....you attend a luncheon to raise money for homeless teenagers.

While others have to apply for leave to go for a holiday...

.... you go when it suits you.

While you still have a job, do not fall into trap of complacency and a false sense of security. Instead, start thinking about a parallel career. Start with end in mind. Ask yourself what lifestyle would give you real satisfaction?

Your Choice of Lifestyle Depends on Your Values It is said that best lifestyle is to have a career you love and have someone to love.

To love is to value. What are your values that are most important to you? Are they for moment or a lifetime? Here are some to ponder...

* Good health and physical fitness

* Recognition from others for your achievements, status and position

* Touching lives of others

* Your religious beliefs

* Financial security

* Nature

* Independence

* Your spouse or partner

* Spend time with your children and be there whenever they need you

* Your association, society or alumni

* Knowledge and continuing education

* Stability and order

* Tidiness and an organised environment

* Owning a home

Your Values Determine Your Plans and Actions

When you know what you really want...begin to build a parallel career while you still have a job with end goal of quitting your job and 'doing your own thing'.

Don't just change career. Choose one of lifestyle alternatives that give you real satisfaction. Dream about...then work towards it parallel career way. The parallel career way just makes this transition less stressful.

Responsibility

This key has to do with our liability or accepted obligation for seeing that something is done. This is opposite of "it's not my job" attitude often heard and lived by lazy personality. In order for us to commit to something, we have to see and accept our own responsibility for making it so. In fact, to take this even further, we must see accept complete liability for failure of something not happening. The statement that, "if it's to be it's up to me" leads me on. The question, "what it does it say about me, when I take responsibility for my life and actions?" Pledge - Related to fire realm of connection and expression, a pledge is a vow and a means of engaging with a goal or cause. Much deeper in meaning and understanding than a promise - just as 'pledge of allegiance' is a more powerful title than 'promise of allegiance' - this key comes from heart. We feel so strongly about necessity for goal to be attained that there is no doubt, no hesitation, no fear of failure. We are so totally committed that pledge sounds more like a statement of 'of course it will happen' than a wish to somehow appear in world as if by magic. Feeling sparks question, "what makes this goal so important that it must be accomplished?"

Though four keys can be found to be synonyms of each other and, for many, indistinguishable from each other, subtle differences in context can mean all difference in being committed to something and merely saying that we are committed.

So, how about you? How committed are you to those things you say are important. How much do you your really want to change your life - to create results that can benefit both yourself and others - to create life you've always dreamed of living? How important is your Ninja Martial Arts training and your successfully learning skills of Mastery?

Saying or thinking that you're 'old dog' in phrase we talked about earlier just says that you recognize how limited you've become in your own habitual patterns. But, it's never too late to start creating new habits and success patterns. In fact, world depends on you're taking action - and now! Because, if there's one thing world does need is one more truly successful person - one more bright light - one more honest, respectful, engaged person who does exactly what they say they will do because they recognize their purpose and is willing enough, no brave enough, to break from those who will settle for mediocrity.

Here's formula: If you change, you will grow. But to grow, you must be committed to act - to do exactly what must be done to make world, if only your little corner of it, a better place in which to live.