Showing posts with label challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenges. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Keep On Keeping On

Your workings towards a goal, and everything looks to be going lovely and mulct – like a walking in the parkland on a sharp summertimes day. And then bump! You hit a rock. Your energy lessenings and you can't look to pin down point where the slack came from.

How make you maintain on keeping on, when you don't experience like keeping on?

Well you just maintain on keeping on, it's that simple. You maintain your wherefore stopping point to you as to why you are doing what you are doing. So whats your why? Why are you stretching yourself to accomplish your goal? You may necessitate to inquire this inquiries a few modern times because sometimes the first reply we give can sometimes be because the reply we believe others desire us to say. Don't gull yourself. Hold that why firmly in your heart.

In your caput visualize yourself in the topographic point you would wish to be in and throw that image in your head mundane for at least thirty minutes. Imagine with all your senses, the smell, the taste sensation of it, the look, and the feel of it. Play make-believe with your head and make-believe yourself into the end that you are striving for as though your life in it already.

The 3rd measure is to really throw yourself into your work, into your goal. Change something, anything. Change a system that you are doing that is taking you to your goal, or alteration the manner you see your goal. Maybe you necessitate to buoy up up. But alteration something, and pushing with all your self-control against the block that is blocking you. Put some grunt into it, you can make it!

And if all this neglects (which I doubt it will) just retrieve that the clip will pass. You have got two choices; you can transport on working toward your goal. Oregon You can give up. Either manner the clip is going to pass, it is up to you to take which way you take while the clip is passing.

God bless.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

In Every Cloud There Is A Silver Lining

How many times have we heard that phrase? It is one we most often take for granted. But in studying people who have obtained success, I've found, that this credo is heeded to in one form or another on a consistent basis. They have learned to look for the opportunity in everything. A failed business or marriage. The loss of a job. When things appear to be at their worst, instead of wallowing in their misery, most high achievers get moving.

I have read this over and over in countless personal development books and heard it many times from various speakers in different seminars but it was still flying right under the radar screen. Until...

At the end of last year, I was stricken with an illness that totally shut me down for several months. It wasn't serious, thank God, but it changed life the way I knew it. Initially, I was devastated, but after a brief moment I realized that being upset about it and playing the victim was not going to benefit me. So I got busy. I looked for the opportunity in the moment. I began reflecting on my life up until that point and what things I really needed to change. I looked at things that I needed to tie up or difficult conversations I needed to have with people and I GOT BUSY. The opportunity that existed in the moment was for me to overhaul my life. I put an end to stupid and ridiculous conversations with people, I found ways to lower my stress level and began to build them into my life on a consistent basis. I radically changed my diet to one that focuses on health and nourishment instead of comfort and pleasure. I used the time to get clarity and direction on what I wanted out of life and for my business and clients and most importantly, I used the time to finish my book which up until that point was only a quarter of the way finished and I had been working on it for over 3 years. In two months, I had finished the whole thing!

Now how's that for a silver lining in the cloud? I, personally, finally got it. I applied what I had heard over and over and it powerfully changed my life. In every crisis there is opportunity. I emerged from my crisis with greater clarity, and intent. I feel stronger and less willing to tolerate anything that isn't serving me well. I grew so much in such a short time that I wouldn't have changed a thing about it. It was literally a blessing in disguise. And yes, I was sick, and yes, it sucked but from where I stand right now, it was all worth it.

There is always something good in everything. When a situation seems bad, learn to look for the good in it. What is the opportunity? If you miss this, the situation will defeat you. You become a victim to your circumstances. Be proactive. Take charge. Look for and seize the opportunity you have been given. Always ask yourself, What is the gift that exists here? If you've lost your job, perhaps you have been given the gift of time to spend finding out what you really want to do in life. Is it time to start your own business? Is it time to find a better job that pays you what you're worth? If you experience an illness, perhaps it is a reminder that you need to slow down and focus on what really matters. Perhaps you have been working too hard and missing out on valuable time with your family. Whenever a difficult time in life appears, ask yourself, What is the opportunity God has given me in this moment? It's a simple question, but so powerful. Only you can answer it. But whatever you do, don't miss it!