Success is not a secret. It's not elusive. It's not simply for the chosen few. Success comes when prompted and there is one lesson that ALL successful entrepreneurs learn: persistence. Persistence is not complacency. It's not sticking with something no matter what. It's having a chief aim in life, a greater vision, and being solely committed to creating that vision by any and all means possible. It means you find better and better ways of getting to your dream. You focus on growth and development, trusting that your success is inevitable. It's called persistence.
But how do you get AND keep persistence in a world that's telling you the economy is in the dumps, Wall Street is the key symbol of a current recession, jobs are gone, security is gone, and there's no way to make a living AND a life?
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Opinions are Presents You Don't Have to Accept
When someone offers their advice (especially when not asked for it) about what you should do with the rest of your life, how do you respond?
When you tell someone your dream and they say, "I don't know if that's possible", what is your initial reaction?
When you pour yourheart out to someone about something that's not working in your life and they respond with "You've been doing it all wrong. Here's what you should do", do you listen or do you defend?
These are all important questions. Opinions have existed since the beginning of time and they will continue to exist. When we get mad at others for giving us their "opinions", we are subconsciously validating their expertise by saying, "What you think of me is more important than what I think of myself."
How do you deal with other people's opinions? How do you listen to what they have to say without allowing their opinions to rule your life?
Here's the answer:
Recognize that opinions are presents you don't have to accept.
You can listen to someone without taking their advice. You can allow someone else to speak to you out of their own authenticity without believing that they said those things to you to hurt you. You can bridge the gap between your dream and your belief about its ability to come true by having a clear sense of what you say, when you say it, and who you tell it to, depending on what stage your dream is in.
Staying the Course is a powerful coaching program that shows you how to effectively handle other people's opinions without getting defensive, hurt, or withdrawn. Order this amazing program today!
When you tell someone your dream and they say, "I don't know if that's possible", what is your initial reaction?
When you pour yourheart out to someone about something that's not working in your life and they respond with "You've been doing it all wrong. Here's what you should do", do you listen or do you defend?
These are all important questions. Opinions have existed since the beginning of time and they will continue to exist. When we get mad at others for giving us their "opinions", we are subconsciously validating their expertise by saying, "What you think of me is more important than what I think of myself."
How do you deal with other people's opinions? How do you listen to what they have to say without allowing their opinions to rule your life?
Here's the answer:
Recognize that opinions are presents you don't have to accept.
You can listen to someone without taking their advice. You can allow someone else to speak to you out of their own authenticity without believing that they said those things to you to hurt you. You can bridge the gap between your dream and your belief about its ability to come true by having a clear sense of what you say, when you say it, and who you tell it to, depending on what stage your dream is in.
Staying the Course is a powerful coaching program that shows you how to effectively handle other people's opinions without getting defensive, hurt, or withdrawn. Order this amazing program today!
Monday, September 1, 2008
What Does it Mean to "STAY THE COURSE"?
On this beautiful Labor Day, I received a very ignorant email from someone inquiring about my program. Here's the email:
"So you are the reason we are still Iraq, and Bush is running around saying "stay the course", "stay the course", whether its working or not is irrelavant, right? I been wondering where Bush got his mantra """STAY THE COURSE""", NOW I KNOW....."
I'm not going to respond to the ignorance of this email because it's clearly ignorant. But what I am going to respond to is the beauty of what it means to STAY THE COURSE.
What does staying the course mean anyway?
I'm not going to sugarcoat this so if you don't have a solid stomach, stop reading now. I'm going to give it to you straight. Here goes.
In today's world, there are too many quitters. We live in a society of entirely too many people who say, "Gimme now or I'm moving on to something else." Immediate gratification seems like the mode of many people's thinking and I created STAYING THE COURSE for all of those OTHER people who know that what they've got (the passion, the purpose, the goals, the dreams, the vision) is TOO BIG for them to give up now. They know that there's something in them that has to come out. They have a dream that has to be fulfilled... OR They've done the quitting thing enough times already to know that IT JUST DOESN'T WORK!
Winners never quit and quitters never win and here's the deal about staying the course: WHEN YOU TRULY KNOW THAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOUR LIFE'S WORK, when you truly know that what's been put in you has to come out, you also know that it's something that's going to benefit you and, more importantly, benefit the world. You don't have to worry about causing wars or creating failure or destroying lives because when you pursue what you were put here to pursue, the only thing it can do is create a better world...
The issue is this: it all begins and ends with you. If you don't live your purpose, someone else won't live theirs. If you stay stuck and mired down in what you "can't, won't, shouldn't, couldn't, or wouldn't" do, you will be the example for countless others to follow, including your own children. And I say this because STAYING THE COURSE was created to support you so you can become the person you need to be so those after you can become the people they need to be too.
You are not an island. Neither am I. We all need people to support, love, and nurture our dreams and, sometimes (I know this might come as a shock), those closest to you are not the ones to support your dreams. Sometimes, out of their love and concern for you, they'll be the exact people to oppose and criticize your dream and my program, STAYING THE COURSE, is designed to show you how to persevere through that AND LOVE THEM ANYWAY.
I have seen marriages, relationships, and family ties break up ALL BECAUSE ONE PERSON WAS FOLLOWING THEIR DREAM and I strongly believe that that does not have to be the case. We can live in a world where people live up to their callings, live life on purpose and still live in peace with people who can't see what you see. Understand this: you can't share your vision with people who can't see and you can't blame them for not seeing it because they don't yet have the vision to.
And that's what this program is about. Where that anonymous person got Bush and politics and starting a war from, I don't know. I'll call them ignorant because they know nothing about my program. If they read this and still feel that way, well, then it starts to go into another category that begins with an S and I won't even name it.
All I have to say is this: when you know that you know that you know, and my wonderful comrade in spreading this message, The Barefoot Executive (http://www.twitter.com/barefoot_exec), says, "When you know your WHY", there is only one choice: STAY THE COURSE.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Which one are you choosing to be?
Kassandra Vaughn, the ROI Coach
"So you are the reason we are still Iraq, and Bush is running around saying "stay the course", "stay the course", whether its working or not is irrelavant, right? I been wondering where Bush got his mantra """STAY THE COURSE""", NOW I KNOW....."
I'm not going to respond to the ignorance of this email because it's clearly ignorant. But what I am going to respond to is the beauty of what it means to STAY THE COURSE.
What does staying the course mean anyway?
I'm not going to sugarcoat this so if you don't have a solid stomach, stop reading now. I'm going to give it to you straight. Here goes.
In today's world, there are too many quitters. We live in a society of entirely too many people who say, "Gimme now or I'm moving on to something else." Immediate gratification seems like the mode of many people's thinking and I created STAYING THE COURSE for all of those OTHER people who know that what they've got (the passion, the purpose, the goals, the dreams, the vision) is TOO BIG for them to give up now. They know that there's something in them that has to come out. They have a dream that has to be fulfilled... OR They've done the quitting thing enough times already to know that IT JUST DOESN'T WORK!
Winners never quit and quitters never win and here's the deal about staying the course: WHEN YOU TRULY KNOW THAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOUR LIFE'S WORK, when you truly know that what's been put in you has to come out, you also know that it's something that's going to benefit you and, more importantly, benefit the world. You don't have to worry about causing wars or creating failure or destroying lives because when you pursue what you were put here to pursue, the only thing it can do is create a better world...
The issue is this: it all begins and ends with you. If you don't live your purpose, someone else won't live theirs. If you stay stuck and mired down in what you "can't, won't, shouldn't, couldn't, or wouldn't" do, you will be the example for countless others to follow, including your own children. And I say this because STAYING THE COURSE was created to support you so you can become the person you need to be so those after you can become the people they need to be too.
You are not an island. Neither am I. We all need people to support, love, and nurture our dreams and, sometimes (I know this might come as a shock), those closest to you are not the ones to support your dreams. Sometimes, out of their love and concern for you, they'll be the exact people to oppose and criticize your dream and my program, STAYING THE COURSE, is designed to show you how to persevere through that AND LOVE THEM ANYWAY.
I have seen marriages, relationships, and family ties break up ALL BECAUSE ONE PERSON WAS FOLLOWING THEIR DREAM and I strongly believe that that does not have to be the case. We can live in a world where people live up to their callings, live life on purpose and still live in peace with people who can't see what you see. Understand this: you can't share your vision with people who can't see and you can't blame them for not seeing it because they don't yet have the vision to.
And that's what this program is about. Where that anonymous person got Bush and politics and starting a war from, I don't know. I'll call them ignorant because they know nothing about my program. If they read this and still feel that way, well, then it starts to go into another category that begins with an S and I won't even name it.
All I have to say is this: when you know that you know that you know, and my wonderful comrade in spreading this message, The Barefoot Executive (http://www.twitter.com/barefoot_exec), says, "When you know your WHY", there is only one choice: STAY THE COURSE.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Which one are you choosing to be?
Kassandra Vaughn, the ROI Coach
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