Success...One Day At A Time

The Answer To Everything IS There...

I love a challenge - especially when I haven't got a clue how I'm going to rise to it!

I have just this second, received an email from someone asking my advice about something Internet marketing related which, quite frankly, is out of my 'knowledge zone'...and my 'belief in my ability' level.

What would YOU do?

I'll tell you what I would have done a few years ago - admit defeat and just tell them that I can't help them.

Now?

Well...as I've literally just received this email - I'm sharing with you my absolute first reaction to it...

"How can I find a way to make this happen? There must be an answer somewhere!"

Don't you just love sentences beginning with 'How'?

Even though I don't consciously KNOW the answer...I also know that the answer to anything is not that far away!

I bet you're wondering what the key to finding it is?

Well...just get down everything you consciously know on paper. Give it a little creative thought.

Then leave well alone for a while so that you don't get in the way of your subconscious mind as it seeks a solution for you.

As I'm writing this to you - I don't have a solution.

But I know that the Universe does.

And it's waiting for me to find it!

Your De-Motivating Label?

It's easy to label yourself as a particular person.

Trouble is - it then restricts your way of thinking. For example, this week, I have taken on roles such as:

- project manager,
- writer,
- desktop publisher,
- coach,
- techy,
- trainer,
- speaker,
- copywriter,
- web designer (of sorts),
- (semi-)programmer,
- code installer.

And...don't forget father, husband, and tidy-upper!

In my old life I just worked in a bank. That's all I did, and that's all I told people - whether I did other stuff in the evenings or weekends.

You could argue that I am doing too many different things to make the best of the ones I'm good at.

Well, my argument to that is that YOU need to take on varied roles like these in order to:

1) Help yourself grow
2) Help yourself find out the stuff that you don't like doing

Plus...it will constantly remind you that you are 'bigger' than just the 'job' you do.

In my case, guess why I find it so difficult to explain what I do for a living when people ask me?

Those Little Life-Changers...

You are the sum total of your regular habits.

If you aren't happy with your current situation - in whatever area of your life...then you'll certainly find the root of it in what you regularly do (or perhaps don't do!).

For example...if you consistently:

- Eat the wrong things - you'll put on weight.
- Put off doing stuff you know you should be doing - then you'll get behind.
- Dream instead of do - then you will never reach your goals.
- Blame others for your failures - then you'll never be responsible for your success.
- Find excuses instead of possibilities - then opportunity will continue to pass you by.

In short - it's the little things that shape your life.

Yet - most 'gurus' will tell you that you need to make BIG changes in order to make things happen!

Perhaps it's because they have an expensive 'big change' package to sell you?

Remember - if you only aimed for big changes in other areas of your life - you would never end up living in your home until you had saved up for it.

Nor would you marry someone on your first date until you got to know them a little better over a period of time, would you?

Just start doing something, ANYTHING - that moves you that little, tiny bit closer to who and where you want to be - and let these little changes take care of the big life-changing ones all by themselves!

So what little thing are YOU going to do today?