Making excuses will kill your momentum.
If you allow yourself to make excuses you will never get your goals accomplished. There are over 1.000.000 excuses and we have all made plenty of them.
We are experts at making excuses because we have been doing it all our lives. Just ask any school teacher! I'm sure they could write a book about the excuses they have heard about why homework was not handed in.
We go through school making excuses and excuses will stop us from achieving what we want if we do not change our thinking.
The excuses we tell ourselves are the very worst.
The next time you start making an excuse, stop and replace it with a powerful excuse why you should do something, instead of why you are not going to.
When you are going to watch TV before you read your book for the day, tell yourself you are going to read your book because it will help you learn, and it will help you earn, and it will help you grow. What is watching TV going to do for you?
If you keep telling yourself why you can't do something, you will never get it done. You won't be able to create momentum. You will create inactivity instead.
Making excuses will kill your momentum.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Leaders Don't Make Excuses
Monday, July 21, 2008
Leaders Create Momentum
You can have momentum or excuses but you can't have both.
Momentum smashes through obstacles.
A small snowball rolling down a hill gets bigger and bigger as it goes and eventually you won't be able to stop it.
If you create momentum and keep focused you will become unstoppable.
The biggest momentum killer is inertia or inactivity.
Inertia starts an never ending cycle of despair - depression- unaccomplished goals - low self esteem- total failure.
I have been there-done that- and I got the t-shirt and the battle scars to prove it!
Life is so much more exciting when you have big dreams and you are focused on them. It is even better when you are plugged into a personal development system and have a mentor to keep you on track.
You can have momentum or excuses but you can't have both.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Leadership Is Believing It Can Be Done
You have to see it and believe that you can do it and then come up with a plan to get it done.
Once you "see it" accomplished in your mind, then you will be able to believe it can be done. When you believe it can be done, then you must map out a plan of how you are going to accomplish it.
If you don't come up with a plan, you won't ever get it done. You must have a plan and focus on the results. If you don't have a plan, you will get distracted and and "forget" all about your goals and dreams.
You have to see it and believe that you can do it and then come up with a plan to get it done.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Leaders See The Impossible And Figure Out A Way To Get It Done
You have to "see it" before you can "do it".
Leaders look at the impossible and "see it" completed before they believe they can "do it". If you don't look at the end product of what you are planning to do, you will never do it because you won't believe it can be done.
One thing I have noticed about the leaders and mentors I work with is they all believe the impossible can be done, and because they believe it can be done, they get it done.
Remember Henry Ford? He told his employees he wanted a V-8 engine designed. They told him it couldn't be done. He told them to design it or he would replace them with engineers that could design it. Guess what? That was the motivation they needed to "see it" and after they saw it they designed it.
You have to "see it" before you can "do it".
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