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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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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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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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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Listen to what you say you are going to do and then watch what you actually do. Are you walking the walk, the same as you talk the talk. If not, take steps to do what you say you will do. Your self-esteem will go up and you will be motivated to do more, in addition to drawing other people to you because of your integrity. You need to make your behavior reflect your values. You will have inner and outer conflicts, if your beliefs, values, goals and most importantly, actions aren’t in agreement. Look at what you say and do, versus what you believe. Put all the pieces together and go forward as a team.

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Embrace change, you need it in order to be successful. If nothing changes, then nothing changes. If you want a different outcome, you have to do something different. Some of your habits and actions are working fine for you, but you probably have other habits or take other actions that don’t work for you. You need to change things, in order to create change for yourself. Look through the outcomes you are getting and see what you would like to be different, then work backwards and see what may be causing these unwanted outcomes. Perhaps you have to change your education, your friends, your work habits, whatever, but you will find that change is needed. Start to make those changes and you will find that things change for you.

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If you want to really feel good, finish one of your projects. Quitting feels good, but finishing feels better. Sometimes we think of how good it would feel to give up on something we are doing. When that happens, take a moment and think of how good it would feel to finish the job, and savor that glow of accomplishment. Many times you will see it will feel better to accomplish something, then is does to quit. If you want more joy in your day, then find a challenge and overcome it. Boredom sets in when you aren’t challenged. You need to be stretched, to feel pride in what you are doing and who you are. Pick something a little harder than what you have been doing, work on it till you overcome it and see how you feel.

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If you want to put more joy in your life, put more effort into the things you do. We get more satisfaction and joy from things we have worked hard on, than we do from things that came easily to us. Extra effort pays the dividend of giving your better results and also the increased satisfaction of seeing the work pay off.

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If you want to bring meaning and passion to your work and relationships, you need strong values - but are your values healthy or harmful? Are they rooted in a desire to improve the world, or are they based on ignorance, fear, and greed?

The Odd Couple

A few weeks ago U.S. President George W. Bush invited the Dalai Lama to the White House.

President Bush speaks of peace and goes to war; the Dalai Lama speaks of peace and lives in peace. What do you think each man’s lasting legacy will be? Who’s words carry more power to capture your imagination?

Armed with a strong set of beliefs, we all have the power to manifest peace and happiness or to create immense human suffering. Here are a few photos of famous people you may know. Each of these people were convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were doing the right thing.

In your own life, in your own way, are you creating happiness or are you creating suffering?

Choose your values carefully.

Links to learn more about the people shown in this article:

The 14th Dalai Lama - Tenzin Gyatso

U.S. President George W. Bush

Mother Theresa

Adolf Hitler

Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Stalin

Mahatma Gandhi

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