Next big break

Have you been waiting for your next big break?

When you get an opportunity in life to shine, also known as a "Big break", it's something we tend to over prepare for and spend way to much time over analysing.  We feel anxiety, can't sleep and worry about when our time finally arrives.  We no longer need to feel this way if we live life in a totally different way.

Starting tomorrow, every single day for the rest of your life you should be acting in a way that would be as if you are getting your next big break in life.  Start treating everybody you come in contact with as if they could give you one million dollars for doing a great job.

What the reason?
The reason is because the world notices everything you do, whether you realize it or not.  You should be treating your work, family life and your free time to act in a way that if the right people we're watching that they could change your life for the better.  People around us judge us on our words, actions and personality.  How would you like to be thought of?

Everyday is a new chance to succeed, this type of thinking can make your life so much more interesting. It can get you revved up in the morning when you open your eyes.

Lead a more interesting life.  Get ready for your next performance, because everyday you have the option to choose if you will have a good performance or a poor performance, the choice is yours.

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them".-Orison Sweet Marden

Stay motivated
Shane C.

Too old?

Today's blog is going to be quite short but it deals with any individual that believes they are to old to kick start there lives again.

Here are two names, examine their careers. When you and I may have thought their lives were not going to get anymore exciting life took a turn for the better, resurrecting them into super stardom.

Regis Philbin
Betty White

Stay motivated
Shane C

Learn to feel like it.

Would you rather finish something that is easy or start something that is difficult?

The simple things in life are easy to attain.  Anything that will transform you into a success will be a little more difficult to achieve, this is why only the strong and disciplined enjoy the finer things in life.
The majority of people always put off the harder things for another time.  Another time is simply another way of saying "When I feel like it."
Guess what?  We generally only feel like doing what we already enjoy in life and that's the things we do over and over again. If we only do what we presently know, we cannot grow no matter how hard we try.
How do we beat this vicious cycle that seems to plague us?
The first thing we must do is actually realize we must do what you don't feel like doing first.  Get focused on the task that needs to be done and simply get started.  Let's use reading a book as an example.
You've heard there is a 450 page book that will help you in your career by teaching you a skill you do not presently know.  It's going to be a difficult process to read this book but it will pay off in the end.  Let's break it up into smaller steps.

STEP 1
Go buy the book that can help you.
STEP 2
Read the description on the front and back of the book.  Just look at it and get to know it by flipping through the pages.
STEP 3
Read one or two pages.
STEP 4 
Read a chapter
STEP 5
Read another

The next thing you know, you will want to read more and more because you will have built up more focus and wanting to finish the book will be your primary aim.

Always know the big picture of what needs to be done, then break things down into tasks that are simple and easy to do.  You will never know how much you want to do something until you give it a fair chance.

The example I gave using the book is only a small task you may face.  Bigger tasks in your life such as running a marathon, losing weight or going for a promotion take a lot more discipline. Always remember to take a small step daily. If you decide to take a day off you will fall off track, nothing kills progress more than taking a day off before a new habits is formed, even then it's a dangerous thing to do towards progress. 
Keep going, truly effective people do things even when they don't want to.
Sure, there will be days that you won't want to do the task at hand but you must do it to get ahead of the game.

Can you imagine an athlete getting ready for the Olympics wanting to take a couple of days off weeks before the Olympics simply because they did not want to train or eat right?  The truth is, while the athlete rests and gets lazy their opponents are actually training, and will get a better advantage.

This goes for you too. When you are resting someone more disciplined and focused is doing what you don't feel like doing and will get head of you while you whine that life isn't fair.

Some keys to getting things done:

1. Be clear on what the big goal is at all times.
2. Begin by taking simple small steps towards your goal.
3. Keep a schedule of when and how you should do things.- Always set time aside.
4. Finish what you start.

If you are wanting to achieve higher standards of living do what the rest are putting off until tomorrow.  Do it today, that way you will not need to do it tomorrow.

Stay motivated
Shane C.

The key to transformation

Have you forgotten the most imporatant people in your journey towards the top?

We often want to transform to be the best in our careers, relationships, health and even in our hobbies.  In our journey towards becoming the best, we can sometimes forget that others need to help us get to the top because it cannot be done alone. 

There are over a billion people in this world that can help us become great. No matter how good you get in what you choose to do, the people that you come in contact with are the ones that give you the opportunities and chances to excel.  If you shut out the outside world and only focus on yourself, you can only get so far.  The outside world is full of key people that can be your stepping stones on our way towards success.

Every great achievement that we strive for we must first learn how we can serve others:

If we want to get healthy we must learn how to stop making ourself and others sick.
If we want to become wealthy we must learn how to give.
If you want to become the best in customer service you must learn how to serve your customers.
If you want to become amazing in sales you must learn how to meet someones needs so they want to buy from you.

Opening yourself up to others is key to showing people you respect them and you are willing to help them.  Nobody cares what you can do, they only care what you can do for them. Everybody around you wants the exact same as you do.

The most successful people in this world are into Philanthropy, they understand the power of serving others.  Opening up doors to others opens doors for you.
Please do yourself a favor, serve people as much as you can without saying "When is it my turn?  I help but nobody helps me".  The world does not work this way, don't ask me why, there are some things we just aren't meant to understand.

Here are some key things to reach the top:

-Be clear on what you want
-Learn what needs to be done
-Do it
-Help people along the way

Today's action:
Getting someone to smile:
Go out on the street and wait for someone to smile, but only focus on yourself.  You could be waiting awhile.
To speeds up the process, single out someone and smile at them you are sure they will smile back at you.  As you will see, you will need to help someone to get what you want.

Stay motivated
Shane C.

List of excuses

There are a few things that are certain in life, and excuses are right up there with taxes!

Everybody has excuses  that they give into no matter who you talk to. All that excuses do is hold us back from achieving the joys and success that life has to offer. 

Here are some common excuses:

I'm to busy...
It takes much to long....
I'm not smart enough I didn't go to school for....
I don't deserve it..
No one wants to help me...
It's not fair...
I'm always to tired...
I'm not strong enough to go through that...
That's not something I'd ever try...
I can't afford....

How many times have you heard or given these excuses?  We repeat it so many time that we start to believe the excuses we give ourselves, when in reality there is no truth only perception.
As human beings we are capable of so much, we are so strong and we don't even realize it. 
There is one thing that does hold us back, and that is simply our own self.

You are correct to argue that in the moment you may not be able to afford something or right at the moment something is not fair.  But if you truly want something with all your might you will get it.  Your mind seeks what it looks for.  If you constantly look why you can't do something you will get much of the same.

Now switch that thinking and look for what you want, and add a little time.  It will allow your mind to seek out solutions for the things it wants.  It happens all the time, all it requires is focus mixed with emotion and you will get the things you desire.

This is the difference between success and no success.  The people you look up to have learned to focus on what they want.  Some get it quicker than others and this is because their desire is so strong. 
So learn to replace the excuses why you can't do something with reasons why you can, and your whole life will change for the better.

Stay motivated
Shane C.

Change your life with a pen.

If I told you that you could change your entire life for the better would you believe me?

Where you are in life is the result of an accumulation of your own beliefs. You see, the way we do things or the way we don't do things is all based upon whether we believe we can do it or that we cannot do it.  All major life choices, big and small are based on this.
Really think about that for a few minutes....
Of course you have built up some habits and routines that you don't like to break from for the simple reason that you believe any other way is either the wrong way or even worse an uncomfortable way.  The truth is, this is simple a myth in your way of thinking.

Let me use my favorite subject as an example- Weight loss

Sally and Molly decide they are going to go on a diet and join a gym so they can both look great in their bikinis once summer arrives.  They both start off great they eat right, workout with great intensity until the day Molly decides she needs a week off because she says that she does not want her new lifestyle to change her entire families routines and it would be too difficult to prepare different foods for the family.  So Molly gives up entirely and keep gaining weight and remains unhealthy.

Sally on the other hand decides she will continue because she says it will be a whole new life filled with a new wardrobe, new friends and a better attitude towards life.  So she keeps up with the gym and good eating and as result loses 45 lbs.  Sally gets a promotion due to her new outlook on life and is now trying things she's never done before.  Sally loves life.

As you can see two people will have two different outcomes simply by what they believe.  All our beliefs are influenced by outside sources such as TV and other medias constantly in our face and also by the people close in our lives who tell us their beliefs over and over again.  Eventually we repeat this to ourselves so much we begin to believe what we once thought to be false.

What is the solution?

The solution is so simple, the only catch is it takes a bit of discipline. 

1. Be clear on exactly what area of your life you want to change. (Write it down)
2. Make a list of the beliefs you have about that area of your life.
3. Now write down the complete opposite belief of what you presently think.
If you think- I can never make a sale to this person no matter how hard I try.
Change it to- I can sell anything to this person with ease.

If you think- Losing weight is so hard I always have a hard time.
Change it to- Every week I will feel amazing and I'm on my way to a new and better body.

The great thing about this is you can do it with ANY BELIEF you have, all you must do is think the total opposite of what you believe.  Now having said this, it isn't an overnight thing.  It took you months and years of convincing yourself you believed your present beliefs.  But I will teach you how to SPEED UP THE PROCESS. 

All you do is repeat the new belief to yourself several times a day.  The best times are upon waking and right before bed.  This will ensure to implant it deep in the subconscious mind.  Then one day without realizing it you will be doing actions towards your new beliefs without even realizing it.  It's simply amazing!!!

Here is where you may be saying "Yeah, but these new beliefs aren't even true."  That's ok, your present thinking isn't true either but you believe it, right.  ;-)

So now you are ready to change your life, it's free, it takes a little discipline and a reexamination of the way you look at things in your life.
Stay motivated
Shane C.

Are you a true leader?

How do you define a truly good leader?

Most of us tend to think of a leader as a "boss" or a "leader of a nation"  and we rarely think that we could become a fantastic leader in our careers or any aspects of our lives that may require leadership.  The truth is, you may feel that you need to become a control driven out of your mind manic that seem to lead so any things in your day-to-day living.  This is a myth, good leaders are the opposite.
We must come to realize that a truly effective leader leads themselves before they can even attempt to effectively lead others.
A leader does not need to lead a team of 10 or more people to become successful.

Here are some qualities of a truly great leader:
1. Tact- The ability to know what is appropriate, tasteful and aesthetically pleasing.
2. Patience- Knowing things take time to be perfected.
3. Persistence- Not quitting at the first sign of resistance.
4. Self Confidence- Being comfortable with ones self.
5. Psychology- Having knowledge of how the human mind functions and human behaviors.
6. Adaptability- Being able to go with the flow with the least amount of annoyance.

If you happen to be one of the few who are in a leadership position, you may look at this and feel you excel at a few of these and still feel you are a fantastic leader, but what do the people who follow you think of your actions?  This is the true test.

For the effective leader to create harmony with the people they lead they must first be willing to lead themselves to understand how the team should be treated and led.

If no one is leading the leader, the whole team can crash as quickly as the leader crashes.  The leader must always be on a quest to improve him or herself so the team that is led can improve.  The better the developments in the leaders life are, the better the team will do.

Be a leader not a follower!!

Stay motivated
Shane C.