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“If only the best songbirds sang, the forest would be a very quiet place.”
I don’t recall who proclaimed this, but it is so true! In nature birds just do their ‘thing’ and sing. They don’t wait to master the right notes, for the perfect circumstances, nor do they worry about how they will be perceived or judged.
So go ahead – follow the pointers from mother nature, pursue your the goals that make your heart sing.
It’s your song, give IT voice and wings. Can you feel your spirit soar?
Living your values in the pursuit of important goals will orient you to the person you want to become, to stretch into actualizing your greatest potential!
Where will your value calibrated Life Compass take you?
Do you factor a daily block of time into your schedule for improving your overall wellness? Incorporating cardio, resistance or meditation time on a regular basis infuses each day and all your tomorrows with wonderful vitality and more productivity.
A well-maintained and calibrated machine runs more effectively. How are you tending to the fitness of your mind, body and soul of your personal operating system? Taking good care of those domains is not a one-time event; it’s a way of life. A fitness lifestyle does wonders helping you be more effective at achieving all your other life goals!
Can you think of better returns than investing time and effort with a regularly scheduled fitness and self-care routine to compound high positive impact in every area of your life?
In life, there is one thing that is certain, change is a constant and something is always changing. With the official arrival of summer, we are reminded that seasonal changes and cycles are constant and inevitable. These cycles relate to the rotation of the earth; monthly cycles to the moon; annual cycles to the relative position of the sun and stars. In our own life, we may need to be reminded of our own personal changes and cycles in relation to our environment, relationships, and season in life. Our perception and response to change is often more important than the actual change itself.
While changes in nature revolve around energy cycles, our own energy cycles expand and contract based on our intentions and focus. Awareness opens doorways for choosing. High positive energy is accessed and maintained through a positively framing our perceptions to seek and find opportunity in most occurrences. Keep in mind that we don’t objectively see the world as it is, but through the overlays of all the experiences of who we are and what holds deep meaning for us, i.e. our core values. This becomes even more crucial when faced with major decisions and choices and to align them with those values for they mirror who you are and what you stand for. They serve as a ballast and rudder when navigating through stormy times.
Next time you’re tempted to home in on some negative aspects of change in a relationship, situation or project, try mentally and emotionally shifting your thoughts to a more positive state that better correlates with your core values. You’ll feel a natural energy change in cognitive, emotional and behavioral attitude improving your mind-set and amplifying your performance in whatever you’re doing. Do it often and regularly to create a powerfully positive change in your personal and professional life.
To your happiness and fulfillment in success!
Our best memories are not made on a cell phone, pc or tackling an endless to-do list.
Our best memories are made in face to face moments. Doing what we enjoy, taking time to be with the people we enjoy. It’s about a deliberate pause to decide who and what brings you joy, then making the time to be there!
Here’s to making memorable moments this weekend!
Politely of course, à la Dr. Seuss!
It is beyond mid-April, yet this Winter unrelentingly hangs around, and has long outworn its welcome! A continuing, tenacious wintry scene, brings one of my favorite Dr. Seuss book title to mind: Marvin K. Mooney, Will You PLEASE GO NOW! “I don’t care how you go, JUST GO! NOW!”
Poetic license declared and granted by inserting the chosen name of someone, or something that has imposed a presence way beyond comfort. Keep repeating, as in this case, “Snowy F. Winter, I don’t care how you go, PLEASE JUST GO!! NOW!!!”
Could it be that easy?!! At least in our mind as we put out the welcome mat for the eventual, hopeful arrival of our next guest, Ms. Spring.
The cruelest April Fool’s prank is the one our inner critic dupes up into believing. To create a new relationship with self and life, simply thank it for attempting to help by keeping you small, and then dismiss it! Repeat enough times to reduce the inner critic to an occasional annoyance rather than an overshadowing presence. Then go step into the fullness of all that life has in store for you. Happy first of April and everyday !
To become your personal and professional best, i.e., being the best you possible, at what you pursue, is the ultimate success! For most people, it doesn’t happen magically. It takes time and practice.
The presenting scientist at lecture I recently attended declared that research quantified that it takes 1000 hours to master a new skill. That seems like a lot of hours. The distinction between focused time invested vs. time idly spent is huge. That’s the value of hours dedicated to learning what you deem important. The idea that practice time in learning a new language, meditating, or handling a ball, is an investment of confidence towards who you are becoming and what you want to accomplish, leads to a sense of fulfillment.
Practice, and learning from each ‘failure’ increases your odds for successful achievement. We would never have professional jugglers if they gave up with the first few times they dropped the baton, ball, or whatever they now specialize in juggling. So before you give up on the idea of learning a new skill for personal or professional development, first determine how much time you are actually willing to bank towards working on whatever goals you elect to pursue, and do it with focus and consistency!
Time invested in pursuit of your goals, is the science of great return, as well the process of growth and success to become your best!
Getting fanatic about unfinished business on a Friday can be a major motivator for smooth sailing into the following week. There’s huge satisfaction in completing and checking off tasks on the week’s unfinished business list. It’s like clearing out some breathing room on the road to working on your goals and just a bigger allowance of time without the burden of added weight, perpetually awaiting your attention.
Here’s a simple three-step approach. First, gather all that remains to be done on a list starting with the most challenging. Next, itemize all you’ll need for taking care of the top, most dreaded item. Then, get fierce about tackling it like an athlete going through a set of hurdles. Everything else should be easier in comparison, putting you on a momentum roll.
With all those incompletions out of the way, you can relax into the weekend, knowing Monday will begin as a fresh new week without a stack of daunting leftovers!
It’s your big push today for high productivity by leveraging your actions to achieve maximum results in record time. First month of the year, last day of the month is an opportunity to position yourself for finishing big AND starting next month poised for takeoff.
Whatever achievements you racked up so far, keeping the momentum going is pivotal since you’re setting the success foundation of your goal commitments, during the crucial first months of the year.
Four steps to creating end of the month success
Finishing one or two high impact actions is a success coup. Whatever actions remain to be completed can then be scheduled for priority rank in the upcoming month. Next, plan and schedule all additional initiatives and objectives as well.
Finally, plan to celebrate your efforts and progress. To your Success!
“I have a dream…” MLK | A goal is a dream in progress, with set deadlines as targets to aim for, to keep us moving forward.
Goals are the gifts we give ourselves, giving power to the activities that transform us and our world. Life Goals help us improve specific aspects about ourselves, or areas within our life. Achieving our goals helps us score internal points. They are about following through in doing what we identified needs to be done, to attain what we desire.
Effective goal setting keep us stretching and reaching towards the vision of what we want our life to be about. We each have a dream waiting to be fulfilled and when put into action that cherished dream can be the catalyst for the change we seek. Investing our creative energy, passion, and tenacity into pursuing our dreams of authentic success creates a tsunami of positive change in our world and beyond.
What are you committed to achieving today, this month, this quarter, this year??
To your dream…to your success!
Regardless of what this past year has been like for us, it’s helpful to keep in mind that we all have our share of self-doubt, temporary setbacks and times when the obligations of everyday life can feel like a succession of detours and roadblocks to our desired success. Yet, we persist and persevere, slowing down but never giving up on our goals!
Endings and beginnings require pause for reflection and appreciation. So as this year concludes and the new one beckons, how helpful would it be to focus and make note of all our gratitudes; whether they are for people, circumstances, simple rituals or delights that are the pilot light of our souls. These are the elements that engage our hearts with positive influence and keep us going.
It is also beneficial to be mindful of the ‘tolerations’ and annoyances of the less than ideal components. Awareness helps us to plan and chart our course to manage, change, totally eliminate, or at least minimize them in our life. Doing so frees up our energy, focus and commitment with a cleansing determination beyond acceptance of the status quo.
Endings are opportunities for glancing back to assess, with forward focus for creating positive change, making strides of progress with the hope of new beginnings, the gateways to better outcomes. Welcome to a shining New Year!
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer
May others’ sparks abound for you and to you being the flame for those need of light!
To 2014 and Success for THE Journey of Your Life™
Four Steps for creating a strategic approach to keep you engaged, motivated, and maintain a focus for targeted action:
1. FOCUS: Narrow your focus on your BIG BURNING IMPORTANT GOALS of SUCCESS™
2. ACTION: Commit to taking 2-3 consistent actions on those top 2-3 KEY goals.
3. KEEP SCORE: Measure your progress against the deadline.
4. ASSESSMENT & ACCOUNTABILITY: on a regularly scheduled weekly basis:
a. What did you do last week that worked moving you closer to the goals?
b. What did you do that did not have much of an impact?
c. What will you do again, or do differently this week to get you closer?
Working with a process of systematic approach, ALL the other stuff WILL still get done – just NOT at the expense of the BBIGS!
Strategically planning and executing is the ultimate advantage in accelerating achievement of big priority goals!
To YOUR Success!
Your Life Compass | Success for the Journey of Your Life™
Truism: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Questions:
1. If the vision of your goal can be translated into that formula, what would that look like?
2. Are you fully aware how each of the parts contribute to the whole?
3. How will this help you be more engaged, productive and persistent?
Answer: A higher level perspective creates not only relevance but crystallizes how the dots connect, creating the ‘whole’!
Tis the season for naming and listing our thanks and gratitudes! THAT is very empowering, yet does not translate into resigning oneself to the status quo, nor being any less grateful for all the blessings that are ours. It simply provides a springboard to what we want MORE of from this one precious life we have. SO go ahead and name, list, and yes, upgrade to what you really, truly desire more of – in addition to all that currently is!
“I want more out of life than I’ve gotten.” Loretta Lynn
How about you?