Marcel Legros - Play the Game of Life

Give yourself permission to succeed. A number of people don’t succeed in life because they do not give themselves permission to succeed. They hold themselves back on some level, if they know it consciously or not. Take a moment and tell yourself that you are a good person and that you deserve to succeed, see how you feel, does it feel right? If not, keep telling yourself you are good and deserve success. Gradually, your self-image will improve and you will begin to move towards achieving your goals.

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Failure generally occurs when you have decided to quit, not when someone else tells you it is over. You have a lot of control over when failure occurs. If you keep going, it isn’t a failure. To reduce the amount of failure you have in your life, you need to increase the amount of effort you put into your various projects. What can you do to hang in there a little longer? What can you stop telling yourself that makes you stop?

Most people find that success is located, just beyond the point where they stopped. Don’t you be one of them.

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Make room for the new you.

You may not have totally determined who the new you is going to be, but you probably have decided that there are some things about the current you, that you want to change.

Well while you are working on what the new you will be, start “cleaning out a room” for the new you to live in. Get rid of the junk in your life both physical and mental that doesn’t fit you anymore. Take things out of your schedule that are taking time from finding out what you want to do. By making room for the new you, you will create a vacuum that the new you will rush in to fill and you will be on your way to the top.

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Why are you keeping your dreams on the back burner? You have wonderful dreams, dreams that deserve to come true, and you are not keeping them alive. The only way you will achieve your dreams is to bring them to the forefront of your life, and begin to pursue them. Dreams are what make life worthwhile and lead you to the life you were destined for. Take your dream, flesh it out with some plans, put a date on it and presto, you have a goal. Someone like you, who has special dreams, deserves to have them come true. Start moving your dream to the front of the line today.

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Every day you face the challenge of deciding what you will do with your day. It may seem like the bulk of your day is made up of commitments to other people, such as your boss, your loved ones, etc, but each of those are the result of a decision you made one day in the past. A decision you make today, may affect how you spend your days well into the future. So don’t take today lightly. You are dealing with serious stuff, which is your time and your life. You can be headed for some great feelings of satisfaction in the future, or you can be headed for depression, just on the basis of what you decide to do with your day today.

Do the right thing.

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It is very comfortable to be with people that agree with us, but if you are going to experience peak growth, you need to expose yourself to people with totally different opinions and approaches. You will not learn new things from people doing and thinking exactly what you do. Yes, you will experience rejection, frustration and the sense that you know more than the people you do not agree with, but if you focus on the new ways of looking at things, you will discover new and better ways to do things.

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Here are three tips to help you manage your worries.

1. Examine your expectations to see if you are expecting too much from others or yourself. Times change, so your expectations may not be valid anymore.
2. Explore your options and keep them open. Know there are other possibilities, and you will feel less trapped and more relieved. Options create hope.
3. Live in the present. “What if” questions keep popping up, bugging us about the future, and when that happens, push these aside and stay in the present.
4. Here is a worry management bonus, give yourself some quiet time through meditation, or quiet thought. Research continually proves that the majority of worry related thoughts we have, are things that are out of our control. Work on coming up with alternative solutions to your problems, or what else you can do, if you can’t solve it. Your life will move ahead much faster and you will enjoy yourself more in the process.

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Some people are very successful, without setting goals. So what are they missing? Satisfaction is what they are missing. Success that comes to you seemingly by accident is hard to appreciate, on the other hand success that you planned and worked for, is sweet indeed. Beyond the satisfaction of attaining goals, goal setting increases the odds of attaining your goal by giving you a road map and time frame to use. A goal is a dream with a date on it. If you are not writing your goals out every day, give it a shot and see how it feels. Most people find their success rate goes up along with their satisfaction and morale, if they write out goals and put them into action.

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You can’t pick and choose the times when you will be responsible for what you do, or when you will act responsibly. The things that build and prove your character, do not always occur on sunny days, when you don’t have a lot on your “to do” list. No, character building events, are character building events, BECAUSE they occur at times you would rather do something else. The positive side of this is that because you have to make a sacrifice to do the right thing, you get a tremendous sense of pride about yourself and your self esteem takes a big boost. Others will notice this trait in you, and you will be given more and more responsibility, which will pay off big for you. So step up to the plate, do the right thing and give yourself credit for being a good person.

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The Adidas ad that states “sweat, pain and exhaustion are temporary, but winning the Boston Marathon is forever” can be an inspiration to us all. None of us are immune to the pain associated with the effort it takes to get ahead, but winners are able to view it as temporary, and know that the reward they are seeking will be forever. Your competition feels the same pain as you do, but if you press on, you can outlast them and take the prize. Another sneaker ad said “there is no traffic jam on the extra mile”, saying that once you get close to your goal, your competition will drop out. So hang in there, keep on keeping on, and you will obtain your goal, and feel good forever.

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