P365 – A Year's Journey

The names, the words, the negativity and the corruption people have told you – is wrong. Today is a fresh day. Be Free. A new day to prove them wrong. Whatever it may be… I ask you to get up and to be proud to be you, be joyful to be you and most of all be free to be you!

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Even when the odds are against you, battle it out like you own the moment.

If you believe you have a mission to beat it, make it or be it. Then this is your moment.

Your time to shine is now.

You have already bet the odds if your willing to go for it. Making the decision to act gets you halfway there.

I have been reiterating over and over to push yourself and drive to conquer your goals and dreams.

This still stands.

But to do this it will require a journey.

This journey will have many chapters of failing and not getting what you thought you wanted.

But that’s OK. As you will also have chapters full of success and if you stay on target you will succeed.

It’s the days when we least expect our achievements to occur that they actually occur and surprise us.

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Making an excuse before you even start, is only setting yourself up for failure. Don’t decide this!

If you decide that you can’t do something before you even attempt your mind naturally begins to adjust to this idea.
Telling yourself you can’t achieve something because of this, because of that… only creates a belief system.
If you repeat this process it evolves like a bad habit, becoming something expected, of routine and hard to break.

If you don’t believe it’s possible to achieve what you want, you will never succeed.

Sometimes, all the distance that seems to be separating you from your goals is in your mind.
If you removed those mental barriers, you would see that you could just reach out and grab what you’ve been pursuing so long.

As long as you don’t believe that it’s possible, you are going to continue to create excuses and distractions.
That’s simply because it feels uncomfortable or scary to have something you don’t think you are ready to have or become someone you don’t believe you can be.

If you removed the negative beliefs about what YOU can have and become, your reality would change instantly.

“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” -Napoleon Hill

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In order to keep growing, you need to challenge yourself.  You also need to reflect and evaluate your ongoing progress.

Whatever your goals may be, you should write them down and track them consistently.

If you have been tracking them, reflect and review your progress. Challenge yourself.

If you haven’t been tracking your goals, then you can still start! Challenge yourself. 

Some of the areas you should be pushing to grow yourself in are noted below. I have also included some examples:

• Health: Track your weight, track your calories, track your measurements, track food types  
• Fitness: Track your running km’s, track your steps, track your workouts, track your reps, track your sets, track your times
• Relationships: Review your contacts, do you know each one? Are you networking with them?
• Work: Set some performance objectives, both work and personal related. Aim for a promotion, a raise. Track your efforts.
• Spiritual Walk: How much time are spending on this? 10%, 15%, 20% of your time? More or Less?
• Finances: Daily saving goals, budgets, long terms goals, % allocation (pleasure vs work)
• Aspirations/Goals: Overall can you tick any of these off? Have you started any? Challenge yourself.
• Skills: What new skills are you teaching yourself or developing? At work and outside work.
• Mindsets: Attitude checks – morning and night.  Write down your thoughts, if you struggle.
• Talents: What talents have you got hidden, that you are not utilizing. Share them.
• Habits: Are you breaking bad ones, creating new and healthy ones? Track your progress.

Make time for it. Just get it done. Nobody ever got STRONG or got in SHAPE by thinking about it. They did it. – Jim Wendler

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This is it, people, we have now completed 13.7% of the year. It time to just do it!

• 50 days
• 1,200 hours
• 72,000 minutes
• 4,320,000 seconds

This year is already flying by and hopefully so is your progress. Today I want to ask you and challenge you on your progress.

Firstly… Are you even working on DOING, BEING, BECOMING and ACHIEVING your goals or dreams for the year?

Have you got a routine, have you got a plan? Have you got your mind in the game, in the zone?

2018 will be the year you make it. I personally will make it a year better than last. But what type of year are you going to make it? Will it be a year of?

• Opportunity
• New Skills
• Training
• Experience
• Growth
• Networking
• Love
• Friendship
• Health
• Relationships
• Work
• Spiritual Walk
• Finances
• Aspirations/Goals
• Skills
• Mindsets
• Talents
• Habits

The list could go on and on. But the point is you should be challenging yourself in all aspects of your life.

Yes focus on your strengths the most, but don’t keep your weaknesses, as weaknesses. Build them – Grow them.

Don’t think. Just do.

Today is the best day to start working towards your goals and dreams. Start now.

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Don’t let anyone ever dull your sparkle.

You control and regulate your happiness.

You are special, you are great and most of all you are you.

Be you and be full of the joy and embrace the greatness you are.

No matter however you sparkle, however you shine, or however you glow – MAKE IT RADIATE.

Smile to the world, keep your chin up and your eye on the prize.

Take your buzz, take your sparkle and own your day. See your goal in sight and hit the ground running.

Remember the sky is the limit.

Be determined. Be persistent. Be disciplined.

Take your sparkle and share it with the world.

• Express gratitude
• Cultivate optimism
• Practice acts of kindness
• Nurture relationships
• Learn to forgive
• Care for your body
• Share
• Laugh
• Listen
• Have fun
• Compliment those around you
• Smile

Most of all – Be You!

So get out there, smile and let the whole world know!

Once you have your SPARKLE intact – make sure you encourage others sparkles….

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I am because I say I am. Happy that is. 

I haven’t always been a positive person. I was once known for my critiques in trying to make something perfect. 

However, as I have grown, and journeyed through life (short). 

I have become to realize that happiness is as simple as just choosing to be happy.

The moment you realize happiness is a choice. You will instantly empower yourself.

The moment you realize you can choose to take a positive approach, you will soon learn the ways of perception.

The moment we choose to perceive things differently by choosing a loving perception of ourselves, others, and our circumstances…
we not only strengthen our capacity to feel happy—we also open ourselves up to limitless possibilities where there once was seemingly no solution.

What boosts my happiness and drive each day? Seeing those around me as happy or happier than me.

Happiness isn’t based on the number of dollars you have, the wheels that get you from A to B or the size of the house you live in.

Happiness is based on the reflection of your personal values. 
Yes money is great and will make you feel great for a time, but nothing beats:

• your self-confidence
• your appreciation of who you are and what you can do
• affirmation of your skills and talents
• when others give you attention or ask you for advice

Value yourself and you will be happy!

Want a challenge today?

When you stop beating yourself up, stop fighting yourself and stop lowering who you are and what you can do, you will also stop holding yourself back.
Try adding a positive mindset each day. Try making someone else happy!

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Obstacles are there to be conquered and there to be overcome!

As you learn to defeat more and more obstacles, your confidence, your skills and your maturity in wisdom will increase.

You just need to make sure you don’t doubt your ability to actually do it… Even if it does take time.
The time will build you. So get out there and conquer!

I have said this numerous times… You are your own worst enemy and you are the only thing stopping you from stepping over an obstacle.

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of situation would you like? 

If you have talents and skills that you know you can do:

• Do them.
• Show them. 
• Share them,
• Build them.
• Expose them.

Even if they are basic, small and not even at a professional level, these are still skills, talents, and things others cannot do.

As you continue to develop these, you will only become BETTER. Soon enough you will be a MASTER

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