EmpowerShop Pro-life

By: Tommy New­berry

A new year is upon us and you are at the begin­ning of a new chap­ter in your own life. I wanted to take this time to share with you seven res­o­lu­tions that will help you take your entire life to a much higher level and truly honor the poten­tial you were blessed with at birth. While this quest is, no doubt, a life­long pur­suit, it must start today with just one person-with you-as you take action on the ideas that I present here. By chang­ing your choices, you will change your life. Your future, how­ever, does not improve tomor­row. I have observed that the unhap­pi­est peo­ple in the world seem to talk the most about what they intend to do tomor­row. This mind-set is not for you! Your future gets bet­ter now. Tomor­row changes today! Lets get started:

Res­o­lu­tion 1: Choose Suc­cess Suc­cess is not an acci­dent! This is, with­out a doubt the sin­gle most impor­tant les­son you must grasp if you want to max­i­mize your full poten­tial and enjoy the ful­fill­ment and suc­cess you were designed to enjoy in the year to come and the life­time that will fol­low. Suc­cess occurs in the lives of spe­cific peo­ple for spe­cific rea­sons. It is not some­thing that ran­domly hap­pens to you; it is some­thing that you make hap­pen. This is excit­ing news! Whether you want to strengthen your fam­ily life, improve your career, deepen your faith, or take your phys­i­cal energy to a whole new level, you can do it.

Do you fully under­stand the con­nec­tion between your choices and the life you are liv­ing today? Do you believe that God wants you to suc­ceed? Write down your per­sonal def­i­n­i­tions of suc­cess and medi­oc­rity and start choos­ing suc­cess.

Res­o­lu­tion 2: Decide Who You Want to Become If you want your pur­pose in life to become a mag­nif­i­cent obses­sion, you must develop and con­stantly review your per­sonal mis­sion state­ment. A per­sonal mis­sion state­ment is a writ­ten artic­u­la­tion of your God-given potential-as God sees it. It expresses your unique pur­pose for liv­ing. Your per­sonal mis­sion state­ment encour­ages you to change in a delib­er­ate, pre­con­ceived direc­tion. The process of con­struct­ing the state­ment forces you to think seri­ously about the vital areas of your life and to clar­ify your long-term direc­tion.

Have you given much thought to how the world could be dif­fer­ent because of your par­tic­u­lar life? Do you believe God had one spe­cific thing in mind when he made you? Write your per­sonal mis­sion state­ment today so that you can achieve joy in 2008.

Res­o­lu­tion 3: Write Down Com­pelling Goals The very act of writ­ing down and set­ting mag­nif­i­cent goals unlocks your cre­ative pow­ers, and the act of writ­ing your goals is com­pletely under your con­trol. If you do not have spe­cific mea­sur­able goals writ­ten down for each area of your life, and a plan for their accom­plish­ment, then the odds are that suc­cess for you will be an acci­dent. Cause and effect in your life will be unclear. Your future will be unpre­dictable, and your capac­ity to have an impact on the world with your unique tal­ents and gifts will be severely dimin­ished. You will pas­sively accept a life by default rather than assertively choos­ing a life by design. This approach is not for you.

Brain­storm 150 life goals and put them down in writ­ing. What are your top five goals right now? Act on them!

Res­o­lu­tion 4: Invest Your Time Wisely You can’t make more time, only bet­ter choices. It has been said that four sim­ple words char­ac­ter­ize medi­oc­rity most accu­rately: “I didn’t have time.” Nei­ther you nor any­one else could have a more dam­ag­ing excuse con­cern­ing suc­cess. When you tell some­one that you didn’t have time, you sim­ply rein­force their per­cep­tion of you as some­one who can’t be relied upon to get the job done. And when you tell your­self that you didn’t have enough time, you under­mine your inner cred­i­bil­ity and for­tify a self-image of under­achieve­ment and irre­spon­si­bil­ity.

Do you sense that you are spend­ing or invest­ing most of your time? Cal­cu­late the cost of mis­us­ing just fif­teen min­utes a day over one year. Keep a record or time log to specif­i­cally track how you use your time. Com­mit today to invest­ing your time wisely rather than wast­ing it.

Res­o­lu­tion 5: Get Out of Your Own Way What­ever you direct your mind to think about will ulti­mately be revealed for every­one to see. Among the most pow­er­ful influ­ences on your char­ac­ter, per­son­al­ity, and atti­tude is what you say to your­self and believe. Dur­ing every sin­gle moment of every day, you are talk­ing your­self either into or out of suc­cess. By talk­ing your­self into suc­cess, I mean talk­ing your­self into being the cham­pion God designed you to become. With every thought that races through your mind, you are con­stantly redefin­ing your­self and your future. Your inner dia­logue, or self-talk, can and must be effec­tively har­nessed if you are to max­i­mize your full poten­tial.

Do you talk more about what you want or what you do not want? Make a con­scious effort to align your self-talk with the per­son you are striv­ing to become.

Res­o­lu­tion 6: Prac­tice Pos­i­tive Visu­al­iza­tion “I visu­al­ized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on get­ting there.” –Michael Jor­dan

A sub­con­scious pro­gram­ming tech­nique even more pow­er­ful than pos­i­tive self-talk is pos­i­tive visu­al­iza­tion — men­tally pic­tur­ing events or out­comes in your mind before they occur in phys­i­cal real­ity. Pos­i­tive results fol­low pos­i­tive men­tal pic­tures.

Develop a visu­al­iza­tion script for at least one of your most impor­tant goals. Start to sur­round your­self with visual reminders of your goals. You will be amazed by how visual images of vic­tory and suc­cess help tame doubts, fears, and inse­cu­ri­ties.

Res­o­lu­tion 7: Begin to Live a Maximum-Energy Lifestyle Bound­less energy is not an acci­dent. Indi­vid­u­als who expe­ri­ence a con­tin­u­ous, revi­tal­iz­ing flow of energy make dif­fer­ent choices than those who con­sis­tently oper­ate from an energy deficit. You can increase your return on energy and your return on life by becom­ing highly sen­si­tive to the lifestyle choices you make.

Think about how long you would like to live health­fully and pro­duc­tively. Con­sider what cur­rent lifestyle choices do not sup­port that longevity goal and begin to change those habits. Develop an effec­tive sys­tem to man­age stress.

Suc­cess Is Not an Acci­dent Remem­ber that Suc­cess Is Not an Acci­dent. The size of your think­ing deter­mines the size of the result. If you want 20089 to be your best year ever, THINK HUGE!

TOMMY NEWBERRY is the author of sev­eral books, includ­ing the New York Times Best­seller, The 4:8 Prin­ci­ple: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life and the highly pop­u­lar, Suc­cess is Not an Acci­dent. He is the founder and head coach of The 1% Club, an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to help­ing entre­pre­neurs and their fam­i­lies max­i­mize their full poten­tial. He can be found on the web at http://www.tommynewberry.com

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