What more?

Well I am looking at who I can model in the New Year so I can bring about new successes and go from strength to strength in the New Year!

Who could you model?
Who is the leader in your field?
Who is the person who is where you want to be in 2 years?

These are the people you need to meet, Google or read about to work out how you can learn their best tricks to implement and initiate into your game.

Can you think of someone?? Think about it over those many glasses of wine over the Christmas period. Well you should be busy celebrating your successes!! You had a great year I am sure and you need to pat yourself on the back and plan for the next one!

Right where is 'The Muppets Christmas Carol' I fancy a Christmas themed day....

Plod on...

So this week was kinda relaxed (and cold). New clients and a mellow feel.

One of my clients this week reminded me of a great book... 'The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity' by Catherine Ponder... if you have not read it buy it now!!

Towards the end she talks wise words which are great when you are not getting the results you think you deserve:

"When discouragement and despair try to keep you from persisting towards your goals, remind yourself of the successful people who succeeded in spite of being maimed, blind, deaf or psychoneurotic:

Toscanini was so nearsighted that he could not read the score when conducting

Lord Byron had a club foot

Homer and Milton were blind

Sir Walter Scott was an invalid

Beethoven was deaf

Dostoyevski and de Maupassant were epileptic

Franklin D. Roosevelt did not have free use of his legs.

Shakespeare might have been describing the power of persistence when he wrote, 'There is a tide in the affairs of men when, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune'. ..."

"It is not always the people with the most education or talent who make the grade. It is the 'plodders'. It is the people who doggedly refuse to give up, whether they seem to have talent or brilliance. The story of the hare and tortoise is the story of persistence winning out over great odds. As with the tortoise, you cannot be defeated if you never give up."

So next time you see a hare winning at your game... plod on like the tortoise and see if you can win through. Also, if you ever think "I can't do that" then look for evidence that someone else has! It gives you inspiration and can help to silence the voices.

Along the same lines; just this morning I spotted a friend of mine in Psychologies magazine as one of the featured writers this month - Marilyn Devonish - and I thought if she can do it why can't I. So new goal for next year set :)

Well done Marilyn and everyone else going after their goals. Don't loose focus and just keep plodding on!

As we used to say when I was a Hasher (Hash House Harriers - drinking clud with a running problem)... "On On..."

Ways to save money

In this cold weather I have found a new motivation to go to the gym.... it is warm there!!

Anyone have other ways of keeping warm in this cold winter? Please comment...

Design Your Destiny...

So I was crewing at Chris Howard's DYD course at the weekend. What an amazing journey the participants go on and it was a blessing to be part of it!

Everyone had so much fun, and the frustrations all melted away by the end of the weekend.

Key learning for me:
- You have to put yourself first.
- Feel the fear and move forward with courage regardless
- If you know your Purpose, Vision, Mission.... you can do anything

Put yourself first. If you don't do it no one else will. For me that also means taking responsibility for my health... such a big thing. Make sure you are kind to your body and giving it the nutrition and exercise it needs. Rest and have fun. Clear your crap out of your brain. Design the life you want... and then make it happen!

Other people will have to lump it if you are doing something for you and it doesn't fit into their world or plans. If they truly love and respect you they should understand and make allowances.

Think about it. If you don't put yourself first, who does? The amount of people in this world who are doormats for other people. We need to set them an example and do what we want, and need to do.

You can't help the poor by being poor yourself.