Being ProactiveWritten by David DeFord
Have you noticed how a plastic grocery bag acts by side of road? The wind from passing cars tosses it into air according to direction car is traveling. The bag has no control; it travels by external force of air currents. It ends up where wind determines. We need not be subject to winds of external forces. We have 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 usually result of not choosing. Write Down What You Choose to Accomplish If you are serious about proactively pursuing your goals, write them down. Carry 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 on first one to next.
| | Be a Model: Reveal Your EssenceWritten 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 with essence of my being. These were 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 answer 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 of individuals who chose them. In each case, answers took just a few moments to come up with. In each case, individual involved felt that this was 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 have effect of lifting you above situation. It lifts you up to a place where alternatives - choices - are visible. And once we're in choice, we stop being victims and claim power to create reality we want.
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