Out with the Old, In with the New

As 2009 is drawing to a close, it's time to look back on what we've accomplished this year and what we still wish to do. Personally, my dreams were far grander than what I actually was able to get done. However, some of that was a conscious choice to set aside my personal goals and dedicate my time, talents and energy to supporting my wife as she accomplished some incredible goals this year that have blessed our family in a huge way. I don't regret that one bit because she experienced some major breakthroughs this year in her business and her personal life and the person she desires to be is coming more and more into focus every day.

With 2010 just days away, I am gearing up to make some major changes to my life this year as well. I believe that this year will be the year where I will be able to accomplish some dreams that I have had sitting on the shelf waiting for some time for me to pick them up, dust them off and put them into play. I hope you, too, are ready to change your life in the coming year as well and are just as excited for your own future as I am for mine.

In an effort to assemble a community of dreamers that really want to accomplish something that will be significant to them in the new year, I have issued The 10 for 2010 Challenge. Click here to get more details on how I plan to accomplish 10 significant goals in the coming year that will change and improve my life. I hope that you, too, will take up the challenge and be a participant in our community of dream achievers where your successes will become a resource for people that want to get where you are going as well.

Visit the 10 for 2010 Challenge blog today!

Determining Your Destiny

“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”
~ Anthony Robbins

Expanding the Boundaries of Your Life

"The 'self-image' sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. It defines what you can and cannot do. Expand the self-image and you expand the 'area of the possible'."
~Dr Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics

You will never be more successful than how you see yourself being. If you see yourself as fat, you will struggle to lose weight. If you see yourself as shy, you will struggle in your interactions with others. If you see yourself as poor, you will struggle financially. If you see yourself as a harried individual living a highly stressful life, that will be your experience day in and day out.

Don't believe me? Take a look at the areas of your life where you struggle. How do you see yourself in those areas? Then compare that to the areas of your life where you are more successful and how you see yourself in those areas. Do you see a difference? I am willing to bet that you don't have a negative view of yourself in those areas that you consistently do well in.

Now, some of you may argue that you see yourself more positively in those areas because you have done well. I propose that you have done well because you saw yourself more positively in those areas. If you don't believe me, give it the following 90 day test:

• Take an area of your life that you struggle and evaluate how you see yourself in this area.


• Create a better image for yourself in that area. The best way of doing this is to look at someone who is already successful in that area and transfer their characteristics to your self-image. (After all, if they did it, so can you!)


• Every morning when you get up and every night when you go to bed, visualize and see yourself as being successful in that area. Really experience the emotion and gratitude of being the success you've always dreamed of. Do this every morning and every night for 90 days!


• Then throughout the day, walk the walk and talk the talk of the success you are becoming!

Compare your life at the end of the 90 days to how it was when it started. I guarantee it will be vastly better!

Suffer Now

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
~ Muhammad Ali

Unlocking the Secrets of Success

"Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serios, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets."
~ Goethe

If you want success, you must do what other successful people have done. There are no favorites with nature. Whatever you put out, nature will give you back. It's that simple.

The Master Skill of Success

"All successful people are intensely goal-oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single-mindedly on achieving it, every single day. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the curents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target."
~ Brian Tracy

I have a goal of becoming a successful, published writer. The first step to accomplishing that is to get my first book written. To that end, I have elected to participate in a month of mania known as National Novel Writers Month (NaNoWriMo) where I have accepted the challenge to write a novel of 50,000+ words in 30 days. Please visit my NiceGuyBlogging blog and read the 10/2/2009 post to see how your taking a quick poll will help me get started.

Traitors to the Cause

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might gain by fearing to attempt."

~ William Shakespeare