Get Your Priorities In Order.....Before It's Too Late

What are your Personal and Most-Important Priorities? 

Have you considered this question lately?  What are you focusing your time and energy on every day?  Are you achieving success and are you achieving the Goals that you have set for yourself?  Might you be in need of a Priority Re-Alignment to get you back on track and heading in the direction you want to go in?

Only you can answer this deeply personal question.  Only you know what your most important Goals and Objectives are!  Only you know whether or not you are succeeding in life and moving successfully closer to all you want to achieve every single day.

One thing is for sure: time is flying by.  We are not getting any younger.  If your daily efforts and activity is not in sync with your most important life goals and objectives - you will most likely not achieve them. 

Achieving Success

 If that is currently the case, immediate correction action is required.  Success will not happen by accident or default. 

Our Dreams and Most Important Personal Goals will not become reality unless we strategically make them happen; one step and one decision at a time. 

Consider the following:

1. Have you had deep in the recesses of your mind a strongly-held Personal Dream that you have never acted on?  Can you not get this Dream and Desire out of your head?  Is this a Dream that uplifts you, fills you with passion and energy, and you believe if pursued and achieved would make you more happy and fulfilled?  We only live once.  The majority of people fail to muster up the courage and personal initiative to make the decision to Pursue Their Dreams.  Are you merely one of the many who fail to act, take the risk, and pursue your dreams?  Or.....
2. Are your days worked according to a flexible and well-though-out Plan that is in alignment with the Goals you want to achieve?  Or are you not working according to any plan, always in reactive mode allowing others to dictate how you spend your time and on what you focus your finite energy?  No one plans to fail; they just fail to plan.  Sit down with a sheet of paper; clarify and write down what are the most important Goals and Objectives you want to achieve; and then translate those into a series of steps and actions you need to take every day.  Live and Work according to a Plan.  Make it Flexible; but make it strategically effective. 
3. Are you, by habit, doing things that drain you of your limited energy?  Things that bring you and increase your stress-levels?  Things that are harming your body and mind?  Life is Not Easy.  Managing Stress is Not Easy.  But, succumbing to the lure of bad habits that drain us physically, emotionally, and spiritually is a sure-fire way of loosing sight of our priorities and failing to achieve greatness.  Address these habits now; before it's too late.  Be honest; reach out and get help; and begin turning your life around.
4. Have you fallen into the me-first, only-me, strictly self-centered trap that many fall prey to?  Are you solely concerned with you?  Your needs and wants?  One of the Secrets of Successful People is that they make it their life-mission to help others; to help other People, Companies, and Organizations achieve greater Success and Happiness.  We are all part of Community.  We are not an island.  Alone we are limited; working together we can achieve great success.  We all need a Support Team.
5. Are you taking life and the positive aspects of that life for granted?  Do you not fully appreciate the following Blessings:

• Your Relative Health
• Your Family and Loved Ones
• Your ability to make a living and put Food on the Table for your and your Family
• The fact that you have Sufficient Shelter for you and your Family

How would your Life and Your Priorities Change tomorrow morning if today, as is always a possibility every day for every one of us, that:

You have just been diagnosed with Stage-Four Lung Cancer.  The Doctor says you will unfortunately most likely not live beyond six months.  How would this impact you and your Priorities?  What would you do?

Your Spouse or one of your Children has just been diagnosed with Stage-Four Lung Cancer. The Doctor says they will unfortunately most likely not live beyond six months. How would this impact you and your Priorities?  What would you do?

You have either just been fired from you job, or, in an accident, you been rendered incapable of continuing making a living doing what you have been trained to do and what you have been doing your entire adult life.  You are suddenly faced with the need to provide for you and your Family in the future but now with severely limited capacity to work.  How would this impact you and your Priorities?  What would you do?

These thoughts and considerations immediately put our lives in focus.  Give us the Clarity we have lacked.  They force us to suddenly cut through the fat.  The largess.  The unnecessary.  Then focus on only that which is important.  Live with Purpose.  Do not fail to appreciate all you have while at the same time striving to increase your success.  Live so that you have no regrets.

Again.....after have considered the above thoughts and considerations:

What are your Priorities?  What are your Goals?  What are you doing, every day, to make sure you Achieve Success?  What do you need to start, tomorrow, doing differently to increase the likelihood that your Dreams will be Fulfilled?

Succeeding By Getting Mad

I'm Mad

Sometimes.....we just have to get mad.  Angry.  Fired up. 

For those of us who are facing the greatest challenges of our lives - in whatever form that great challenge may exist - we need to, somehow, someway, find a way to overcome the obstacles that stand between us and that which we desire; to focus only on the keys to success while not letting significant life distractions derail us; to muster up personal improvement in the areas that our greatest personal challenges lay. 

I'm Focused

Succeeding is not going to come easy.  In fact, is not going to come at all without our giving 110%. 

Achieving difficult Personal Goals may just never happen.  Starting to go after and pursue our Personal Dreams, Goals, and Desires is really easy.  Sticking to the task at hand though, once the going gets touch and the Obstacles arise, is not easy.  Being tenacious, steadfast, and absolutely never giving up until that Personal Goal is achieved is challenging, difficult, and exhausting. 

But The Prize Awaits.

Success is Possible.

Goals Can Be Achieved.

Obstacles Can Be Overcome And Destroyed With A Sledge-Hammer.

We can take our negative traits and characteristics and, over time, with a well-though-out game plan of attack, lessen their impact.  Even turn negatives into positives.  Turn life-long weaknesses
into strengths. 

Paying It Forward

I loved the Movie "Pay It Forward."  If you've never seen it - you have to see it. 

I think it should be required viewing for High-School Students.  The Philosophy espoused in the Movie is very much in need these days as we walk into the New Year of 2012. 

If you want to start to see good things happen in your life.....start to help others achieve good things in their lives.

We cannot be truly successful until we realize it is not just about us and our accumulation of personal success and material possessions. 

We have to, we should, we must, the world will be a much better place to live in if we all, take it upon ourselves to help other people.  Help other people in need.  Help other people who are sick.  Help other people who, as we are, are trying to achieve success and improve their lives in the face of great challenge and difficulty.

We cannot succeed alone.  They cannot succeed alone.

Generously Help Others......and Success Will Follow!

Let Passion Prevail

Great Passion is what we need.  Getting Mad Without Showing It.  Keep a Smile On Your Face while a fire burns within you that drives you forward and propels you closer to, and then unites you with, your Goals. 





Enthusiasm Contagion Wanted

Our Four-Year-Old is So Enthusiastic about just about everything that when you are around him you cannot help but be Positively Influenced; his Great Enthusiasm is Highly Contagious.

Which is a good thing.  A very good thing.  It is contagious.

According to www.opposite-word.com, opposite words of "enthusiastic" are:

"apathetic, disinterested, doubting, indifferent, lethargic, pessimistic, unenthusiastic, unexcited,weary"

Collectively......a very depressing portrait of an individual!

These terms all describe people that are, sadly, living their lives with a lack of energy, zest, excitement, and natural motivation. 

Enthusiasm is one of the Finer Things in Life!  Having it, as a natural trait, is no-doubt a tremendous asset to have to help one navigate through the many challenges and great difficulties we all face from time to time which we all must face.  How we handle and overcome these times will largely define how successful we are in life and whether or not we can achieve the personal goals and objectives we have set for ourselves.

Enthusiasm.  When you see it: Appreciate it; Catch it; Grab it; Hold on tight.  It will help you get through the most difficult times.  Having it will be a great benefit.  Then pass it along to others.  "Pay It Forward."  Be a positive influence in the lives of others by being, consistently, Enthusiastic.  Upbeat.  Positive.

I don't want our Four-Year-Old to ever loose his Enthusiasm. 

I hope you too are blessed by the presence of an Enthusiastic Child in your Life.  If not, by someone else.  Someone, who, whenever you are around them, exudes the great quality of being Enthusiastic.  Every time you are around them, you leave them feeling a little bit better.  Feeling more confident.  Feeling like life is good.  Feeling that you can achieve the worthy Goals you have set for yourself. 

I, personally, don't want to be around, too much anyway, people who are not Enthusiastic.  Just a personal choice.  We should associate only with those who will, by their mere presence, help support, motivate, and elevate us.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is going from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill