Look into the mirror. The person staring at you is the only one that can make a difference in your life that has a majority decision in the things that make you grow. The person looking back at you knows every secret, every lie, every little thing that makes you cringe. They also know the true intentions of every word spoken and act delivered. You cannot fool this person, it is you.
In your strive toward success the outlook must be above that person in the glass. It is true that material things help build a foundation for a vision but as you learn more and become greater in your knowledge you realize that helping others and bringing others with you as you drive to become a successful leader, you will only create leaders in others, helping them to achieve their dreams as yours unfold before your eyes.
I know that admitting to yourself that learning leadership and helping others is the greatest path toward gaining success for yourself and your family. This can be difficult to accept. Surround yourself with others who desire the same goals. Build a unique vision that motivates you through the rollercoaster of life and remember to smile at the great times you experience. Build a vision for yourself and your family use the associations you have with others in your team to drive that vision toward reality. Remember it isn't a change of circumstance you need it is a change of thinking. Change your thinking and you can change your life.
Look back into the mirror, if you want something bad enough no one can stop you from attaining it. You are the biggest obstacle in your achievement of your desires but you are also the solution.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
4 Things That Can Improve Your Day
In everything we do or do not do a choice has to be made. Do we watch another episode of our favorite show on Netflix (because it loads automatically and is easy to do) or do we shut the TV off and take a jog around the blog with the dog. It is only one decision during one day, yet it can be life changing. All of our choices have the ability to compound and turn themselves into habits; good and bad. It is in these decisions that our lives can be controlled; make calculated, conscious decisions and your life will be easier with your habits of taking care of responsibilities and such never being questioned. Although making irrational, unconscious decisions could compound in a way that gets you stagnating in the dreams and goals you have laid out for yourself. Then you get depressed and give up on those goals and dreams.
I found a few things that can help turn around our bad habits and maybe even reinforce the good:
1. A positive outlook - without this you are on a sinking ship, stop living with the dark side and look at the right things. A positive mindset can right the course.
2. Desire to change - if everything in your life is exactly what you want then why change. You must realize that you desire a change for the better. Map out some goals and then....
3. Action - Superman, The Flash even Dr. Evil whether superhero or super villain these guys accomplished something because they acted. Create a goal or plan then act on it.
4. You have to have faith- in a none George Michael kind of way,(for those of you who remember what I am talking about) but faith in your plan. You have to believe that with consistent effort and hard work you will accomplish your goals despite any setbacks.
Your life can change for the better whether you need a little tweak (not twerk) to get your goals back on track or you are depressed and anxious about waking up everyday and going to a job you hate. Think about who you are, what makes you happy, and act on it.
Post written by Tim Zugger author of Success through Failure which will be available Dec17 2013 on Paperback and Kindle.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Top 10 Reasons to Love Life.
Some people always seem to fret about their lives and be unhappy for whatever they have. But what they don’t realize is that they are missing various beautiful aspects of living life to the fullest. There are tiny things in life that matter a lot to you, us and everyone around. But being preoccupied with all the negative thoughts, you simply sidetrack the simple reasons to love being alive. Read on to know about the 10 reasons to love life.
1. Family
Dad, mom, brother, sister, grandparents, children – the people who form a part of your family; you love them without a reason. They are the ones to give you support, to be there for you and cherish you for what you are. They are the reason for what you are.
2. Dreams
Whether you dream at night or day, dreams have the power to take you to an imaginary world. A world where you believe everything is possible. It’s a different kind of joy that you feel while soaring in your dreams. Whether you believe in them or not, they are present in your life just the same.
3. Love
If ever there was an emotion made so pure, so serene and otherworldly, it has to be love. God made us to love oneself, to love others without expecting anything in return. Love in all its manifestations is a great event in itself to watch, to experience and to give forth.
4. Acts of kindness
Kindness means different things to different people. For some, it’s the joy of giving. For others, it’s doing worthwhile things for someone in need. Yet others think it’s an uninhibited emotion that reveals itself when the heart feels so.
5. Making someone laugh
There are many people on the road, in that lane, at the office, in the neighborhood who haven’t laughed heartily since a long time. When someone makes them laugh, their face crinkles with pure happiness. That joy is unmatched.
6. Nature
What is it about nature that is so unfathomable? Historians, poets, naturists and so many others have tried to delve into its mystery. The endless oceans, the relentless rain, the bright sun, the enchanting forests, the shelter of the sky – these are all bits and pieces of nature that we should always be thankful for.
7. Seeing someone you love smile
When you smile, it might mean the world to someone. It’s true – Smiling does spread, like a contagious disease. However, we wish this disease would spread the world over. Millions of people would get another reason to love being alive, isn’t it?
8. The aroma of something delicious
Remember the aroma of freshly baked cookies made by your mom? Or a pot of hot chocolate? These aromas tantalize the taste buds. The power of these aromas transports you to a different place, where you can glide along relishing in the aromas.
9. Poetry
There is nothing more beautiful that words can do, except poetry. In poetry, a poet loses himself/herself and soars into the clouds of imagination. There is nothing to stop the flow of words that tumble onto a piece of paper. Poetry also gives you a chance to delve into the depths of any object or human. The various aspects of nature, climates, humans, their feelings and an ample number of other things find their way in poems.
10. Surprises
Who is the one who doesn’t like to receive surprises of any kind? The pure bliss you feel after someone surprises you is priceless. After all, if you knew what’s coming next for you, wouldn’t life turn boring? So throwing in a bunch of surprises every now and then is life’s way of rewarding you.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
15 Success Principles To Remember
Here are a simplified list of 15 of the most important principles you can study in relation to success. I truly hope this help you as much as it helped me.
1 – Prepare
The first success principle is preparation. It’s the foundation of success. With preparation you create your own opportunities. Once you have all the different elements lined up, it only takes a small opening to realize your goal. At the same time, taking advantage of big opportunities without enough preparation means risking your success, as you’re building without a well-laid foundation.2 – Do something you love
You have to work very hard whatever it is you choose to do. Your work or your project will dominate much of your time and your life. Therefore, find something that you enjoy doing and do that.3 – Get started
You have to start somewhere. Today is as good a day as any to start. Get into action today and start moving in the direction you want. Putting it off can only lead to failure, whereas if you start and see an early setback, at least you conquered that setback early on.4 – Move in the right direction
Keep everything moving in the direction you want. It doesn’t matter if things go slowly initially. As long as the overall direction is favorable, you’ll get where you want to go eventually.5 – Use the power of dreams and your imagination
What you dream and visualize today will become true tomorrow. You just have to work on turning it into reality. Just as your dreams can only influence your life if you let them, the cities you build in your imagination can only become real if you build them.6 – Think big
If you set your aim a bit too high you might fall short. If you set your aim too low you might achieve your goal… and miss out on the other opportunities. By thinking bigger, the only limit is what is possible. You’re no longer limited by what you think is possible.7 – Focus on growth
Seemingly impossible challenges are just cleverly disguised opportunities for growth. If you take those challenges and, in solving them, improve yourself, you’ll find yourself continually moving in the right direction.8 – Maintain your determination
With enough determination, you can succeed through almost any odds. Enough determination means you’ll find a way no matter the situation.9 – Set a clear vision
Think through where you’ll want to go. Develop a clear sense of what your final goal is, and keep this with you. By knowing the destination you want to reach, you can continually look at your current path and decide if it’s a route that will help you get where you want to go.10 – Set goals along the way
A final goal isn’t enough. You need intermediate goals that set the path. These goals should be specific, measurable, realistic, attainable, and timely. These intermediate goals define the steps that you need to take to get to the final one.11 - Work out plans of action for your work
For each goal, it helps to have plans to reach them. Your plan describes how you can reach each step from where you are, or where you will be. Keep in mind that the future is never certain. Things rarely work out exactly how you plan. Therefore, see these plans as showing one or more possible routes, not necessarily the route you’ll end up taking.Still, knowing the plan means you can avoid long detours that might compromise your chances of reaching a goal on time — or at all.
12 - Commit to taking action
Once you start going, keep going. Never, never, never give up. If you find an obstacle in your way, chip away at it or go around it. The only way to really fail is to give up. If you keep going you’ll succeed. If you hit the limits of what’s possible, you can regroup and find another way.13 - Use affirmations
Affirmations are just short, positive, and above all direct phrases in present tense. Things like “I’m getting more and more successful.” The idea is that they reinforce a positive world view. With affirmations, you are defining your own reality. By transmitting a positive world view to your mind, it adopts this view. As your mind adopts this view, it helps shape the world around you to fit it, which means it helps make the world around you one that reflects a reality of you getting more successful every day.14 - Get rid of negative influences
Avoid harmful influences around you that might shake you from your goal. Keep people and ideas around you that support your success and your belief in yourself.15 - Be grateful and appreciate what you have
The final success principle is to appreciate what you have already. Realize that — by sheer virtue of the fact that you can be reasonably certain you’ll live from one day to the next — you already have enough. Enjoy it! Appreciate what you’ve achieved so far, and see that what you want, where you’re going, is not what you need or what you must do. Rather, these are things and actions that will make your situation even better.So apply these daily and watch the things in your life and career change positivley for your and your family. Find more at www.attitudedriveslife.com
*This List was borrowed from www.addicted2success.com Check them out for some more insight.
Friday, March 8, 2013
A Daily Change
Everyday we wake up with the opportunity to inspire others or ignore them. In today's society it is easy to stare at your smart phone and ignore a person in need. It could be anythin,g, you don't know what people are going through, a smile could help someone more than you know. That is what I am all about, my purpose in this life is to help others succeed at their life.
If you are just starting out on this journey of encouragement and inspiration, then you need to learn this one phrase that I learned when I first started, it was written by one of my favorite authors, John Maxwell. The insight that this quote gave me was that I controlled my entire destiny, a truth that I knew but never applied until I heard this quote.
"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."
Think about that for a minute. The key to the quote is the principle of discipline and consistency. You cannot change something in your life unless you master the discipline to develop the change you desire. At the same time you cannot master the discipline until you learn to be consistent in the application of the discipline you are desiring to achieve. I know it's a mouthful but read it over again, it makes sense, kind of a catch 22.
If you are stuck in the rut of life, miserable with a situation or circumstance, today is the day to change it, start doing something different to alter your existence for the better. At our website we pride ourselves on the power of the right attitude, today is the first day of a new life you can begin to mold. With small incremental steps you can achieve great things with consistency and discipline over time. It isn't easy to do and you will fail sometimes but the biggest thing to remember is that if you truly desire the change you have to develop a winner take all kind of attitude. It doesn't matter if you fall but how long it takes you to get back up and keep going, the shorter the time frame the quicker you will reach the outcome you so desire.
I hope this has helped. Just so you know I am currently working on a MP3 download audio for daily developing daily discipline and consistency. It will be perfect for listening to daily in the car on the way to work. I should have it finished by Wednesday March 13. I will also have a CD available for purchase if you would rather have that.
Looking forward to helping you achieve your dreams. www.attitudedriveslife.com
Monday, March 4, 2013
The Road Less Traveled....
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"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Your Destiny
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
- Wayne Dyer
Write your own life, stop wasting your time on useless gimmicks that are slowly taking over. I am not saying don't have some fun but we need to guard our time the way most people guard their money. If someone was burning their money because they were bored we would think they were crazy. Everyday I would bet almost everyone wastes some of their precious time. As people we believe we have plenty, but we do not. No one knows how much time we have left.
We our the masters of our own fate, but the last thing I want to do is look back on my life and wish I would have done it differently. At that point it 's too late. I want to control my life now, make the decisions that will bring lasting change into my life. I believe there are 3 things we must do to take control of our destiny.
1. Wake Up!
We obviously need to realize that a change must be made, things will not change themselves. It is proven in a law of physics, an object at rest will remain at rest. We must realize that we want to change things in our lives. Otherwise we will be in the same place as last year.
2. Take Action.
After you realize that you hate your life (just kidding), you will want to change certain things in it to alter the outcomes that you have been receiving. So you realized that you want something different, you must now be that difference. Don't want to be poor, study on how you can make money a different way then you did before. Don't want to be fat, get up an extra 20 minutes early and jump rope before you take a shower, and do it everyday( don't eat so bad either). The choices are yours to make. There is just one multiplier in the formula.
3. Consistency
We can make decisions and never act on them but that usually just depresses us more. When you truly want to make a change you will actually get angry at yourself for not acting on your new direction in life, you will force yourself to alter your direction everyday, or live in disgust that you didn't. This I have learned first hand, I hate the fact that I didn't stay consistent, in turn I would get even more depressed. We have to remain consistent over time to let momentum kick in, once momentum starts it is super easy to continue to improve ourselves. The key is to think long term and not to be discouraged when we don't see immediate results, results compound over time.
So stick with it, follow the blog and lets make this year the best ever, at least until next year.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Is today the day you start, or is it tomorrow?
Don't get me wrong we all are on that roller coaster called life. One day your on top of the world the next you feel like you don't deserve anything. Deep inside everyone of us is a desire to achieve more, whether that be more respect, more knowledge, more wisdom, more wealth, more happiness, the list is pretty much endless. Sure, you don't hear many people talking about how they want 'more' in their lives, probably because people just don't want to come off as greedy or selfish. But the truth is people just want their needs met, that is what mostof the people want, including me, probably you.
You can go through this life reacting to the situations you find yourself in or you can make decisions and take actions that control most of the situations that you face. Instead of looking to government or corporate leaders for direction, take your own stance and start your own beginning.
Here is a little secret. Do it today. If you want next week, next month and next year to be drastically different you have to start changing your course today, even if it is a small thing, do it. You stay with it, adding other things you want to positively change in your life to the list of the things you have already done and you will find yourself transforming over time.
One of the most helpful hints I can give is to read 15 - 20 minutes of a self improvement blog or book everyday, also listen to 20 -30 minutes of audio from a motivational speaker or business leader instead of listening to music. It will alter the way you think. They are simple incremental changes that snowball into a tidal wave of positive alteration of your life. Trust me. I am proof.
You life can be drastically transformed but only if you want it to be, then, with the right tools, it will be. Then you can help others do the same.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Is your life determined by luck?
Do you think that you are unlucky? Ever wonder why certain things happen to you or your family? I always thought luck was something that you could will on yourself. That you are one hundred percent responsible for your destiny. I never believed in the notion that bad luck just happens to people or things go wrong on purpose. I do think that bad luck comes to those who don't do three basic things.One, the unlucky seem to never be prepared. Those people who are always ten minutes late for work and always blame it on some situation rather than taking the personal responsibility. There seems to always be an excuse for every time they are unprepared and forget something. Have you ever heard someone like this say, " It's not my fault, my ....." You can pretty much finish the sentence anyway you want. If you want to over come this in your life, or help someone you know break this brutal habit, offer this advice.
1. Take personal responsibility, and act on it. Instead of an excuse say, " I am truly sorry for being unprepared, making myself late, and I take full responsibility for my actions. I have no excuse, please forgive me for being late". - or whatever the thing was that was forgotten. This almost forces you to be genuine and it plays on your conscience to actually act on it. Then you must take steps to alter the behavior into more profitable outcomes. If you can do this first step then you are on your way to making luck work for you.
Second, which kind of feeds off of the first one. When did your life's course become determined by your surroundings and not your actions. This is my absolute largest pet peeve. When I over hear someone blaming anything but themselves for there situation, I cringe. I hear others say," it's the governments fault for the way I live", or "my college promised me a job when I got out of school", or "it's my bosses fault as to why I don't make enough" . Crazy right, I have actually heard these things when I used to work collections. There is no personal responsibility, but even worse there is no drive to alter the course.
2. Alter your situation. This is the 'act on it' part of the first point. If you realize you are pointing fingers at everyone but yourself and you do nothing about it you will be worse off than before. Your conscience will eat you alive, ever wonder why selfish people are so miserable? They know they are selfish, so they get extremely bitter. After you realize you are guilty of not taking responsibility, you must act on it. So make a plan, and implement it until you can successfully destroy the finger pointing and the blame game.
Finally, When persuading luck to be on your side. It always helps to have an excellent attitude. I find it extremely hilarious when you get a dose of 'bad' luck you usually have a dose of 'crappy ' attitude. Now I know that bad things happen sometimes and it isn't easy to think that things happen because of a certain choice or a specific thing that you did or did not do. It is better we try to avoid that kind of thinking.
3. Fill your attitude with awesomeness. This is generally your overall mindset. It is alot harder to stay consistent with this aspect than others. It is also the most rewarding. Some people think that being negative and judgemental all the time is why they are meant to be in this world. They wear it as a badge of honor, it is very sad. They bring other people down and criticize everything they do but never try anything new themselves. These folks do not have a problem with you, but with themselves. This is what happens when you become so bitter and prideful you never want to change. We must avoid this. Which is why concentrating on having an excellent attitude all the time is so important. It can turn good moments in great ones, it can turn bad moments into lessons to learn from, and it can turn utter catastrophes into moments of reflection.
Basically, if you can take the positive out of every situation, and are grateful for the situations you have then luck can actually turn out to be something you wield as a sword. Almost at your command, so don't wait on taking the action to remedy your current life's condition. Make the world a better place because you can.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Motivation Starts Your Journey, Habit Finishes It
"Motivation starts your journey; habit finishes it."
Such as following through on the greatest works in my life. This is paramount in anything you do in your life. The statement is echoed by thousands of people in society mostly leaders and professionals who know the 'secrets'. Even though they are not very secret.
These people who have the things in their lives which others folks may desire to have are usually brought about by many of years of failure, hard work and sacrifice. Of course ordinary people are too 'cool' to really apply any of these principles to their lives for an extended period of time. Usually these people are the ones who complain most about the things the successful have even though they can attain the same things if they were willing to shut off the TV and get to work.
I encourage you to start something in your life, even if it may seem insignificant, it may lead to huge changes and great things. Take that leap, and stick with it. Always know that their are leaders and mentors everywhere that can encourage and motivate you along you path.
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Motivation Starts Your Journey, Habit Finishes It
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