did it, just say "It's a secret...but it has something to do with belief..."
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
“When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.”
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Are You Doing Something Unique and Distinctive?
"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive; and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."~Benjamin E. Mays
You were born to do something unique. Do you realize that? You were born into the world to do something unique! Are you doing it or are you doing something that is normal, mediocre and boring? While you may do something that a lot of other people do, you can make what you do UNIQUE! Because YOU are unique, you can make what you do unique.
When we are sent to school, we are told to "fit in," to "be like everyone else," to "not be different." We need to allow our children to become who they were meant to be, not what the government schools say they should be. Our uniqueness is driven to a point within us where it is hard to find, but it is still there...waiting to get out. If you have not let your uniqueness out, what are you waiting for? It will be the best thing that you have ever done!! But if you don't do it...it will never be done. Because you are here to do that one unique thing.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." I ask again, What are you waiting for?
The Reverend Billy Graham said "Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?" Become who you were meant to be. Be unique! Be You! Be different! It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive; and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."
You were born to do something unique. Do you realize that? You were born into the world to do something unique! Are you doing it or are you doing something that is normal, mediocre and boring? While you may do something that a lot of other people do, you can make what you do UNIQUE! Because YOU are unique, you can make what you do unique.
When we are sent to school, we are told to "fit in," to "be like everyone else," to "not be different." We need to allow our children to become who they were meant to be, not what the government schools say they should be. Our uniqueness is driven to a point within us where it is hard to find, but it is still there...waiting to get out. If you have not let your uniqueness out, what are you waiting for? It will be the best thing that you have ever done!! But if you don't do it...it will never be done. Because you are here to do that one unique thing.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." I ask again, What are you waiting for?
The Reverend Billy Graham said "Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?" Become who you were meant to be. Be unique! Be You! Be different! It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive; and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."
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