Marcel Legros - Play the Game of Life

Don’t try to go it alone, become part of a team and you will make it to your goal faster. Form a T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More) that takes advantage of everyone’s special abilities, and the sum will be greater than the parts, resulting in bigger payoffs for all concerned. One way to do this is to form a Mastermind Group, that brings a group of people together, on a regular basis, to talk about each person’s particular goals, and then the rest of the Mastermind Group, gives that person feedback and suggestions to help them attain it. Remember, none of us is as smart as all of us.

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Use a “surveillance” camera to help you perform at a higher level. One trick to help you stay productive is to imagine that you have a surveillance camera recording your every move, as you go through the day. As you do things that might not look so good when the tape is played back, you will find yourself aware of it, and you will stop it. So fool yourself with a “surveillance” camera, and you will find yourself staying on track.

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If you think it is difficult to do the right thing with your life, think about how difficult it will be to live your life doing the wrong things. Many people think doing the right thing is hard, and I agree with them, it is hard. On the other hand, doing the wrong thing seems easy, but boy, oh boy, does it get hard fast. And undoing the wrong thing seems to take a lot more time and energy than we thought, all the while taking this effort away from doing the right thing. So before you go for that easy, comfortable wrong thing, take a second look at what will be involved in undoing it, and then do the right thing. Believe it or not, doing the right thing turns out to be doing the easiest thing.

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Be careful whom you follow and pattern yourself after. Who are you following today? Are you following the people that are going for their dreams, or are you following people that have given up on their dreams. Are you in competition with someone? If so, what is the competition leading to, a better job, better health, etc, or will it lead to hurting your chances of success, or hurting your body? Ask yourself whom you are paying attention to and whom are you following, and where will it lead?

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Make everyday your birthday party by unwrapping your own gifts. Most people have gifts they haven’t even discovered yet. You have talent, skills, intelligence and especially interests that you aren’t aware of. Start assuming you have abilities that you haven’t discovered, or given yourself credit for and start looking for them. Day after day, more research comes in proving that most people have much more intelligence than they use. Also, the new field of Emotional Intelligence, has shown the people have strengths in far more areas than just math or English. You have a much higher level of abilities than you imagined or give yourself credit for. Work from the assumption that you are smarter and better at things and stretch yourself into new areas and see what happens. Each time you will discover something, and I guarantee you will, you can say “happy birthday” to yourself and consider yourself lucky to have received a gift that will last the rest of your life.

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Refuse to let your limitations stand in the way of your success. Everyone has limitations, but not everyone lets them stop them. Look at what you stopping you and see if you can ignore the limitations. Try what you want to do, without regard to your limitations, and see what happens. Take one minute and work on something you think you can’t do because of some limitations, and see what happens. If you make progress, take another minute, and another minute, pretty soon you will find that you completed your project, in spite of your limitations.

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Choose to be “into” your life. Don’t float through your life, just getting by. Be “into” all aspects of your life, so you are fascinated by what is going on in your life and around you. Be curious about your work, or your school assignments, etc. Take the time to look at things from a different angle, to watch the processes you and the things around you, go through. Look at how your body is changing; look at how the world is changing. While the rest of the world is being average, you should be interested. If you need to change things to make them interesting, get interested in developing a plan to start that change. Make people wonder what is wrong with you, make them wonder why you are not like them, why you care about what you do and who you are. Be “into” your life and you will find that the world is “into” you.

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Becoming more like a child might be just what you need to move your life ahead in some wonderful ways. Children have learning curves and enjoyment curves, we never approach as adults. Our learning and enjoyment of life slows the older we get. If you want to turn this around, pick up some of the attributes of children. Be curious and use this curiosity to learn. Get excited and use this excitement to enjoy life. Be spontaneous and enjoy the moment and take what there is to learn that is right in front of you. So if someone calls you childish, it might be the best compliment they could give you.

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You don’t have to be the best to win; you only have to be the best on the day of the contest. We all know stories of the best people losing to someone, because they were having a bad day, and the underdog had a good day. There is more to winning than skill, there is determination, persistence and plain old work, plus luck. If you work your game on a regular basis, but haven’t won yet, your turn is coming, so keep trying. You have to be in the game to win it and by hanging in there, practicing, showing up and giving it your all, sooner or later, you will have your good day, when the competition is having a bad day, and success will be yours.

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Pay Attention.

Can you really afford to miss things? You need information to move ahead, and the way to get it is to listen. Here is the secret to being able to do better: Pay Attention. If you pay attention, you will learn more, and if you learn more, you will do better. It is not easy to pay attention, but that is the secret to being better at what you want to be better at. Yes, you will take in a lot of useless information, and suffer through some irritating input, but the final result is worth it. What is one new idea that works, worth to you. So grit your teeth, and open your ears, and truly pay attention to things coming your way.

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