Live YOUR Dreams Today

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This is the last article in the series on ten personal tenets you should consider and adopt in your life if you want to be a leader and/or want to have success.  To be able to live your dreams, you need to take control of your destiny.  You need to become a leader … even if it is only YOU who you are leading.   If you can’t lead your own life, how do you expect that you can lead others - whether it’s in your job or in a business or in reaching your goals?

(If you haven’t had a chance to read the other 2 posts, here are the links to Part I and Part II.)

• Tenet # 8 Difference Makers and Impact Players have the ability to equip THEIR winners with the right tools and provide a nurturing environment. If you have a team, family members, and business partners who help you to bring your goals and dreams into reality, you MUST help them succeed as well.  You do this by creating a safe environment filled with encouragement, love and support.  You do this by creating ways to train and educate them so that they can grow and achieve more than they ever thought.  Always be looking for ways you can help your “winners” be better, learn from their mistakes and teach them to have fun at the same time.  Also, let them know how grateful you are for their dedication to you and your goals.  When they know you care, they will feel appreciated and that their efforts have been recognized.

• Tenet # 9 Compete not compare! Impact players don’t compare themselves to others in their field, niches, teams or similar businesses.  Instead, an impact player attempts to exceed his or her personal best … on a daily basis.  If you compare yourself to someone who is doing better than you are, you’ll only make yourself feel like “crap”.  You can never be like another person - your skills, talents, beliefs, life experiences, education, etc. will be different from theirs.  What someone else can do will be different than what you can do.  So, make a more empowering choice.  Compete with yourself - with your personal best - and strive to go beyond that.  Figure out what you can do each day to be just a little bit better than the day before.  Apply this to your business, your job, your family relationships, your health, your spiritual growth … and by the end of the year you’ll be a stronger, wiser, more successful person.

• Tenet # 10 You must adopt the “little bit more” mindset. What this tenet means is that you must do things just beyond your comfort zone.  Beyond your perceived limitations.  Also, you must help others on your team, in your family, at your job or in your business because they won’t do if for themselves.  People will go farther than they think they can when shows them or tells them that they can do it.  When you encourage others along the way that they CAN be better, that they CAN achieve the next step, that they CAN do a little bit more … their goals and dreams (and yours) will come true.  A great movie to watch that illustrates this tenet the best is “Facing the Giants“.   In Winston Churchill’s words, “Never, never,  ever give up!”

Your dreams are the most important thing in your life.  In order to live your dreams, you must make them sacred.  You must become the person you will be when your dreams become your reality.  To get started or to give an extra boost to your efforts, seriously consider these 10 tenets.  Adopt the ones that will empower you to take daily action towards your goals and dreams.  And then seriously consider the rest and make them a part of your life’s philosophy.  These 10 “big picture, impact player” tenets will give you a solid foundation for building your success and living your dreams!

Please feel free to leave your comments.  I would love to hear your stories of what tenets or beliefs helped you create your successes.

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Over this past weekend,  I got a notice about Jim Rohn’s passing.  My heart was saddened.  I listened to some of his audios on the net … and today I found my Jim Rohn Nightingale-Conant tape programs.  The recordings brought back many memories of when I was first starting out on my journey to success.

Jim Rohn “mentored” me through his audios when I started my accounting practice over 27 years ago.  I’ve never been an entrepreneur before that and wasn’t quite sure how I was going to make it.  Then I would listen to one of his tapes for the 5th and 6th time … and almost wore them out … to burn into my being that I can do it!

I remember him saying that it’s the little things that make the difference in one’s life … the little things build up to the big things … what one doesn’t do today, tomorrow, and the next turns into being fat, broke, unhappy, out of shape and in a dead-end job later on down the road.  It’s not the outside circumstances that determine one’s life … it’s whats going on the inside of one’s head - it’s what one is constantly thinking.  Think poor thoughts, one will have a poor life.

Of course Jim Rohn said it more eloquently … and it was his words that spurred me on in the face of the major and devastating adversities in my life … I had the faith and courage to continue in the direction of my dreams taking small steps - doing the little things - that would get me closer to the life I so desperately wanted and desired.  Jim taught me to create a life’s legacy that I would be proud of.

I now am living the life of my dreams … and I attribute my success to Jim Rohn’s great teachings about having an empowering “Philosophy of Life” to support me in my journey and then in turn help others to do the same.

My wish for you is to revisit some of Jim Rohn’s teachings and find a golden nugget or two to relish during these trying times and use them for your success in 2010.   To get you started, here is a 7 minute video clip of Mr. Rohn talking about how each of us as individuals have to better ourselves in order to be a person who has success and who has riches.  Enjoy the video and take lots of notes … there are plenty of golden nuggets for learning how to LIVE the life of your dreams rather than just dreaming about it!