The Question

The Question is...... Do you have to finish "first" or in the top few at your earliest attempts to succeed? Look around and you will see the huge number of people who's personality, passion, drive or ego are stopping them from having any chance at all to achieve success.

As you look around, can you spot all of the people who have simply given up on doing anything special with their lives? Living in quiet desperation......

Why? Don't you suppose that, when they were children, they had wonderful dreams of what the future held for them? Have you ever known a child that didn't? Aren't they all going to grow up to be a fireman, a doctor, a leader, a president? Something grand and special to them... perhaps inspired by their parents, a teacher, a movie or television program.

Somewhere around 3% of the population wind up living their personal DREAM...heck, let's be generous and make it 10%. What happened to the rest?

In short, LIFE happened. Perhaps they tried and failed. Maybe even a number of times. Perhaps someone they respected and loved 'rained on thier parade'....minimized thier dream.... told them it wasn't realistic!

So, eventually, most simply QUIT! Give up on thier dream. Walk away to live....yes, quiet lives of desperation. Now only dreaming of their DREAMS, what could have been.

Where are you....today? Still dreaming the DREAM? Still fighting? Still working to make it happen?

Don't let anything or anyone get in your way. How many times are you willing to fail before you give it up...for good?

Before you do consider the alternative and continue to fail until you succeed!

"Ninty percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit." - Paul J. Meyer

The Power of Fear

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really look fear in the face....we must do that which we think that we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What role has fear played in your life? Have you failed to take action on something that would make a positive change in your life because you were afraid to take action?

Does that fear have you 'stuck' in a place you don't want to be? That truly is the situation for most of us. The sad thing is that fear is uncommonly simple to overcome!

The solution? Action! If you will take those first small steps in the direction of your goal the fear will simply begin to evaporate. One action step leads to the next and you will soon find that the fear is beginning to turn to enthusiasm and doing the thing that you once feared becomes energizing.

Each step leads to a bigger step and it becomes easier and easier to be bold enough to take yet another step in the direction of your dreams.

Live your dreams! Take Eleanor Roosevelt's advice.....do that which you think you cannot.

What if you didn't know?

What if you didn't know that you could fail?

What if you removed all of the self imposed limitations from your life?

Yould you attempt more things that you currently don't consider? Would you live life more fully? Start today to live life like there was no possibility of failure.

Start with something small that you have put off because you weren't sure you could get it done or, worse yet, were afraid you might fail at. Take a chance. Learn a new skill. Try something new. Step outside of your own limitations!

Little steps lead to bigger steps which lead to small successes...which lead to big successes. Are you willing to risk your 'status quo' for something more?

Start or Finish?

Here's a quick (and true) story that really spoke to me and I thought everyone would appreciate.

Long after the crowd had left and the cameras had moved, a lone runner entered the stadium to complete the 26-mile-long marathon in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Injured earlier in the race during a fall, he stumbled along, more than an hour after the others had finished.

Hurling himself to the finish line, John Stephen Akhwari of Tanzania finished dead last. But before you judge him as a loser, take careful heed of the words he uttered when asked why he did not quit earlier when he had been injured:"My country did not send me 7,000 miles to start the race.

"They sent me 7,000 miles to finish it."

So.... What's your story? Are you a starter or a finisher?

A Journey of a thousand miles....

As I said on todays "tweet".... Every journey, no matter how difficult, begins with a single step.

We all have a choice to make. In order to change, to challenge ourselves, we must take that single step forward.

What is your challenge? Better health, greater income, freedom to choose? Whatever...take the first step today! It doesn't have to be a big step, just a mindful beginning.

One you take the first step, commit to taking one more step every day. You'll be suprised. Soon the steps will get bigger and the results will begin to compound more quickly.

It all begins with a decision to 'step forward'. Do it today!

Another Day Closer

Whatever it is that you have set as your primary goal....you are another day into it.

Are you another day closer to achieveing your goal; or are you another day farther away?

One way or the other, as trite as it is, "Today truly is the first day of the rest of your life." Every day is a fresh opportunity.

When the sun came up today and you woke up, with a heartbeat, you were given yet another chance. What are you going to do with it?

The universe is incredible. Every day is fresh. What will you do with your new day?

Need a 'nudge' today?

Here is an audio clip from the Goals Guy, Gary Ryan Blair that might get you headed in the right direction today. Gary is currently accepting applicants for a program he is calling, the 100 Day Finish Strong Challenge. His goal is to recruit 25,000participants, worldwide.

To listen in on his special motivational message of the day.... Click here and turn up your speakers: http://www.goalsguy.com/mp3/DoItNow_GaryRyanBlair.mp3

Make it a Great Day!