Who Knows Your Purpose More Than You?

This may be a little painful but here is a topic that needs to be addressed. Do not listen to others that tell you what you can and can't desire, dream, and accomplish. Don't listen to the ones that aren't achieving in their own lives. Listen to the ones that ARE. If they are in your life, then spend more time with them. If you don't have people in your life that can mentor, you get some digital products that will encourage, guide and help you. Every mentor I know spends money on their self development with digital products, books, coaching, and seminars. Where else will you find the concepts? This is an education and the cost of education is small compared to the changes you will see when you take action on the training.

Don't worry about what others will think. They will think whatever they think no matter what you do. Don't let it affect your actions towards your goals and dreams. Your life purpose is to find your purpose and then live it. That is a joyful life. It's not your purpose to live for the approval of others or to create a life that is someone else's picture of what they think your life should be. The people in your life have a major effect on your life, don't they? Are they supporting what you are doing in your life or not? Are your relationships draining or life-giving? Through my life I have been in situations where I thought the right thing was doing what someone else wanted me to be doing with my life. It didn't last long because it began to feel uncomfortable. That little voice inside will talk louder and louder until you listen to it - it is your source.

I always ask - what would be the worst thing that could happen if I gave up my dreams and goals? This is not my main motivator but it sure helps to keep me moving forward at times. The answer...I sure wouldn't feel good about it.

Know that things in life and also the thoughts you have will come up that can have the power to knock you off your path. You must have a clear purpose - your reason and a clear vision of what you want your life to look like. This will help you get through those times when you begin to waiver. View things that don't work out as a learning opportunity that teaches you how not to do something. These are blessings because they actually are bringing you closer to your goal.

Look at things in a new and different way. Try viewing the world like a child. Be curious. Don't hold so tight. Look at the world with someone else's eyes. Use all your senses to perceive the world around you.

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How to Stay Motivated

You've just come from an amazing, life altering weekend seminar. You've met a ton of new contacts, and you've gained new incredible insights, killer techniques, and dynamic tools to enhance your business practices, improve your lifestyle, skyrocket your finances, master your health, or successfully find the love of your life.

The problem is that while you've been enjoying this life-altering event, you've put your own life on hold so you could absorb all of this incredible information. Now you're wondering how to stay motivated and put all this amazing information to good use?

This is the very same tar-like pit that over eighty percent of people who attend any event fall into; life comes flooding back at you, while you frantically rush to get everything back on track and running smoothly again.

Instantly you're slammed into a fray of tasks, errands, projects, calls, and emails just to get back to how things were before you took the time for this awe-inspiring seminar (book, CD, or program).

Sadly, for the majority of people, this means that the amazing training you just learned needs to be put on hold so you can play "Life" catch-up, and you promise to get to it again soon. No matter how important and vital the seminar is for your growth, it has to wait. So you put it on the shelf promising to get back to it soon.

A year later you see those same program materials glaring at you from the corner of your desk or bookshelf, and every day you promise to give it a few minutes.

Wait a minute! Those materials are the key to changing your life for the better forever, and you're going to "try" to get to it for a "brief" amount of time? What's going on here?

If any of this resonates with you, you're not alone. Over eighty percent of those who attend a truly great seminar experience this exact same problem. Why? Because none of these seminars teach one vital technique to give you that important leverage, how to avoid "Overwhelm".

The first question you might ask is; "How can I get back to real life while also incorporating the great training I've just learned, and are there other people who can successfully integrate both into their busy lives?"

The answer is you can, and yes, others do successfully put them to use. If eighty percent struggle with keeping the focus on this new training and their lives, that leaves twenty percent who can absorb the learning and apply it successfully to their lives.

In fact, the top 1% are masters at this. So it only stands to reason that there's a way for you too to become a master. You might think the key is to become great at multitasking. If so, you'd be wrong. In fact, multitasking is responsible for getting people even more behind and buried deeper in overwhelm.

The key is surprisingly simple. How to stay motivated incorporates two easy to master techniques. Focusing on one task at a time, while seeing it through to completion, and using the power of others to support, drive, and motivate you to completion. Learning how to do this is surprisingly simple. In fact, this is something you could learn to master tomorrow.

For more information keep checking in at http://www.finish-what-you-start.com/ and get your hands on a copy of the book Finish What You Start at Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, or Amazon, today.

Craig Copeland
Author of "Finish What You Start"
Teaching people how to successfully reach their goals and dreams
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Who's Going To Do It For Me?

Who's Going To Do It For Me?

During my time at school, my below average performance in class meant that I received a constant stream of messages and reminders from my teachers telling me that I wouldn't amount to very much in my life.

No amount of lecturing, shouting or other tactics employed by my teachers or parents had any real effect or success in improving my term grades or exam results.

It was only when I was in my late twenties that I developed my own method of self motivation that really worked. My method allowed me to quickly and powerfully focus my attention on my goals and the task at hand like nothing else before had done.

After serving for twelve years in the Air Force, the time came for me to leave and start a new career. My transition to civilian life would involve a long period of very intense training and study to obtain the qualifications that I required to become an aircraft engineer.

I had no idea how I would achieve my goal, and I knew of nobody else who had even attempted what I was intending to do. The magic was I knew what I really wanted above all else, and with this in mind nothing else really mattered.

The constant reminder of having so many things to do, no master plan to work from and an enormous amount of technical information to learn and understand were about to make me give up on my big goal before I'd even made a proper start!!

It was at this point very early on in my studies that I asked myself two important questions. They were "what do I want to do?" and "who's going to do it for me?"

These simple but very powerful questions cut right through all of the clutter and fog of doubt and worry that was holding me back. They forced from me the only right answer that I could give, and that was "nobody"

That's right, nobody was going to complete endless months of study and pass my exams for me if unless I did these things for myself.

Each time that I felt boxed in and with no clear direction to take when dealing with an obstacle or challenge towards my goal, I'd stop whatever I was doing and get into a quiet calm state for about ten minutes and then ask myself the two questions.

The first one allowed me to visualise clearly what results I wanted and to see myself with the benefits I'd have in achieving them. The second question always gave me the same answer, which in turn, gave me the motivation and energy I needed to find a solution. I just had to keep my goal clearly fixed in my mind.

By adopting a "do it myself" mindset, motivation, determination, persistence and confidence quickly developed in me as a result of the experience I gained through the processes which I applied in finding my own solutions.

If you can't seem to see a clear way through a challenge that's facing you, why not give my method a try. Just take a few minutes to step back, relax a little and have a look at the big picture, then ask yourself "what do I want to do?" and "who's going to do it for me?"

Tony Dwyer

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