Slow Down!

We all lead very busy lives which can make it difficult to remain focused on our goals. With so many things to do each day, it is easy to get lost in the day to day tasks. Sadly, our dreams take a back seat.

We complicate matters ourselves by trying to focus on too many goals at the same time. We have short, medium, and long term goals in all areas of our lives including financial goals, career goals, relationship goals and so on.

Time to simplify things. Write out your current short term goal on an index card. Make it emotional, written in the present tense with exciting adjectives. This goal can be focused on one or more areas of your life, the point is to write it in a way that gets you super motivated each time you read it.

Now the next all important step, carry the goal card with you everywhere you go. Read it several times a day. It doesn't matter how busy you are, you can always find one minute or so to read your goal card. This will keep your goal in the forefront of your mind regardless of how busy your life gets.

Once you reach the goal, then and only then will you be ready to move on to the next one. This will allow you to slow down, stay focused and in action towards actually achieving your goals one at a time, instead of just wishing that you had the time to devote to them.

Follow the Leader

Do you know anyone who has already reached the goal you are working towards? It is truly amazing how much we can learn from following another person's lead.

Even if you don't know them personally, you can still learn about how they succeeded. For example there is an endless supply of self help resources, autobiographies and biographies of very successful people who have outlined their success path for us.

Be aware of the people in your life who have all the answers you are looking for, but no personal evidence of actually knowing what they are talking about. You know the people I am referring to, we all have them in our lives. Although they do mean well, take their advice with great caution. If they haven't done it themselves, what qualifies them to advise you on the matter.

Instead seek to associate and learn from those who have been there and done that with respect to your goals. You will find that this can truly save yourself a lot of time, money and unnecessary mistakes along your success journey, by simply following a leader.

Limiting Beliefs Stop You From Reaching Your Goals

Do you have limiting beliefs that are holding you back from reaching your goals? You may not even be aware of your limiting beliefs, you may even think that you don't have any. The truth is we all have them, in many cases we took them on from our parents or authority figures when we were very young.

If you are like me, you may have heard one of these regularly when you were young; money doesn't grow on trees. or only rich people are lucky.

Look at the areas in your life in which you are struggling, chances are you have a belief that is holding you back in that part of your life. For example, if you have consistently been struggling financially, you probably hold a belief that money is hard to come by, or maybe you don't believe that you deserve to be wealthy.

Now that you have identified your limiting beliefs you can begin to change them into new, positive and supportive beliefs. Write down your old limiting belief, cross it out and replace it with the oppositve belief which is in support of achieving your goals.

You can then begin to reprogram your subconscious mind with the new belief with consistent daily imprinting of the belief. This will take several weeks and possibly months of consistency. Remember, you have been carrying that old limiting belief for a long time, it is not going to go away very quickly.

Stick with it, and you will soon begin to see the results you want in your life and be on the way to achieving your goals.

Do You Belief You Can Do It?

How big are your goals? Do you really believe that you can achieve them? It is great, and really necessary to have big goals in life, but it is equally important that they are believable for you.

This is especially important with your shorter term goals. It is all fine and dandy to set a goal to make $1million in the next three months, but do you really believe that is possible for you? If you are currently making about $10,000. in a three month period, it is safe to say that the answer is definitely no.

If your goals are so ridiculously big and unbelievable, you will not even know how to begin to go about achieving them. Instead of being motivated to even try, you will probably find that you are not only unmotivated but will quickly lose interest altogether.

On the other hand if you set a goal which is just outside of your current comfort zone and your current belief of what is possible for you, it is much easier for you to forge ahead and take action to achieve it. Your visualizations will be more believable for you and your subconscious mind will begin to present the action plan for achievement.

The Missing Ingredient

Can you honestly say that you take action each and every day towards achieving your goals? For many of us, action is the missing ingredient. We spend plenty of time working on our mindset and belief with daily visualizations and affirmations of success and then we expect the Law of Attraction to do the rest.

The reality is that if you spend all of your time dreaming of a big bag of money, eventually you will end up in the poor house with no money at all. You must take action!

If you have a huge goal and you don't know what all the action steps are that will be required, just take the first step. Ask yourself each morning, "What action can I take today that will bring me closer to achieving my goal?"

With each action step taken, another action step will be revealed to you. The Law of Attraction will see that you are serious about actually achieving your goal, and will ensure that you have the knowledge needed to take the action required.

Visualization Can Change Your Mind

If achieving your goal involves getting out of your comfort zone, you are going to have to spend some time reprogramming your subconscious mind before you can achieve it. Your brain is set much like the thermometer in your home, to keep the temperature at the set point.

When you begin to take action steps towards achieving a big goal which is outside of your current comfort zone, a chemical is released into the nervous system which your brain defines as danger. It is imperative that you spend some time resetting the temperature/comfort zone in your mind, this can be done through visualization.

With consistent and persistent daily visualization of your goal and the emotions you will feel upon achieving that goal, you are telling your subconscious mind that reaching your goal is within your comfort zone and perfectly safe. Your subconscious mind cannot decipher between reality and imagined reality.

Visualization is one of the tools which allows us to use the Law of Attraction to achieve what we want. A few short minutes a couple of times a day, can help to get you on your way to achieving your goal.

Do You Keep Your Commitments?

How are you at keeping your commitments? You may wonder what keeping commitments has to do with materializing your goals, the answer is a lot. The two go hand in hand. I would go so far as to say that if you generally don't keep your commitments, you probably also struggle to reach your goals.

The reality is that reaching your goals requires keeping all of your commitments to the most important person, yourself. This is where many of us tend to fall short. We get so worried about keeping others happy, but we are OK with letting ourselves down. This is completely backwards.

Now, I am not suggesting that you should disregard your commitments to others, but I am saying that you should put just as much importance on the commitments you make to yourself as you do your commitments to others.

For many of us the solution here is to make sure that we do not over commit to others. Before you make any commitments to others make sure that you are able to keep those commitments while still reaching your personal commitments that bring you closer to achieving your goals.

Adversity Provides Clarity on What You Want

Nobody likes to struggle, but we can all use our bad times to become clear on our goals. This is simply done by knowing what we don't want, which allows us to use contrast through clarity to figure out what we do want.

For example if you are stuck in a job you hate, you can sit down and write out all of the things that you don't like about your job on one side of a sheet of paper. You may end up with some things like: My boss doesn't appreciate me. My work is boring and unfulfilling.

Now you can go down the list of things that you don't want and cross them out and beside them on the other side of the page write down the opposite, or what you do want. You may end up with things like: I am very appreciated and valued for my work. My work is challenging, rewarding, and fulfulling.

You can now use the law of attraction to focus on what you want, and start to take the action steps to achieve it.

Sometimes we need the bad times to know and appreciate the good times. If you know what you don't want, only focus on it long enough to get clear on what you do want. You can then be free to focus on your goals.

How Bad do You Want It?

So you have your goal and you are working consistently and persistently towards it for a little while and then you just stop. It is so much harder to start over again then it is to just keep steadily moving forward, so what happened? Why did you end the progress you were making?

You may be experiencing some adversity in your life which is taking your focus away from your goal. Yes, when things go wrong, you have to make them right again, but you don't have to lose your focus. Whatever the problem is, it may take up most of your time and your concentration, but you can still at least remember that your goal is still your ultimate focus. It is ok if you have to back off a little from the action steps, just don't stop all together.

If you goal is powerful enough, it should be easier for you to stay focused and on task. You should be very emotionally involved with your goal, to the point that you have a 'do whatever it takes' committment to reach it. Unless you want it bad enough, life's struggles will stop you dead in your tracks everytime.

If you want it bad enough, you will make sure that you get it. You will be more powerful than any circumstances in your life. So the question is, How bad do you want it?

Start Your Day Out Right

If you are serious and motivated about reaching your goals, it is imperative that you keep your emotions in check. The law of attraction gives us back what we put our attention, energy and focus on, so we must make sure we are feeling good and positve. A good way to do this is to make sure you start each day out right.

Gratitude is a beautiful thing which makes us feel really good. Before you get out of bed each morning, go through the top five or ten things that you are grateful for at that moment. You will begin to notice more things throughout the day that you are grateful for. You may even finally begin to truly appreciate the things that you usually take for granted.

By being grateful for the abundance that you already have in your life, you will begin to realize that you already are very successsful. The law of attraciton will then bring you more of the same, more success. This is an important step in the achievement of your goals. If you want more in life, you have to be grateful for what you have now.

We all have an abundance of people and things in our lives to be grateful for. If you have food on your table, a roof over your head, and clothes on your back, you truly are blessed. Start out each morning by going through your gratitude list. You will begin to see how doing this one simple exercise will support you in reaching all of your goals.

Break the Cycle of Limiting Beliefs

Where do your limiting beliefs come from? Are they really yours, or did you take them on from someone else? The reality is that many of your deep rooted beliefs (the good and the bad) came from your parents or other authority figures when you were young.

Think back to when you were a child, there were probably a few phrases that you heard repeatedly from your parents, that have since become your own limiting beliefs. A couple of examples would be "Money doesn't grow on trees", or "Rich people are greedy".

These beliefs our parents had were probably passed down to them by their parents, who learned them from their parents, and so on. The important thing is that you forgive them, they certainly didn't mean to cause you any harm. They were just trying to teach you and guide you the only way they knew how, which is the same way they learned.

The good news is that you can break the cycle. You can reprogram your mind with new, supportive beliefs that will assist you in reaching your goals. You can then pass on these positive beliefs to your children and watch them build the life of their dreams.

Change your Beliefs to Support Your Goals

Are you struggling to reach your goals in a certain area of your life? Have you considered the possibility that you may be sabotaging your own success? We all have deeply routed limiting beliefs which can hold us back from being successful. These beliefs will actually keep us from reaching our goals.

The good news is that if the problem is within you, so is the solution. If your beliefs are at odds with your goals, you can change your beliefs to support your goals. By examining the problem area of your life, you can identify the beliefs you have in that area which may be holding you back. If you are having trouble making friends, you may believe that people don't like you. If you are struggling financially, you may hold a belief that money is hard to come by, or only lucky people get rich.

Now that you have recognized the damaging beliefs you can replace them with the opposite, new, positive beliefs that support your goals. With consistent and persistent repetition, you can reprogram your mind to let go of the old belief and take on the new supportive belief. Be patient, this will not happen overnight. You will find that your mind may be filled with contrary thoughts, but just put them right out of your head.

Why carry around damaging and limiting beliefs? Make the committment to yourself to identify them and replace them with beliefs which support your goals and promote your success.

Using Quotes to help Materialize Your Goals

Are you closer to your goal? You're likely taking action each and every day towards your goal - right? Sometimes we get frustrated or disappointed that we're not moving along as quickly, or the way we want to. Keep in mind, that achieving something you've never achieved before is going to mean some personal growth along the way. Staying focused on the END RESULT, remaining committed to your SUCCESS, and enjoying the journey of MATERIALIZING your goal is what it's all about.

Inspiration and renewed energy to keep on keeping on comes from many places. Here are some notable quotes that may resonate with you. Write down your favorites and post them in places where you can see them every day. Remember, someone has already done what you want to do. It IS possible.

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us: concentrate our energy"
~ Denis Waitley

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that."
~ Earl Nightingale

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything."
~Scott Reed

"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations." -
~Alan Loy McGinnis

"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
~Dale Carnegie

"Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."
~Martha Sinetar

"To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." -
~Ralph Waldo Emereson


"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
~ Zig Zigler

"Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be." -
~Henry Emerson Fosdick

"Please understand my friend, that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today." - Akin A. Awolaja

Journal your way to success

Your Journal an Effective Tool for Personal Development

A journal is an effective tool to use in your everyday life. It can be used as both a diary to record events in your life, and as a personal development tool. It is a great place to record events in your life and your reaction to those events, kind of like the cause and effect or the actions and reactions in your life. Your emotions are a very powerful memory tool. By writing about how you felt about an event, it helps you to recall the true experience of what happened at a later time.

Your journal will also help you work through some of the negative emotions that you may be feeling. The simple act of actually acknowledging how you feel and writing about it is the first step. Once you know how you feel, you can work at figuring out why, or what happened to make you feel that way. Sometimes, we cannot identify an exact event that caused the feeling, but journaling effectively allows us to at least figure out when the negative feelings started. Now you are ready to identify how you want to feel, and do what you need to do to create that positive feeling in your life.

In order to fully benefit from your journal it is necessary to go back over it and study your progress. If you experience a similar difficult situation or feeling, you can look back and read about how you worked through it before. Your journal then becomes a chart of your personal growth, which gives you cause for celebration. After all, what is the point of making mistakes if you are not going to learn from them?

If you are new to journaling you may find it awkward at first, and you might not know what to write about. The trick is to just write anything. You can even write about the fact that you don’t have anything to write about. Over time your thoughts and feelings will begin to flow freely onto the paper, just keep with it by making it part of your day to day routine. There are no rules or guidelines stating that your daily journaling has to be a certain length, or that it even has to make any sense. Remember, it is for your eyes only, so just write about whatever comes to mind.

Over time your journal can become a useful tool in your personal development. If you use it to record what has happened, and your feelings around the event, you will find that the emotion you put into it helps to keep your memories alive. You can work through your negative emotions much easier by recording them, and their cause. It is an incredible way to chart your personal progress, and learn from the journey. A life worth living is a life worth writing about.

Track your progress and Celebrate your wins

How you feel is so tremendously important don’t you think? I mean really, when you feel good about an accomplishment it empowers you to do so much more. As a result recognizing that feeling is just as important. By recognizing the feeling I mean you need to celebrate it and by celebrating the process of that achievement you will feel better the entire time you are working towards the end result. Celebrating the process is best achieved by keeping a progress log, either in your journal or on the back of your goal card.

It really doesn't matter how big or how small the goal is that you want to materialize either, no matter what, keep track of your progress towards it and celebrate the heck out of it once you have gotten there. Take a moment and have a look at a couple of goals that have been materialized recently and how we tracked them and then celebrated them.

In January of this year I set a goal to achieve a premium membership status with ezine articles. Now from what I could figure out, that could be a relatively simple process or I could make it a difficult process. I knew that would be my choice. Like I have described in some of my past articles I chose to put focused energy into the task. I went about learning exactly what was expected of my for submitting articles that adhered to the guidelines of the platform, realizing of course, that it didn't matter whether I agreed with the guidelines or not. I wanted to be posting articles there and as a result I had to adhere to their rules. It just was fortunate that I had no issues with the guidelines by the way.

I knew that the process could take anywhere from 10 – 25 submissions and I was on a mission to get the task done in 10. I charted every success on the road. I kept a log of my articles, when they were submitted and when they were approved until I reached what I had faith was the last one that I would need for the upgrade. Every time an article was approved I put a great big check mark and the date by it. Today I celebrate being upgraded by letting my entire list of associates and customers know about it, they celebrate with me and the positive energy around the articles is astounding. Now I realize that this is a small celebration, but it is a celebration none the less and I always feel better celebrating than anything else.

Now let me tell you about a bigger goal that we are going to be celebrating at the end of this month. A couple of years ago my wife and I set a goal to work from home, together, full time and profitably. Because we applied absolute laser beam focused energy into that goal, tracked every inch of our progress towards it we will be celebrating with the bottle of Champagne that we put aside just for this occasion. We put that focused energy into several areas:

Watching and tracking our progress (celebrating every small win and step towards the goal)
Personal development
Goal setting
We carefully chose the business models we would use
Responsibility, and
Accountability

A long time ago we picked out the resort we wanted to celebrate at and we will be doing just that in a few short weeks. Living a life of design, our design is a wonderful thing.

Using the The 80 / 20 Principle to Materialize Your Goals

Many of you may have heard of the "80/20" rule, less commonly known as the Pareto Principle. What is the 80/20 rule and how does it apply to materializing your goals?

The Pareto Principle states that 80% of your results will come from 20% of your efforts. What this should tell us is that, 20% of your results come from the other 80% of your efforts. Is it possible, I mean really possible that 80% of our efforts are essentially wasted? Many of us tend to focus on doing the little things, the unimportant things such as reading an email right away that has no obvious bearing on the task at hand. Often this is just a distraction from focusing on what we really want to achieve. In other words "procrastination". What this really yields us is slow results and a feeling of being overwhelmed with "things" to get done.

Let's look at how to apply the 80/20 principle to materializing your goals. If you spend 20% of your focused energy, time and effort into working towards your goals, you'll see massive results in a short period of time. That's focus. Suppose your goal is to lose some weight. You've made a commitment to eat healthier and exercise regularly. Using the 80/20 principle, you would exercise in the morning, before you start your day. You've just taken massive action towards your goals before you get bogged down in your daily routine and responsibilities. You feel powerful because you've kept your commitment, and it sets your mood for the entire day. Not only do you feel healthy but you've created more energy and mental clarity to get you through your day. Excellent!

Here's another example: You've set a goal to write that best-selling book. You know what time of day you create your best material so you schedule that as sacred "writing time". You spend a couple hours (or one or two) writing without interruption - consistently and persistently. Before you know it, you've completed your manuscript. By taking the time every day to work towards your goal, you're building confidence that you CAN materialize your goal. That begins to take on a life of it's own.

We all have "to do" lists; many of us have ones that never end, some of us have a list of lists to get done. There will always be "things" that needs to get done. Our email inboxes are always full, we just want to watch that one TV show, perhaps getting organized is all we need to do before we begin…all diversion tactics. Take some time every day, consistently and persistently, to do something that moves you closer to your goal. Before you know it, you've materialized your goal and all it really took was focused action.

Putting focused energy into every moment

We wrote in another article about visualizing yourself having already attaining the goal. This is the whole Be Do Have mindset. When it comes to materializing your goals, you must find a way to see yourself as a success and having already accomplished and materialized your goal. You will know when you have perfected this mindset when you materialize, even a small goal because it will feel almost serendipitous to you. This will feel like it was absolutely was supposed to happen, just like it did.

You see there are times when there will be apparent, and even some not so apparent obstacles that you either put in place or that you run into. These obstacles are a fact of life but how you face them and deal with them is entirely up to you. You can sit and think that you will never be able to overcome them or you can put some intense focused energy onto them in order to easily skirt around them. You can choose to believe that you are the only person that has ever faced that challenge or obstacle or you can very quickly realize that it is what it is, simply a bump in the road and many other very successful people have already hit it and got around it.

You see whatever obstacle you believe is in front of you, there have been others that have overcome even greater challenges. It truly boils down, not to where you are now because in a split second that will be the past so where you are now is of little consequence. What is really important right now, right now and right now is how you approach life. What attitude do you possess towards your future circumstances and how you approach your life.

The ultra successful people in our world and society fully experience every moment. There are a couple of really good reasons, logical reasons for fully experiencing every moment:

• The moment you are in is the only moment in which you have power
• The past is the past, even if it just happened a split second ago
• You future depends on the choices you make right now, right now and right now

In order to live life with an abundant and prosperous future, you must live your life so that it is experienced as rich and rewarding in each and every moment. This is all about putting focused energy into each and every moment and living your life as you would and have imagined it to be. Remember a couple of things about focused energy:

Focused Energy Eliminates Lack (feeling), and
Focused Energy Achieves Results (fear)

Have a goal of working from home? -- the 6th common denominator for success

As we go about our day, we get asked a lot about how we materialized our goal of working from home, with our own network marketing business. There are many facets of working from home that we needed to figure out. Once those decisions are made and the choice is made there are 5, nope 6 things that you need to master and develop really well as you start to work from home.

All of the leaders in the network marketing and work at home industry will tell you that all you have to do is tap or plug into their system and you will achieve the same level of success as we have. To a degree, this is very very true. A system that is easily duplicated, simple and one that is proven is absolutely essential when working from home. After all, network marketing is a business of marketing and promoting being done, mostly, by people that have very little knowledge of marketing and promoting.

Once you have the business model that is right for you, the leadership that is going to be of the most benefit and the training and support you need to be successful there are 5, no actually 6 things that you need to develop and make your own Daily Method of Operation.

The first 5 things listed here are things that can be developed, practiced and perfected by simply putting them in place with some discipline. Realize as well that these are in no particular order, neither is of more importance than the other. They are simply the 5 things that are absolutely required and need to be done with number 6. Also realize that if number 6 is not there, just set your alarm clock and go to work tomorrow morning.

Even though number 6 is last, it is absolutely required. As a matter of fact you can be successful with just number 6 but it will be much more easily accomplished by combining all 6 together.

• You must perform Income Producing activities every day
• You must become an absolute student of Personal Development
• You must take the time to visualize and meditate on your goals every day
• You must carry an expectation of leadership -- in yourself as well as others
• You must continue to brainstorm and mastermind with the leaders

Now most business leaders will tell you that if you concentrate on these 5 things consistently and persistently then you will have no choice but become successful. This is true. However there is one common denominator amongst the successful home business owners that very few talk about after you "join" their business and that one is number 6.

• A True and Burning DESIRE!!

Be Do Have is very different from Fake it until you make it

As we circulate through the personal development world we hear many of the leaders and the gurus talk about be do have:

· Be the person that you want to be
· Do the things that person would do, and
· Have the things that person would have

Up until I discovered personal development and realized that materializing your goals, achieving your burning desires and realizing the abundance in all aspects of my life was really only a mindset away, I truly thought that Be Do Have was just another way of saying:

· Fake it until you make it, or
· Keeping up with the Jones's

The harsh reality is though that there are still people that believe that they have to fake it until they make it. Actually, as much as I hated the whole idea, we truly were living that lifestyle and weren't really aware of it. When we figured out the true meaning of Be Do Have, there was a huge transformation in our lives.

There are people that are driving around in automobiles that they cannot afford, wearing suits, jewelry, leather coats and perfumes that they just are not in the financial situation to own. These are people living in their dream homes, well before they have achieved their dream. Like we were, they are faking it until they make it and simply keeping up with the Jones's.

Now I am not on a soap box here about over extending or living beyond your means. I am simply saying that there is a major difference between faking it until you're making it and mastering the Be Do Have principle.

Mastering the Be Do Have principle is the key to mirroring successful people. There is a mindset to success, we all know that. The ultra successful people in our world and society have that mindset of success. Take some time to get associated with some successful and some ultra successful people. This is much easier than it sounds, you can get to know Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki and T Harv Eker, just to name a couple of relatively successful people through their books. I actually prefer them in audio format. When you can have a mindset of success that mirrors the mindset of people like these you will now how to Be Do and Have just like them.

Join some associations of successful people, either locally or online. The possibilities are limitless online. No matter how you do it, in order to materialize your goals you need to realize that Be Do Have is a mindset.

Be a big thinker, be success oriented, be willing to take the actions to achieve your goals. Do the things an ultra successful person does every day, follow their Daily Method of Operation. Be Just as organized as they are, just as dedicated as they are. Have the same thought process as they do and learn to make decisions quickly and effectively. Study them, their habits. Get to know successful people in all the areas you want to change. Once you are done, and you have become the person you want to be. When you have materialized your goals then remember to share your successes and your abundance. Never forget that abundance is for everybody.

How to Control Luck and Materialize Your Goals

Ever wonder why some people seem to have all the luck and others just don't seem to have any luck at all? What is your thought on that? Is there a universal force that determines who gets the luck or do we as human beings determine it for ourselves? Maybe it is the human doers that get all the luck......

We used to wonder the same thing...

especially when we were struggling in life!

It seemed everyone had it easier or had more luck than me... People we worked with were having more success, getting the deal or moving ahead of me. We couldn't figure it out, it just didn't make any sense. We wondered how do we get control over our circumstances and results.

Then we realized something that changed our lives forever!

We began to study those folks, and especially ultra successful people. In talking with these people about their success, they all shared with us that they didn't believe luck had anything to do with their success. They said that their luck, as we knew it, was a result of a series of choices that they made.

Can you believe that? We thought they were all so lucky and they didn't even believe in luck!
Rather, each one of them said they made the decision to be successful and then they took the actions necessary to materialize their goals... that's what made them successful.

We thought...yeah, but you haven't experienced the adversities and challenges that we have!
But, many of them had. The stories of what they overcame to get where they are now were amazing! One good friend of ours is actually legally blind and he has been "lucky" enough to place in the top 10 of the Olympic games in tandem cycling, create one very successful traditional business and an ultra successful online business.

Actually...it was totally inspiring. Here are some choices they made…. And oddly enough they were all choices under their control…. They were mindset choices:

• Circumstances would not get in the way of success
• No obstacles are too great
• No amount of work is to much
• Nothing anyone else says would deter them
• They would ignore the False Evidence that Appeared Real and replace that with Focused Energy and Achieve Results

What they taught us was that successful goal setters and achievers choose success.

This was a huge wake up call for us. There would be no more complaining all the time about circumstances, jobs, bosses... we would no longer feel powerless, as though this was the hand that life had dealt us.

We realized that our lack of luck was an excuse that we were using to justify why we were not living the life we wanted. We were choosing the easy way out.

Choose to take responsibility for the results in your life... no more blaming everyone and everything else. It is time to choose to be lucky!

Donald Trump talks of a great golfer that said:

The harder I work, the luckier I get

We are so thankful and grateful that we made the change in our life, because, quite frankly, we were tired of waiting for luck to work out for us.

And, life is a lot easier now than it used to be...that's for sure!

Once we got that we could create our own luck our lives totally turned around! We attracted a great business and mentors and now live a life we are excited about and have become the leaders and mentors we have always envisioned ourselves to be.

And....the best part? Anyone can create their own luck. we are living proof!