Success...One Day At A Time

Your Time Is Now...

Having spent most of the last week in pain - it reminded me that it's easy to take things for granted.

I cannot tell you how great it felt the other night being able to just go to bed and be able to lie down and go to sleep with having to sit up, in pain, until I was tired enough to drop off to sleep.

Yet - by the time the next night came around - it was just a case of getting into bed as usual - 'so what'?

It's easy to forget what YOU have got going for you if YOU really think about it.

Many of the worries you may have are probably based either on what has happened in the past - or around what you THINK might happen in the future!

All of which shouldn't really matter when RIGHT NOW is concerned!

Often it takes the loss of something to make you realize how valuable and special it was to you in the first place.

YOU have talents and skills that you take for granted - which other people would gladly wish they had.

Don't wait until circumstances make it difficult (or seemingly impossible) to make the most of them.

YOUR time is NOW - never, ever, forget that!

Are You One Of Us - Or One Of Them?

Spending three days in the constant presence of ill people certainly can affect you - if you let it!

All of the patients I have ever met in hospitals fall into two categories:

- Those who are ill who talk about getting better.

- Those who are ill who want to tell everyone how ill they are.

Unfortunately - most of the people you meet in hospital tend to love to tell you in the greatest detail why they are particularly worse off than most people.

In the bed next to Lesley there was a lady who, even though she wasn't particularly worse off than other patients, felt the need to tell Lesley in graphic detail why she genuinely believed that she the sickest and unluckiest person in the world.

She seemed to absolutely revel in it!

The sad thing is that these two types of people are mirrored in normal life :

- Those people who constantly talk about failure, and how badly life treats them.

Which one are YOU?

Your Guru Isn't Helping Your Motivation!

Aren't us humans wonderful things?

What motivates me might stress you out.

How I juggle lots of things at once might put you into a tailspin because you only want to focus on one thing at a time.

How that my preferred method of learning by reading makes your eyes glaze over as you prefer to learn by listening.

I've seen it a few times this week.

I'm all inspired because I'm doing my thing my way - yet the other person can't believe that I could even be thinking about doing things that way!

That's why (and, yes - I have said it many times before), 'one size' NEVER fits all when leading a happy and successful life is concerned!

Just because someone tells you what works for them - doesn't necessarily work for you.

Thinking about it - that's probably how I ended up writing about this stuff for a living.

I spent so many years trying to fit my life around what I was told I SHOULD be doing that nothing seemed to work at all.

Sound familiar?

Ever had the feeling that, even though you are trying your hardest NOT to be YOU - you still feel that it's not going according to plan?

That's what sometimes bothers me about a lot of the successful people I see on the Internet.

I've seen many Internet marketers try to turn themselves into self-improvement experts recently.

And, they believe that because they got successful selling information using their talents - they know that there is an opportunity to earn something from people like YOU who might be interested in how they motivated themselves to do it.

Now - I'm not getting on my high horse here - some of what they teach CAN be helpful, but it is doing no favors whatsoever to most of the people who look up to the guru as an expert.

But WE know, don't we...that YOU are not THEM!

- YOU know that you don't have their particular reason for motivation.
- YOU know that you don't have the same particular skill at doing something like they do.
- YOU know that you don't want to work in the same way as they do.

It's not all gloom and doom, however.

YOU do know the best ways in which YOU work, and what inspires YOU.

And...yes, you DO have some wonderful talents hidden behind that disbelieving face of yours!

What I'm really saying is - make sure that you 'follow' someone for the right reasons.

Yes - you CAN learn from ANY successful person.

But - just because someone is successful at selling how-to information - doesn't mean that they are the best person to MENTOR you in how to make more of YOUR life.

It's easy to get caught up in the hype - but remember that if you spent some time looking at what ALREADY motivates you, and what you do well - then you will be halfway there.

I purposely go out of my way to tell you that 'MY' way isn't THE way for YOU.

Any 'guru' who tells you otherwise is a fool, in my opinion.

YOUR success will be achieved from a huge combination of different elements that you will (hopefully) pick up along the way from many different people - and it WILL be unique to YOU.

And...I bet that you know most of it already.

Plus - you don't need to try and change yourself because someone you respect tells you to.

You just need someone like me to give you a kick occasionally to remind you to make more of what you DO have!

You're World-Class, Do You Know That?

I've had a few coaching telephone calls over the last week...and, even though they were with completely different people from completely different backgrounds with completely different issues - there were some amazing similarities.

Well...perhaps I should say amazing similarities in terms of what the most effective 'solution' to their current 'problems' were.

The more I think and talk about this - the more I realize how simple self-improvement CAN be - if you let it.

Of course - change doesn't usually happen overnight - but it can certainly happen a lot more quickly if you look at these very important areas of your life:

What are YOU good at?

What do YOU find comes naturally to you?

What talent do YOU have that other people wish they had?

What particular skill do YOU find challenging to develop (in a good way)?

What can YOU do that, when you've finished, you wonder where the time has gone?

Now...

I'm not talking about how good you are DOING someTHING.

I'm also talking about how good you are BEING someONE.

For example, it is only now, some years later - that I have realized that I was a great motivator of people who worked for me.

This was a few years before I even thought about 'teaching' self-improvement - yet, this was obviously the seed of a talent that I undoubtedly had - yet, until the age of thirty-two never even thought existed.

That's why I always challenge people who say that they aren't particularly skilled at something to actually think about those things that they find easy to DO.

Quite often - the fact that you find something easy to do means that you obviously have a talent for it.

Don't always take this literally.

Just because you are a good manager doesn't mean that you will be a good motivational speaker. It might mean that you are excellent at co-ordinating people of different talents.

Just because you are organized with your paperwork at home, it doesn't mean that you must show other people how to be that way - you might just be the world's best personal assistant.

The key here is to TRY something...ANY-thing that remotely interests and challenges you at the same time.

The more you experiment will doing different things in your life (whether home- or work-related) - the more you will find out about what REALLY inspires you, and what you EXCEL at.

I firmly believe that YOU have a talent, whether measurable or not, that is WORLD-CLASS, that other people would envy.

It's down to you alone to find it.

So - what are you waiting for?