The "ordinary" crowd

By definition, the crowd is ordinary.  If you want to be extraordinary, you have to break away from what everyone else is doing and how everyone else lives, and do something that causes greater results in a given area or your life.  

Breaking away from ordinary habits, routines, rituals, behavior, and expectations can put you out of your comfort zone – but that’s where all your dreams are.

Look important/feel important/be important

If you look (dress) important, you will think important, feel important, and others will help you by treating you important.

Do you look important?

Wake up excited!

Do you wake up excited?  Are you out of your comfort zone often?  Is failure your friend?  

Do you want change in your life?  Do you model growth using the example of others around you?

Do others expect you to grow?  Do YOU expect you to grow?

Sleep like a baby

If you don’t sleep well at night, try this –

Start working out. You could run or lift some weights. Something to where your body is taxed a bit.

Try it. You’ll sleep like a baby!

Are you in a growth environment?

Are you in a place where others are ahead of you?  Are you continually challenged?  Is your focus forward?

Is your atmosphere affirming? 

The water you swim in makes a big difference in what progress you make.

How’s your daily environment?

Relationship Math

Some relationships –

ADD to who we are.

Some SUBTRACT and take something out of us.

Some MULTIPLY our strengths, results and contacts.

and some can DIVIDE us.

I like addition and multiplication myself.  What kind of math is going on in your relationships?

The Birth of Spring

Especially for those of us who live in places where winter is frozen and snowy, spring is a welcome time of the year. The seasons unfold as our lives do.  The spring is a time for new beginnings, and to plant what we want to grow this year.

For me, I cherish the time between the final thaw, and the next freeze.  Spring is greeted with pleasure and relief, summer is festive, and fall is glorious.  

What do you have planned to make this warm cycle memorable?  What events, trips, or challenges will be highlights of your life when next winter comes?  

A great life doesn’t happen by accident.  It is planned and lived on purpose.  It’s time to get this seasons zest in motion!

Quick! – write this down….

In 60 seconds from now, write down three goals you have for the next three years.

What did you write?

Five steps to a great apology

1) Don’t wait.

2) Be sincere.

3) Use the right words.  Acknowledge their feelings, take ownership, assure them it will never happen again, don’t use “if” or “but”.

4) Take action.

5) Don’t expect instant forgiveness.

When you mess up, as we all do, don’t let it define you in others eyes – apologize.

Capture ideas

Ideas are slippery.  Don’t think “that’s good, I’ll have to remember that” – you won’t.  When you get a good idea, thought, or piece of information, write it down – on whatever paper is available. If it’s written on anything but a hardcover journal, transfer it to such a permanent book later that day.  Capture the idea.

By writing it down, it helps you develop the idea, and be more clear.  And by having a hardcover book, you’ll keep the idea safe for reference.  Your book will become a cherished asset to you.