Live On Purpose - 5 Step GuideTo Designing A Life Roadmap

Do you ever catch your self thinking about what life could have been like if you would have done a few things differently ? Do you ever wonder what will come your way in two, five, ten years? Or do you have a road map carefully designed to lead you in the direction you want to go and already know where you will be in years to come.

Sadly, most people don't live their life on purpose, they simply wake up every morning and do the same 'live for today' activities day in and day out. When presented with an opportunity they will not invest in themselves but they will go spend on themselves.

We must decide to live on purpose. Everyday is an opportunity to do something great with ourselves. Every day can be used as one step toward our goals. Hundreds of years ago, Socrates, arguably one of the worlds greatest minds was approached by a young man and asked " How do I get to Mount Olympus? " after a few seconds of thinking Socrates looks up at the young man and responds "One step at a time". Wise advice from an individual who was clearly way ahead of his time. With that said I'm going to give you 5 important steps in no particular order to consider when designing a road map for your life.

1. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? On paper, write down three things that you would like to accomplish before your life is over. Try to keep it realistic, if you are 40 years old and never touched a golf club in your life, you obviously don't want to write down winning the PGA tour. Writing your goals down on paper not only gives you better clarity of what it is you want to do with your life, it also gives you a destination point, an ending. Write down how much money you want to make, places you want to visit, things you want to do. Make sure you look at your goals daily, write them down as often as you would like, let them enter your conscious and sub-conscious mind.

2. Decide to develop successful habits, do away with bad habits such as too much TV or over shopping and replace them with good habits such as educating you mind daily and regular exercise. You will be surprised to know that 3.5 hours of TV daily amounts to over 45 days a year. Scary.

3. Make sure to schedule quality time for the people you love. I assure you no one in their death bed regrets not spending enough time working. Life comes and goes quickly, make sure you have plenty of time for family and close friends. Yes work is important, yes you must earn a living. The internet is a powerful tool that can be used to leverage your time, if you are reading this article then you can earn six figures from home.

4. Educate yourself. Not much more to it, instead of spending hours mesmerized in front of the TV take a few hours a week to read inspirational and informative material. Think of a car, when the oil is dirty in the car we replace it with new and cleaner oil resulting in a well maintained machine. Our minds are not much different if you want a successful life read about successful people find out what they did, what their habits are, where they go, what they read and soon you will be one of them.

5. Have fun. Lets face it, all work no play is no way to live.
I hope the above material is helpful to anyone looking for direction in their life. These are not the only things to consider but definitely they are some of the more important ones.


Ed Rodriguez 610-507-1999 cell http://www.sixfiguredreamteam.com emrodriguez@hotmail.com


About the Author
ED Rodriguez is a leading national business trainer. he has helped countless individuals reach six figure incomes from in front of their home computers. His primary areas of focus are internet marketing and business.

How To Be Supremely Smart

If you've just graduated college, you've probably begun hiding away all those books and papers. Finally: freedom!! It's time to get really rich and make a name for yourself. Career. That's the real world, right?


Wrong.
Graduation is no excuse to stop the learning process. Failure to study is folly! The new information your constantly process determines your edge in life. School learning is static and often decades out of date.
Here's how to grow your IQ by 50%- after college.


1) Keep a book handy.
Thousands are released every year. Pick two close to your passions every month. Update yourself. Build your skillset to make yourself interesting and indispensable to to your associates.


2) Maintain a "To-Learn" List
Break out of your comfort zone! It's fine to develop your core competencies, but too much of one thing makes you a dull boy. The most dynamic thinkers and leaders maintain a list of new challenges to tackle: like learning a new language, to scaling Mount Everest. Having new goals will revitalize you!


3) Expand Your Base of Intellectual Friends
Hanging out with dullards is contagious. Notice how being around folks who spout nonesense forces you to lower yourself to their level? Upgrade your companions and their skills, ideas and passions trickle down to you. More than reading books, I achieved mastery of everything from dancing tango to deliverying firey speeches through my associations


4) Modeling The Greats
Got a project? There's no point re-inventing the wheel. Learn how the masters did it and build upon their methods. You'll quickly and readily discover how to get things done fast. Then you can move on to even bigger fish.


5) Practice practice practice
You'll never learn how to shoot a gun by reading a book. Drop that book after you get the theory down pat. Walk to your shooting range and squeeze a few shots! That's when textbook learning leads to magnificent mastery.


6) Mentor Your Colleagues
I've built my negotiation skillset by passing on tips to those who blunder like bulls at boardrooms. Know what? Each time I did so, I actually found myself weaving ever more enticing spiels that led to more satisfying win-win outcomes! Teach others and you grow. Empowerment is mutual!




About the Author
Joseph Plazo is recognized persuasion expert ... but can't persuade his business partners and clients to leave him alone.
He is the author, co-author or creator of several best-selling persuasion, attraction and influence resources. You simply can't be persuaded to miss out on his massive library of free Persuasion downloads.

5 Points To Identify Failure

5 points to identify a predetermined failure (for all fields and scopes) By Noam Mankowitz (Pmcc) Founder / Head Coach www.inner-view.org Personal website for more details www.inner-view.org/noam

"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you." Mandino

Also we are coaches' we are also human, and as all humans we face challenges and responsibilities on a daily basis. We face taking action toward achieving our goals, whether personal of business.

We need to take marketing and promotional actions to help us build a successful coaching practice, we need to go out and network, we need to call past clients asking for references, we need to hand out more business cards, we all know what it is we need to be doing, but do we?

Don't forget that what Seneca said: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"

Clients turn to us for the exact reasons; they need help to get to where it is they want to go. And part of our job as coaches' is to help our clients recognize and identify a predetermined failure so they can help themselves in the future.

Before giving you the 5 points to identify a predetermined failure, we will have to understand what failure is for we know that "A man sees the world not as it is, but as he is" We all have a different perspective to what is failure so take a sec and think to your self what is failure for you? I do recommend that when the issue comes up in a session; ask your client also this question.

Before we move on one way to overcome fear is to get familiar with its origin So here is the origin of the word failure: The word failure comes originally from French 500-600 years ago where it was Failure - which means short off, and not meeting the expectations. Later the word fail was first used in the English language by the British poet H. Maundrell, how wrote "the time would fail me to tell Gideon" Which meant - I have so much to tell but so little time, I won't be able to meet my wanting. Later on failure was linked to power failure, and lightning failure, which meant it won't achieve its fall power.

OK now let's get into business; here are the 5 points to identify a predetermined failure:

1. Negativity
Negativity towards ourselves, towards our writing, and towards those around us is a warning for a predetermined failure. Try to focus on the positive, and remind yourselves that you are making steps to promote your dream. Many succeeded, why not you? If you experience bay criticism of your writings, remember that there are millions of people in the world, and millions of opinions. For your information, Henry Ford, Donald Trump, Rubin Sharma, J. K. Roiling and even Madonna, tried and tried many times, without success, until the big moment.

2. Blaming an outside element
It isn't me; it's the parents, the education, the book companies, the environment, recession and the country. Right? Wrong. The responsibility for your life is in your hands, and not in anyone else's. Life is yours, the dream is yours, and don't expect anyone else to live you life, or bring everything all the way to you. So take responsibility and make the first steps to make your dream a reality, only you have the power. Don't forget - "a man is not remembered for his secret thoughts". Erica Jong said: "Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame"

3. Labeling yourself
I'm not skillful, I'm not smart, I don't have it, I don't have any imagination, I'm unlucky, I'm not interesting, I'm not an author... many of us label ourselves and thus doom their fate. Usually it's simply a self fulfilling prophecy. Better off without. What is the label you'd like to have? Why not chance the old one with a new? It's possible, and works miracles, as we will demonstrate as we carry on.
Henry Ford once said "Whether you believe you can or can't you are right"

4. foreseeing a preset future
Some believe that there are unique individuals that can foresee the future. Certain Stars and well known people even pay a hefty some for those foreseers whose name precedes them. What about you, do you think there's any chance you might open a prophesizing business soon? If the answer is no, then how is it that you are willing to put your life dream in stake, because you think "it has no future"? Not write because "no publicists will ever accept me", or "no one will read it"? We seldom know what will happen in a minute, not to mention a month, or a year, or more. You don't know what the future has installed for you if you make real you dream of writing, but you certainly know what's predicted for you if you choose not to write. You'll simply.. not write.

5. everything or nothing thoughts
These thought are total thoughts. Why stay writing if I'll never produce a best seller? If I don't have time to write 8 hours each day, I won't write at all. If I don't succeed, I'll never write again. If my spouse, the lecturer, a certain book publishing firm don't like it, I'll never show it to another soul, etc. these are thoughts that their whole aim is to despair and to get the wind out of your sails, even before you've started. In writing, the road is the goal, and for that it is important to set realistic goals. Like sitting an hour a day in front of the writing sheet or the computer, (and not get up, even if nothing comes out!) like writing a page a day and proceed gradually.

One of the laws of success is: You always have a choice, going on and doing it or not. Even not doing anything is a choice, The question that you have to ask your self is: Is doing nothing working for me or against me?

Now ask yourself; in the situation you are in, what you know you got to do in order for it to be better? Now go and do it!

For your success

By Noam Mankowitz (pmcc) Founder / Head Coach www.inner-view.org Personal website for more details www.inner-view.org/noam


About the Author
Noam Mankowitz (pmcc) is a leading professional Master Certified Coach and Mentor who has experience working with hundreds of individual clients and organizations, world wide. He is the Founder, Head Coach and president of INNER-VIEW.org the world's leading professional coaching platform.

7 Habits Successful People Have

When you take a look at some of the successful people in the world, the money they possess may blind you or the notoriety the public bestows upon them distracts your judgment. At second glance (with the exception of generational money and success), there are certain factors that have contributed to their success and popularity. With almost every successful person, there are common habits that add to their wealth or catapult them into the spotlight. The good news is - you don't have to be a millionaire to follow the same path and develop successful habits of your own.

Success usually doesn't come to people that exhibit poor habits, such as laziness, a gloomy disposition or attitude, or possess an unwillingness to learn. Instead, it is poor behaviors and practices that hold people back from achieving the success they want out of life, no matter how much they want it to happen. The desire to achieve success is simply not enough, meaning you have to match your desire with effort, determination, patience, and motivation.

When you want to achieve something, it is important to move forward towards your goals instead of falling backwards. Usually, the difference between an unsuccessful person and one who lives a minimal lifestyle is seen in the habits they form over their lifetime. Below you will find seven common habits that many successful people tend to share:

1) Passion
Successful people most often possess passion and find a reason for living in each endeavor they pursue. Anyone can embrace this habit by increasing the level of enthusiasm they possess when it comes to completing their daily tasks, as well as long-term goals they have set. Sometimes it just means becoming more excited about the things that need accomplishing.

2) Focus
When you "keep your eyes on the prize" and stay focused on your goals, you will become more of a success. This is a great way to approach the things you don't really feel like achieving, but is still necessary for your overall goals. Once you get into the habit of realizing that achieving an array of goals (even the ones you don't particularly care for) will only get you one step closer towards achieving success, the process becomes much easier.

Some individuals simply don't sweat the small stuff and completely stay focused on how the "big picture" will look in the end. A good way to stay on task is to think about how much happiness and satisfaction will come from achieving your goals, and how sweet the final results will taste.

3) Time Management
Wasting time only sets you behind in achieving the things you need to accomplish. This means making every moment count and focusing on completing the things will help achieve your overall quest. There is no reason to accept interruptions or distractions that only deter you from your goals. Successful people often ignore the potential setbacks that peers, co-workers, family, and friends are often responsible for. Anything that threatens your attention needs to step aside in order to achieve success.

4) List-Building
Successful people know what they are going to do the next day before they even go to bed. This is because individuals with proven streaks of success make a list of the tasks they must complete by the next day. Before you retire for the night, you should create a list of five to six tasks. Usually, this is arranged in order of importance. When the next day arrives, an individual may set their sights on completing the first thing on their list. The enjoyment comes when they are able to scratch it off and continue down the line. This is quite simple to achieve and helps stop procrastinating and break the habit of postponing important tasks.

5) Don't Wait
Successful people do not wait for the "perfect" time to start achieving their goals; they go straight for them and don't wait for a particular moment to surface. If they fail at their first attempt, they simply learn from their mistakes and try again. For some, the hardest part of becoming successful is reaching a starting point.

6) Keep Going
Quitters do not achieve the success they wish for themselves by letting any hardship, barrier or obstacle slow them down or stand in their way. Accomplishing something just once makes the next time much easier. For example, a weight loss journey begins with the first visit to the gym. Overall, it is important to stay unswerving in your effort.

7) Embrace Opportunity
For some, certain opportunities only come once in a lifetime. A successful person grasps each chance they receive and runs closer towards their goals. You should make it a habit to say, "yes" to the opportunities you encounter, even if you are filled with fear. In the long run, you will go much further in confirming your goals.

Overall, successful people are individuals of action, who follow their dreams without allowing anything to get in their way. No matter what task you wish to accomplish, following some of the same common habits of success will aid you in your personal quests.


About the Author
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Tips To Get Ahead In Life

The secrets to getting ahead in life and being successful are so simple that we often overlook them. Replacing a few bad habits with a few good ones can make a big difference. Try the following tips.


CHOOSE GOOD COMPANIONS
Two are better than one, and you will find it both protection and incentive if you can secure a faithful friend; and in some respects better than two are the many; therefore you cannot do more wisely than seek out a wider companionship. Whilst instructed by the information of some, and strengthened by the firmer faith or larger experience of others, there are important themes on which you will learn to think with precision.


STOP PROCRASTINATING
Mrs. Whitney says, in one of her books, that "the things which are crowded out of a life are the test of that life," and I believe that the saying is true in its widest sense. Examine our lives closely, and we shall find that we constantly delude ourselves with the idea that we would accomplish certain things if we had time, when, in truth, we have no real desire for those things. One person will say that reading is out of the question; another will bewail the impossibility of maintaining social relations; a third will avow that charitable or benevolent enterprises would delight her if she might engage in them and all the time these good people are comforting themselves with a fallacy. The things for which they do find time are the things they prefer.


The things which are crowded out are the things they would not choose if life lay unemployed before them. Scores of wives and mothers are busied constantly with their family cares, but not one in every score loves music enough to steal time for practice. Hundreds of young men are forced by stress of circumstances to work hard for daily subsistence, but only one in a thousand, perhaps, conquers the difficulty of his position, and makes a name for himself. This one might not have found his way easier or its upward steps less tiresome, but he wanted to succeed, and so wanting, let nothing needful be crowded out.


KEEP YOUR TEMPER
You will accomplish nothing by losing it. Many date their failure in business to some hasty and ill-considered statement made during a fit of temper. When things go awry, business is dull, and the prospect is dark ahead, it is very poor consolation to indulge in passionate and angry remarks to those around you. The frown on a person's face is a good indication of the state of the feelings within. The world judges us by our outward conduct and behavior, and ill-natured, cross grained men rarely become successful.


Solomon says: "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city;" "Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him." Difficulties disappear when met calmly and resolutely; they increase with ill-nature and anger. Keep your temper.


ENERGY AND COURAGE
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life. It accomplishes more than genius. Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man - in a word, it is the Man himself. True hope is based on it - and it is hope that gives the real perfume to life. No blessing is equal to the possession of a stout heart Charles IX, of Sweden, was a firm believer in the power of will, even in a youth. Laying his hand on the head of his youngest son, when engaged upon a difficult task, he exclaimed. "He shall do it! he shall do it!"


Nothing that is of real word can be achieved without courageous working. The timid and hesitating find everything impossible, chiefly because it seems so. The Scriptural injunction, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might", must be realized if you wish to succeed. It is pluck, tenacity, and determined perseverance which wins soldiers' battles, and, indeed, every battle. It is the one neck nearer that wins the race and shows the blood; it is the one march more that wins the campaign; the five minutes' more persistent courage that wins the fight. Though your force be less than another's, you equal and out-master your opponent if you continue it longer and concentrate it more. The reply of the Spartan father, who said to his son, when complaining that his sword was too short, "Add a step to it," is applicable to everything in life.


THE STRENGTH OF SILENCE
There is a mighty power in silence, and silence is frequently an evidence of power. There are many people so weak that they can not hold their tongues, or keep their mouths shut. One who offends not in word is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body. He who can control his tongue, can control his entire nature. Hence silence is a token of power, of reserved force. He who knows how to keep silence knows how to speak; and often his silence is more impressive than his speech.


"Brilliant flashes of silence" is by no means a senseless expression. How often have we seen the babble of the foolish hushed by the silent glance of an earnest soul; how often the ribald jest or scurrilous word has died upon the lips when an indignant silence was the only reply it could evoke. That man or that woman who can stand silent amid reproaches and accusations and sneers and scon's, shows a degree of strength and power which falls not to the lot of every one. The silent accomplish more than the noisy. The tail of the rattlesnake makes all the noise, but the head does all the execution.


IDLENESS NOT HAPPINESS
The most common error is that of looking for happiness somewhere outside of useful work. It has never yet been found when thus sought, and never will be while the world stands; and the sooner this truth is learned the better for everyone. If you doubt the proposition, glance around among your friends and acquaintances, and select those who appear to have the most enjoyment in life. Are they the idlers and pleasure-seekers, or the earnest workers? We know what your answer will be. Of all the miserable human beings it has been our fortune or misfortune to know, they were the most wretched who had retired from useful employment to enjoy themselves; while the slave at his enforced labor, or the hungry toiler for bread, were supremely happy in comparison.


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About the Author
Liza Othman manages an ebook website at FunHowToBooks.com.

Self-Care Tips

5 Things You Can Do For Yourself

1. Ask yourself "what is it I really want out of life?
If you're reading this you're probably one of those people who put other needs before your own. Maybe you do this so often that you don't even realize your own wants and needs. It's time to find out what YOU really want for yourself so you can find joy in your life.

2. Take a Risk
We sometimes get "stuck" in a rut, doing the same things day in and day out even though we know it's not making us happy. Doing something different is scary, change is scary. So we keep on doing what we do. If you've been putting off something you really want to do because you fear the unknown, now is the time to take a risk. Get out of your comfort zone, challenge yourself and you will grow as a person.

3. Rid yourself of draining people
If you've been settling for relationships in your life where you give and give and give but never get anything in return, you're probably feel hurt and angry. If you want to take better care of YOU, get rid of those draining relationships. The "takers" will just keep taking as long as you're giving.

4. Treat Yourself The Way you Treat your Friends
As women we are very good a giving support, offering a shoulder to cry on, and caring for our friends with love and compassion. Instead of criticizing yourself or"beating yourself up", try giving yourself the same care and compassion you give to a friend. When you find that you're getting down on yourself, ask yourself "what would I say to my friend if she had this same problem".

5. Say "NO" Without Feeling Guilty
This will definitely take some practice if you have difficulty saying no. You may have to accept that not everyone will be pleased all the time but it's not your responsibility to see that they are. Like anything else, the more you do it the easier it will become. Try it the next time someone requests something of you that you really don't want to do.

About the Author
Denise Fitzpatrick is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who specializes in helping women who are too nice for their own good, learn to say no with confidence and without feeling guilty. If you are interested in more tips like the ones in this article please click on the link below. http://www.denisefitzpatrick.com/articles.html
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