Yes We Can Win With All We Will Become

 

Wanna get something done?  What is on your list that you need to do but have been putting it off?  That one thing you just wish was off the list and over…decide now before reading on what it is you would like to have done.

Consider this your get out of jail free card.

REPEAT AFTER ME,… ALOUD>   

I am the master and commander of my life.

No one can stop me from pursuing results.

I will find joy in fulfilling responsibility.

I am the rightful owner of the peace that comes from my sacrifice.

Nothing will distract me in this moment.

Action is a foregone conclusion.

I now picture the desired result…………..it is done…………..I feel?…………now………

 

GO! 

 

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Look at the title a little closer and you will see what to do to get all those things.

 My blog site is a launching pad, a portal, if you will for you to have increased traffic.  It is going to be a team effort to some degree.  There is a lot of fun to be had in joining together especially with the interactive pages I have created for visitors and members.  Check out “The Exploited” to get a glimpse of how it works. Also, don’t miss “The Elite” to see just how you can benefit.

This is only now in its conceptual stage. So, feel free to leave me any ideas you might have. This is going to be a great ride! I’m looking forward to breaking new blog ground. Who wants a piece?

It’s Apple!?!

Ambition, Goals, Happiness, and how to tie it all together.

A goal met will bring reward, but in the absense of another will quickly fade into familiarity.  We must understand that to stop striving after something means we have quit everything we have been blessed with.  Our mere existence screams for knowledge, progress and acceptance…We want to know, we want to grow and we want to be loved.  How can we expect to find everlasting happiness in a destination.  Our minds are wired to continually give and be given to. 

The answer to everlasting happiness is found in a passionate pursuit in which your desire to give or help is met as well as your desire to receive or grow.  If you find yourself discontent with where you currently are it is time to sit down, write out some reasonable goals (can literally be achieved in a couple months), and prioritize your daily activities to involve whatever activity is necessary to hit that goal.  You must commit to yourself and others verbally to reaching this goal.  Otherwise, the very issue that has brought you to where you are now will steal your “temporary ambition” AGAIN!  Just a side note:  Even for the most successful people, ambition is temporary.  What the successful have done is not only openly committed, but also surrounded themselves with the vision of the end result (literally hanging pictures of the goal in the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, office, car etc.). 

Those who have reached the loftiest of goals understood:  You get what you picture.  Say it to yourself.  You get what you picture.  Write it down.  You get what you picture.  Hang that next to your bed and on the bathroom mirror.  You get what you picture.  Say it every morning.  You get what you picture.  Then actually, in your mind, envision what hitting your goal will look like.  You get what you picture! 

In addition to the commitment and vision, distraction is inevitable.  I suggest beginning a practice of incorporating a flow of positive information into your day like reading a “Great“ book or listening to an “Inspiring” speaker.  To have this part done for you, “click here” to sign up for a monthly autoship of great books and inspiring speakers, Or “visit this site” to buy individual books and audios.  Use this discount code -39796030- when starting your autoship or even just buying a book . 

Distractions and frustration are a natural part of pursuing one’s passion.  It is vitally important to ensure the positive input outways the negative.  This means listening to your self-talk and trying to be diligent about guiding your thoughts aware from destructive thinking and into result oriented thinking.  For example, “no one is helping me…why am I doing this?…it is going to take forever…I can sleep for a little while longer” (what needs changed), “I would like it with charcoal leather interior…I can smell the newness…I know I will sink into the seat and the handling is going to be sharp…what will my friends and families face look like when I pull into their driveway with it” (what works).  Keep in mind, without a plan it is easy to sit idle. 

        

Pick a goal, commit to it, surround yourself with it, prioritize you day and incorporate positive flow of information.  Allow me to expound upon “prioritize”.  This is where the plan comes in.  For example, “I will do 15 push-ups in the morning before breakfast, 15 on my lunch break, and 20 before bed for 1 week then I’ll add 5 to each session and so on for 1 month then measure my results”.  This is a great plan. 

These thoughts can be applied to anyone with any size goal big or small.  I encourage you to find a mentor and an accountability partner.  This is someone who will check on you from time to time to make sure you are on trck with your plan.  This should be someone you feel least likely to lie to about your activity. 

The last thing I would encourage you to do is that which I feel helps me the most.  Without this everything else to me seems futile.  Whether this applies to you or not I would find whatever can give you an equivalent peace and do that.  I pray.  I ask specific, detailed blessings on my activity, results and the influences within my life that they move me closer to my goal and not further away.  Without the God-giving peace I feel through faith, my efforts would seem empty and meaningless.  Knowing that everything I have, I have because of God’s favor makes it easy to move forward and give him the praise.

Good luck and God Bless, Josh

PS. the pictures in this blog are just a couple of my goals.

        

What does NIKE say?

Here is a little riddle. Let see if you can figure it out or at least comment with your interpretation.

“All Johnny wanted was to give an apple to the teacher, because he thought favor with his teacher would mean good grades, which in turn means more freedom at home. Unfortunately, there is only one apple tree in town and all the good apples are at the top. Johnny is afraid of heights. He tried throwing rocks, but always ended up with bruised and smashed apples. He tried asking friends to climb the tree for him, but they always seemed too busy or wanted something in return that Johnny did not have. Johnny tried climbing the tree a couple times himself, but was only met with fear. He couldn’t stand the thought of being punished for bad grades and possibly grounded for a portion of the summer. Getting that apple was constantly on his mind. However, if you were looking for johnny, you wouldn’t find him trying to climb higher and higher at the apple tree. You would find him at the pond swimming and thinking about how great the summer will be when he figures out a way to get that apple”.

A wise man once said, “Idle hands will feed none, but faithful hands bare much fruit”. JC

Escaping the Snare Within…

Who has the power to control their thought?  Who has guided your thought to say, “I have the power”.  Again, I challenge you.  Who holds the reigns to your mind?  Think about it… Who allows you to venture this way or that way in your brain?  Perhaps a better question is, “What has caused you to think this or that”. 

Even as you read this right now…I, the author, am guiding your thought I am causing you to venture this way or that.  Don’t think too hard about what you are reading.  It is truly elementary.  It can be simplified by the old Stimulus & Response trials.  Except here we’re not measuring or training for a physical response.  You can consider your mind being guided, as you read this, the first stage of cognitive processing or in laymen’s terms “self talk”.

Imagine you’re in a conversation with a friend or family member.  Is your thought not steered by their side of the conversation?  As you listen to what they say your mind begins its “self talk” in preparation for a response.  Reading this blog is no different.  However, I actually have more control or influence on you because you are not distracted so much by your ”self talk” since you need not prepare a response perhaps until the end.  

Why is understanding this simple cognitive process so very vitally important to the outcome of your efforts or pursuits?  No one wants to waste time.  Time is the most valuable thing we have next to salvation.  It is up to us how we use it.  It took me 26 years on this planet to learn that I am in complete control of my mind as too are you.

For me, this is considered great stimuli.  

This, on the other hand, does not remind me of time well spent.

 Remember Stimulus & Response?  We know from past experiences what stimuli causes which response within our mind.  So it is merely a matter of what we allow to stimulate us.  For example: I know that honking my horn in frustration at someone in traffic (stimuli) will only perpetuate my frustration (response).  This response then induces “self talk” such as: “This jerk needs to get off the road”, “probably just another grandma”, “why is traffic so bad right now”.  All this chatter is detrimental to progress with respect to controlling your mind. 

 We must be a diligent and responsible gate keeper to our mind.  If we wish to not waste time, but rather benefit from every moment it is paramount we begin to block the stimuli that gets us nowhere and not only allow, but seek out the stimuli that will further us to our desired results.

 

 

Getting Beyond Good

I am not ashamed to say that I grew up in the Michael Jordan era, he was my hero, AND I had a cardboard cutout of him in my room.  This is truely just the tip of the iceberg as far as my childhood obsession goes.  However, I am now very close to thirty and though I still appreciate Jordan, all that he has done for basketball and the fact he will go down as the greatest player that ever lived (…I know, that’s my opinion, right?), I am beginning to get frustrated with the analogies of success referring to Michael Jordan.

Let’s get real.  We can not compare Michael Jordan to you, me or anybody else.  He was born with a natural ability that has automatically put him into the fastlane of success. 

If you believe what I have just wrote you may be where I found myself only a few short years ago.  I was struggling financially living check to check.  I was excited for the opportunties I was given, but didn’t understand that…

…If I was given an opportunity, someone first must have created that opportunity to be given away…

Now that my eyes have been opened I’ve been able to put on a new face and more forward no longer with a victim attitude, but rather a victor attitude. 

You see, as the story goes Michael Jordan is no different than you or I.  He was not born an exceptional basketball player.  He had to hown those skills.  He was given an opportunity to play high school ball and he failed.  He was cut from the junior varsity team.  However, he posessed a key ingredient that pushed him to to create the opportunity for himself.  The intent, dream, will, desire & vision are all essential parts to doing great things, but without hunger, taking action toward your goal will become the obstacle. 

Make the purpose/dream bigger than any obstacle.  Be passionate enough about it to stay hungry. Grrrr!

Michael Jordan found hunger in his love for the game despite being told he wasn’t good enough.  He found hunger in proving to everyone he could do it.  He found hunger in the dream to be like the greats before him.

In summary, I’ve learned a hard lesson a few years ago that I still struggle with everyday.  The fact is that life is going to have struggles.  We are going to go through setbacks.  Obstacles are nearly a day to day occurence.  The question is, what are you struggling for?  Stop waiting for your next handout.  Begin today to be the creator of your own opportunities.  Stop asking, “what can I have?”, and start asking yourself, “what do I really want?”.   If someone on this planet has what you want then you may also have it.  It’s going to take a willingness to sacrifice some good for great!

 

Think not on what is, but what could be.

 

 

I have learned there are two worlds.  The first is where one is governed by their environment.  The second is where the environment is governed by one.

I have learned that our mind is a powerful thing that if understood and harnessed it can do nearly anything, within the realm of reality of course. 

I have learned that we are our worst critic and if left unchecked our own mind will paralyze us from progressing.  On the other hand, if we can be diligent about substituting negative self-talk with visions of success our progress then is inevitable.

I have learned that we can not win the battle of the mind by ourselves.  Think about it.  The majority of our thoughts naturally are “negative”.  If we try to enter this battle empty handed our mind will beat us every time.  If we wish to stifle the ever-present prohibitive internal chatter we must change the input.  The input must be that which will move us closer to our goal, period.

With all of society’s distractions it is easy for us to loose focus and become complacent from all the “status quo” innuendo.  This can come from TV, magazines, music and even friends or family.  We must be purposeful in what we allow into our minds.

 

I have learned that we can choose to accept what is handed to us and fall victim to the inevitable negative input of today’s society OR we can figure out what is right, stand for it and begin to be a beacon of truth.

I have learned that playing follow the leader is a part of life.  The secret to having the lifestyle you dream of is to follow the leader that already has it.

• If you haven’t heard the amazing story about “one red paperclip”  click the link below to watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE8b02EdZvw&feature=related