Goals

How are your goals going for 2018?
Have you tried to improve your business life ? Or are you doing the same old thing expecting different results?- which is the definition of insanity.
Remembering the only true person you can change is yourself - have you done anything to change your attitude?
Goals are important- daily goals, yearly goals and hopefully you have a 4 or 5 year goal, if you do not have goals how can you measure your results or more important how can you structure your day to reach what you want, what you envision.
Vision is vital to listing your goals.
Where do you envision yourself at the end of your current journey?
See it in your minds eye- then work toward it.
And don’t be afraid to reverse course or change - to reach goals you need to constantly want to improve and to improve you need to look around and listen and learn.
What your personal goals ? Your business goals and your vision for down the road ?

ME- I

The two longest words are - ME and I
Listen to your leaders and listen as you yourself talk- do you always describe what your business is doing and what you may be involved in and say “me” and “I” a lot ?
Sounds like you are taking all the credit and more important you are not sounding inclusive or appreciative.
I do not about you but I am completely turned off with people that think they are all it and they are the best- if you know these people - beware. It normally tells you a lot about their character and what they really think.
If you want to build a TEAM then BE part of the team and start by expressing yourself better .
Use WE and US and believe in what you say .

Find the beauty

Every day is a Gift ...
Find the beauty

We all have problems, we all struggle to be a better person, we all live in a world with a lot of hate and negative but every day your mission must be to remind yourself that even through all the negative- you are alive- and that my friend is a gift.

Life comes at you fast and if you allow the bad and the negative to wash over you then you will waste time - I am not saying by being Mr. or Mrs. sunshine that bad will not enter your life but do not allow it to take over your life- you have the power .

Having issues with work or maybe some people at work ? Or maybe it’s your circle of friends or family ? Don’t ignore it or get mad or tell others all the negative- access the issues and be honest, be honest with yourself and with them.
Whatever you do , try to take time in the day to silence everything and everybody and just think of the good, of the people that believe in YOU and the beauty all around you.

There are bad people that do not ultimately care about you and maybe you are in a tough situation financially or work is a bad environment- get over it and understand that is just life, don’t just complain- do something about it ,
Take baby steps but before change can occur you first have to recognize the problem and confront the issues but do not allow THEM to win - to take your power.

These are lessons and the streams down the river that we all must follow.

So on the way remember to breathe in , look around and appreciate your life , appreciate the gift ..
Find the beauty

Health

My mom would always tell me “ If you have your health you have everything “ -
Little did I know that she was giving me one of the secrets of life.
We spend a lot of time and energy complaining about little , unimportant things every day and we neglect to just be thankful for our health , after all they say “ Don’t sweat the small stuff, and most everything is small stuff”.
If you question this little known fact then you will surely remember if you have health issues, all you want to do is feel better and you realize that all the stuff you were complaining about does not matter.
All you want is to be healthy.
Do not waste the day - do not over think things- do not let being paranoid seep into your day-
Appreciate the beautiful world around you- smile and thank people through out your day-
Appreciate your health-
“If you have your health you have everything “

Working through it

Bad things happen

Bad things happen to all of us , no one is an exception, you can spend your life asking “ why me “ or you can work through it.
None of us know what life has in store and the only thing we can be sure of is that we have no real control of what comes at us- we DO have control on how we react to what happens to us or around us.
It may be tougher now with social media because everyone post all these pictures of everyone smiling and hugging or on vacation and doing all kind of fun stuff so a person can look at them and get jealous or down on themselves but trust me everyone has been knocked down and most are going through something every day.
That same person that you envy may have personal issues that you would never want, in fact if  those around you wrote down on a piece of paper their issues they are struggling with and threw them all in a hat along with yours, you would most likely grab your back.

Stop wishing your life away wishing for the “ perfect” life and start living the life right in front of you. Those bumps in the road are your lessons, those “ bad things” are your paths to “ better” things- richer things - lessons that ultimately will be the fabric of your very being.

Work through it -

It isn’t brain surgery

It isn’t brain surgery.... want to be successful?

Answer email and calls

Be nice

Give a shit

Sounds simple right ?

Then why do most people fail on doing the “simple” things ?

Answering emails and calls promptly is simple respect and good business, even if you do not have an immediate answer - return the call or email ! If not you are telling that person that they do not matter and they sit there wondering if you even received the call or email. 

Being nice sounds ridiculous to even have to put down on paper but if most people would concentrate on just being nice to others they will make their job so much easier and guess what - people would be nicer to them.

Being nice may involved simply smiling and listening and offering a sincere helping hand.

I use to say that I could teach someone how to do the day to day and how to organize and train them how to do the day to day things that involve the responsibilities of their job BUT I could teach or train them - to give a shit- to actually CARE about others.

If you sincerely do not care about others and understand that what you do can effect what they do then all the training in the world will not help.

That’s it folks-

It is not brain surgery-

Answer email and calls

Be nice

Pay correctly and promptly 

Give a shit

If I can Dream

If I Can Dream

Elvis Presley

There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true
oh why
There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, oh why, oh why won't that sun appear

We're lost in a cloud
With too much rain
We're trapped in a world
That's troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly
Deep in my heart there's a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark, there's a beckoning candle

And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
While I can dream, please let my dream
Come true, right now
Let it come true right now
Oh yeah