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Success Is Everything By Jim Rohn
Someone once said to me that success isn’t everything, and I think I know what they really meant. I believe they really meant that money wasn’t everything, and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.
First you need to succeed to survive. We must take the seasons and learn how to use them with the seed, the soil and the rain of opportunity to learn how to sustain ourselves and our family.
But then second is to then succeed to flourish in every part of your life. Good question to ask mature people: “If you could do better, should you?” And I think almost everybody would answer the question in the positive. If you could improve your health, shouldn’t you do that? If you can learn more, shouldn’t you do that? If you could earn more and share more, shouldn’t you do that? If you can improve your relationships and spirituality, shouldn’t you do that? And I think that is what success is really all about. It is not just a destination that is set for everybody to try and go for.
It is like Zig Ziglar said, “Improving in every area of your life to see if you can with satisfaction at the end of the day, week, month and year, say ‘I have made excellent progress this year, for myself, for my family, for my business, my career and my health.’” I think that kind of success everybody recognizes is legitimate and something we should all strive for.
Interesting phrase in the Bible that says strive for perfection—not that we can ever reach it. But it is in the striving, to be a little bit better today than yesterday, in our speech, our language, our health, everything we can possibility think of.
So yes, in my opinion, success is everything!
Are you choosing from your past?
Your past does not determine your future. By no means does what happened yesterday determine today. We all have the power of choice to create a new day, a new reality each and everyday.
I have been listening to some CD’s about future, present and past and have learnt a lot about how we can choose how we live and what outcomes we have. I also learned that I have been making a lot of my decisions from my past experiences.
I have heard the comment many times before “but it did not work before so I am not going to try that or do that again”. When today is a new day, you are a new person and you can create different results. Just because something has not worked before does not mean it never will, maybe we just needed more knowledge or were not ready for the outcome we desired.
If you close off from all possibilities because of the past you will only become stuck in where you are, too afraid to move forward, to afraid to try new things.
So for example, what if I woke up tomorrow and decided I wanted to change my financial future and gain time freedom, I decided I wanted to start a home business. I have a few choices in that moment; I can look at what I want to create or I can look at the success I have had in my life, the experience I have and all of the things that could hold me back from creating success. If I was not willing to cut off from that person, that past I would never create a different outcome. I would not create the success I desired. If I choose only to look at myself and my future, I would take the bold action to start and keep moving forward until I created what I wanted as I know I would learn what I needed to along the way.
Choose your future not your past.
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Whats your vision?
There is so much power in being clear on your vision and then speaking it into reality. I have had the pleasure of writing my future vision out and speaking it into reality. Here is mine, what is yours?
I look back over the last two years in share amazement, wonder and overall a feeling of excitement and like a magic wand has danced along the scene of my life. What an amazing journey and who would have thought that in such a short period of time all the we have created for ourselves and the hundreds of others that we have assisted to re create their future would have been possible.
We have on an individual level assisted over 1000 people to increased incomes and on a corporate level made a huge impact to company and educational culture in over 50 huge organizations around the world. I look back and look around me in awe of what is truly possible.
It really did all start back with a small dream and taking one step in front of the other.
The exciting part is I am reflecting on this from our dream home, I am adsorbing the smell of the salt air as I can hear the waves lapping on the beach. As I look out our front window this morning I can see the sun glistening on the waves as the lap at the white sand on the shore, there is a dolphin out playing in the waves, which reminds me of how much play we have been able to do for ourselves and our family along this journey. We have travelled to over 10 different countries as a family spending great quality time in each absorbing each culture wide eyed with wonder. Our house is also surrounded by wonderful bush land. We have two gorgeous guest houses on the property that are often frequented with family or friends. So many times we have had the most awesome dinners with laughter filling every corner of our house, sometimes we have so much fun that no one really wants to go to bed, way too many fun times to be had.
I look around this house and realize I am surrounded by love with my amazing husband Paul and our two children; they are growing up to be such amazing inspiring individuals. I am so proud of who they are becoming at such a young age.
It was so much fun to go for a family drive this morning in our Audi Q7 and zoom up the beach for a family picnic; we all looked up into the sky at the clouds and picked what animal we could see.
I look forward to looking up at the sky many more times and recreating our dream, building on what we have been creating with new aspirations. There is nothing quite like this. I am truly blessed.
We are just about to open a school in Brisbane, it will be known to be one of the best educational facilities for children in Australia, and you guessed it our personal development for kids is part of the curriculum.
I have the pleasure this year of handing a set of keys over to my mum for her house in Whangaparoa, she was speechless. I was a little worried when she could not speak for 10 minutes and asked for a chair to sit down on if we were going to have to call an ambulance, but as it turns out she was just in shock from our gift to her. It is sooooo nice to know that she is taken care of now and for the future, something that has always played a little on my mind. Now I know she will always have a roof over her head in a sensational spot in the world filled with memories of our childhood and her life. I know my dad will be watching over her as well in her new home, thank you dad.
Change is the only constant!
I have been completing an exercise recently about change. The idea was to monitor how I am with change. A note about this is that I actually avoided doing this exercise for months because I thought I already know I am not great with change, I like security and stability. At least that is what I thought anyway, I did not want to do the exercise to prove to myself I was terrible at change, why would I want to give myself reasons to not feel good.
What I learnt over time is that the things I want to avoid are often the very things I need to do, to move forward in life and get the lessons I need for the time.
So I started to monitor how I am when a change occurs in my life. I noticed that change I choose, woo hoo I am great with it. Unexpected change that I did not know was going to happen or choose, not so good.
The interesting thing for me was that although I would often get frustrated, get over whelmed or annoyed with what was happening, I could still see the light to move forward. I suddenly moved through the change so much easier.
What I have learned is if we live and participate in life there will be expected and unexpected change, the more we live the more we experience this. This is a constant. We have a choice to react or respond to the change. Sometimes when we feel that we are threatened or our outcome or goals may not be achieved due to this change we can react. That is ok, the choice there after is where to from there. Do you sit in the problem throwing your toys enrolling others into the problem or do you look for a way out and a way forward, take responsibility. Most often the change is for a perfect reason, because what you learn from that change is exactly what you need to learn in your life in that moment.
Thank you change.
What is your commitment level?
I was speaking with Paul over the weekend about commitment to oneself and your word. We both journal each day as part of our own personal growth journey and success path we have chosen to follow.
When you start to journal each day there is a lot of benefit, you can learn about how you feel. You can reflect on what is and is not working for you and many other important realizations.
One of the things that we have learnt simply from journaling each day is our commitment level to ourselves. We made an agreement, that we would journal each day. This is a simple process of writing about your day and what occurred, it really is not rocket science. However what soon started to show up was that we missed days, here and there. The more we looked the more we started to see a pattern of our commitment to ourselves. This simple process of journaling to improve ourselves we were not 100% committed too.
What we found was that this happened for many reasons, for example life distractions, change in routine, excuses. And the list does go on and on. But really is there any good excuse not to commit to yourself and your results?
I honestly think there is not, as the more you help yourself the more you can help others.
The Power of a seed or an idea!
I had the absolute pleasure of attending one of the most powerful personal development conferences in the weekend I have ever been to. Now just so you know I have been to more than one conference and heard some amazing speakers, this time it was different and I was different.
One of our speakers Patrick Combs spoke about seeds and the power of the seed and this topic resonated with me. I wanted to share what he said and what I got from the topic.
Did you know that a seed can grow even if it is broken?
Did you realize that the result of the seed is not dependent on its size or shape?
Were you aware that by looking at the seed you cannot determine its outcome, you would never know what it is going to grow into even if you looked at it under a microscope?
Seeds can grow even after being dormant for 1000 years.
For a seed to grow it will need to overcome some adversity to become the amazing plant that lives inside. For a start it will need to break out of the husk, and then it will need to grow against gravity. And this is to just name two simple triumphs the simple seed will have made just to get out of the ground. A seed is no different to us, to our dreams and our bliss.
We have dreams and goals that lay dormant within us, not acted on or planted in the ground yet for many different reasons. We sometimes can feel broken or defeated as a result of past experiences; however our past experiences do not determine the result of this seeds outcome. The only thing that will determine the outcome is if we are willing to give the seed the opportunity to grow.
What is your seed? Are you willing to plant it and let it grow?
Be patient with your seeds, they take time to grow. If you go and dig it up every day and check on it, this will not make it grow any faster.
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86,400 seconds is not enough TIME!
We all have 24 hours in a day or 86,400seconds in one day, however so often I hear people claim they have less time than others. So why do we claim we do not have enough time? How is it possible some people believe they do not have enough time?
Time is a perception, we all have the same amount of time in a day, however we do not all use that amount of time the same. Some of us jam pack our day full of on purpose activities, others of us spend time in procrastination, overwhelm or doubling up on activities. Everything other than on purpose activities is a distraction and not utilizing time well. Even rest can be an on purpose activity.
Part of using time well, is to understand your values. So what is important to you, I would suggest that if something was really really important to you, then you would find the time, if not then you will not find the time. No matter what your words say, your actions reflect this truth.
In order to claim time back for yourself and use time well, activities like procrastination and overwhelm need to be eliminated or reduced. Often we can procrastinate if we do not feel we know how to do an activity or we do not really want to do it. The best way to stop procrastination is to never let activities build up. If it can be done at the time then that is when it needs to be done. This can be as simple as putting the dish in the dishwasher after you have finished with it rather than on the bench for you to come back to at a later time.
The other way to move forward with time is to get educated and skilled. If you feel you are unsure how to complete a task seek out support or education, get the skills or find the skills so that you can move forward. Stagnancy wastes time.
We all have the same amount of time. Are you willing to use it more efficiently and more on purpose, never let lack of time be your excuse for not achieving what you truly dream of.
Who are you talking to?
I have been completing a very interesting exercise with myself lately about what sort of conversations do I hold and who am I talking too.
Each day for a week I have written down a list of people I have spoken to, what the conversation was about (positive or negative) and was the conversation going to assist me to move closer or further away from my goals.
I became very enlightened that I had a pattern with some people in my network to look at what was not working in my world. This was not a positive conversation or really even for the purpose of working through a challenge to move forward. So I made a decision and have changed what I talk about, my conversations support my goals.
“Your personal income is directly proportionate to the quality and the level of desire of the people you choose to spend your time working with.”
I believe the statement above to be true. From my experience you need to surround yourself by people that expect the best of you so that you can thrive, not pull you down. The more positive and on purpose people you can be around the better, it will rub off you will start to model their behavior and attitude.
You are in control of who you speak to and certainly what you talk about. If you do not have a positive group of people around you then you will need to seek out people who are. Think about what you want to achieve and seek out a group of people to talk to. Or seek out a mentor. A mentor is a fabulous tool, someone who has walked the path before you and achieved what you desire. I am very fortunate to mentor people daily and also to have a fabulous mentor that has walked the path I desire.
So look at the quality of the people around you, seek out a mentor so you “can stand on the shoulder of those who have gone before you”. Being a mentor once you have achieved your goals is also one of the most rewarding roles there are.
Do you dare to dream?
When was the last time that you allowed yourself to think of what you wanted? What you really wanted. Like you did as a child, you wanted a pony, to become an astronaut or to fly a plane. There was no limit to the dreams and aspirations you held as a child.
Somewhere we stopped dreaming, we stopped allowing ourselves to think of the possibilities or to think we maybe could just have what we wanted.
The truth is you can have whatever you want. It is a choice to create the life you want to lead and to fulfill your dreams. First you need to start dreaming again and allow yourself the idea of possibility.
Once you start dreaming of the possible or even impossible that is when the magic begins. It is then that you have the opportunity to create your dream and turn it into a reality.
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward
This is so true if your mind can conceive the idea in the first place this makes it a possibility. Once you have dreamt it the next step is to decide you want it and follow through with the necessary level of action required to bring it into you world, to make it happen.
There is one thing to be aware of when you start dreaming and creating what you want. Watch out for the “dream stealers” . What are dream stealers?
Dream stealers are the thoughts that you have in your own mind that stop you from moving forward. These are the thoughts that you have decided are real for yourself. Things you have heard in your life from others around you. For example – You are not special, you cannot manage money, you are never going to have what you really want. The list goes on and on.
If you choose to buy into these thoughts and beliefs the dream stealers are at action. The power goes to them, not to you. If you choose to hold your own power, your own vision then you will move forward and create what you desire. Choose for yourself, hold your dreams in you vision. You are worth it and you can do it. Go for it.