Daily Quote: “Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don’t like to do.” Albert Gray
When you set yourself new goals and determine what kind of life you would like to lead, do you ever consider that the people you surround yourself with could help you achieve this or hinder you? What effect do the people in your life have on your successes?
We tend to neglect this aspect of our goal setting. We look at ourselves and only judge what we are achieving in isolation to the environment we live in. Yet the people that surround us can help or hinder us vastly in reaching our goals.
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Tags: action, goals
Daily Quote: “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean
When you have committed yourself to a huge task and you cannot get out of it you often use a method to help yourself through this ordeal. And that is breaking your progress down into tiny achievable steps and small victories .
An example of this is Terry Fox. Terry was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran with one prosthetic leg.
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Tags: action, goals
Daily Quote: “Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.” Andrew Sullivan
Open yourself up to an understanding about failure. The only way to put any failure behind you is to fully admit that you messed up, made a mistake, had a negative outcome and many more ways of stating the same.
You could have overspent on your credit card and are now finding yourself in huge debt. Admit to this by accepting that you overspent. Stop lying to yourself that you needed all those clothes, holidays, luxuries, toys for the kids and more spending examples.
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Tags: action, fear of failure, willingness
Daily Quote: “Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!”
Judi Adler
The first point to remember about the feedback you are getting is that the person offering it is taking a risk. By telling somebody something about them, especially if it could be considered negative, you stand the risk of being rejected yourself.
Providing feedback is a risky business. Think of the concept of shooting the messenger. There’s some truth to that saying. You could be considered a bad person, or making a fool of yourself, by telling somebody that they are on the wrong path.
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Tags: action, feedback, practice
Daily Quote: “If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!” W. Clement Stone
It’s difficult for most of us to ask for help. We anticipate that our request for help will be denied and we expect that we will be rejected. To avoid the pain of this rejection we prefer not to ask.
Here are five ways to make asking for help so much easier. It will be worth your while to make a note of these tips when needing to ask for help. Being able to ask for help will make your life so much easier to navigate.
Tip 1. Ask as if you expect to get your help. A positive mind will help you ask with greater confidence. You expect this help, you deserve to get help and the person you are asking is only too happy to help. In fact they truly want to help you.
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Tags: action, asking for help, goals
Daily Quote: “He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.” Danish Proverb.
Asking somebody for help is the easiest way of ensuring that you will be able to attain your goals. Yet most people find it extremely difficult to do this. It seems that people don’t want to look helpless or in need of assistance.
But mostly people hate to ask for help because they think they are going to get rejected. People are frightened that people will turn around and refuse to help them. So people don’t ask. They would rather not have help than stand a miniscule chance of having their request refused.
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Tags: action, asking for help
Daily Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of us spend our lives looking for our purpose. We assemble some goals and hope they will work for us. We scratch at the itch of unfulfilled lives and wonder why it’s not helping. Finally we give up and just drift through life. Maybe something will cross our paths and make sense to us.
That’s like saying that you don’t know what you like but when you see it then you will know it. Really? What happens if you never see it? Then you’ve waited all your life.
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Tags: action, explore, goals, taking action
Daily Quote: “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward
Many people give up on their dreams because the first few attempts got them nowhere near where they had hoped they would get to. But if you keep on trying the water by dipping your toe in, eventually you will find the right spot or the right temperature or even the right time for your swim.
Lots of small tries, many different approaches and a great number of tiny changes in direction can lead you where you want to be. It might not end up being the route you thought it would be. You might not even quite get the final destination that you had in mind. It could end up being better!
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Daily Quote: “You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
When you are afraid to take outright action because your goal seems so unachievable it might be an idea just to stick your toe into the water. First the toe, then perhaps the whole foot, maybe add your other foot, then to your knees and so on until you are paddling around.
Just by taking that first tiny, hesitant step you create a small amount of momentum that could carry you forward. You just started, you leant into it. You made a first tiny move. You find out what it feels like and you never know you might end up finding it not so difficult.
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Tags: action, goals, taking action
Daily Quote – “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” Brian Tracy
Many people never get past their paper based planning of what they want to achieve in life. Their successes stay firmly rooted on paper and never see the light of day. If this has happened to you, be aware that you are not alone in this.
So why did you never reach your goals? You never had the courage or the energy to move past the planning stage. Successful people do more and plan less. They do not wait for the right moment to get going.
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Tags: achievements, action, goals
