Communication

Your speech is a direct link to your emotions. Change one and you'll change the other. Your internal "self-talk" directly affects your expectations, and your expectations govern the way you act.

You cannot speak in a negative manner and productively focus on what needs to get done at the same time.

If you want to think and feel more powerfully, then learn to SPEAK in a way that reflects positive and powerful feelings.

A high commitment suggests you are an inspiration to everyone you meet. Your upbeat conversations with others are a natural expression of your optimistic attitude. Even when you feel less than cheerful, you know you can increase your own enthusiasm by expressing a more positive attitude—both in what you say and how you say it. Fully aware of the impact your attitude has on others, you take care in presenting a positive impression.

Far from faking enthusiasm, you focus on the positive possibilities. This skill is one of the qualities that makes you an inspiring leader and fun to be around.

A lack of commitment suggests you are someone who walks around in a cloud of gloom. Your most common discussions focus on fearful concerns rather than enthusiasm for the future. When speaking with others, a criticism comes up in conversation more quickly than a compliment. As a matter of fact, it's uncommon for you to even give compliments.
You know your speech has a direct effect on others, but it's rare that you overcome your negative feelings to a point where you can inspire others to overcome theirs. The big question: WHY?

The bottom line?

What is, and is not possible, is a function of your belief system. Improve your self-talk, and you not only gain self-confidence, but others are inspired and also gain confidence when they talk with you. You enlighten and empower your future.

However, when you permit a negative attitude to color your circumstances, your future grows darker, because you cut off the positive flow of positive energy to it.

So, this week, simply start listening to what you say... and how you say it. Nothing is more important to your future than your belief in what's possible. In a way, it's what you can talk yourself into!

Are You Racing Too Fast To Notice The Track?

Balance your roles. Life is not a race to one finish line. Each of your roles deserves its own goal and timely attention.

When you find balance among your roles, you'll increase your accomplishment and enjoyment in all of them.

Hopes

" The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. "

Is Honesty The Best Policy?

Always be open and honest. Too often you may tend to say what you think the other person wants to hear, instead of expressing what you know to be true. This wastes time because it often results in misunderstanding later.

Leave mind reading to the psychics. Plain, polite honesty is the most effective use of everyone's time.

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

The quality of a person's life

is in direct proportion to

their commitment to excellence,

regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Greatest Gifts

Remember, the greatest gifts aren't found in a store nor under the tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Christmas

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons.
It came without tags.
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

~Dr. Seuss

Can You Project An Extravagant Flourish?

Practice the philosophy of "As If." If you want to feel more energetic, carry yourself "As If" you were.

Pay attention to your physiology. How you sit or stand or move affects how energetic you feel.

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Winning

" For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. "
~ Emmitt Smith

Winners aren't Born, They are Made!

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."
~ Vince Lombardi

Life

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. "
~ Henry Miller


" Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. "

"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."
~ Irving Berlin

Women

Women are never what they seem to be.
There is the woman you see,
And there is the woman who is hidden.
Buy the gift for the woman
Who is hidden.

- Erma Bombeck (social commentator)

"Ability is what you are capable of doing.

Motivation determines what youdo.

Attitude determines how well you do it."
- Lou Holtz

GIFTS

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Reputation

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave

with the intention of arriving safely

in an attractive and well preserved body,

but rather you should skid in sideways,

with a chocolate bar in one hand,

martini in the other,

body thoroughly used up,

totally worn out, screaming ...

"WOO HOO what a ride!"

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out."
~ Ronald Reagan

Trust no friends without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
- Doris Lessing, writer

Greatest Love of All

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

When you see the good in you, you attract more good to you.