In addition to your vision; your big picture, all inclusive dream for your life, create some long term, mid term and short term goals. These will provide markers to help you know that you are still on course and making the most of every day.

If your dream is to have a $5 million business by 2020, what are the steps between?  Your vision is the foundation, now fill in more of the structure, the walls and windows, with yearly, quarterly, monthly and weekly goals.  

Your weekly plan is then your map for how you plan your days.  You are the captain and you will LOVE how it feels to really own that, to really take the helm and refuse to be at the mercy of the...

We don’t realize how we use words to make ourselves victims.  Phrases like, “I don’t have time,”  “I can’t,”  “I have to,”  “I’m tied up,”  all are disempowering statements that say we are not in charge, that the circumstances of our lives are in steering the ship.

Instead, understand that EVERYTHING is a choice and that you are the master of your schedule.  Instead, say “I GET to,” “I CHOOSE to,” “I WANT to.”

I was taught as a young salesperson to “fake it ’til you make it” and it’s a great lesson.  It means to act like the person you want to be.  Act like the person who is having the day that you want to have.  Act like a person who is happy, confident and rich and you will become a person who is.  Sing or dance or laugh or hug someone and relish the happiness and joy that come rushing through that open door.

You did it!  Took a chance, got out of your comfort zone, tried something new…. and it didn’t work out like you wanted it to.  At all!  Don’t run back cowering to your comfort zone, hiding out and feeling like a failure.  Embrace your results!  Make note of what happened and how it evolved and use this as new information for a new jumping off spot; a new way to try.  Edison “failed” 10’s of 1000’s of times before succeeding in creating the incandescent bulb.  He didn’t call them failures, he called them feedback.