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GREAT SUCCESS IS GUARANTEED BY DOING THIS ONE EASY THING
What Do You Dare To Dream?
Brian Tracy, the acclaimed business success and personal development guru, says that the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well, and to finish it completely is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.
THE KEY TO SUCCESS, ACHIEVEMENT, RESPECT, STATUS, AND HAPPINESS IN LIFE
Concentrating Single-Mindedly on Your Most Important Task
Doing it Well
Finishing it Completely Before Moving on To Another Task – Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog
In his book, Eat That Frog!, Mr. Tracy lays out the 21 most powerful personal effective techniques to keep you focused upon and in line with the above ideas. Eat That Frog! is a quick yet great read that will open your mind and will unquestionably enhance your effectiveness in every area of your life.
Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
If you have not read Eat That Frog!, you should do so immediately. If you have read it, you should do so again.
The faster you learn and apply the well-explained techniques in this book, the faster you will get ahead in every area of your life, and the sooner you will accomplish your purpose in Life.
Here is a great link to give you an overview of what you will find in Eat That Frog!. But don’t settle for just the summary, get Mr. Tracy’s book, read it, read it again, and apply it to every area of your life. Then read it again.
I guarantee you will be happy you did.
From my heart to yours,
Scotty b.
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WHAT IS MY PURPOSE IN LIFE?
If I don’t know my purpose; I must find it. 
AND I MUST FIND IT NOW! That one simple item will change EVERYTHING!
To Accept myself and others fully and without judgment. I let go of who I ‘should be’ and embrace who I actually am. I let go of how religion tells me ‘God wants me to be,’ and Accept that He made me exactly as He wanted me to be. I don’t honor God by trying to be something I am not. I honor God by being exactly how He made me. I Live with the courage to be imperfect.
To Be Personally and 100% Responsible for EVERYTHING in my Life. If I don’t like it, I can change it. If a person doesn’t belong in my Life; I let them go. If I hate my address; I can change it. I am not a tree. What I cannot do is complain, blame, gripe, or gossip as these are hallmarks of someone who knows things can be better; but is not willing to take the personal responsibility of making them better.
To never quit. To constantly clarify what an Abundant Life means to me. To picture already having that Life and how I will feel. Intensifying those feelings. Often. Persevering no matter what!
To Joyfully live in Authentic Abundance; by Living in Truth, with Love and Respect for all Living things, and to be compassionate, kind, and Loving to myself and others. To be a Beacon of light and Love.
To Live Loud, Openly, Authentically and Courageously; and find an authentic way to Applaud or Encourage every person I meet.
To stand up for what I believe in. To challenge ideas and viewpoints when they need to be challenged; firmly yet respectfully – keeping in mind that a Person who is wrong is far more important than my Idea, even if right.
To Live in Heaven; now and forever, remembering that Heaven, by definition, is wherever God is. And God is Love (1 John 4.8). So I have the power to take Heaven wherever I choose, by choosing to take Love with me everywhere I go.
To have fun doing the most important and enjoyable things I can think of doing. To Live so purposefully, proactively, powerfully and passionately – that my Life is My Sermon.
And to purposefully design my Life so that five years or less from today, I will be able, with four words, to authentically respond to someone asking me, “What would you do with your life if you could do anything at all?”
‘What I am doing.’
Purposefully yours,
Scotty b.
OVERCOMING FEAR: THE COURAGE TO BECOME A HERO (PART 2)
This post begins with OVERCOMING FEAR: THE COURAGE TO BECOME A HERO (PART 1)
President John F. Kennedy (with Caroline)
We all want and need heroes. And we can all become heroes. But JFK was certainly correct when he advised of would be heroes: “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
But if you know your purpose and Live with direction, courage is often nothing more than the power and testicular fortitude to say “No.” J. K. Rowling hit it right on the mark with: “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – J.K. Rowling
Sometimes it takes a great deal more courage to stand opposed to our friends. And sometimes that is what a Real Man is called upon to do.
And the rewards are incredible. According to Morihei Ueshiba: “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of Love.”
Don’t Wait For a Hero. Be The Hero Your World Needs!
No matter what, though, we have One Friend we need never stand up to, we have One Friendship that will always be completely in our corner, and fully backing us.
And NOT just when we ‘are good.’ When we fail. When we fail miserably. When we sin in the worst and most despicable way. When our friends desert us and our problems appear insurmountable. When everything in our world seems dark, and when all other lights seem to have failed.
Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10 NAS
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10 NAS
To Courage,
Scotty b.
OVERCOMING FEAR: THE COURAGE TO BECOME A HERO (PART 1)
Courage is not the absence of fear. As John Wayne quipped, “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.”
“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
Haile Selassie said, “We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”
The prophet, Isaiah, offers this on courage: ‘Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.’ – Isaiah 41:10 NLT
There is no higher praise a man can receive than being labeled courageous. There is no moniker evidencing greater disdain than calling a man a “coward.” In most tribal cultures courage, for men at least, courage is the only characteristic measured in determining one’s place in society.
Don’t Wait For a Hero. Be The Hero Your World Needs!
A man who possesses an abundance of courage will be forgiven a host of other shortcomings, but it is difficult to appreciate any other quality in a man who lacks courage.
“Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”, as Maya Angelou astutely penned.
“Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency” – Maya Angelou
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10 NIV
According to Winston Churchill, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Indeed, courage is multi-faceted in the way it manifests itself. It can be seen in one who faces death or destruction bravely. It is witnessed in the character of one who is unwilling to sway her opinion in the face of peer pressure or government or religious coercion. It may be seen in the soldier charging a machine gun nest to save his buddies, but is no less valid when it is a man deciding to become the unshakable emotional fortress for his family — when life becomes complicated and troubles abound at home.
(CONTINUED IN OVERCOMING FEAR: THE COURAGE TO BECOME A HERO – PART 2)
To courage,
Scotty b.
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INVICTUS
Invictus.
This is an awesome poem that Nelson Mandela repeated to himself each and every day he was in prison . . . and it kept him going until he was eventually set free . . . and later become president! This is one I recommend memorizing!
Make today a great one,
Scotty b.
INVICTUS
by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.
The Prefixed Life 