Are You Tired of Having Sand Kicked in Your Face?
Maybe you are old enough to remember the commercials where the 98-pound-weakling gets sand kicked in his face while the big-muscle-bound-guy gets the girl. The weakling decides he's had enough and DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT! At the end of the commercial he is no longer only 98 pounds and he is far from being a weakling. That weakling is me! (And, oh how I wish I weighed closer to 98 pounds! :-)
I have been a wimp for too long--just letting life happen to me, not trying to improve myself, skating by just under the radar. And I have succeeded! I have succeeded in gaining weight, keeping my office so messy it sometimes takes me days to find something (Last fall I lost a chance to get hundreds of dollars because I could not find a piece of paper that I "knew" I had.), being lazy, undisciplined and unmotivated. That part of my life is over!
Through this lens I will bring to you relevant, useful information that can transform your life. I will be transforming mine right before your eyes. Watch how I do it and learn.
Are You Ready for the 100 Day Challenge?
Are you ready to reach your goals? Do you want to end the year pursuing those things that seem to have eluded you so far? Can you do it?
YES YOU CAN!!!!
Join me in the "100 Day Challenge!" and let's get aggressive with success!
What's Your Excuse?
After reading this article you won't have one!
Be Inspired!
What Do You Need Most to Help You Succeed?
My Weight Loss Goal Chart
Watch As I Chart My Progress
Last year about this time I set a weight loss goal and then proceeded to to not meet it! Although I thought I had convinced myself that I would aggressively pursue my goals in 2007 the circumstances I found myself in convinced me otherwise.
I came to a point where I just didn't care!
Nothing much has changed in my life since then to make me want to try again--in fact, things have gotten worse. But I MUST succeed.
I am tired of being tired all the time. I don't have the money to replace my wardrobe and I am outgrowing the one I have. I don't have the energy to play with my kids. And I just don't feel good about myself. So, I am going to change!
I will reach my goal! It will take me a little longer, but pursuing Aggressive Success is about NOT GIVING UP!
Watch my progress below and leave a comment on my Blog (see below) to share YOUR success stories with me.
Survival Mode
When it is all you can do to keep your head above the water don't forget to breathe in the process.
~~Paula Farris
So, You Want to Pursue Aggressive Success
What do you do now?
You have a long way to go, but at least you have started your journey.
After you make that first crucial decision you need to know what to do next. Begin by answering these questions.
IMPORTANT TIP: Take the time to write down these questions and their answers. Do this in your own handwriting if possible. Actually seeing that YOU answered these questions in the way you did will trigger something in your brain that will spur you on when you want to stop your aggressive pursuit of success.
Question 1
What do I most want to accomplish in my life?
Question 2
Why do I want to accomplish this thing?
Question 3
What are the obstacles that are likely to keep me from accomplishing this thing?
Question 4
How can I overcome those obstacles?
Question 5
What is the first thing I need to do to get started on accomplishing this thing?
Answering these five questions will get you started on your way to success. Spend some time answering them. Don't just hastily write down an answer so that you can get through the exercise. Put some thought into what you write. When you are finished you will have started on YOUR roadmap to aggressive success.
Aggressive Success--The Blog
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Over the next few days I will give you reasons to refute these arguments.
When you say,
"I can't do that,
I can't go on,
I can't try again
I can't afford this,
or
I can't handle this"
I will show you reasons why YOU CAN!
I Can't Do That
I Can't Go On
I Can't Try Again
I Can't Afford This
I Can't Handle This
I CAN
Top 12 Areas Where We Should Never Procrastinate
- Making Your Peace with God--If you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior don't put this off. Read the Bible. Ask God to show you the truth. There is an eternity that awaits us after death, where will you spend it?
- Growing in Your Relationship with God--Once you have accepted God's free gift of salvation get to know Him better. He will give you wisdom and knowledge beyond what you can imagine if you will seek Him with all your heart.
- Cultivating a Relationship with Your Spouse--It is so sad to hear of couples who have been married for twenty or thirty years divorcing because after their children are grown and gone they find they have nothing in common. Develop common interests and common goals. Learn to love each other.
- Training and Disciplining Your Children--Children need their parents to teach them, not only academics, but also right behavior. Don't neglect their character issues for the sake of getting through a textbook. They can always learn the book knowledge, but the bad attitudes and habits will be extremely difficult to correct.
- Routine Maintenance on Your House, Your Vehicles and Your Relationships--Houses, cars and friends do need attention sometimes. Don't put it off and you will save much time and money not needing to fix what would have been a minor repair.
- Your Health--If you aren't healthy EVERYTHING else will be harder. Eat properly, exercise, pray; whatever it takes to get and stay healthy DO IT!
- Planning Your Estate--Whether we like to admit it or not we don't live forever. Make sure that you have a will and other protections in place before you need them.
- Getting Your Finances in Order--If you are in debt, GET OUT! Develop a plan to pay every bill on time and stick to it.
- Pursuing Your Goals--Improve yourself. Don't get to age forty and wonder what you have done with all your life.
- Reaching Out to Those in Need--The more we bless others the more blessed we become. Find a need and meet it.
- Developing Your Character--If you find yourself with bad attitudes, bad habits or issues that need to dealt with don't put it off. The better we become the more useful and successful we will become.
- Having Faith--No matter what we have done in the past God can and will forgive us if we ask Him to.
"Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13, 14
This is what I'm Talkin' About
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When You Have to Take a Detour . . .
Try to At Least Enjoy the Scenery
You have it all planned out, not because you have set goals, but because non-acheivers spend a lot of time thinking and dreaming and sometimes actually even planning--just never acting.
So you decided to change. Maybe it was a major life event--turning 40, the birth of your first child, the death of a spouse. Maybe it was a movie you saw or a book you read. Maybe it was this lens! But something happened to you to light a fire under your dreams and cause you to become too uncomfortable to just sit there and imagine. You HAD to ACT!
And act you did. You actually set goals. You got some education. You applied for a business loan. You decluttered your house. You got aggressive--and you started to see some success. How exciting!
That is until you came to the detour sign. You were faced with a major illness. Your elderly mother fell ill and needed full time care. You lost your job.
Do you stop achieving?
Perhaps, for a little while. But aggressive success requires you to press on.
Will you have to adjust your goals? Probably. They might take longer to achieve. You may not be able to accomplish some of them at all.
Is your successful life over?
Do you want it to be over?
It's up to you.
If you are pursuing aggressive success you will take aggressive action. You will slow down, reassess, make another plan, and set out to complete the plan.
And ultimately you will succeed!
10 Things You Can Do Today to Be More Successful
2. Drink more water
3. Smile
4. Help someone
5. Read
6. Play with a child
7. Pray
8. Balance your checkbook
9. Exercise
10. Learn something new
Tell Me What You Think of My Lens . . .
You are an inspiration and a shining example of someone who "walks the walk." Great job! Lenses, blogs Etc. ... you are DOING not just conceptualizing.
I will come back to read more!
Posted September 30, 2008
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richgerman
thanks for the tips you imparted with us here! Posted July 16, 2008 |
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poddys
Good luck with all your goals and new adventures. I procrastinate too, right now I'm struggling to find papers, and I'm struggling to diet... Maybe we are related LOL! 5***** for a really good lens. Posted June 04, 2008 |
I luv your job.....its really
inspiring.
Posted May 23, 2008
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Susan52
I like your 10 Things list, full of important things that often get overlooked, including helping other people. Good job! Posted April 21, 2008 |
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RaymondLeBlanc
I came back again for some extra reading. Posted April 09, 2008 |
Make the Most of YOUR Lenses!
New Table of Contents
- Are You Ready for the 100 Day Challenge?
- What's Your Excuse?
- What Do You Need Most to Help You Succeed?
- My Weight Loss Goal Chart
- Survival Mode
- So, You Want to Pursue Aggressive Success
- Aggressive Success--The Blog
- I Can't . . .
- I Can't Do That
- I Can't Go On
- I Can't Try Again
- I Can't Afford This
- I Can't Handle This
- I CAN
- Top 12 Areas Where We Should Never Procrastinate
- This is what I'm Talkin' About
- When You Have to Take a Detour . . .
- 10 Things You Can Do Today to Be More Successful
- Tell Me What You Think of My Lens . . .
- Make the Most of YOUR Lenses!
