Being Proactive

Written by David DeFord


Have you noticed how a plastic grocery bag acts byrepparttar side ofrepparttar 123416 road? The wind from passing cars tosses it intorepparttar 123417 air according torepparttar 123418 directionrepparttar 123419 car is traveling. The bag has no control; it travels byrepparttar 123420 external force ofrepparttar 123421 air currents. It ends up whererepparttar 123422 wind determines. We need not be subject torepparttar 123423 winds of external forces. We haverepparttar 123424 freedom to choose our destinations. Don't we? Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. We often allow ourselves to be swept along by life, rather than proactively choosing our paths. We need to passionately pursue what we want. How can we take control of our lives and live our dreams? Know Where You Want to Go Zig Ziglar says that if you don't know where you want to go, you'll surely get there. The first step we take in planning any vacation is to decide where we want to go, or what we want to do. Where do you want to go in life? What do you want to do, have, and be? Do you want to lose your extra pounds? How about becoming debt free? What earnings or sales goals have you set? Success is a choice. Failure is usuallyrepparttar 123425 result of not choosing. Write Down What You Choose to Accomplish If you are serious about proactively pursuing your goals, write them down. Carryrepparttar 123426 list with you every day. By doing so, you will have frequent reminders of your future achievements. Know Why You Want to Get There Without a compelling reason, we have difficulty motivating ourselves when opposition comes. Daily visualize accomplishing your goal. Involve your senses. How will you feel? How will you look? Can you smell and taste it? What will your achievement position you to do next? Inter-relate your goals. For instance, ponder how accomplishing your sales goal will help you realize your earnings goals. How do these goals relate to your goal of ridding debt? Plan and Take Active Steps to Get You There The likelihood of reaching our desires is very low if we aren“t proactive. To become debt-free, we must change our spending habits, pay off our smallest debt, and then add what we were paying onrepparttar 123427 first one torepparttar 123428 next.

Be a Model: Reveal Your Essence

Written by Louise Morganti Kaelin


As part of a workshop assignment, I was recently asked to identify 3 qualities that I would choose to model for others. Within a very few moments, I had my answer: compassion, respect, and wholeness. This reverberated with me so strongly that I soon realized that if I were able to live these three qualities to their fullest expression, I would be 'in' integrity withrepparttar essence of my being. These wererepparttar 123415 very heart of my core values and talked louder of who I am than anything I had come across before. Stronger than I can remember, they seem to answerrepparttar 123416 question of Who Am I? and Why am I here?

I soon experimented with some of my clients. Their answers included: (1) sharing, self-expression, intelligence; (2) dedication, loyalty, intelligence and (3) creativity, love, enthusiasm. All different. All extremely expressive ofrepparttar 123417 individuals who chose them. In each case,repparttar 123418 answers took just a few moments to come up with. In each case,repparttar 123419 individual involved felt that this wasrepparttar 123420 essence of who they were. They also felt energized and powerful.

This is one of those exciting discoveries that I want to share with everyone. No matter what you're struggling with, getting in touch with those three qualities seems to haverepparttar 123421 effect of lifting you aboverepparttar 123422 situation. It lifts you up to a place where alternatives - choices - are visible. And once we're in choice, we stop being victims and claimrepparttar 123423 power to createrepparttar 123424 reality we want.

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