Better Future? Better Start Now!

Written by Kathy Gates


Famous Hockey Star Wayne Gretsky once said, "You miss 100% ofrepparttar shots you never take." Famous Southern mother (mine) frequently said, "You can't win if you don't play". Those words often still ring in my ears today - Am I willing to agree to losing by not at least trying, I ask myself.

Many times I've heard myself complain, "I'm trying so hard, but nothing seems to be happening." When it actually comes down to it, however, what I'm doing is thinking about it a lot - not actually doing anything towards it.

When you don't try something, when you never start towards your goal, when you put-off and wait-out your dreams, you are AGREEING to lose, to not have it. Starting isrepparttar 123733 most important part of achieving your best life. If you want a better future, it begins today. It doesn't matter where you start -- it matters that you start. It doesn't have to be a big thing. Just Start.

Consider where your life is at this moment in reference to your goal, and if need be, start very small. Put $1 into an envelope each week as a savings plan. Take a 10 minute walk. Clean out a drawer. Make a phone call. Delegate a job. If you can, take a much larger step, like putting $100 each week into a savings account, or walking for 30 minutes or hiring some help. We all get too hung up on what we do, or how much we do. It doesn't matter what you do --just do! Move forward.

Are you sitting at home waiting on Mr. or Ms. Right? Mr/Ms. Right could be down atrepparttar 123734 corner bowling alley, or inrepparttar 123735 local church, or inrepparttar 123736 neighborhood restaurant RIGHT NOW. Are you waiting on your next raise, orrepparttar 123737 kids to grow up, orrepparttar 123738 economy to get better before you decide to work on your goals?

The Power of Expectations

Written by Kathy Gates


You can sit around and wait on FedEx to drop off a big box of happiness on your doorstep if you want to. But that's not likely to happen anytime soon. Or you can get up, create an action plan, and get on with your life. It's 100% up to you.

Expectations are a part ofrepparttar universe that makes thing happen, both negatively and positively. Like atomic particles, universal forces cannot be explained, but plugging into them creates some kind of energy. You don't have to be able to see it or understand it to use it.

Do you understand radio waves or computer chips (ok, so some people do, but I don't and I have a lot of company in that boat!). I can't see how this arrives from my computer to yours, and I don't understand it, but I sure use it. You only have to be willing to let it happen.

If you were not givenrepparttar 123732 power of positive expectations early in life, you now have to create it for yourself. You can live up or down to your own expectations andrepparttar 123733 expectations of others. 98% of people in prisons report that they were told by their parents or others in their lives that they would end up in prison. They lived "down" to those expectations. What ifrepparttar 123734 same people had told them that they would end up as a successful writer, or a great inventor, or a top sports figure?

You have this same power. You haverepparttar 123735 power to be creative and resourceful, or you also haverepparttar 123736 power to be miserablerepparttar 123737 rest of your life. You have that choice. You have that free will. You pick out an attitude each dayrepparttar 123738 same way you pick out your clothes.

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