4) Do you visualize your plan being achieved?

Visualization is fruit of success.

I affirm that because do you ever find yourself visualizing yourself in that car you always wanted? Who visualizes you and your family on some beach in Mexico somewhere? Who visualizes you winning "entrepreneur of year award"? YOU DO!

In order to be happier and more successful, you need to get better, you need to get better. I repeat, you need to get better.

Visualization should be a daily event. Take a moment everyday, even for 30 seconds and visualize all sights, sounds, smells, and feelings of everything involved with your daily plans.

For example, lets pretend that you have a presentation to do and like most people who have done a presentation, you are extremely nervous.

Take a moment about an hour before presentation. Visualize yourself walking into meeting feeling great, confident, and relaxed. Hear people having a good time, see them smiling and paying attention to you. Try to smell a nice cologne within room that makes you smile when taken in. Last but not least, see all people around you congratulating you on a job well done after presentation. See yourself having a nice, warm, rich tasting coffee while discussing your successful presentation with your boss, employees or even your potential clients.

I guarantee you that if you make it a habit to prepare yourself with visualization in that fashion before any presentation, you will have better, more vibrant feelings afterwards.

This very same technique applies for your goals. You must see yourself driving that car, way air feels in your hair, maybe way engine sounds. Whatever you can think of that lets your mind wander into your goals and dreams, use it!

5) ** How far ahead do you actually plan???

This is by far most important. The most important only because it takes a little from all above questions I've talked about.

What is furthest you've ever planned ahead? I'll put money on fact that it's not far enough. Dare to be bold, be strong in your convictions. Don't be afraid to think outside box.

So how far do I allow myself to plan ahead???

200 Years!

No joke, my goals have included a timeline of around 231 years ahead in future. See I don't only think about how I want to improve my life, I concentrate on something higher than life. I concentrate on my family history that is yet to be written. We all would like to leave a dinesty for future generations to prosper. Well, why aren't you planning ahead for it???

Don't be shy, afraid, uncertain or embarrased, just do it. Keep doing it within your note pad that you write in. Keep thinking about your children, their children, your great, great, great grand children to be.

Think about them. Wouldn't it be nice if they could look back and say wow, my great, great, great grand father had vision, dedication and will to think of me. Think of impact you could have on those to be. Even go as far as writing a letter to individuals who will be in your families future. Tell them what you have planned and why.

What if what you do now, affects someone 4 generations down line in such a positive way that they feel need to pick up were you left off? If it wasn't for your vision, it would of never happened.

Better yet, it hasn't happened, so how about you pick up that pen and start your future right now, this very moment.

On that note, I won't keep you from writing your future.

Good luck & remember to see everything happen way you want it to happen!

Sincerely,

Martin Lemieux Smartads - President

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There’s also used book option at amazon.com, as well as plethora of free learning material on Internet. You don’t have to spend a cent, and you don’t have to leave your house.

Some questions for you about books:

1.Do books uplift spirit and allow a pleasant distraction?

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish clouds from my mind.” ~Michel de Montaigne

2.No matter what your stage or age, is there a book out there for you?

”Books … are like lobster shells. We surround ourselves with ‘em, then we grow out of ‘em and leave ‘em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.” ~Dorothy L. Sayers

3. Are books wonderfully user-friendly?

“Books are quietest and most constant of friends; they are most accessible and wisest of counselors, and most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot

4. If you’re living without books, are you missing out on something?

”I cannot live without books.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

5.Do you value books more than other material possessions?

”Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedome.” ~Shakespeare

6.Does reading books bring refinement?

”You despise books; you whose loves are absorbed in vanities of ambition, pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. ~ Voltaire

7.Are those who don’t study history forced to repeat it?

”Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ~Herman Hesse

8.Do books expose you to good people you might not otherwise meet?

”The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with noblest of men of past centuries who were authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but best of their thoughts.” ~ Rene Descartes

9.Are books a part of Information Age?

“The rules have changed. True power is held by person who possesses largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo

10.Do books broaden your horizons?

”It is books that are a key to wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” ~Jane Hamilton

Here’s to joys of reading, to hyacinths for soul!