Okay, you hesitated. Couldn't find post it notes, huh. Okay, use a full sheet of paper, I won't tell. Write down two goals. Yes, you read right, TWO. They could be something you've been putting off, or two that have been rumbling around in your mind past few days. Right now, this instant, write. Do it before another distraction occurs. If it’s clear for you in your mind, hold that vision, but write down goal. I don't care if you can't spell it or if grammar isn't right. You know what it is. Leave details out, how vision, and staple goal to that vision and bring them together with a finger snap.

Good job! I'm proud of you. Took some extra coaching. But I know you at least have their focus. Promise, you will not move your mind away until you've made two decisions.

Okay, done that. Now write two steps for each decision that you can do today. Now, go ahead, think what can you do right now to start. I know, I know, you're saying, "Catherine, dah, I've already started I wrote two decisions down." You're right. You have already started. Two pats on back. Now next step is going to be just as easy. What is it? Remember; take it from knowledge you already have.

Is it lose weight and pick up phone and call a few of gyms to find out more? What about a walk or parking in furthest part of parking lot when you return from lunch? What about not munching on those potato chips while you're reading this?

Do you want to write a book and have been "waiting" for table of contents to magically appear? Pick up pen and start wherever mind is at. Most books are never written from page 1. Take that action.

When you complete that action, figure out next or start next. Trust what’s already inside of you. It’s there. You just haven't used this process frequently enough. Go ahead. Start. The water’s fine. You know that.

You will find that once you start taking that first step, universe will begin to send all that you need. Mix that with what you already have, and then reach for knowledge. Not before. This is same story with writing a nonfiction book. Stop researching first and write first. Get all your knowledge out, and then reach.

Set a quick, simple goal, then take action, and see momentum. Don't reverse it. Okay, I can see you are well on your way today. Now print this article out and reread it tomorrow and next. Let it move you with inspiration and desire for your dreams to come true.

You deserve that!

Copyright 2003-2004, Catherine Franz.

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But this wasn’t what I thought I had decided to do initially, even though it was what I did every day. Degrees, titles, attire and accessories do not make a person those things create an image. It is state of our being and what we do with that, which makes us who we are.

This is where we can get stuck in “muck” by insisting that plan we charted be implemented immediately and sulking (which can express itself in a number ways) in meantime. This meantime is what is most dreaded and maybe even feared as what is in way of having it our way now. But choice is made to prolong meantime by not being willing to be engaged in creative solutions, which are ALWAYS possible, because we are angry. This immature response is then endured like a toddler throwing a tantrum, but how does punishing yourself with an extend trip through unpleasantness help?

From my experience it seems that anger cuts off love, so being mired in it effectively blocks love supply in same way that holding your breath would---- depriving brain of oxygen as self is robbed of its miraculous blessing--- life.

Let me share this with you in closing. I have a very dear friend who is facing his mortality because of kidney disease. A few friends and I were gathered at his house for dinner and in course of a philosophical debate about freedom he began to talk of how confronting his mortality had evolved into focusing on what it meant to live.

In his summation he stated that, to best of his understanding, that what gave his life value was living from a foundation of compassion.

I confess that previously his mention of his life ending was something I did not want to talk about or listen to, but I did listen because it was important to him. Finally, I think maybe I understood. My former junior high teacher and friend of twenty years was doing what he did best. Teaching. This is what he taught me at our gathering of educators’ dinner party.

Be compassionate with yourself so that you can learn to infuse that quality of being into your relationships with others. That is hope for transforming world, our only hope for world peace.

I hope that tempers any harshness of realities I’ve explored in this article, but believe me when I remind you that best thing you can do to improve state of world, is to improve state of yourself and your life. Be mindful of micro and macro and part you play in global drama.

Synthesize your own epiphanies into your simple plan, and utilize these articles to ensure that strategy factors in requirement for flexibility if happiness and success are even remotely fraternizing with your goals.