"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
Denis Waitley
"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."
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The Golden Hour
By: Brian Tracy
You become what you think about most of the time.
And the most important part of each day is what you think about at the beginning of that day.
Start Your Day Right
Take 30 minutes each morning to sit quietly and to reflect on your goals.
You'll find when you read the biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women that almost everyone of them began their upward trajectory to success when they begin getting up early in the morning and spending time with themselves.
Feed Your Mind With Positive Ideas
This is called the Golden Hour.
The first hour sets the tone for the day.
The things that you do in the first hour prepare your mind and set you up for the entire day.
During the first thirty to sixty minutes, take time to think and review your plans for the future.
Here are four things that you can do during that quiet time in the morning.
Number one is to review your plans for accomplishing your goals and change your plans if necessary.
Number two is think of better ways to accomplish your goals.
As an exercise, assume that the way you're going about it is totally wrong and imagine going about it totally differently.
What would you do different from what you're doing right now?
Number three, reflect on the valuable lessons that you have learned and are learning as you move toward your goals.
Number four, calmly visualize your goal as a reality.
Close your eyes, relax, smile, and see your goal as though it were already a reality.
Rewrite your major goals everyday in the present tense.
Rewrite them as though they already existed.
Write "I earn X dollars."
"I have a net worth of X."
"I weigh a certain number of pounds."
This exercise of writing and rewriting your goals everyday is one of themost powerful you will ever learn
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Relationships
"Its not living with the similarities that makes a relationship,
it’s whether you can live with the differences that Decides."
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This is a Test of Friendship
...a Friend does most or all of these...
(A)accepts you as you are
(B)elieves in "you"
(C)alls you just to say "HI"
(D)oesn't give up ! ! on you
(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
(F)orgives your mistakes
(G)ives unconditionally
(H)elps you
(I)nvites you over
(J)ust "be" with you
(K)eeps you close at heart
(L)oves you for who you are
(M)akes a difference in your life
(N)ever Judges
(O)ffer support
(P)icks you up
(Q)uiets your fears
(R)aises your spirits
(S)ays nice things about you
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U)nderstands you
(V)alues you
(W)alks beside you
(X)-plains thing you don't understand
(Y)ells when you won't listen and
(Z)aps you back to reality
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"A good leader inspires others with confidence in him or her; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves."
-Unknown
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Kindness makes a fellow feel good, whether it's being done to him or by him.
-Frank A. Clark
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Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know all the answers.
Author unknown
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GREAT Advice on COMMITMENT...
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal- a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
-- Mario Andretti
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"Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential."
-- Denis Waitley
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested
in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other
people interested in you."
-- Dale Carnegie
"A decision is made with the brain.
A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision."
-- Nido Qubein
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"We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath.
'Well, I'm bored...let's go brush our teeth.'
- Brad Stine
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Family Jokes
Dear Dad,
$chool i$ really great. I am making lot$ of friend$ and $tudying very hard. With all my $tuff, I $imply can`t think of anything I need. $o if you would like, you can ju$t $end me a card, a$ I would love to hear from you.
Love,
Your $on
The Reply:
Dear Son,
I kNOw that astroNOmy, ecoNOmics, and oceaNOgraphy are eNOugh to keep even an hoNOr student busy. Do NOt forget that the pursuit of kNOwledge is a NOble task, and you can never study eNOugh.
Love,
Dad
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CONTROL, THE EASY WAY
All we have to do to make sure that the future controls us is "nothing"
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
--Epictetus
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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
-- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Pastor/Speaker/Author
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"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
-- Dawson Trotman
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Perseverance is a great element of success.
If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
-- Longfellow
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Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
-A Course in Miracles
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Eliminate your time-wasters
In order to control you time, you have to know what you are doing with it
now.
The best way to determine this is to do an exercise that takes a maximum of a half an hour a day for 10 days.
You will not have to go on a crash diet or run three miles a day, but I guarantee that by the last day you will have grown.
You will look the same, but you will have grown (inside, of course).
The insight you gain from evaluating your time usage is what you can base you time management goals on.
Directions: Make 10 copies of this worksheet. For the next 10 days, answer questions at the end of each workday.
Be as detailed as possible. Try to state specifically how you will make the next day better.
1. What went right today? Why?
2. What went wrong today? Why?
3. What time did I start on my top priority task? Why? Could I have started earlier?
4. What patterns do I see in my time logs?
5. What part of my day was most productive? Least productive?
6. What were my three biggest time wasters today?
7. Which activities need more time? Which need less time?
8. Beginning tomorrow, what will I do to make better use of my time?
Published in "Dr. T's Timely Tips" by Dr. Tony Alessandra. Tony@Alessandra.com
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Here are 10 ways to eliminate and prevent worry in our personal and
professional lives:
10. Focus on positive possibility."Webster's definition is "capable of happening, existing, capable of being true.
9. Embrace change.Change is happening whether you want it to or not. You are either going forward or backward, you're never staying the same. The only thing constant in this world is change. Stop worrying about it, feel the fear and do it anyway. Two great books "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway" by Susan Jeffers, "Who Moved My Cheese" by Ken Blanchard.
8. Add structure... Disorganization is the source of many worries, e.g. "I can't find it", "I'm confused", or "I don't know what to do next". Structure provides security and enhances self-confidence. For many of you structure means loss of freedom. Quite the contrary, you actually have more freedom when structure is in place. It may mean something as simple as using a daily "To-Do List" or it can be organization chart for your business to provide visible structure and useful information to everyone in the organization.
7. Get the facts... Confusion is a root cause of worry. It has been said that half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision. Replace time that would have been spent on worry with a search for wisdom.
6. Seek simplicity... We've all heard the term KISS (Keep It Simple Silly). Simplicity means single-ness of purpose. Simplicity creates trust. Trust eliminates worry.
5. Think, talk and act cheerfully... Author John Maxwell says, "Your attitude determines your altitude." It is very difficult to worry if you are being cheerful, saying positive words, helping others, and just being grateful for all you have.
4. Focus on purpose. Focus on your activities and your life's purpose.not on "What's going to happen if..". Your life's purpose is the WHY behind your goal. Align your goals with your personal values and life's purpose. This will cause you to focus on action and not worry. Achieving meaningful results in every aspect of your life reduces worry.
3. Exercise... Crowd worry out of your mind by keeping busy. Read a good book. Work out at the gym. Take a walk. Start a new project. When someone asked Winston Churchill if he was worried about his tremendous responsibilities during WWII, he replied, "I'm too busy. I have no time to worry."
2. Be a person of integrity... If you are living a life of integrity, you eliminate a source of worry. People worry about getting caught doing something bad. They don't mind being caught doing good.
1. Pray... Prayer is the number one eliminator of worry. You may be great at multi-tasking, but you'll find it impossible to pray and worry at the same time. Prayer transfers your personal and professional burdens to God. And yes, there is a God. If you have ever witnessed a birth of a baby and a close of an escrow, you know there is a God. God can handle our problems a lot better than we can. I've noticed that most people resort to prayer only after everything else has failed. Prayer actually works best when put into action before a need exists.
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When you look fear in the face, you gain strength, courage and confidence. You stop being a coward and start succeeding.
Each time you face a fear, it gets easier. You continue to confront the fear and it eventually disappears.
When you face a fear, and act despite the fear, you have courage.
Confronting your fears not only makes you more successful, it makes you happier.
"To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience those things that are." -- L. Ron Hubbard
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Cleanse the clutter!
Tired of all the junk in your life? If you often find yourself cleaning up clutter or looking for more space in the closet to shove all your stuff in, it might be time to give a wholehearted effort to cleaning all the junk that’s collected over the years. Spend a little time this weekend going through your home and you might realize that most of what fills your drawers is just taking up space. Once your living space is clutter-free and simplified you may find your mind is more relaxed and comfortable too.
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