We do NOT need permission to be great. Too often we are waiting for that "nod" of approval from others to go after what we want in life. The reality is, you will not get the permission you want or need to go after your greatness. "Great men and women don't give a damn if anyone approves." - Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto Do you think Mark Zuckerberg gave a damn about what anyone thought about his plan to create Facebook? We know he was met with resistance. Not even his good friends wanted in on his huge, society changing idea. You will face all sorts of haters and resistance out there. Those openly doing it because they are jerks and the ones who are "hating in disguise" out of care and love and concern for you. Sometimes you are met with resistance from friends because they are afraid that when you make changes you will leave them behind. Sometimes you are met with resistance because what you are doing is shining a light on a dark part of their life or heart and they don't like what it is revealing about them. Stop waiting for other people approval and start doing the things you know you should and want to be doing. Go be great!
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I have already discussed some of my thoughts on Doubt and how that doubt can kill who we are meant to become, so what can be worse than doubt? According to Brendon Burchard, DELAY is worse than doubt. The reason this is worse than doubt is because at least with doubt, we can still be taking some kind of action to move forward. We can still take some action with doubt which is far better than delaying and not taking action at all. Delay can destroy us. Think about those things that are important but you keep putting them off because they are hard or scary or uncomfortable. The longer we put them off, the less likely we are to do them, or to do them well. What are some of those things that are important to you that you know you need to start? What are you delaying and not starting? There will always be some sort of excuse and timing will NEVER be perfect, so knock it off! Stop putting things off and start working towards those goals and dreams that have been placed inside you. Start taking action even if you have doubt in your mind until you can squash that doubt. Do the things you have put off because of fear. God did not give us fear. He has give us a spirit of power and love and self control. (2 Timothy 1;7). God has given you the gifts, talents and abilities to live in your greatness. Stop delaying and stir that desire inside you that you have been created to do.
****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce You were created for Greatness. You were created to do amazing things and you have been equipped with EVERYTHING you need to cary out your purpose! Too often we don't live in our greatness or the purpose we were created to live because we allow doubt to creep into our minds. We have the ability to choose our thinking and our attitudes and we don't utilize this power nearly enough! This is NOT easy. It takes practice and intentional effort. We must reprogram our brain to eliminate the doubt. We need to stop playing all the "What if" games:
Doubt stops us from living the greatness that we were put here to live. "The greatest damage from doubt isn't just what we fail to do, it's WHO we fail to become." Do you understand?!?! Doubt Kills WHO we are meant to become! Stop allowing doubt from keeping you from becoming WHO you were meant to be in this life.
****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce You heard me right, I totally said "screw motivation." Did you start the year all fired up? Did you have big goals and resolutions you were ready to attack and finally reach? We start with some level of motivation, but the problem is, it will fade. It may be enough to get us started, but it isn't always enough to keep us going. I say "screw motivation" because I see change and get results because I do the work even when I am not feeling motivated. It is your commitment and consistency that will keep you going on the days you are not motivated. It is your commitment and consistency to yourself and to your family that will get you the results you are looking for! Sometimes just starting a task will get you motivated and moving forward, but if it doesn't, DO IT ANYWAY! Grow up, suck it up and DO THE THING! Do the thing you know you are suppose to do. Do the right things. Be an Adult and take care of business! For more on of my thoughts on motivation, check out my blog thoughts on What Comes First, Motivation or Action?, Expectancy, Motivation and Success and Sustaining and Amplifying Motivation,
*************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce MaWho doesn't want to set themselves up for the best chance for success? It is scary when I can guess who is going to have the best chance of succeeding before even starting a task. It saddens me to see people failing before they begin! It is time to change that and set yourself up to succeed with this one thing! DECIDE to! You need to DECIDE that you will succeed. You need to set your mind right before you begin or you will set yourself up for failure. Your mind is too powerful not to use to your advantage. What's worse though is when you allow it to work against you! Make a darn decision, believe you will be successful, go all in, do the work, get results! The time for one foot in the boat and one foot out is long gone...all that will get you is very wet!
****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce What is purpose, and more importantly, what is YOUR purpose? We need to figure that out before we can talk about truly living it out, right? To me, purpose is taking all of the unique gifts and talents you have been given and blessed with and using them in a way that honors and serves God and His people. It took me, what felt like, forever to figure out how my gifts (that seemed super random to me) fit together. Regardless of your purpose, whatever it is, you must take care of YOU and YOUR HEALTH in order to fully live it out. You must be taking care of your physical, mental and spiritual health. If you are out of balance in these areas, you can not fully live out your purpose, regardless of what you think. If you don't maximize your energy, how does that effect your purpose? If you are constantly tired and run down, how is that preventing you from living to the full? It is time to start paying attention to what you are fueling your body with! It is time to start getting in some physical activity on a regular basis! It is time to start making sure you are getting enough sleep! It is time to start resting your mind! It is time to start filling up your soul! If you truly want to live out your purpose, it is time you begin to take your overall health more seriously.
****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce There are many points and times where we will find ourselves motivated, but how do we go about sustaining and amplifying our motivation in order to achieve success? Too many people fail because they allow themselves to get distracted by losing their clear vision of what they want. We must be intentional about our attention to our goals. We must set time aside to give that vision attention so that it is always in the forefront of our mind and will help keep us motivated and better focused when distractions come our way. Next, we must put in some effort take action every day. Without action, it won't matter how much we believe and expect success. Without effort and action it won't matter how clear our vision is. Without effort and action, our goal cannot be achieved. So, the next question is how do we amplify that motivation? We must be acutely aware of our attitude and our environment. We must be very intentional and directive with our thoughts. We must choose a positive attitude, a grateful attitude, and attitude of joy! When we are faced with challenges, we must not look at how hard something may be or what we may lose by doing it, but focus on the positives, the ways we will change, the new things we will be able to do! We must be aware of our environment and create a positive physical and emotional place for us to thrive. If you have a weightloss goal, be sure to set up your kitchen environment so that it will help you succeed. Clear out the junk and bring in more of the good foods your body needs. Prepare your refrigerator and cabinets so the things you want to eat more of are easily accessible. Surround yourself with others who are striving toward the same kinds of goals. Spend time with people who will support you and not try to talk you into "cheating." Surround yourself with the kind of people that will lift you up when you are struggling and will challenge you to always be better. Spend time with those that will lovingly kick you in the butt when you need it, but support you through it at the same time! In order to sustain and amplify your motivation, you need to be sure you are intentional with your attention and effort as well as your attitude and environment.
****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce “Personal development is the conscious choice to improve one’s life to become a better person and to grow as an individual.” Anonymous If you want to achieve more in life, you must become more! In order to become more, you must continually be learning and feeding your mind. Jim Rohn tells us that to be successful "work harder on yourself than you do your job" because "success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become." I have continued to take my personal development and growth seriously making sure I am reading and/or listening to books every day. If this isn't something you have gotten in the habit of doing, I challenge you to make it a goal to read and/or listen to 12 books this year. Shoot for a book a month! There are so many incredible books, blogs and podcasts out there. I have compiled my top 12 list from the many books I read or re-read in 2017 .
My top 3 Reads for those in Multi-Level marketing are:
Drop your comments below! I would love to hear what books I didn't include that you read and would recommend. I am constantly looking for new books to add to my list! ****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce When the new year hit and you thought about wanting something better for yourself, whatever it may be, a motivation was sparked. For you it may be a better job or promotion. To feel and/or look better. To finally pay off debt. Whatever it is, you had a spark of motivation. The bigger, badder and bolder that want, the more motivation you may feel at the onset. The problem is, don’t most people want more from and for themselves? If we don’t fan that spark, motivation can die. People may want to lose weight, yet they aren’t actually motivated to start. This is something I run into ALL the time in my work. Brendan Bouchard hits the nail on the head when he says that the trouble is people lack expectancy. Even though people may want or hope for change, if they don’t expect it, they either won’t start or won’t continue long enough for change to happen. I looked at that darn p90x infomercial over a 100 times over the course of 2 years. I didn’t believe that it could work like they said, and if it did, I didn’t believe I could get results like they said. Even though I knew I needed change and wanted it, I didn’t have the motivation to invest because I didn’t believe I could be successful. I did finally order when I believed in myself and expected to see change. I didn’t expect infomercial change, but I believed in me and the product enough to know that change could happen and that I didn’t need to look like the infomercial to be successful. “Expectancy is the great differentiator between mere hope and motivation.” Brendon Burchard Those athletes that are often called “clutch” players are are those players that always expect to win, to hit the big shot when it matters. They might not do it every time, but every time they believe they will expect to do it. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them - Michael Jordan If you are lacking motivation, start looking at your belief in you. Start to retrain your mind by visualizing yourself being successful. Start to see, feel, touch and taste what that victory will be like for you. What would it mean to you and your family to reach that goal? Stop hoping for things to happen for you. Expect great things and then do the work to achieve them!
****************************************************************************************************************** I would love to work with you on some of the goals you set for yourself this year! I have created a Facebook community for those looking to set and smash goals with their fitness and nutrition. I would love to have you join us at Finding My Fierce In The Motivation Manifesto Brendon Burchard talks about the idea that fear is poor mind management. When I heard him say it, it made me a little mad, mainly because it is so true! I like to think of myself as strong and not weak minded, but when I let fear get the better of me, it's because I choose to allow it to! Our minds are so much more powerful than we ever want to give ourselves credit for. We have the power to choose how we are going to react to struggles and challenges that come our way. We have been conditioned and programed to believe that fear is normal and good. Aside from the real fear of true physical harm, how can fear be good? Is it really a good motivator? Maybe it can be for a short time, but in the end, it's not. Shouldn't we be more motivated by the positive outcomes we can face vs. those things we may lose? Humans are capable of incredible things! We are capable of learning and doing almost anything we want to if we work hard enough over a long enough period of time. We need to stop focusing on what we may lose or focusing on hard something may be and instead start focusing on what we will gain and how much better we will become! The idea of not going after something important because it is going to be hard is absurd when you look at the amazing things that have come from hard work! It is time to start to re-program our minds! It is time to start focusing on benefits vs losses! It is time to keep doing the hard things! It is time to practice those things that challenge and may scare us until they don't anymore. Stop allowing fear to get in the way because of poor mind management. "Are you not more than your tiny worries about inconvenience? Isn't a better life worth some struggle?" Brendon Burchard.
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