Keep On Going, Dream Come True

1. Take consistent little steps:

As it requires little but consistent steps to grow, so does it requires little steps to take to grow into becoming a disciplined person. You can not be discipline overnight. People who have tried it give up and reverse back to their early life of indiscipline. Discipline takes time to develop, but you have to be determined. The more you try to take disciplined steps, the stronger you become. For example, start with something small that makes you feel happy. It could be exercising for 15 minutes daily, waking up 10 minutes earlier etc. If you smoke 20 sticks of cigarette daily and you want to discipline yourself to quite that habit, you may start by smoking 19 sticks, latter 18 and lessen a stick daily. With time you will stop smoking eventually. If you try to stop smoking at once, you will end up going back to it again. The point is that you should take baby steps daily.

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To paraphrase Wikipedia: "Stress is a term in psychology and biology, it refers to the consequence of the failure of an organism – human or animal – to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats, whether actual or imagined."

I’d never really thought of it in those terms before, I’m not sure many people outside of academics would, but it’s true and a great starting point to do something about it. If you’re stressed remember, according to the experts, it’s "the consequence of a failure to respond appropriately".

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There are a thousand and one tricks to achieve your goals. Some of them are really complicated. After all, unless you’re like minded, any strategy that involves a bunch of pie charts, graphs and endless lists probably won’t get you there. I don’t think too many people are technically minded enough to get the most out of complicated systems for producing change. I know that I’m not. I get overwhelmed pretty easily, I constantly revise any detailed plans I make daily, and I find it difficult to even figure out a complicated and thorough plan of attack in the first place. For me, I like simple solutions. I like simplicity that makes me change as a person, instead of complications that make me pretend or play at being someone I’m not. So, when I set a goal, I often find it really helpful to just figure out what type of person would achieve this goal, and then I try and live up to being that person.

I know, this sounds pretty abstract. After all, if you could just become the kind of person who, say, exercises every day, than wouldn’t you already be the kind of person who exercises every day? I understand the initial defensiveness, but I argue that if you give this a shot you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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Wellness incorporates much more than food and exercise. Just as some people are overly focused on a career to the detriment of family, so are others singularly centered on an eating plan or workout regime to the point of exclusion of other aspects of life. Often times, there has been so much talk, time, energy, and money given to losing weight and getting in shape, that a person may not even remember what it is like to dream again about other parts of life. A coach gives hope and inspires dreaming.

Wellness implies a balance in life that includes peace, stability, and personal growth, even when faced with difficulty and painful circumstances. Wellness gives the ability to bounce back from setbacks and disappointments. It comes from building patterns that lead to endurance, strength, and optimal performance. But we are not machines. There is more to life than that.

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John looks out the window mournfully. Outside, he sees his neighbor giving his wife a loving peck on the forehead while she tends to the garden. Their kids are kicking around boisterously, screaming for daddy to come join in the game. And daddy does as with all perfect little daddies do.

John can feel the slow-boiling emotion of envy, jealousy and the creeping frustration about life being unfair to him and being so kind to his neighbor and his family members. They have everything they ever want out of life and he has nothing. He got to a point whereby he is fed-up about not being able to find a perfect life like the one that his neighbor has. Life gave him a terrible hand.

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You went to school, hopefully got good grades, maybe even went to college, and look at where you are now! Whether you’ve been working for a few years or a few decades, your work and job can get old and boring really quick. Now, you’re trying to find a quick way out. Unfortunately, I’ve been in those shoes before, and I knew there was something better out there for me, I knew I had to have other options.

In today’s society, the only real option that always presents itself is going to school, getting good grades and getting that awesome job that you’ll probably be stuck at for the rest of your life. Wow, sounds exciting! But, what else is out there? Luckily, I took the initiative to go find those "options" because I knew the first one (working a 9:00-5:00) was not for me. The way I see it, I had two other options. My second option came to me easily, entrepreneurship. Now, hear me out before you get that sour taste in your mouth from that long "E" word. The third option was to be a bum, and well I knew that wouldn’t cut it!

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Fear exists for everyone in their life, no matter where they are at. It is a completely and totally natural thing and one that keeps us alive. However, in some instances, many of us allow this fear to drive us and we allow it to stop us from doing things. Remember when you were young, how you used to do things that now would stop you cold. When we first started school, there was no real fear of rejection – had we listened to that fear like we sometimes do as adults, how would we have ever made those childhood friends and how would we have grown up. As we get older, and as we start to listen to the opinions of everyone else, it is then that we start allowing those fears to control us until one day, we realize that there is a very real problem with us.

I allowed fear to drive and guide my life for many years, until it landed me in a very bad place, totally afraid of everything and even to scared to go out on my own. In a defining moment in my own life, I decided that I was going to reclaim my own personal power, and start working on them, one by one. I am not going to say that I no longer have any fears, however, I can openly and honestly say that I no longer allow my fear to "live my life" for me.

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This is an article about good fortune so to speak. But more than that, this is an article about how smart effort leads to good fortune. Sure, writing about this seemingly lighthearted subject makes logical sense, because even in serious down times, we can work smart so that the next up time or good fortunes can be that much better. Think about it to yourself seriously. Have you not had those times where you could not seem to win and you had to step back, relax, let it go and then create good fortune by an alternate route? You know what I am talking about. I am talking about those times in your life where nothing seems to go right in any way, then you relax, take an objective look at things, and a solution comes and you create good fortune later on. Before you go on to the next paragraph, think about what I am saying here.

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Studies have shown that at 5 years of age children are 95% creative. By the time they are 12, creativity has diminished to 4%. This shows how schooling and maturity change the way children think and as they move more into adulthood, creativity skills are repressed.

Creativity is important, particularly in business to remain competitive, to provide opportunities for staff and to create a fulfilling environment which has no constraints on free thinking.

By transforming these creative ideas into action, companies can become innovate and leaders in their field.

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Whether we’re talking about your life’s work, your dreams, your daily job, your new endeavour or project, one thing is certain: and that is the less you are bothered about the result, the more likely that fruition, fulfillment and yes, also the result will come.

The result will take its own course; it will come in its own time. From time to time re-examine the way you’re approaching your daily tasks and trust the process of life. Go on doing your work, and whenever the time is ripe and you are ready, the result will come. Often unexpectedly.

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