Start Your Morning Off Right

Want to start your day off right?  I have the solution.  It's not hard, but I bet it will be challenging for you to do this simple thing for 30 days.

I promise you, however, if you do this for 30 days, your whole entire life WILL CHANGE.  Everything will start going your way.  Your work will be easier.  The people around you will be nicer.  Money will flow to you (if that's what you want) and love will grow in places you never dreamed!  You will embark on adventures that leave you utterly satisfied.  And most of all, you will be happier with yourself than you ever could imagine.

Every day, as soon as the alarms rings or as soon as you wake up .  . .

1. Lay on your back
2. Don't reach for any electronic device except the OFF BUTTON on the alarm.
3. Take 5 deep and calming breaths
4. List all the things you are thankful for . . . until you run out of things you can think about.
5. Ruminate on all the things you just listed for an entire minute, take 5 deep breaths again.
6. Start your day, get out of bed.

Do this every day (don't skip any days) for 30 days.

Come back and leave a comment on this post and let me know what happened to you after the 30 days.


But Telemill, what if I don't have anything to be thankful for?

• Let me help you.  You can start with these:

• I am thankful that I am alive and I woke up today

• I am thankful that I can take 5 deep breaths

• I am thankful for my bed

• I am thankful for my working alarm

• I am thankful for my loved one

• I am grateful that it is a new day

• I am grateful for the breakfast I will eat 

• I am grateful for sleeping last night

• I am grateful that the sun came up again

• I am grateful for opening my eyes this morning

• I am grateful for the air around me

• I am grateful for the warming that surrounds me

• I am thankful about the peace that is surrounding me right now

• I am grateful for the exercise

• I am thankful that I've done this exercise XX times in a row

There, that should get you started!  Don't forget to come back and let me know what happens to you after 30 days.

I'm rooting for you and wishing every success my powerful and influential friends!

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Start the Next Chapter

It's the end of the year.  I hope I've given you motivation to begin living your dreams. If you haven't gotten as far as you wanted to go, don't fret.  If you made lots of mistakes this year . . . good for you!  At least you got off your butt and did something.

This is the time to shake off the past.  Don't look back now!  Keep looking forward.  Yesterday is done, can't change it.  Today is what you have and where you start.  Let's do this!

Happy New Year and Happy New Adventure people!


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It's okay to ask for help

Okay people, let me tell you this:  Asking for help is not a signal of weakness.  In fact, the opposite is true.  The people that believe that it's perfectly natural for others to help them achieve their dreams are the most successful people.

If we are going to be successful millionaires, we have to get over the our whole "I can do this all by myself" mentality.  Seriously, people do not build empires all by themselves.  An empire has "people" in it . . . large amounts of people.

In fact, pulling people together and asking for help from a large group of people is the key to success.  People who are building companies, or dreams, knows that relying on people to help is a necessary - correction, a fundamental piece to the puzzle. 

Successful people do not allow these types of issues to "hold them back" from their goals.

UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ISSUES . . .

Issue #1:  Because I'm asking for help, I'm broadcasting to everyone that I don't have the ability to do this for myself.

Issue #2: If I ask for help, people will laugh at me and reject my pleas and I'll look foolish or stupid.

Issue #3:  Asking for help is a sign that I don't know what I'm doing and I hate to look unprofessional.

Issue #4:  People who help me often don't do it the way that "I" would do it. I just hate for anything connected to me to look half-done and unprofessional.  I'd rather do it myself.

Issue #5:  People are generally incompetent.

Issue #6:  When I ask for help, someone always inadvertently lets me down and I end up doing it myself anyway.

HOW TO WORK WITH PEOPLE . . .

So, how do you get people to jump on the band wagon?

• Let them in on the dream;
• Make the dream so appealing that they just have to join in;
• Let them know they can join in;
• Ask them to join in;
• Don't be such a perfectionist, let others do it the way "they" do it - you don't own the rights to "perfection".

If you take the above attitudes to heart, this will ultimately help you create a "tribe", a group of people that share your dream and see themselves as a part of your dream -- your vision.  You know what makes asking for help much easier?  Cultivating people that want to help you achieve that dream.  Having trusted friends, colleagues, and people that you know are competent and talented . . . makes it so much easier to ask for advice, or favors, or work or whatever!

Now, do you know how to make sure people keep being a part of your tribe and sticking their dreams into the success of your dream?  Well you say THANK YOU of course . . . in other works, you pay people for their assistance.  And there are so many ways to pay people back for the help they give you.  

There are really FIVE (5) great ways of saying "Thank You" that really work:

1.  Money (paying for talent, knowledge and skill is always the best way to get the best help).

2.  Give people of your "tribe" referrals.  Tell other people who will pay or give favor to your "helper" for their talents, skills and experience.

3.  Acknowledgement (public and private).  For some people, that's all they need.  All they want is someone to recognize their efforts.

4.  Gifts and/or Giftcards and other treats

5.  Help them with future favors (an exchange of talent, skills, experience) so they can realize THEIR dreams as well!

So now you know the fundamentals to building your empire.  When you become emperor of your "dreams come true", don't forget about the little guys who helped you build it, my most powerful and influential friend!


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Your Environment and Circumstances . . .

The other day, one of my friends asked me if I really believed some of the things I write about.  In particular that one's environment and circumstances are a reflection of one's thoughts.  He went on and on pointing out all the obvious reasons why I should discount this belief that I espouse.  

He pointed out that I was born on the lower-economic echelon of Great American economic ladder; that I was African-American and a female in a male dominated world; my education was not the best; I know very few people of influence; I was the statistical fatherless child growing up --  the list went on and on.

Yes, I agreed, all those things are true.  And most people would be angry at all the unfair treatment that a little black girl from the poor side of town, who didn't know her father, received on a regular basis all through her life.  But, I had a whole extended family  of 30+ people who loved and supported me.  My primary education wasn't the best, but I pushed myself through college and hold a degree in a field that I love.  Through hard work and money management skills, I'm no longer in the lower levels of the economic ladder.  And I'm part of a wonderful nuclear family that has a dedicated mommy and daddy and three bright kids. I do the work that I love.  And all through my trials and tribulations I have had wonderful friends, family and fans of my work that keep me motivated and smiling on a daily basis.

Yes, the world can be rough and brutal and I've seen some really messed up stuff and people have done some terrible things to me and near me, but I can still hold on to the principal that your mindset determines the condition of your environment and your circumstances.

Shaking his head, he still could not understand how this could be.  How I could think this way . . . so, I told him a story. That made this very clear to him, I think.


 There is an old fairy story about the Sun and Earthly Creatures.

One day, the Sun was listening to some earthly creatures 

talking about a very dark place they had found. A place of 

deep, dark abyss. A Stygian darkness, of gloom and 

forbidding. Each creature told how terrifically horrible and

dark the place had seemed. They went on and on about this 

place they had found, describing it in great detail.

Curious, the Sun went and looked for this place. He went to 

the exact spot they had described. He searched 

EVERYWHERE, but he could not find even a tiny shadowy 

spot.

He came back to tell the earth creatures he couldn't find it, 

and in fact, he did not believe there was any dark place.

For you see, we only see our reflection - the energy we give 

off. Darkness is the absence of light. Evil is merely the 

absence of good.

BE THE SUN my friend.

P.S. I failed to point out to my friend one thing on his list that was very, very wrong. I DO know people of influence and power.  YOU!  Stay powerful and influential my friends!



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How Do You Make Your Dreams Come True?

How do you do it?  Well, I've been telling you how to do it.  But sometimes, you have to hear it from people that you know, love, trust and admire.  So here it goes.  From three men that have made it big in show business.  Listen to them.  They are telling you the truth.

Jim Carrey

"You Might As Well Take A Chance"

Steve Harvey 

"You Have to Jump"

Tyrese 

"If you want it, go get it!" (some profanity)

Now, go out there and be the powerful and influential people that I know you can be!

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When you do the thing you love to do . . .

When you do the thing you love to do, just because you love doing it . . . .

Amazing things happen.

Don't stop yourself from doing you calling.  Do it just for the joy of it.  Do it just because it brings joy to the people around you.  Do it.  And then, see what happens.
You may be utterly surprised!

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Life and Dreams

Living life is all about finding and living your dreams.  This is the purpose of your life.  If you didn't know this, if you'd forgotten this or if no one else has told you this . . . well, now you know.

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Your wisdom

Don't avoid the pain, within the pain is your wisdom. I follow a woman on Facebook who lived a really amazingly painful life.  So many awful things happened to her, some of the worst things that you can imagine.  Homelessness, poverty, child abuse, sexual molestation, death, murder, pain, pain and more pain.  Everything that could go wrong went wrong in her life.  Today, she's an up and coming speaker, author and life coach helping people make the most out of life.  And who better than she to help people become the most and the best that they can be?  Right?  She took her painful experiences and created a great life from it.  

Don't regret what you have been through.  Without those experiences, you wouldn't be YOU. 




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Try something new

I hate trying new things.  It only cascades into doing even more new things to support the first new thing that I just did.  

Before you know it, I'll be doing all kinds of things that are out of my comfort level.  Soon, I'll be surrounded by waters that feel, look and taste very, very foreign.  And then I will get that panicky fearful feeling of "what the heck have I done, how did I get back onto shore?  I'm gonna drown!"

But here is the question we neglect to ask ourselves: "Were you happy with your life the way it was?"  Let's examine this concept further:  Were you happy with your life when things felt familiar and safe?  When you could predict, like clockwork, just what is going to happen next?  Were you happy with the direction of your life?  

No?

Then you've gotten into this mess because you want a new vision for your life.  And that new vision for your life, your situation, your success is clearly no where near the safe, predictable things you have mastered.  If it were, you'd have that success, situation or life by now.

How bad do you want to live the life of your dreams?  How bad do you want to just have some different opportunities in life?  Then do that new thing.  You've explored the old, safe stuff thoroughly.  The things you want are no where near the vicinity of the old stuff, right?

Continue on my friend.  Do a "new" things today, right now. Even if it makes you feel like you're drowning.  If you keep moving, you'll soon master treading in unfamiliar waters.

In the comments below, tell me the NEW thing you are doing today.  I'm really interested!


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Don't Give Up

Things may not be going your way right now or at least they may not be moving along as expected.  Don't give up!  People may be saying negative things about you or about the things you are doing.  Don't give up!  You may have to back track and take a few steps backward just to take steps forward.  Don't give up!  The closest people to you, your husband, your wife, your mother, or father, your children, your best friend . . . may think what you are doing doesn't make sense and put doubts in your head that you will ever succeed.  Don't give up!  Money may be running low, bills running high, equipment breaking down and competition tough . . . DON'T GIVE UP!

All these things are LIFE testing you to see if you really want the reward in front of you.  If you don't really want that reward then it will not come to you.  If you really want it . . . you'll take whatever punishment Life gives you to achieve it.  You've come this far. Don't Give Up!


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Having a bad day? Put this on repeat . . .

Had a day when I was full of doubt.  I put this video on repeat and REALLY listened to it.  It's important to put motivational thoughts in your brain - constantly!  Constantly!  If you are having a bad day, watch or listen to this.


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Life is not a race, and I'm not a rat

I love playing games, you know, board games.  My cousin (from my husband's side) has this really fun game called Rat Race that she and many of my friends like to play. We will sit there and play for hours (one time we played for 8 hours straight!)  

The concept of the game is that you take a little Rat Man Game Piece  and roll some dice and  try to get out of this small circular area of the board called the "Rat Race" or what everyday man calls: LIFE.  The goal is to move from the Rat Race into  your DREAMS which is a larger area of the board in the game. It can take hours for a player to get out of the little bitty circular space that is the Rat Race and move into the bigger expanse of the board.  Once in the bigger expanse of the board, the player makes loads and loads of money easily and the goal changes from gaining enough money to get out of the rat race into falling on the circumstances that allow you to obtain your dream.

I've played the game over and over again, trying to figure out what is the thing that holds me back in the real world of "gaining my dreams".  Why am I still in the rat race . . .

When it came to me.  I'm in the rat race because I'm identifying with the RAT!  And dog gone it, I'm not a rat.  What is stopping me from living my dreams, from having the type of wealth I want, the income I want, the life that I've always wanted?

This little psychological problem:  MY THINKING.

I'm at work.  Working my ass off.  Working hard, running back and forth, fixing problems, juggle impossible tasks, schedules and projects. I'm doing what seems like the impossible and then going home and nearly falling into bed in a near faint.  I'm working hard.  And because I'm working hard, doing things I hate doing, being in a place that I hate being, dealing with difficult people for the measly salary that I get . . . I think:

If I get $(insert yearly salary here) for doing all of this stuff I hate. . . then how much crap will I have to do/take to get $100,000 or $150,000 or $200,000 a year?

And that's the problem.  Our heads are still in the Rat Race!

Here's the facts people.  And I want you to read this real slow.  In fact,  I want you to read this every day until it gets into your thick skulls . . . 

The amount of money you make does not mean your work gets harder, or you deal with more stuff, or you must work with even more difficult people.  The amount of money you make is the worth that you put on what you know. The amount of money you make actually becomes greater as more people know, understand and value the work you do.  That's it.  That's all.  Want to make more money?  Make sure more people know about the work you can do.

An example:
Let's say you are an Accountant by trade.  You can work for an accounting firm or for a company that needs accounting services (every large company needs accountants on staff).  You make an okay, five-figure income.  You work hard, but promotion, raises and bonuses are at the whim of your boss -- and it doesn't look like you'll getting any of those benefits soon.  What do you do if you want to become a six-figure earner?  Well, as an Accountant you probably have experience/knowledge of tax laws.  What can you do with this knowledge?  

OPTION:

1.  You can begin a business on the side, helping small and new business clients complete their taxes.  

[Good idea!  But this limits you to helping a hand-full of people.  There's just so much time in the day and you are only one person -- so only about a half dozen people can be helped using this method. Unless each of those half-a-dozen people are willing to pay you $16,000 a year for services rendered, this method may not be the best way to gain the six-figure salary you want.]

2. You can begin a business  teaching new business owners all about their taxes breaks. 

[This is a much better idea because you can now expand your audience to a class room full of people -- around 30 or 40 individuals.  This has the potential for more money but you have to produce the class over and over again.  Marketing your class over and over and over again to make sure you get a classroom full of people. To gain a six-figure income, you would have to charge $112 each student, conduct the class 30 times in one year and each class would have to enroll a minimum of 30 students.]

3.  You can create a DVD teaching new business owners all about their taxes and breaks.

[Much better.  You can produce your class as stated in #2 above and have it filmed and create a DVD.  Continuously market this DVD and you can gain "passive income".  You produce the class once, and get paid every time someone orders your DVD!  The more people you market to, the more changes you can make money from your product without additional "work" -- are you starting to see what I mean about the more people who know about your work, the more potential money you can make?  If you sold your DVD for $129 you would only need to sell 775 DVDs in one year to become a six-figure earner.)

4.  You can create tele-seminars teaching new business owners all about their taxes and breaks.  

[Tele-seminars are like #2 without limits.  You can have hundreds of people all around the world on one of your tele-seminars.  You can create a tele-seminar in your own time.  You can repeat the play of your tele-seminar if you find it wildly popular, with unlimited viewers.]

Notice that in many of these scenarios, you are not working harder.  You are doing the same things that you do daily.  The difference is you are serving more people and more people are valuing your services.  The goal is to maximize on the number of people that you can serve!

The amount of money you make actually becomes greater as more people know, understand and value the work you do.

So for many of us, our biggest obstacle to advancing our work, or growing our business, or asking for a raise or negotiating a salary, is that we truly think if we get more money, we'll have to do more work and as far as work goes we're already at our limit so . . . WRONG!  Stop thinking that way!

The amount of money you make actually becomes greater as more people know, understand and value the work you do.



The difference between you and a six-figure-income person is:

1.  A six-figure income earner markets their specialized skill or knowledge to large groups of people.  The more people who know what they do, the better.

2.  A six-figure income earner takes on more responsibility or what "looks like" more responsibility.  But in fact, they just take on the responsibility of their life, their career, their livelihood.  No one cares more about your prosperity and your money business than you.  Stop looking to your boss, colleagues or others to prove your value and your worth.

3.  A six-figure income earner already knows what they are worth and are willing to fight/negotiation for it.

4.  A six-figure income earner is willing to walk away from bad deals or create their own opportunities.

If you are not doing any of the four things above and you want to start being a six-figure income earner.  Then start doing those things today. The faster you starting doing these four things, the richer your bank account and your life will be.  Let's start now, after all, I've always wanted to have powerful and influential friends!
Until next time my lovelies.


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You don't need to like me, that's my job

Whenever you let someone else give you value you lose confidence.

                    ~ Ralph Smart (founder of Infinite Waters YouTube Channel)

I could just kick myself.  How many years did it take for me to realize that my job -- my only real job on this planet -- is to "like myself." 

It's not someone else job . . . and wanting someone else to like you so much that it gives you a feeling of value, is selfishly demanding that other people DO YOUR JOB!  You are a lazy bum, asking other people to do your work! And we all know that no one else, can do your job better than you.  Seriously.  

And we get mad at people because they don't do our job better than we do it.  We sit back, truly upset and hurt because people don't see our value, don't give us awards or rewards, don't acknowledge us.  How silly.  Of course they don't value, reward or acknowledge us, it's not their job to do so.  It's our job to do it for our own damned selves!

Yes, I know.  I can hear you with your many questions:

Why is it important that you "like"  or "love" yourself?
When you love yourself you take back your life, you take back your power.  When you like or love yourself, you have room to love and like others.  When you are waiting for the approval of others, you are wasting energy that you could used for better things.  When you like yourself, it's much easier to let go of society's expectations. When you let go of society's expectations, you are free to develop your own expectations --which are much more satisfying expectations, believe me. In essence, liking yourself sets you free. 

Ok, so how do you "like" or "love" yourself?
Accept "who you are" today, with all your faults and problems.  In fact, all those faults and imperfections make you the unique person that you are.  Embrace your uniqueness.  Don't believe me?  Okay. Think of someone you really loved and admired that are no longer in your life for whatever reason . . . you graduated and are no longer in touch, they moved away, they died. Think of the most memorable thing about them.  Now think of the most funny thing about them.  I bet somewhere in those memories, there is something that one might label a "fault".  But in your mind it is the most endearing thing about them, the most unique, the thing that made them . . . them.  

This was expressed really well by Robin Williams in this movie clip from Good Will Hunting:

What are the steps I need to take to like myself?
Easy, find the thing that is the most productive thing you like to do that makes you happy.  
What do you like to do?:  

• Do you like to building things?  
• Do you like football?  
• Do you like to write? 
• Do you like to sing?  
• Do you like to make things beautiful?  
• Do you like taking care of people?  

What makes you your most happiest?  Whatever it may be, make time for it.  My grandmother used to say that we are all creators, that we all inherited the "creator" gene from God and we are the happiest when we are creating. Doing what you like to do most, is "creating", is "joy" is being closest to "who you where meant to be."  Stop comparing yourself to others and work on what makes you like yourself.  That's the first, and really, only step to liking yourself.

Liking yourself is very, very, important.  Because once you like yourself, you can be yourself.  You don't mind your own company.  People are always giving the advice to "be yourself," but if you can't stand yourself, if you don't like the person you are, if you don't like your own company (your inner thoughts, your imperfections, your life, the things you do, etc.) how in the hell can you stand to be with yourself!  

You have to like yourself to be able to tolerate yourself to be able to be yourself!

Weird.  Yet, simple and common sense at the same time.

So, ultimately.  My job is to give value to myself.
To give value to myself, I have to acknowledge and accept all the good that I am, all the bad that I am and all the imperfections that I have.
I have to get to know myself and then get to "liking" myself.
I need to get comfortable with myself and enjoy my own company.
I need to do my job . . . and learn to like myself.

Like this article? Then you will probably like these articles too: 

Dancing in the Rain

2 Simple Steps to Making Yourself Happy

Everyone is Amazing

What People Think of You is None of Your Business! 

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What you focus on grows . . .

Do you want to grow your problems? 

Apparently, I used to love growing my problems. Seriously, I used to look at my financial situation (which was pretty bad) and focus on what I was lacking.  I did this constantly, worrying about when and where the next dollar was going to come from. I would see bills and freak out.  An unexpected expense would put me in a tizzy.  All day long I was trying to figure out, how I was going to pay this or that. I would get really angry because everywhere around me people were driving better cars, whipping out their platinum or red credit cards, shopping for frivolous stuff for crying out loud and I couldn't even pay for essential things, like food, heat, gas!

I would clip coupons, skip lunch, plan what I could sell on e-bay next, try to hunt down a side-job I could do on weekends, because I needed, needed, needed more money and I just didn't have enough.  I never had enough.   I just couldn't make ends meet in my head.  And it didn't help that bill collectors started calling.  Urgh!  Reminding me every day that I just didn't have enough money.

I obsessed over it (this lack of money), not realizing that I was growing my problem.  What you obsess over, you grow.  Repeat that 10 times.

Do you want to know what made me break out of obsessing on my lack of money and made me realize that if I just changed my thinking just a little bit, that things would change?  When I began writing the series "Money is Everywhere: 50 Ways to Make Quick Extra Income".  

I'm still not done writing that series of articles, because guess what . . . when I began concentrating on simple ways to make money -- it began to happen. I began to make more money.  I was able to pay some of my bills.  And I told myself, well I can do more of this and take care of more of problems.  And I realized that truly money was everywhere and all I had to do was access it. Then a crazy thing happened, more money began to come my way.  

My eyes were opened, I began to see all the little ways I could make more money.  Then I took ACTION.  I began making more money and got so wrapped up in making more money that I lost track of the series and now I have to play catch-up because . . . guess what?  I found even more ways to make extra money!

We are all amazing people, and truly we are the children of God.  Whatever our minds focus on, we can make happen.  We can make anything grow, even our negative, doubtful things! As you sow, so shall you reap.

What did I do to change my circumstances?  I refocused my mind and showed myself that money (or the potential to make money) was all around me, plentiful and there to do it's job . . . help me to pay my bills.  The more I focused positively on the abundance  and plentifulness of money around me, the more it comes to me.  This will work on anything that you focus on.  Try it.

Do you want love in your life?  Then love on people.  Go out, get to know people and love them.  Gather love around you.  Tell yourself everyday that love is out there waiting for you, waiting to rain down on you and all you have to do is meet enough people and you will find it -- everywhere.

Do you want a better career, a career that you love and wouldn't mind waking each day to do?  Then tell yourself that your dream job is out there.  Listen to audio and video of people doing their dream job.  And then do the thing you want to do . . . for FREE, whenever you can.  The opportunity will come that will let you do that thing you like doing (your dream job) for a living.

It's all about how and what you focus on. Listen, not just what you focus on but how you focus on it.

So tell me people, what good thing do YOU want in your life?  How are you going to think, concentrate, focus on it from now on? Do you want to grow your good things in life? Share with me please!

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Dancing in the Rain

Those who dance are considered insane by those
who can not hear the music. 

~ George Carlin 

My grandmother would often say: 

If you find yourself having a wonderful time running with the herd - enjoy it now, because soon you'll be falling over the cliff.

She's from Texas, can you tell?

I guess this was her way of saying what all parents say to their kids at one time or another, "Who are they?  Just because "they" jumped off the bridge would you jump too?" In both these cases, with both these saying my grandmother and your parents were right.  Doing what everyone else does will never be the successful path to your dreams.  It's when you venture out of the norm and do the thing that most folks think is "crazy" that you get something . . . if not your dream . .  if not success, then at least a unique experience!

I think this is what I like about old men with amazing stories.  Have you ever sat down and really talked to an older man or woman, say around 80 or 90?  They always have these amazing, crazy but utterly entertaining stories that are sometimes impossible to believe.  And whether you believe the stories or not, the best ones always start out with the main person, "the hero" doing something out of the ordinary, unique, crazy, foolish, incomprehensible.  Yet, at the end of the story, that person has experienced a grand, unforgettable journey.

I think that was the charm of the movie Forrest Gump.  He saw the world differently from everyone else and reacted to things differently, so it put him in situations that allowed him to experience grand adventures and do things that people could only dream about.  Believe it or not, there are Forrest Gumps in this world -- people who take what we would call "normal situations" and build them into grand journeys that helps them grow in unimaginable ways, that teaches them things we rarely get to learn, and allow them to be the most interesting of people.

Don't you want to be an interesting person?  Well, to do become interesting people, we have to change our minds or perspective.  In everything we do, we have to find some love, some creativity, some drive . . . to focus and progress toward our dream.

For example: A dead end job doesn't have to be a dead end,  if you have a dream that you are ready put energy into.  A dead end job could help you find contacts and networking opportunities that will help you fulfill your dream.  Look around you, what can your job do right now to help you get closer to your goals and dreams?  What can the people around you do to help you gain your dreams and goals?  What can you do, right now, that can help you get a tiny bit closer to your dreams and goals.

Do something today that will be the beginning of your grand adventure!

Doing what everyone else does, thinking the way everyone else does will never give you grand and unforgettable stories to tell your friends and family.  The storms . . . the obstacles . . . the challenges will always be there vying for your attention, trying with all its might to take you away from your dreams and goals.  Don't let that storm win! Because, life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

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Slow Progress and Instantaneous Results

I am very hard on myself.  I get these really great ideas and they appear complete and beautiful into my brain.  I sooooo want to be like Samantha of Bewitched and have them come to life right then and there.  And why shouldn't my ideas come to fruition whole and complete, instantaneously?

This attitude that I have for instant gratification is cute . . . but detrimental to me.  Because I can get so frustrated with "process" of making a dream come true that I just tend to quit in the middle of projects or not begin the process of making my dreams come true at all.  

Again, I must learn the hard way that . . .guess what? Slow progress is STILL PROGRESS!

Being hard on yourself, being frustrated with life because it constantly gets in the way of your dreams, wanting instant gratification,  is just plain stupid.  Yeah you heard me, it's stupid.  Slow progress means that you are still going in the direction that you'd like, which is the true goal. 

Stop for a minute.  Listen to what I'm saying, don't just read it quickly.  Listen.  The true goal in life is not getting what you want, not getting what you think will make you happy.  The true goal in life is having the freedom to go in the direction that you'd like, to work toward your goal, to enjoy the journey, the process of obtaining your goal.  It's the journey stupid!

Now, you can go back to reading quickly.

Bigger and faster can be seductive, but here is what you get out of slow progress.

1.  When we go slower we can act in integrity (true to yourself).  Basically, we can do things the way that you want to do it, the way that gives you the most joy and happiness.  In essence, it allows you to achieve your goals and sleep easy at night.

2.  You can actually think while you progress.  You can actually ask questions and actually learn. You can (wait for it) enjoy the journey to success, rather than finding the road to success exhausting.

3.  Progressing slowly will allow you to adapt to unexpected obstacles and find good solutions to those challenges, much more easily.

4.  (So important I will repeat) It's God's way of letting you "enjoy the view" and appreciate and value the journey which is an added gift. How wonderful is it to enjoy all the wonderful things during the journey and enjoy the wonderful gift of having your ultimate goal.

This post is dedicated to all the people like me who get frustrated because life gets in the way and makes our progression move at a snail's pace.  It'll be alright.  Keep going. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

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Be Powerful.  Live in the Moment!

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