Game of the Day

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Goal Striving Paradox

What an interesting Paradox goal setting can create.

Sort of like in golf where you could have a goal of not hitting your ball in the water. Or your goal could be landing your ball squarely in the middle of the fairway with a great position. Which goal is more inspiring? What are the likely outcomes of each goal?

Think about it.

via Success Coach - Business Coach - Life Success by Justin Popovic on 10/14/11

How many times have you set a goal and failed to reach it?

Personally, I have lost count.

Sometimes it was because my goals were too aggressive. Other times I lost interest in the goal. And then another portion of the time, I was pretty much sabotaging my achievement of the goal.

The following video explains why.

Please leave me your comments and let me know what you think :)

Repost: How to Live Before You Die - Steve Jobs

Found this quite by accident. A commencement address by Steve Jobs, someone who participated in changing the world, making "a computer for the rest of us". That certainly gave us a life today that may never have happened in quite the way it did. There is a "little world changer" in all of us. Do yourself a favor today. Take 15 minutes and listen and let this speak to you. Leave your comments below on what you heard.
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Here is the video link to match.... http://8pecks.com/275/how-to-live-before-you-die-steve-jobs/

It's Find The Spark Monday

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
 Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

~Albert Schwietzer

Reading this quote makes me think of an Anthony Robbins book titled "Awaken The Giant Within".   That giant is in there, in each and every one of us.  We mostly think about how to awaken our own giant, but what if the secret was to awaken this in others?  What if that were the key to our own aliveness?

Why not add this to your  to do list today?  Check yourself to see if you are providing a spark for others or are you being candle snuffer.    Take time, be present to the people you encounter today, contribute to them.  

Not sure how? Try this - sincerely ask them about themselves and the things that they find important.  Then just listen.   At the end of the day take stock of the impact you've had and see what has happened to your own giant.   Rinse and Repeat!!

Have a great day.

What are you thinking? Thursday

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Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behavior will flow automatically. Believe it and you will see it.

~Wayne Dyer

Reminds me of James Allen's 1903 book, As a Man Thinketh.   Allen's book is credited by many as being the foundation for much of today's personal development thinking and work.  

I've heard it said that you "are what you eat"   Should it be YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK!   -- 

For a free eBook of James Allens classic:  http://www.AsAManThinketh.net

Reach out to me if you'd like an audio version of his book.

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Is that a FACT?

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For me this is so on mark today:

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

~Maxwell Maltz

When the Wright Brothers set out to build a flying contraption, many respected people thought the idea foolish.  Everybody knew that a machine heavier than air could not fly.  When Marconi tried to transmit a radio signal across the Atlantic, the experts ridiculed the idea of sending radio waves around the curved surface of the earth.  When Galileo proposed that the earth rotated around the sun, and not vice versa, he was shamefully disbelieved.  Yet each of these people changed the world by overcoming traditional thinking, and found ways to prove possible what was once thought not. 

Neither the Wright Brothers, nor Marconi, nor Galileo, accepted the world for what it seemed; they strove to see past the illusion of the obvious. 

Before it was discovered that the earth was round, it was considered fact that the world was indeed flat.  This instance alone, exemplifies that what we consider a truism today could be categorically disproved tomorrow.

Could this be true for you?  Something you consider fact might not be a fact at all.

It is so amazing that we can't always see our own beliefs, the ones holding us back; limiting us.  Things we chose to believe long ago, the rules WE made up that put limits on our lives.  The rules that keep us from our potential, the constraints that keep us playing smaller in life than we really are.  The ones it seems we keep bumping into.  

Where are you feeling held back?   What limits you are imposing on yourself?    There isn't anything wrong with this, there is nothing wrong with you!  We are all like this.   Keep in mind I'm not saying that you must keep your limits - you just may need some help is seeing them and getting past them.

 

Some other day we'll talk about the box we live inside of.

Appreciate your thoughts - I invite you to comment on my blog or my Facebook Fan Page.. 

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