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May you and your family enjoy a safe and grateful Memorial weekend. I want to say thanks to any of you who may currently serve or have family that serve in the military or have done so in the past. I am grateful for my freedom.

Quote of the day:

If I had my life to live over...I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. -Nadine Stair.

Adriel Yapana

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Jan 27, 2011 | 12 Seconds of Inspiration [Quote]

January 27th, 2011 Tags: be happy, Gandhi, happiness, love, positive, power, quote

Posted in Lose Fat, Play More, Work Less

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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What’s Your Mission?

January 26th, 2011 Tags: focus, mission, mission statement

Posted in Lose Fat, Play More, Work Less

Hi friend!

I wanted you to read this article and follow the template
by success skills coach, Jim Rohrbach.

It's amazing how many of us don't have a mission statement.
Follow his article written below on how to get YOUR mission statement DONE!

There's a great sample below and whatever your current
mission is, put it down. I prefer you get a draft done
handwritten and not through the keyboard first, then,
you can type it up when you're happy with it and print it out.

Here's the article:

Forget About Resolutions — What's Your Mission?

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs
29:18

If you're like most people, you've probably flirted around
with New Year's resolutions: You've said, "THIS is the year
I'm gonna lose weight and get in shape. Starting January 1,
no more snacking. I'm joining the health club and I'm gonna
work out daily. I may even do my first marathon." What
happens? By March 1 (the latest ...) you're back on the junk
food regimen, you've been to the club a total of five times
(you're "just too busy to get there"), and you've filed that
marathon application in the trash. And you've concluded,
"Resolutions don't work for me." (You've got a lot of
company on that one ...)

Maybe you need a better approach. Instead of making a mental
resolution, create a Mission Statement. The difference?

A Mission Statement

is a handwritten or typed-out paragraph
is posted someplace you can see it regularly
is committed to memory
has specific, measurable outcomes
has a deadline — in this case, December 31st
Here's a process you can use right now to create a Mission
Statement for personal success in your career or business.

Get out a pen and some paper now!

Step A. Write down 5 positive personality characteristics
you like about yourself in your career/business. For
example: willingness to learn, persistence, creativity,
friendliness, sense of humor.

Step B. For the items you listed above, describe the way you
express each positive characteristic on a regular basis in
your career, using the word "by" to begin each phrase. For
example, if you listed "willingness to learn" above, you
might write "by being committed to ongoing professional
development" below. Another example: If you wrote
"persistence" above, you might write "by making sure the job
always gets done" below.

Step C. Write down 5 goals you’d like to achieve by one year
from today. Be sure to list a specific financial goal
separate from these 5 goals.

Step D. Look back over Steps A, B, and C, circling the 3
most important items in each column.

Step E. Now fill in the blanks of the following paragraph:

"My purpose is to express my __________________________
,________________________, and ______________________ (write
in the three items you circled in Step A) by
__________________________________________________,
by ________________________________________________, and by
____________________________________________ (write in the
three items you circled in Step B) to create
___________________________________________________,
___________________________________________________ and
_____________________________________________, (write in the
three items you circled in Step C) and at least ____________
(write in your financial goal) by ___________ (write in the
date one year from today)."
When finished, you will have a short paragraph that reads
something like:

"My purpose is to express my intelligence, creativity, and
people skills by continually learning and applying new
ideas, by finding unique solutions to my clients' problems,
and by building a powerful network of contacts to create 15
new corporate accounts, a steady flow of referral and
renewal business, and full technological competence, and at
least $125,000 in gross commissions by this date one year
from today."

I hope you give this deceptively simple exercise a try, and
I encourage you to follow the guidelines above by posting it
where you can review it, committing it to memory, and
reciting it daily. Then you won't need to make any more
fruitless resolutions — you'll be like The Blues Brothers
... you'll be on "a Mission from God."

Simple enough isn't it?

Now make it happen!

Adriel

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