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By Deanne P Wells, http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Deanne_P_Wells

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”

- Susan J. Bissonette

Spring is here! It’s time to throw open the doors and windows to let the fresh air in! That means, not only in our house, but into our minds and bodies, too! Spring is the perfect time to clear out the mental clutter of what’s holding us back in our lives. Every year, spring brings rejuvenation all around us and it only seems fit that we join in with healthy growth and renewal. House clutter, mental baggage, and overloads of paperwork can pile up quickly like weeds, so while we’re clearing out our office, garage, house, and garden, it only seems fit to do a little work on our minds.

Spring cleaning isn’t just about discarding material clutter, it’s also about clearing out the compulsive mental hoarding we’ve accumulated in our lives! Storing months and even years of unnecessary worries, guilt, and fears can cause unwanted health risks, impaired judgment, adverse effects on one’s job, finances, family, and friends. We might think that people aren’t visually exposed to what has built up inside our minds (like we would see in their garage), but we are! We know when someone’s walking around with a black cloud over their head, carrying extra weight on their shoulders, or have a lot on their mind. Just like a hoarder’s kitchen that’s piled with useless garbage, a person’s mind can also be filled with toxic trash that’s not even worthy of a recycle bin. Fear, anxiety, depression, and mood swings are all signs of mental hoarding. Imagine for a moment having to climb over boxes and boxes of waste inside your head, boxes that have been buried and unopened for years. Hoarding does not only exist in someone’s garage, house, backyard, or basement… it can also exist in the attic of our minds.

Many compulsive hoarders have trouble admitting when they’ve accumulated too much clutter. They believe that their items are of value whether they’re old or new, broken or intact. Hoarders tend to hide their compulsiveness and remain in denial even though they might know there is a problem. Hoarding can fall into every facet of our lives. Hanging on to past hurts, guilt, obsessive thoughts, negative affirmations, criticisms, unfinished business, procrastination, indecision, dysfunctional relationships, or overwhelming responsibilities are all part of mental clutter. When we allow weeds to grow freely around the environment we live in, eventually they will spread into every weakness, crack or crevice, and finally to the inside of our minds. Imagine a building that’s abandoned, the weeds and vines will slowly engulf the unmaintained building until someone finally accepts that it needs maintenance. Think about someone who has trouble getting rid of things because they feel there are too many sentimental attachments… imagine for a moment what their mind might look like! Longing and daydreaming over someone from our past who doesn’t want anything to do with us can also be considered mental hoarding. Again, being in denial plays a big role in whether or not we want to be clear-minded and it’s important to accept when it’s time to do a mind sweep and let clutter go.

Disorder comes in all shapes and forms, not just as boxes. Not all clutter is clearly labeled, nor does it have a flashing red light to tell us what needs to go. But, if we pay close attention to our intuition (what our gut is telling us), more than likely we will know what needs to go. It’s important that we stop replaying different scenarios over and over in our heads, such as, “if I would have done this, or I should have done that, and I could always do this.” Those phrases are only a waste of more precious mental energy. By recalling the woulda, coulda, shouldas, we’re not being productive and just creating more clutter. Imagine your mind as a computer hard drive that eventually uses all its memory, so you go out and buy an external hard drive to back up all your important data- so this way you don’t have to delete anything. Many people are hoarders mental or physical, we just don’t like to throw things away. So our “stuff” just keeps piling up and piling up, and before you know it we can’t keep our head above clutter!

The problem is… where do we begin decluttering? Most of us would agree, excuses are the biggest factor that keep us from accomplishing anything in our life, e.g., “I don’t know where to start. I need help. I’m confused. I’m overwhelmed. I don’t have time.” And so on. It’s time to stop making excuses and start living our life! Start somewhere! Start anywhere! We all have time to clear out mental clutter. Hit the delete button on the mental negativity that’s holding you down from living the life you want to live. Get out the weed whacker and cut down those weeds! It’s an everyday process, and just like weeds do, they always come back, but it’s up to us to keep up with our mental maintenance. No one is going to maintain your mind for you, we can get guidance and education, but ultimately, keeping up with the maintenance is always up to you! We all have busy lives, but if you didn’t do your laundry every week it would continue to pile up. Nobody wants to do your laundry for you… we each have our own responsibilities. It’s your dirty laundry and it’s your mental clutter. Accept it and deal with it. Wash it or leave it pile up, the choice is always yours. Ask yourself, “What is holding me back from growing and flourishing to my fullest extent?”

We all deserve a chance for renewal… a chance to join in with the growth around us. It’s time to dust off usable items, pull out the weeds, do a little pruning, and feed our minds and bodies with the right nutrients to help us grow stronger. We must be optimistic that we can make time to improve our lives for the better and cut back on what we don’t need. So, when we’re feeling overwhelmed- there’s a good chance we’re being smothered by unnecessary clutter and the red warning flags are telling us that something needs to change. We put a lot of maintenance into the things around us in our daily lives, but we can’t forget take care of ourselves- in order for us to truly flourish we must trim back on the overgrowth of clutter. It’s time to clear out the weeds to allow positivity to grow.“A beautiful flower deserves to stand out from the weeds.”

- Deanne P. Wells

Deanne P. Wells is the owner and Editor of the South Texas Women’s World Magazine, a life coach, speaker, and author. She has published several self-improvement and motivational articles on life empowering topics. She assists women in business and personal to provide insight, structure, and encouragement in reaching their full potential.

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By Micheal Lowe, http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Micheal_Lowe

A little boy was waiting patiently by the door for his Daddy to come home. Finally, in walked Dad. He was tired, stressed and still thinking about the dramas that had unfolded at work earlier that day. The little boy, seeing his Daddy head for his office with briefcase in hand, realized he was in for another lonely night. A few hours later, the boy sneaked into his Dad’s office and asked sheepishly, “Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?” His Dad thought, “What a strange question.” “Son, if you must know, I make $50 an hour!” The little boy stopped, pondered for a moment and then asked, “Daddy, can I borrow $20?” “$20!” his father scolded, “Forget it, Son, and get to bed. It’s way past your bed time!” Later that night, the father noticed the light on in his son’s bedroom and was angered to see his boy still up. “It’s well after your bed time!” he barked. Seeing a few crumpled-up notes stashed under his son’s pillow, he exploded with, “What’s this? A few hours ago, you asked me for $20 and you already have $30! What on earth do you need all this money for?” The little boy swallowed hard and said softly, “Daddy, I had hoped that I would have saved up enough money by now to have been able to buy one hour of your time.”

Often we are so preoccupied with our other interests we fail to see the gradual deterioration of our valued relationships. A few minor adjustments today may prevent heartache and regret tomorrow. A soul-searching question that may help you pinpoint where your valued relationships are at present is, “If I happened to be my wife, husband, child or children, would I like to have a spouse or parent like me?” If you don’t like the answer(s) you receive, make a note why and then use your power of choice to head off those concerns.

A good way to gain awareness on the status of your marriage is to ask your partner, “Is there anything I do right now that annoys you?” Once you ask this question, bite your tongue and hear your spouse out. Another way to avoid a trip to the divorce courts is to reinvent your marriage vows. This time, however, don’t aim for “better or for worse” but instead “for better and for better”. As boredom leads to frustration, spontaneity and surprises lead back to renewed passion. Do you know that passion can be re-created at any time simply by re-creating the experiences that originally sparked it? Therefore, develop the habit of scheduling your baby sitter every couple of weeks so you and your spouse can enjoy a good-quality movie or meal in solitude – and remember the red roses!

Relationship Goal Suggestions

- If you don’t have a family, consider setting a goal to spend more time with loved ones and friends.

- How can you develop a stronger relationship with each of your children?

- Do you need to restore the lines of communication with your children? How?

- What is something special you can do weekly with your family?

- Could you take them out to dinner or to a theme park?

- How about committing to spend one hour a day as quality time with your family?

- How can you show more appreciation for the little things your spouse do which you have been taking for granted?

- What is one thing you can do, starting today, to spice up your relationships?

- Where would you like to take your family for your next Christmas holidays?

- How about taking your parents out to dinner once every couple of months?

There is one other thing I feel strongly about in this area. May I suggest you set aside Sundays wherever possible and spend them as quality time with your family. Even God Himself took one day off! Know more about how to achieve your smart goals now.

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By Alex Gunn, http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Alex_Gunn

Now, this might sound like a rather extravagant claim. To be more accurate, a completely extravagant claim, but I promise that at the very least this will be useful information, and at best it will help you change your life and achieve the impossible.

Firstly let me ask you two questions. Do you believe that when you really, really make up your mind to do something you do it? Do you also believe that when you haven’t really made up your mind, when your heart’s not really in it, things don’t work out? I would go one step further and say that most things we fail to achieve is purely because our heart is not really in it.

Think back over all the things you have managed to achieve in life and I bet that all of them were things that you really, really wanted; getting married, (getting divorced), passing exams, your driving test, having children, buying your house, getting your job. All of these things have one thing in common…you really wanted to make them happen.

Now think of all the things you have so far failed at; quitting smoking, cutting down on drinking, losing weight, becoming a millionaire, eating less junk food, living on a private Mediterranean island in a huge white villa with a swimming pool in the shape of a dove…or whatever. I bet you this second list, as desirable as it all might be, do not occupy as much time in your “top three important things in my life” list. And this, in a nutshell, is the problem.

So how do we bump all these things in our second list up to the first list? Believe it or not, it’s quite straight forward.

I really began to get interested in what has now become known as Motivational Psychology twenty-two years ago while working as a psycho-therapist in a specialist clinic for people with alcohol problems. Why did some people seem to achieve the impossible and others, often returning home to more supportive environments, did not.

To begin the process of bumping things up to our first list,(the list of things that we achieve) we have to start, what is called in motivational psychology terms “increasing importance”. This has been a special interest of mine for many years, probably because I have heard so many people, rather depressingly say “you can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”…oh yes you can.

Firstly target any one item on your second list (the “failed at so far” list) and give yourself a score out of ten of how important it really is to you. Not how important you would like it to be, but how important it really is, with ten being the most important thing in your world right now and zero being gloriously unimportant. Be honest.

Once you have got that number in your head think about why you have given yourself that number. Why is it as high as it is? What would help to increase your number by just one or two digits, or maybe more? Don’t give yourself an easy time, ask your self these difficult questions and give yourself some honest answers.

The second thing to start doing is to identify what you are telling yourself about whatever it is you are thinking of and wheedle out all the self sabotaging statements. Why are you telling yourself that you can’t stop smoking, or eat more healthily? There is more and more research piling up that suggests that the only thing stopping yourself achieving whatever it is you want is what you are telling yourself. It is summed up in a really useful quote coined by the psychologist Daryl Bem “we learn what we believe as we hear ourselves speak”. So start speaking more positively, it will make a difference.

Now hopefully some of this information has been useful for you and I hope even life changing. Who knows, in a year from today you might be toddling out onto your verandah for a well earned swim in your own dove shaped pool.

Alex Gunn invites you to find out how real people are making real changes in their lives at http://thelifechangepeople.com/read-my-story/153-elizabeths-story

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By Anna Aparicio, http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anna_Aparicio

Sometimes, and for no apparent reason at all, we get stuck. It’s like something breaks inside the engine of our brain, keeping us from moving forward. We feel the symptoms, we can’t seem to think clearly, make decisions, or get motivated. We wrestle with problems, understanding concepts or are unable to take action. Unfortunately, we can’t open the bonnet upstairs and fix things, but there are some simple things we can do to clear our mind and get our brain juices flowing again.

DON’T FORCE THE ENGINE

There is no point in forcing things. It’ll only lead to frustration and negativity. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to let it rest for a while. It’s like trying to rev up the engine of a car when it’s stuck in the mud. It only digs in deeper. As pressing or important as something may be, sometimes it is better to…

FORGET ABOUT EVERYTHING

For a while anyway! Because maybe the reason we got “stuck” in the first place was that we tried too desperately; and desperation leads to one thing only: more desperation. Instead, make a point to focus your energy on something totally unrelated for a short while, a few hours, or a whole day if you have to! Remove yourself from the thought and the situation, and do something that requires minimal mental effort. Some of my best ideas come to me when I’m out walking in nature. As mum says: you’d be amazed at how many ailments a little fresh air can cure!

SEND AN S.O.S

Ask for help. Don’t expect to know everything or to be able to solve every riddle and puzzle that life throws at you. If you don’t have the answer, someone else will, and that someone else will more than likely be happy to help. In business, we have leaders, managers, administrators, helpdesks… in life, we can’t fulfil all those roles single handedly. This is where other people come into play. Whether it’s a family member, a colleague, a friend, a mentor or a coach… let them know you trust them enough to send them an S.O.S

SLEEP ON IT

Many successful entrepreneurs have admitted to have come up with some of their most brilliant ideas at night. Throughout the centuries people have solved algorithms, untangled complex equations, got inspiration for revolutionary inventions, bestselling books and amazing songs… all in their sleep. All you have to do is keep a pad and pen beside your bed. Just before you doze off, think about what it is you want to have happen, and let your brain waves do the rest. According to neuroscientists, it is during sleep that our brain’s chemical environment provides the greatest opportunity for memory consolidation and creativity to take place.

So, the next time you feel stuck, instead of driving yourself crazy trying to solve a problem or coming up with a great idea, think again. Well, actually, don’t. Follow the advice above instead.

Anna Aparicio is Ireland’s most sought after Life Coach. A Confidence and Motivation Expert, she has helped hundreds of people all around the world feel empowered, super confident, and lead happier more successful lives. With a unique blend of Neuro-linguistic Programming, cutting edge personal development tools, and a contagious sense of humour and zest for life, Anna is renowned for getting results fast. Now you can get her free report WHY YOU’LL NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT UNLESS YOU DO THIS at http://www.delite.ie

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I think we’ve all had a moment in our life where one of our friends asked us how we were doing and we uttered these magical words:

“Just living the dream.”

Not sure where exactly the idea of “living the dream” originated, but I suspect it has to do with practicing the concept of the American Dream to which we are all supposed to aspire. In the spectrum of dream concepts, there is one that stands above the rest and it was delivered by someone who continues to inspire us today:

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the keynote speaker at the March on Washington. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in front of more than 250,000 supporters, Dr. King spoke of the racial inequalities in the Union and his dream of a United States where all men and women are truly created equal and we are no longer “judged by the color of our skin, but the content of our character.” Martin Luther King, Jr. was a student of Gandhi’s non-violent approach to protest and used it to engage the nation in addressing civil rights. Whatever it took to advance equality, he was willing to address it through non-violent means. This inspired men and women of all colors and ages to do the same and resulted in major advancements in the civil rights movement.

The great part about effective dreams is that they pull you forward in such a way that you can reconcile your current actions directly to their completion. While Dr. King’s dreams were grand in nature, he could ask himself if his every action was working towards realizing them. That was the great part about Dr. King…

Not only did he lead with his vision, he led with the integrity of a consistent character.

Since I was diagnosed with cancer, I am way more reflective about life. And on a recent flight while I was looking out on the clouds I thought a lot about what my dream was and if I could deliver it in a speech in front of a quarter million people…

And would it inspire?

Over the course of my treatment and into remission I worked hard on understanding my values, goals, and beliefs. I realized that in my pre-cancer days my actions were not fully in line with my own dreams, but more towards a composite of dreams made up from societal expectations for my age, gender, employment status, etc.

Not very inspiring…

The composite dream is pushed on us from a young age by teachers, employers, media, government, etc. because the concept of the individual is not convenient to administering mass educational programs, employment best practices, or what the average household should look like. The key to finding your own dream is to ignore the pressures to fall in line with what’s deemed acceptable by the masses. By doing this you will free up the energy and capacity to understand where you operate at your best. Only then will you be able to paint a picture of a future that you want to spend the rest of your days pursuing.

In everything you do…

While we may live in a society that is closer than ever to all men and women being created equal, our dreams should always remain unique. While they may overlap in content, dreams are tools to pull us forward (as individuals) towards maximum fulfilment in our lives.

When you find your dream and start living it in everything you do it will be apparent to everyone you encounter. Just as it was to those 250,000 people in Washington DC who crossed paths with Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963…

Not that’s “Living the Dream”

Roger faced a Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma diagnosis in April 2010. Facing eight months of chemotherapy treatment he decided he was going to use his cancer journey to learn how to increase fulfilment in his life so that others could gain from his experience. Lift Living is the vehicle that chronicles his journey back from fighting cancer and mission to Lift as many lives as possible.

Please visit at http://www.liftliving.com

Roger is currently in the process of writing two books tentatively titled: “Daily Lift Tips” and “Lift Living: A Life Guide Towards Maximum Fulfilment”

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When it comes to short inspiring stories, can any be more so than those of the British Secret Agents who were part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War?

I can remember, as a child, watching the film Carve Her Name With Pride.  It told the story of Violette Szabo.  Born in France, Violette had a French mother and English father. She was brought up in Brixton in South London and was working in a local department store at the start of World War Two.

Aged 19, she married Etienne Szabo, following a whirlwind romance. He died, two years later and Violette decided to offer her services to the SOE.

Violette’s first mission was successful.  It involved reorganising a French Resistance network that had been destroyed by the Germans. She led the group in sabotaging road and railway bridges and sent extremely important information by radio that informed Allied bombing raids.

For her second mission, Violette was flown to the Limoges area. It was June 1944 and Germany was trying to stop the effects of the Normandy landings. Her role was to co-ordinate efforts by the local Maquis to sabotage German communications.  During this mission, Violette was captured. She was interrogated and tortured and suffered hard labour and malnutrition.  Violette still managed to help save the life of a Belgian resistance courier.

Reading about women like Violette Szabo provides words of motivation. The poem written for her by Leo Marks as the basis for coded messages to England offers words of inspiration and strength.  It starts with the verse:

 
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Looking Back – Lesson’s Learned When Young

By Tony Fahkry, http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tony_Fahkry

I’m certain you’ve had moments looking back on life, wondering what you’d advise your youthful self about the future. You might tack a trip back to your twenties to inform yourself that all those illusions of grandeur you had about being President or head of fortune 500 company might be more challenging than you realised.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting one sells out on the dreams; rather that you take a more realistic approach to the steps involved in realising them. Youth is something we feel we’ll hold onto for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately nature reminds us in no uncertain terms that this is not the case as we contemplate the days ahead are getting shorter.

I was thinking about this topic the other day. I thought it would make for an interesting article. Below is a list, in no particular order that I wish I knew back in my twenties. If I could advise my youthful self of these points of wisdom, I’m certain life would’ve been much more tranquil in its unfoldment.

1. Life never unfolds according to YOUR plan or schedule

Whilst you have an expected outcome of how things will play out while young, they rarely coincide to your schedule. The law of detachment suggests one cast their line to the universe and wait in anticipation to see what comes back. The quote “life is what happens to us while we’re busy making other plans” couldn’t be more accurate.

2. Less is more. The more I removed from my life, the happier and content I was

In my twenties, I looked to material gains as the source of happiness, believing ‘things’ would make me happy. I discovered that people, service to others and mastery of self were the ultimate tools for happiness. When we reflect on the fact that the happiest people in the world are generally those in poorer countries, we realise that mankind has all he needs to be content.

3. There is a rhythm and energy to the universe.

When you tap into the universal energy which governs all living and non-living things, you realise that it is forever working in your favour. Rather than resist this energy, working with it becomes a source of joy and inspiration. You are the expression of nature. When you live in accordance with natures laws, prosperity and abundance become your natural expression.

Some of natures laws include; timing, detachment, karma, giving and receiving and least effort. These are just to name a few universal principles.

4. My worst moments always turned out to be greatest seeds of opportunity

At the time when you’re ensconced in turmoil, you believe that you’ll never navigate your way out. Life takes on a dark and bleak period. You own the negative state. Then sure as the sun rises, you begin making progress and transition to a place you never thought possible. You may look back on this period in your life many months or years late and be thankful for the opportunity and personal growth gained. The key is to accept your suffering at the time and move through it, knowing that like every footpath in life; there is a corner ahead in which to start afresh.

5. I am the master of my destiny. I am responsible for my thoughts and emotions

I recall the most used phrases during my twenties were: “you made me feel this way” or “you made me do it.” I discovered that in my thirties “I” and I alone am responsible for HOW I feel, despite how others behaved. I am the master of my life; my emotions and thoughts. I cannot allow others to control nor influence my state of mind or emotions. Wisdom teaches us that we are accountable for the way we engage in the world.

6. What other people think of me is none of my business

wWhy is that we strive in vain to have people like us when we’re young? It’s usually the people we seldom like that we most want to impress. As is often the case, we find out the hard way that such people are not worth pleasing and so our lesson is cemented.

Your sole responsibility in life is to think highly of yourself; to know yourself and own each aspect of your character. Forget what others think of you. People are continually mirroring back what you think of yourself. They’re looking to see how you treat yourself in order to treat you accordingly. You are their barometer. Change the reading on your forehead by sending out a stronger signal.

7. Actions speak louder than words

In your twenties you believe what most people tell you – why wouldn’t you? If someone tells you they love you, then presumably they love you; otherwise they wouldn’t tell you.

Through trial and error you discover that what people say and mean are entirely separate. I don’t think we become cynical as we mature, I believe we orientate ourselves to another’s actions as an accurate reading of their character. Perhaps being let down or rejected teaches us to look to people’s actions as an accurate reading of their real intent.

8. The present moment is all that there is.

Oh how I used to wish the future would arrive sooner to get me out of the present state. Whenever things got tough, I recall wishing myself into a future state. I wanted to escape the pain of the moment, no matter what the experience. Personally, it was being in a job I disliked or an emotional state I didn’t understand.

Here’s an experiment to understand how to live in the present moment. Spend a few hours with a child under four years of age and observe how you interact with them. Note your thoughts and emotions at the time. Note the child’s behaviour. You’ll be pleasantly surprised that being around children is the quickest way to understand and experience oneness with time and ourselves. There is no such thing as a future event or the past to a child, other than enjoying what is happening NOW.

What current wisdom do you espouse now that you may offer your younger self? Perhaps in doing so, you’d rewrite your life’s path and be less concerned with a destination as much as enjoying the journey.

Wherever you are in your life right now, take stock from the lessons you’ve learned from the past. You are continually writing the future pages of your life’s memoirs in the present moment. Every thought, every emotion and every action has the potential to shape how you will be living life in years to come. The beauty of life is that it’s never too late to wipe the slate clean and begin writing a new chapter of your life.

Tony Fahkry is an expert in integrating the mind-body connection with health & healing, personal development and self awareness to achieve greater human potential.

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Lance Armstrong, Exercise, and Will Power – Characteristics That Make a Champion!

By Greg Ryan,  http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Greg_Ryan

The Tour De France, arguably may be the hardest sport of all time, and Lance Armstrong probably one of the most conditioned athletes ever. But, how is it possible for a man on the door step of death to be able to overcome cancer, return and win seven races in a row? Only in the end, retire on top as a winner he so right fully deserves.

How many wonder? How can any human being bounce back after such set back and compete let alone win one of the hardest sporting events possible? Why, others will ask? Why would a man want to put is mind and body through such tests? Is it a new lease on life? Is it a second chance, or is an obsession in the soul?

Many who live to compete in sporting events marvel at those who consistently rise to the occasion. But, all of us like a story. A story of triumph, especially when it has to do with human will power.

Being a fitness buff I always like to categorize what certain characteristics one may have in order to do what they do. Let’s look at a few that Lance Armstrong probably has:

1. Passion: You have to be sold out to doing what you want to accomplish. You understand at the start that you will have good days and not so good days.

2. Respect for the sport: You understand that the sport is much larger than you. You have the attitude each day that it is you chancing the sport not the sport living for you.

3. Willingness to learn: Each day will be an opportunity to learn something about you, the sport and the process.

4. Work smarter not harder attitude: It is not the one who necessarily works the hardest day in and day out. It is the one who continues to learn how to be more efficient in their craft.

5. Master the mental game first: The biggest and most challenging events, courses and obstacles are not the ones we run on but the ones we think upon. You must first win over the events in your head before you can win on the paths to victory.

6. Know when to quit: Winning has a lot to do with how you bow out as much as it does to entering your first event. Compete for the sport, not for your ego!

7. Learn from the best: Always have someone to whom you can learn more things about your sport from.

8. Surround yourself with winners: You are only as good as those around you. Develop a good support team around you.

9. Eat to Win: Practice great nutritional habits. To be at your best, you must fuel the system that will take you there.

10. When others say no, you say yes: Refuse to be normal. Be the best you can be. Never settle for less than you can give.

We all may never accomplish what Lance Armstrong has overcome; however, we all have our own journey’s to pursue. Achieving them is maybe more of a matter of will rather than what each of us are dealt with. For today you may say, how come? Tomorrow you may think how far?

Greg Ryan is a high profile fitness expert and former employee of Kathy Smiths. Best selling author of the Changing from the INSIDE book series. Discover the common sense way to lose weight with out dieting. A proven formula the doctor’s DON’T want you to know about. For FREE MINI COURES click here http://www.resolutions.bz

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Inside of you is a BIG dream. I’m not talking about big by other people’s standards. It’s a big dream to YOU. Maybe your big dream is to be in a passionate and loving relationship. Maybe it’s to have children. Perhaps you want to be a celebrity a best-selling author or a seven-figure business owner. Whatever your particular big dream is it’s something that you are truly longing for.

It’s because it’s so important to you the thought of not achieving it scares you to death. You may find yourself paralyzed around it. Self-doubt may arise. You may question whether you are equipped to have that dream come to fruition. All of this self-doubt can cause you to stay stuck in a rut!

Here’s the cure: Be OUTRAGEOUS and BE BOLD!

For goodness sake, you don’t have forever to make this dream come true! Take advantage of this now. Sure you’ll question whether you’re good enough. So what? Yes you’ll fumble and face obstacles along the way Good! It’ll build character and make your life story ever more interesting.

Stop sitting on the sidelines waiting for your big dream to come true. You need to take action and take action NOW.

Here’s how:

1. Test your dream: Does your dream really light you up? If it doesn’t you need to dream bigger. The way to know if you’re totally lit up is if the dream creates a buzzing sensation inside of you that you can’t tell whether it’s nervousness or excitement. When you feel that always choose to view this energy as excitement!

2. Take a Big Hairy Audacious Step: What’s one outrageous thing that you could do that will help you achieve your dream? It has to be something so bold that it stirs that excited or nervous feeling inside of you again. It can’t be something ordinary. Ordinary will keep you stuck in the same rut. Instead go for bold. The mere act of doing it regardless of the results it yields will turn the stagnant energy around.

3. Brag tell people about your bold step: We are taught in this society that it’s better to be modest and demonstrate humility by discussing what’s not working. Well it’s not. Sometimes when you downplay your strengths and achievements you start to get caught up in a negative thinking pattern. You start to believe that your complaints are the only truths you have. Instead celebrate what you’ve done. Talk about how, despite your apprehension you took bold action. As you do you may even inspire your friends to take their own bold action!

So what’s your next outrageous step? Your dream awaits you!

Ann Thomas is a motivational speaker, author, certified life coach and founder of Evolving Goddess, a company devoted to teaching women around the world how to connect with their divinity and love and accept themselves unconditionally so that they can be happy, feel at peace, and create a magnificent life.

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By Cory Geffre, http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Cory_Geffre

Imagine the place you work 20 years from now. Are they still in business? What is it like? What are the employees like? Does anybody know that you ever worked there? Did you make enough of an impact that people are still talking about it?

Many people are happy enough “just doing their job.” Yet I think that we are all capable of more. Over the span of my career, I have managed to leave long lasting positive marks at several places I have worked.

Just recently I worked part-time for a large nursing home chain in order to keep my nursing license current and make sure I didn’t lose touch with the changes in the industry. During my year of work, I was responsible for establishing or correcting three major policies and procedures that improved or expedited patient care. People may not be able to name the person that fought for the policies to be implemented, but it is an impact that will be noticeable in 20 years. I am okay with people not know who made the changes, because I know I made an impact.

At another company I worked for, I helped them change their shipping procedures and the primary shipping company they used. That move netted an annual savings of 1 million dollars, I imagine that very few people will remember who helped make those changes, but the owner of the company will likely never forget.

Although it may not be very important if all of the employees know who made the changes, it is important that as an employee you are engaged in making positive changes. So the best question to ask yourself may be… Is the place I am working at better, the same or worse because of me?

Be honest. Only one answer is acceptable. If you answered the same or worse there is still time to make a change. You don’t have to make the change to impress anybody or to even get a pay raise, sometimes you need to make the change just to keep yourself connected and engaged to what you do every day. If you answered the place you are working is better… Congratulations! Keep working. It may be possible that you will become one of the company’s greatest agents of change.

Leave your mark. Do it for your patients, your customers, your people & yourself. When you are part of positive change your work becomes exciting, you become exhilarated and when the time comes for you to move on you can do so knowing that you left your mark.

Cory Geffre is passionate about business and life, but he is most passionate about helping other people unlock their own maximum potential. This passion has lead Cory to pursue his lifelong dream of being an author, speaker and trainer… but don’t use the term motivational speaker for Cory, instead he is often called an inspirational educator. He has earned that title because of his gift for inspiring and engaging people. Now Cory spends his time on helping businesses, organizations, healthcare and long term care facilities in the areas of workforce development, management & motivation.

Find out more and meet Cory at: http://www.corygeffre.com

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