How many of you find yourself doing the same thing year after year? You get excited and pumped up to accomplish all these goals, to really turn your life around. You specifically tell yourself that this year will be different. But as the weeks and months go by you find yourself slipping into the same old patterns. This of course leads to frustration as your well intentioned goals fall by the way side. What if you decided this year to take a different approach? How would it feel to refresh the initial goals, creating a surrounding that supports your accomplishment? What do you have to lose? If you keep doing the same things, then of course you will continue to get the same results. You need to spice it up a bit, take a risk and be willing to face your fears and push the comfort zone. Before even thinking about the goals in mind, you need to take some time to prepare yourself to succeed. This time of year is a perfect time to reflect on the past and decide what you want to change for the future. All this takes is your time and energy, a commitment to the process, and a solid support structure.

ACTION STEPS FOR THE WEEK:

1. Declutter your life

Before embarking on goals, you need to make room in your life FOR these goals. In other words, you need to get rid of everything that is draining you, both physically and emotionally. This week create a ‘toleration’ list. Write down everything that you are tolerating in your life. For ex. a cluttered desk, a leaking faucet, a friend that doesn’t return calls, a stack of bills piling up.

2. Simplify your life

Do you feel overcommited? Are you going a million miles per hour as your life is just passing you by? Take a look at all of your current obligations. This week decide which responsibilities are causing more stress than enjoyment. Then choose to delete, delegate or re-invent what you are doing.

3. Look at current goals

Now that you have began the process of cleaning up your life, you can embark on your goals. Which goals are the most pressing? Which ones are you excited about? If the goal does not excite or inspire you, find a different one. Begin a list of goals both short and long term. This will begin the process of taking a step forward.

In order to succeed this time around, you need to stay focused, motivated and supported. What do you need to do in order to accomplish this? One of many options is to work with a Life Coach who will maintain your focus and commitment. Decide if now is the time to invest in your life and ultimately your happiness.

Have a great week!

Leslie Gail is a Certified Life Coach who supports busy people in achieving personal and professional success without compromising their values. Leslie conducts seminars, hosts a tv segment, and her work is regularly published in The Rocky Mountain News. For more information contact Leslie at http://newlifefocus.com/.

For the past several weeks, I have not been sleeping well. I’ve been waking up after 4 or 5 hours, tossing and turning for the rest of the night. I have tried to think peaceful thoughts and hoped that I would go back to sleep quickly, but instead I found myself trying to solve numerous problems in my life.

Finally, I asked a friend for help. This friend has practiced Deliberate Attraction a lot longer than I have. I wondered if she had an insight as to why my sleep has been so broken. And what I might do differently. Here is what she shared with me (my paraphrase):

Waking up during the night gives me a chance to focus on what I am most wanting while my soul has been in a state of ‘non-resistance’ (asleep).

This truth resonated within me. I figured that if I could keep my focus on what I am wanting instead of all the barriers I see in the way, then maybe I would not feel like I had been in a battle all night.

What I am wanting is to have the freedom to live near the ocean. I have lived on the Canadian prairies for over 30 years and I am homesick for the beach and the ocean (I grew up in Southern California). During my wakeful night hours, I was rehearsing all the events that would have to take place before I could have the freedom to make a major move and I was trying to solve all those problems and figure out a way through the barriers.

Now, I made a decision to focus on what I am wanting—to live near the ocean. And to help me maintain my focus in the middle of the night, I decided to take a seashell to bed with me. Every time I wake up, I put my focus and my hand on the seashell and promptly fall asleep again.

After the first good night of sleep, I distributed my seashell collection throughout the whole house. I had lots of fun making little scenes and arrangements. Now, everywhere I turn, all day long and all night long, I have constant physical and visual reminders of what I am wanting.

And now I am sleeping throughout the night!

The way I see it, my work is to keep my focus unhindered. It’s god’s job to deliver what I am wanting in the way and time that is perfect!

Do you have a secret dream, desire or hope?

Contact Rebecca, Toll Free at 866.472.1949 to learn how YOU can live your dream!

Rebecca is leading a training course for Coaches, Therapists, Nurses and other Professionals who are ready to make a paradigm shift within themselves (a change from one way of thinking to another) to better serve their clients or patients.

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As of this writing, the Indianapolis Colts are 13-0. They are 3 wins away from the perfect regular season, on the cusp of besting the regular season mark of 14-0 by the 1972 Miami Dolphins.

Radio shows are buzzing with opinions about whether or not the Colts will reach this accomplishment, and even whether or not they should. Since the Holy Grail in the NFL is a Super Bowl Championship, not a perfect season, there are many who feel a perfect season would put the Colts at a disadvantage going into the playoffs, citing the intense pressure to win 3 more games to finish the season 19-0. Many feel a loss would allow the Colts to “refocus”, and take the “target off their backs”. Others advise Indianapolis Coach Tony Dungy to rest his starting players for the last two games, once they’ve clinched home field advantage for the playoffs. After all, why risk injury?

The pendulum of American culture swings wildly, as evidenced by the 1985 Chicago Bears team who, at 12-0, were singing the “Super Bowl Shuffle”, on their way to a near-perfect 18-1 season, including a dominating victory in Super Bowl XX. Today, the Indianapolis Colts play down their accomplishments, perhaps out of humility, perhaps out of fear.

Are you afraid of perfection? Perhaps the largest obstacle on our quest for success is our own self-doubt. The over-analysis of our approach to our jobs, families, and dreams creates a paralysis that prevents us from fully realizing our potential. Instead of making a commitment to excellence at every turn, people set low expectations so as not to disappoint their bosses, spouses, and themselves. Failure is easier to accept if success is only a tiny step up.

If we expect less of ourselves, it is reasonable that we will achieve less. If we choose to ease up on the throttle of life because we’d rather succeed at failing instead of risking failing to succeed, we not only increase our odds of overall failure, but we cheat ourselves out of potential greatness. To decide that losing is preferable to the risk involved in striving for a remarkable and singular achievement, smacks of a lack of self-confidence.

5 ways to know you’re expecting too little of yourself:

1. Setting a goal you have already achieved.

2. Setting a goal you would achieve normally through the course of your day.

3. Setting a goal you aren’t worried about not achieving.

4. Setting a goal that doesn’t result in growth, productivity, or profitability.

5. You stop setting goals entirely, not wanting to set yourself up for failure.

Goal-setting is only as effective as those who strive for them. Failure to make appropriate goals that align with your passions, dreams, and genuine needs will send you into a self-sabotaging spiral.

Take the time to examine your current goals. Once you are confident in where you are headed, don’t be afraid to announce to the world your intentions of success. When we raise others expectations, we raise our own. Finally, don’t be afraid of striving for perfection. Perfection just missed is recognized as excellence.

Rich Hopkins is a speaker, coach, and consultant who aligns his clients with their own potential. He has 20 years of business background in marketing, sales, and customer service. He consults with individuals, student groups, non-profit organizations, and corporations. http://www.richhopkins.net.

The Focus Wheel was first described by Abraham-Hicks as a tool to help us clarify and fix our focus on what we truly desire. If you have been practicing "deliberate attraction" for a while, then you know from experience that:

The more clear you become about what you want or desire, the quicker and more easily the Universe brings it to you.

First I will describe the physical part of the Focus Wheel:

On a blank sheet of paper, draw a circle that almost touches three edges of the paper. In the center of the circle, draw another circle about 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter. From that smaller circle divide the larger circle into 8 equal ’slices’. [Click here for a premade Focus Wheel. To view a Focus Wheel that I created when I moved to Victoria, click here.]

Now, in the center circle, write a sentence which contains truth about what you are focusing your desire upon. My recent desire was to sell my house, and I wrote this statement: "The Universe is helping me sell this house."

Then in each of the eight ’slices’ around the circle, write something that you believe is true or could be true in relationship to the statement you wrote in the center.

For example:

In the first slice, I wrote, "This house is beautiful! It is wonderfully located. It is well-cared for."

In another slice, I wrote: "The buyer of this house appreciates all the improvements I’ve made."

And in another: "The buyer of this house has sufficient funds and credit to purchase right away. All the money circulates easily."

Once you have written out eight positive things that you believe about your desired outcome. Then, read each of the statements alternating with your central desire, like this:

"This house is beautiful! It is wonderfully located. It is well-cared for." "The Universe is helping me sell this house."

"The buyer of this house appreciates all the improvements I’ve made." "The Universe is helping me sell this house."

"The buyer of this house has sufficient funds and credit to purchase right away. All the money circulates easily." "The Universe is helping me sell this house."

Keep your Focus Wheel handy and refer to it often until your desire has been fulfilled.

Well, my house sold this week. And when I looked back over the eight "slices" of my Focus Wheel, I was thoroughly delighted to discover that EVERYTHING I had written about was fulfilled in the sale of my house. EVERYTHING! This is a very powerful tool, so create your Focus Wheel with care (and a little caution).

Do you have a secret dream, desire or hope? Contact Rebecca to learn how YOU can live your dream!

Rebecca is leading a training course for Coaches, Therapists, Nurses and other Professionals who are ready to make a paradigm shift within themselves (a change from one way of thinking to another) to better serve their clients or patients.

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Begin to live more powerfully & more significantly – the journey begins today!

Purpose is what you’re created for. Mission is what you’re meant to do about it. Visions are the evidence. Goals are the means of achievement.

So far we’ve discovered that we all have a purpose and by the same token, we all have a mission as well. To this point we have only had to be willing to discover them. Patience and willingness have been the keys.

Then we learned that we are all visionaries and we not only have the permission but the charge to exercise our imagination in creating visions. Now we come to the crossroads that separates the dreamers from the true visionaries.

The dreamers will remain in the porch swing piling dream upon dream and waiting for someone to recognize them. The visionary will begin to experience a pressing need to see the dream realized and will rise up and begin to formulate the design. If you see a more vibrant, brilliant life inside you, you’re a visionary. If you hunger to see it come to pass, you are ready for the process of on-target goals.

Each of the visionaries in our last article is remembered not so much for the dreams they dreamed, but for the manner in which they brought them into reality. We observed that we ought not be threatened by the greatness of the likes of Edison, Bell, Gandhi, and Pasteur, for to do so is to deny the greatness in each of us.

These greats had what we would consider wild imaginations. But they had something else - the tools to insure that each dream manifested in a better reality. And most importantly, they had confidence in their dreams. It is said that Thomas Edison performed some one thousand experiments before his incandescent bulb glowed. But he continued with the process, knowing that he was not defeated until he quit.

Victory does not necessarily belong to the best. It belongs to the most persistent.

Vision is the ability to see what others are not (yet) able to see; to create within oneself something new and better, bigger and brighter. But that vision must be translated into a concrete, measurable reality. When you begin that process, the designing of goals, you have become the architect of your vision.

Goal design is indeed the work of an architect. It is bringing those visions which are outside and beyond and above the norm into the realm of reality, utilizing the tools of the real world, and changing the real world in the process.

If the vision is properly fleshed out and ready for delivery, if you are committed to its delivery, you will be prepared for the work before you. And make no mistake, the real work begins now.

But this process does not take place in a porch swing. This requires dedication, energy, and sometimes the willingness to forego creature comforts. You will need to pull out the calculators, Gantt charts, the projections, the plans, your contacts and resources. There must be a willingness to “go for broke,” to lay it all on the line for the manifestation of the dream.

If you’re ready to dedicate yourself to the realization of your dreams, the good news is that there is a reproducible process. There is a formula, and while it will not do the work for you, it will guide you.

Each vision will have multiple goals, which must be carefully laid down, much as stepping stones leading to a pre-determined destination. Begin by listing the goals you believe will draw the vision closer to reality.

With each goal you have identified, follow the process below. As you work through the design process, you will determine that some goals are not necessary after all and will be discarded. Others will move to the forefront. Stay with the process. An accountability partner is invaluable at this stage of the process.

Step 1 - TARGET the project

Step 2 - EXAMINE the need

Step 3 - DEFINE Success and Failure

Step 4 - EXPLORE the Options

Step 5 - IDENTIFY the Requirements, the Obstacles, & the Available Resources

Step 6 - DEVELOP Strategies

Step 7 - IMPLEMENT the Final Program

There’s nothing left but the doing. Your plan is formulated, and you need only put the wheels in motion and watch this goal take shape.

Follow the same process with each of the goals you have identified for your vision under construction.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is the determination to bring the vision to pass. A dreamer is no less creative, but is often ill equipped or under-inspired to transform the vision into reality.

A true dreamer dreams to avoid reality. A true visionary dreams to change it.

Begin your exciting journey today – create large and detailed dream canvases and then dedicate yourself to the process of bringing them to pass.

You have something to offer the world that only you can offer. The world is waiting!

Copyright 2005 So-lu’shunz Management Services

Karin is a certified Life Coach, consultant, speaker and trainer specializing in the EffectivenessCoaching process. She has helped many to live more powerfully and more significantly by guiding them through implementing these principles. Click to learn how you too can be the architect of your visions and increase your effectiveness by learning to do less and be more at http://www.Solushunz.com

Have you ever wondered: "How does this ‘Law of Attraction’ really work? Can I really attract only what I want?"

You Can! It requires you to make many conscious choices. Most of the time it seems much easier to notice what we don’t like or want and to focus by complaining about that. The ***trick*** is to become clear about what DO you want and to keep your attention on THAT!

I’ll share a personal story that will demonstrate how the Law of Attraction works in every day life:

I am going to move to the west coast soon. Having lived on the Canadian prairies for more than 30 years, the prospect of returning to a warmer climate is bringing me much joy!

I am keeping my attention on where I want to live. In fact, I just visited the city I have my attention on, did a whirlwind tour with a realtor and found the ideal area I want to live in.

In the old days, I would be focused on (obsessed with) my current situation and what I need to do to change the "reality" of where I am right now. But according to the Law of Attraction, placing my attention on what I do NOT want would bring more of THAT into my life.

It is so much more fun to think about where I am wanting to live. I took a walk along the ocean and discovered some special stones which I brought back to Saskatchewan. These stones are now arranged in a small bowl next to my computer monitor where I can see them all day long. They provide a good focal point for keeping my attention upon where I want to be.

I have placed sea shells and starfish throughout my house as reminders of the ocean–where I am wanting to live. There are sea shells in the bathroom, along the bath tub and next to the sink. In the kitchen, I arranged sea shells in a dish and placed them on a counter top where I can’t miss seeing them. I’ve placed sea shells and a starfish IN my bed, so that if I awaken during the night, I can reach for them and remind myself of where I am wanting to be.

More and more I am daydreaming about my new location. While I was physically there, I made many mental pictures–pictures of myself shopping or having coffee at a sidewalk cafe or entertaining friends in my new condo–pictures of everyday life as I want to be living it.

At first, when I told people about my upcoming move, I felt uncertain and tentative about my decision. That’s normal. We are only comfortable with what we know already…anything new or unexperienced will feel strange–until the "new and unexperienced" becomes so normal and real in our minds that the Universe just HAS to give it to us.

In fact, that is all the Universe is waiting for–for you to spend so much time living the life you want in your mind that the ONLY thing left is to give you the life you are wanting!

In closing, bring to mind something that you are desiring…close your eyes and picture yourself actually enjoying what you are wanting. Engage all your senses–pretend to smell it or taste it. What would it physically feel like? That’s the first step in deliberately attracting what you REALLY want!

Do you have a secret dream, desire or hope? Contact Rebecca, Toll Free at 866.472.1949 to learn how YOU can live your dream!

Rebecca is leading a training course for Coaches, Therapists, Nurses and other Professionals who are ready to make a paradigm shift within themselves (a change from one way of thinking to another) to better serve their clients or patients.

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You prepare to arrive at a chosen future when you set a goal.

When you don’t set one, the future is an accident of circumstances. Usually, you arrive at a place you don’t want to be in.

In the first instance, you are like a traveler who chooses a destination, then maps out a plan, then finds ways to arrive at his chosen location.

In the second instance, you are like a traveler who merely wanders around hoping to find a good place. Your chances of getting what you want are slim. Happy accidents are rare.

When human kind lived primarily with the mammalian lobe as predominant, all life was an accident. But with the evolution of the neocortex, we were able to create mental maps to create better experiences.

Those people who live in reaction to circumstances have bypassed the advantages of their neocortex. They experience the crude outcomes of using only their mammalian brain.

Unfortunately, most of the people who are victims of circumstances, fail to take responsibility for their plight.

Besides foreseeing the future, goals also keep us motivated. They make the present more alive because we are living a life on purpose. Anyone can live an accidental life, but the more progressive create their futures before they arrive there.

When we fail to arrive at our goals, it is because we plunged too far ahead into the future. It is better to set smaller goals, and then use the experience of reaching them to travel farther. Our plans need to be revised through the lived experience. This way we incrementally progress to a great future.

If possible, share your goals with people who are open to supporting you. When you do this, you will find encouragement as obstacles arise. Your friends may offer possible solutions or necessary resources—or help you keep your intention strong.

For some reason, many goal experts, like Brian Tracy, for example, have found that there is a certain magic to writing down your goals. This magic is further enhanced when you make a daily effort to read them out aloud.

I have also found it helpful to keep a log. As you set out on your journey to create a benevolent future, you can’t see far enough ahead to know exactly what to do. Rather, you gather better information as you review the steps you’ve taken. Instead of looking at the information you record as instances of winning or losing, consider the systems approach. See the information as positive feedback or negative feedback. If it is positive feedback, reinforce that strategy. If it is negative feedback, see where you missed the mark and learn from it. This idea has also been called “failing your way to success.”

Finally, I’ll close with some words of advice from Joe Vitale, who routinely sets and achieves remarkable goals. His definition of a worthy goal is one that excites you a lot and scares you a little.

If it’s worth thinking up, and if it feels good, it’s definitely worth doing.

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Saleem Rana is a psychotherapist in Denver, Colorado. If you want to learn more on how to easily achieve your seemingly unreachable goal and experience the true happiness you’ve always longed for, no matter how disoriented you may be today, go to http://theempoweredsoul.com/SelfImprovementBooks/goal.html

Copyright 2004 Saleem Rana. Please feel free to pass this article on to your friends, or use it in your ezine or newsletter. It’s a shareware article.

Easy Steps for Goal Setting

Goal setting is the true secret to success in any area of life. Setting your goals may seem simple, achieving them usually is another question altogether. Why is that?

Because you will never achieve your goals unless you:

(1) know exactly what you want,

(2) are passionate about your goal, and

(3) have a solid, realistic plan of action.

This is what marks the difference between nebulous dreams and wishes - and truly achievable goals!

Here are 5 time-tested methods that will help get the success you deserve.

1. Know exactly what your goal is

Your first job is to discover exactly what your goal is. What will achieving that goal really look like? Be as specific as possible about exactly what your desired end result is. Your success will be a measure of your clarity - since an achievable goal plan cannot be created around a nebulous "dream."

If your goal is to create a more successful business, what will that look like? Are you thinking in terms of simply hiring someone else to give you more free time? Are you looking for a very specific monthly profit? Or can your goal be best expressed in terms of a certain lifestyle? Regardless of what you want, the best way to get it is to first clarify exactly what you want in as much detail as possible. This can be hard work. But without a clear mental picture, you’ll never have the focus required to achieve your goal.

2. Be willing to pay the "entry fee"

Success takes dedicated planning and effort. In a way it’s like building a house. In the beginning all you have is a rough concept. But there’s always an *entry fee* to be paid for success.

The entry fee?

Creating more success in your business may mean less recreational time. Writing your own book may require less TV. Being closer to your children may require adjusting your work or social activities.

3. Focus on your goal every day

Consistent daily focus is absolutely necessary to "burn in" the new neural pathways you need to create your new goal. Without daily focus, the old mental habits that have kept you from your goal will continue to take over.

That’s why success is an every-day event. Re-commit to your goal every day. Don’t let your goal take a back seat to the daily tasks and distractions that will try to take over. Life WILL try to get in your way. Just get, and stay, on course every day. Focus on your goal, and on success!

4. Get passionate

One of the most powerful tools in your "success tool box" is having real passion for your goal. Why passion?

Because intense passionate desire for your goal will help you burn in those new neural pathways even faster. Many, many scientific studies have shown that intense emotion (passion) is a key success tool.

5. Take consistent action

In many ways, actually taking action can be the most difficult step. Successful goal achievement is built by taking one small action after another.

The word is ACTION!

If you commit to take at least one small action each day, your actions WILL add up and make a difference. So avoid sitting back waiting for that big second when everything will magically "just happen."

You CAN create whatever you want in life. The secret is to determine exactly what you want, then pursue it passionately. But remember — in the end, only action counts! You can’t just dream about it! You have to DO IT!

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There are many things that I would like to do. In fact I have made a list of 100 things I would like to do before I die. I have been checking quite a few things off the list in the last couple of months, including a fire walk and a hot air balloon ride. One of the things I am learning is that there are things that doing once is plenty.

When I made my list of 100 things I wanted to do before I die eight years ago, I put hot air ballooning at the top of the list. It was something my father always talked about doing and I thought it would be fun. Although I have a huge fear of heights, I still wanted to attempt the feat. While attending the Albuquerque, New Mexico Balloon Fiesta my dream came true and I was fortunate enough to take a ride with one of the top woman balloon pilots in the world, Cheri White. The balloon ride was amazing, exciting and I would never do it again. I was terrified when I was up in the balloon, but I managed. Being up in the balloon was nothing compared to landing in it. We had a crash landing in the weeds and burrs, and the basket was drug for a distance before we finally stopped. I wasn’t hurt, but I was convinced I would never do it again.

It is funny that when I tell people that I would never do it again, most look confused and wonder why. The truth is I wanted to do it just because. I don’t have a passion for hot air balloons or being off the ground for extended amounts of time for that matter. I just wanted to try it. And for me that is fine. There are things you only have to do once to know if you want or need to do again. For me the balloon ride was worth trying once, and now I can move on to the other things on my list.

I believe that it is important to try things at least once. Recently I heard someone tell his friend, "I have never done it but I know I wouldn’t like it." You don’t know until you try. I would have always wondered what it was like to take a balloon ride. Now I know and I don’t have to do it again. It doesn’t mean that I am not glad I did it. I am happy I tried it. But there are plenty of other things I want to do, so I will just continue to move down the list.

Coach Rachelle Disbennett-Lee, PhD, is a Certified Master Coach specializing in working with business owners and professionals in being more profitable and productive while staying sane and balanced. Coach Lee is the publisher of the award winning e-zine, 365 Days of Coaching. Her first book, 365 Days of Coaching – Because Life Happens Every Day (Universal Publisher, 2004) was named a finalist for Best Book 2004 by Publish.com and has a five star rating on Amazon.com.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. - H. L. Hunt

I am not aware of anyone who has decided on going to the gym just for the sake of exercising. Behind that decision are powerful motives—having a great body, becoming fit so that you’ll live longer, to become more attractive, or to increase your self esteem in regards to your body. Similarly, there are very few people, if any, who are living a disciplined life just for the sake of maintaining a discipline. The reason the person maintains the discipline in their life is because of the promise that the discipline holds. It is their belief that their discipline holds the key to the successful achievement of their goals. The pull of their goals demand them to maintain those disciplines. The promise of what that discipline will bring into your life, if followed, is extremely powerful for the person who is hungry for success!

A person begins to go to the gym, not just for working out and getting hurt, but in order to first become and then remain fit. There is an invaluable lesson contained in the previous sentence in regards to the disciplines in the gym and for success in life. There is no use in just becoming fit and then losing out on the discipline. The promise has to contain the sustaining of the achievement as well. There is no use becoming a millionaire for just a day and then getting broke again. Therefore understand that you don’t strive for a goal just to achieve it, but also to sustain that achievement as long as you can. Discipline is the key for sustaining your success, but it is your promise that will make you stick to your disciplines.

The person who goes to the gym sees the promise of their future life in going to the gym. The beginner sees that if he/she continues to go to the gym regularly, they will achieve the fitness levels that have previously been possible only in their imagination. In the same way, the person who wants to be successful in life starts taking on the disciplines that will change their life because of the power of their promise. When you see where you are headed, you have already begun the journey. Now act on it.

In order to craft a new life for yourself, you will have to first create a compelling promise that will urge you to action; a promise that won’t let you off the hook. If you don’t have this promise, then you will stop at the first obstacle. However if you have this promise you will be ready to pay the price. Are you at the stage where you are ready to pay the price? Can you see your promise? These are important questions to ask and to answer. If you haven’t done so, I urge you to do it now. The promise holds the key to the art of the start! If you are serious about creating a new life for yourself, don’t be lazy in clearly defining your promise. Make it so strong and powerful that you will go to bed late and wake up early to work on it just to see it materialize. It is possible! Millions of people have already done it. Are you game? Then create your promise and get ready to pay that price.

If you are having trouble creating your promise, then you should answer the following questions and do the action steps required in the following section. Take some time out for yourself and your achievement because no one else will!

1. If you could achieve anything, what would it be?

2. Why do you want this goal?

3. What will it make of you to achieve it?

4. What will you have to do in order to make this goal real? What action steps will you take right now to start making it real?

5. Write a detailed plan for the one thing you would do today that will take you towards that goal. (Do this step everyday.)

If you don’t have the promise, you won’t have the power to persevere! - Sukhbir S.

Sukhbir Singh is the creator of LifeApps! Personal Development Institute which is currently running a course called The 9 Doorways to Lasting Change on the LifeApps group at Yahoogroups. He is also the manager of an export business operating out of Bangkok, Thailand. His interest in success came from the study of many personal development books and audio programs that he got exposed to when he was in Sydney for his Masters degree in Business Information Systems.

LifeApps! is currently designing their website and should become active by the end of this year. The purpose will be to offer e-courses that will be developed into public seminars and audio programs. He has recently written a short motivational E-booklet of 20 pages called Success Lessons from the Gym. You can receive the current draft of this E-book by emailing him at suk_b@yahoo.com with the subject heading: SL Request.