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Clarity to Create!

 

In several of the articles I have posted here on TFM, I have discussed the importance of knowing your outcome;  Knowing what direction you desire your life to go because, after all, how will you ever arrive at an unknown destination?

Inspired by several personal conversations I have recently experienced, coupled with the fact that, in my recent studies, this subject keeps showing up, I have decided to revisit this very important topic.

What is Clarity?

You may often hear how important it is to have clarity, but what does this mean?  To have clarity means to be clear, free from obstruction, to open, unclog, unstop, or unblock.  How this applies to your life is that in order to fulfill your dreams you must know exactly what it is you want.  So many people live years of their lives knowing very well what they do not want but are unclear as to what it is they do want.

The Life of Your Dreams

Living the life of your dreams need not remain a fantasy.  It can become your reality!  You may want to write these things down or print them out! 

• The first step, I repeat, the first step is to know exactly what it is you want!  You can't just say "I want more money" or "I want my life to be better".  Those are generalities!  You must be absolutely specific!  How much (exactly!) money do you want?  What (exactly!) do you want your life to be like?

"Where there is no vision, the people perish"

• Now you must employ your imagination!  Remember, as a child, how you could imagine anything you wanted?  When playing, you could imagine everything with such vivid detail that it actually felt real?  Remember?  Great!  Because that is exactly what you must do!  Imagine with great detail and feeling exactly what it is you want!

"Imagination is everything.  It is the preview of life's coming attractions"  -Albert Einstein

Many people will live each and every day focused on what they do not want their life to be like, what they do not have, and what they do not want.  Is it any wonder that their lives are filled with exactly those things?  Remember:

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you.  You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you"  -James Allen

As I stated at the beginning of this article, this business about being clear on what you want  is nothing new here at TFM, but it's importance cannot be overemphasized!  This is the first step!  There is one thing I will add: Follow the things you've read here with a thankful heart.  With a heart filled with genuine gratitude for what you already have and for what is coming to you.  You cannot fulfill your dreams without gratitude.

With clarity you can create the life you want to live!

Be Compelled and Get Propelled!

After writing the article "Follow Through", I started thinking of what makes us take action or not take action.  What, in our psychology, induces us to "do" or "not do"?

When we have, in our minds, a list of things that we tell ourselves we "should" do, there is usually a lack of urgency associated with that list.  However, when we have a list of things that we feel we "must" do there is a different "feel" altogether.  It's as if the word "must" comes equipped with a built-in sense of urgency!

You have no doubt heard the phrase "Ask and you shall receive" (Notice it doesn't say "Whine and you shall receive", "Wish and you shall receive",  nor does it say "Complain and you shall receive".  ASK!).  Life will give you what you ask of it and if you can change the "feeling" you have about the actions you already know you need to take, by associating those actions with a "must-mentality", then you will see your wish transform into a fact and your fantasy transform into your reality!

How to Transform!

How do your "shoulds" or "wishes" get transformed?  Use your power of imagination/visualization!  Imagine (really focusing intensely) what you will feel like if you take action.  Visualize what your life will be like once you have succeeded in accomplishing your goal.  Now imagine how you will feel if you do not take action.  Visualize what your life will be like if you do not succeed in accomplishing your goal.

We can take action and accomplish or we can falter and fail.  Use Pain and Pleasure to help you succeed.  In your mind, assign pain to the very thought of inaction, and assign pleasure to the thought succeeding!  Do this consistently and you will train your brain in such a way that it will begin to look for ways to help you succeed and blind you to paths that will lead to failure!  So remember, if you want your dreams to be propelled into reality you must...

Be Compelled!

Follow Through!

               

Recently, I wrote an article about defeating procrastination and this article is a continuation of that concept. 

Once you've begun to attack procrastination , you must continue the fight on a daily basis.  Do this and you are following through.  What do I mean?  To Follow Through simply means to finish what you have started!  You do not stop until you have achieved your goal! What would have happened if Tiger Woods had never followed through on his golf swing?  Well, he certainly would have never succeeded in becoming a world class golfer!  What will happen if you have a plan, begin to implement it, and then you do not follow through?  You will not achieve your goal and no amount of hoping or wishing will change that.

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."    -Aristotle

Do you want to be excellent?  Do you want to succeed in obtaining your financial goals or any other dream you may have?  Then you must be an ACTION person!  You must take action every day and keep taking action, making necessary adjustments along the way, until you achieve your goal!  Do this every day and it will become your habit, and then it will become your victory!

Each and every day you must control your thoughts.  Remember: The thoughts that you focus your mind on (daily) will determine the decisions and choices you make.  The decisions and choices you make will determine the actions you take...or do not take.  The actions you take, or do not take, will have effects on your life.  The effects will produce results and these results will accumulate, stacking upon one another and joining together and will carry you in a certain direction.  Either toward your goal, or away from it.  Do you see how your thoughts create your life? 

Control your thoughts daily, focus your mind on your desired outcome. keep to your plan (changing it as necessary), and keep moving forward.  This is Following Through and this is what will lead you to the fulfillment of your goal and make your dreams become your reality.

3 Keys to a Money Making Blog

I was invited to do a guest post on a really cool blog called The Dollar Diary and I accepted! The Dollar Diary is a blog that is authored by a very talented young man, Farrhad, and gives many great tips to running a successful blog.  I wrote an article that gets to the "root" of what it takes to have a successful blog, or to be successful at anything!  Please go check it out!

Thanks!