What holds you back? What stops you going for what you want to achieve in your life?

It is not enough just to create a focus and a plan. To understand where you are now and where you want to go. To change something you have to DO SOMETHING. Put your plans into action. Until you have put your plan into action, you haven’t changed. You are still doing what you have always done.

Become a member of 20% club. That’s percentage of successful people in world. Put your focus into action. It’s your focus, you have thought it, designed it and built it, now have enthusiasm, desire and aim to implement it.

Change I can’t into I can. Think for a moment. Is this fear real? Or is it that your imagination has taken over, stopping you from embracing future? Because, at moment, you have no evidence of what is going to happen. The only evidence you have is in past. And as you have not done this before, at this time, then you have no evidence.

Don’t worry about your capabilities. Can I do this? I have never done anything like this before? What will I do when……….? There is something magical about this process called life. Whenever we are faced with an incident we have never faced before somehow answer arrives. Somehow we have capability. They appear just when you need them most. If you look back over your life we are sure you will find, like us, that most of time you set out to do something you didn’t have capability before you started. The biggest example is education. When you started did you know all knowledge you had at end or did you become capable as you went along?

All you need is courage, enthusiasm and discipline. Have courage to drive towards your goals, enthusiasm to keep going and discipline to create a new habit even when it is tough. Keep focussed, keep learning.

“The victory of success is half won when one gains habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. “ Og Mandino

To give yourself a better than average chance of success. Each night before you go to sleep ask yourself: What did I do today to bring me closer to achieving my focus, my aim and objective in life? Break out of prison cell.

Good Luck

Graham and Julie www.desktop-meditation.com

Afraid of what other people are going to think of you if you fail? Have you ever met someone who played it ultra safe that was very impressive? People who don't take risks are seldom if ever cheered, admired, or in limelight. Besides, Americans love an underdog. We love to see some scrappy go-getter who has no business thinking they can win. We love to watch that same person stumble and fall a few times only to pick themselves up and really make something of themselves. It's American Dream. Hollywood knows it. They've made an entire industry of showing us stories of underdogs who dust themselves off and finally become winners. Nobody pays money to watch a movie about some perfect person who designs a perfect dream and experiences a flawless life while accomplishing everything they set out to do easily and effortlessly. Boooooring! We don't like people who come across as too perfect anyway. So go ahead and fail, it gives us a reason to pay attention to you, to relate to you, to cheer you on.

One of best pieces of advice I was ever given on this subject was back in high school when I was first learning how to water-ski. I was told, "If you aren't falling down, then you aren't trying very hard. You're playing it safe, staying in your comfort zone. You aren't getting any better." That pushed me to get past my fear of falling. I beat heck out of my poor body that summer, but I also made impressive gains in my ability to master sport. Nobody talked about how many times I fell that summer nor how black and blue I was, they only talked about how fast I was learning and what a great job I was doing. My teacher would sit back with this self-satisfied smirk on his face because only he knew how hard it had been for me to push past that comfort zone to allow myself permission to fall down. Nothing beats taking that big bite out of life and having it bite back just a bit! Laugh it off and dive in again.

Are you really going to shelve something so dear to your heart because you might fail? If I could promise you that you'd only fail twice and on third attempt you would succeed, then would you go ahead and suffer through first two failures in order to get to that third time? Of course, you would. All that's left to debate is how many times. So go ahead... take that first leap of faith.

Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow's Edge