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Focus: Are You Giving Up Too Soon?
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Welcome to the Fourteenth Edition of MotivateUs.com's
Newsletter
My dear friend,
Today I invite you to join me ... to embark upon a quest, a quest for a
better life.
Maybe you like your life just the way it is. If so, congratulations,
that's fabulous.
Maybe you're thinking that some parts of your life just aren't working
out exactly the way you want them to. That's good, you're on the cusp of
change.
Maybe everything is screwed up and you don't know what to do. That's
okay, we've all been there at some point in ours lives, maybe more than
once.
What I know is this - wherever you are in your life, everything you've
thought about and done has brought you to this point.
If you are wildly successful, please share with us your story. If you
feel like you are on the cusp of change, please share your insights. If
your life is just not working, first examine and determine what could be
the problem and search for some solutions. After you have done this, then
share with us what you've learned and what you are doing to change your
life.
You don't have to reveal who you are or where you live, if you don't want
to. I respect everybody's right to privacy and will defend it
vigorously.
When we share a bit of ourselves, our struggles and our solutions, we
help to empower others too.
So are you ready? Let's go!
Something I'd Like To Share:
My great friend Steve Maraboli, has a beautiful way of helping people
realize they have the power to do anything, right inside of them. Read
what Steve has to say to YOU from his heart.
The Journey AwaitsThe beautiful journey of today can only begin
when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Have you ever been on a cruise or looked at one of their brochures? I
have been fortunate enough to experience the wonderful journey a cruise
can offer. The ships are so magnificently crafted, sculpted for movement,
comfort, efficiency, and maximizing the full experience of the trip.
You begin your journey when the ship leaves the dock and moves forward
towards its destination. Along the way there is so much happening. There
are so many opportunities you can experience and participate in. A
romantic stroll along the deck as you look outward to the seemingly
endless sea, or maybe you want to go splash around the pool, or maybe
enjoy some of the fine food available to you, or maybe you'll join in
some of the dancing and partying going on around you, or maybe it's
evening and you feel like sitting on the balcony and looking out to the
splendid moon and clear starlit sky.
There so much for you to experience and enjoy from the moment the trip
starts that before you know it, you've connected to another dock along
the way. Perhaps it's a pristine beach of white sand and breathtakingly
beautiful water. Perhaps it's a tropical paradise with tall trees and
lush greens that house exotic and precious animals. Perhaps it's a
mystical location with a spiritual history and engineering wonder that
you couldn't really understand or appreciate until you've seen it with
your own eyes.
There is so much that happens when this journey begins. From the moment
the ship leaves the dock until the time the ship returns to its home
dock, the blessings, opportunities, nourishment, love, laughter,
entertainment, and experiences are abundant and immeasurable. By the end
of the trip, you are sure to be happily exhausted from enjoying all the
journey had to offer. You can go home content that you lived and
experienced the journey to the max.
I tell you all of this because it's important to note one thing; One
thing that can make or break the trip; One thing that can make or break
YOUR journey.
I want you all to understand that NONE of this could happen; not one of
those magical experiences could happen if the ship didn't first LET GO of
the dock.
How many of you are still holding on to the dock? Holding the dock of
yesterday, the divorce, the bankruptcy, the pink slip, the betrayal, the
separation, the insecurity, the abuse, the fear, etc...
LET GO! What are you waiting for? The journey, all the magic, all the
romance, all the beauty, all the love, all of the blessings, and all of
the sights and sounds of this amazing trip through life are here for you
NOW.
Free yourself from the dock. It's not holding you, you're holding it -
let go now! Today is a new day! It's your day. Enjoy the trip!
--- Copyright © 2009 Steve Maraboli
About Steve Maraboli:
A renowned Speaker, Writer, National Radio Show Host, TV Correspondent
and Personal Coach, Steve Maraboli has risen to international prominence
by delivering highly penetrating speeches and effective programs that
help people shake off mediocrity, destroy personal barriers, and live up
to their greatest potential. His words have helped countless people
across the globe align themselves with happiness and create a mindset
that attracts success and excellence.
Steve's national radio show, Empowered
Living, has been heard by millions across the globe and has become a
meeting place for today's great thinkers and communicators. Steve also
travels delivering penetrating speeches and effective coaching programs
that continue to electrify audiences from Fortune 500 companies to
community organizations.
An Article / Story To Ponder:
7 Steps to Success - ONLY FOR YOU
Discipline yourself to do what you know you need to do to be the very
best in your field. Perhaps the best definition of self discipline is
this:
"Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do
when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
It is easy to do something when you feel like it. It's when you don't
feel like it and you force yourself to do it anyway that you move your
life and career onto the fast track.
What decisions do you need to make today in order to start moving toward
the top of your field?
Whatever it is, either to get in or get out, make a decision today and
then get started. This single act alone can change the whole direction of
your life.
Seven Steps to Success
There is a powerful seven step formula that you can use to set and
achieve your goals for the rest of your life. Every single successful
person uses this formula or some variation of this formula to achieve
vastly more than the average person. And so can you. Here it is:
- Decide What You Want
First, decide exactly what it is you want in each part of your life.
Become a "meaningful specific" rather than a "wandering generality."
- Write it Down
Second, write it down, clearly and in detail. Always think on paper. A
goal that is not in writing is not a goal at all. It is merely a wish and
it has no energy behind it.
- Set a Deadline
Third, set a deadline for your goal. A deadline acts as a "forcing
system" in your subconscious mind. It motivates you to do the things
necessary to make your goal come true. If it is a big enough goal, set
sub-deadlines as well. Don't leave this to chance.
- Make a List
Fourth, make a list of everything that you can think of that you are
going to have to do to achieve your goal. When you think of new tasks and
activities, write them on your list until your list is complete.
- Organize Your List
Fifth, organize your list into a plan. Decide what you will have to do
first and what you will have to do second. Decide what is more important
and what is less important. And then write out your plan on paper, the
same way you would develop a blueprint to build your dream house.
- Take Action
The sixth step is for you to take action on your plan. Do something. Do
anything. But get busy. Get going.
- Do Something Every Day
Seventh, do something every single day that moves you in the direction of
your most important goal at the moment. Develop the discipline of doing
something 365 days each year that is moving you forward. You will be
absolutely astonished at how much you accomplish when you utilize this
formula in your life every single day.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put these ideas into action
immediately.
- First, decide exactly what you want, write it down with a
deadline, make a plan and take action - on at least one goal - today!
- Second, determine the price you will have to pay to achieve this
goal and then get busy paying that price - whatever it is.
--- Author Unknown
--- Submitted by Aneeqa Waheed --- Pakistan
Something To Consider:
Your Constant Companion
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me and I will
be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed--you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how
you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it
automatically.
I am the servant of all great people and, alas, of all failures, as
well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine
plus the intelligence of a person. You may run me for profit or run me
for ruin --- if makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your
feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am habit!
--- Author Unknown
Something To Encourage You:
Thinking Different
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
--- From Apple Computer
Three Quotes To Motivate You:"Life moves on, whether we act
as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would
but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut
our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate
or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an
open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to
recognize it as such."
--- Henry Miller
"You are capable and worthy of being and doing anything. You just
need the discipline and determination to see it through. It won't come
instantly, and you may backslide from time to time, but don't let that
deter you. Never give up. Life is an ever-changing process, and nothing
is final. Therefore, each moment and every new day is a chance to begin
anew."
--- Barbara Cage
"I am my hardest critic. The biggest challenges are the ones that
are set upon me and not those from the external environment. I will
definitely be resilient in the face of adversity. No problem will be too
big for me to tackle, for I believe in myself.""
--- Author Unknown
Until Next Time, Remember:
Giving Up Too SoonA man meets a guru in the road. The man asks
the guru, "Which way is success?"
The berobed, bearded sage speaks not, but points to a place off in the
distance.
The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushes off
in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there comes a loud "SPLAT."
Eventually, the man limps back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must
have misinterpreted the message. He repeats his question to the guru, who
again points silently in the same direction.
The man obediently walks off once more. This time the splat is deafening,
and when the man crawls back, he is bloody, broken, tattered, and irate.
"I asked you which way is success," he screams at the guru. "I followed
the direction you indicated. And all I got was splatted! No more of this
pointing! Talk!"
Only then does the guru speak, and what he says is this:
"Success IS that way. Just a little PAST splat."
--- Author Unknown
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