Would that be enough to ensure results?

How about, if you set your timer for 5 minutes every day and repeat this affirmation over and over until the bell sounds?

No! Of course not. Words ALONE are not enough to ensure your success.
Words ALONE will not give you the results you are hoping for.

Here’s the progression:

• First you decide you want to break out of your present place of stagnation, complacency or simply coping with life.
• Next you start training your brain (mindset)
• You take time to dream
• You take time to plan AND
• You take action every day!

Today’s article is a reminder that:

(John Di Lemme, founder of Lifestyle Freedom Club and this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge I am following and blogging about).

Ok, then:
Just how CAN you catapult your success?
Does this mean that “overnight success” is possible?

Here’s the “SECRET”

• You are diligent to create your positive mindset by learning from the masters every day (via audio and video recordings and books) and by speaking, thinking and visualizing ONLY positive words. (You can download a great collection of such recordings for FREE right here.)
  
  
• You are also careful to stay away from all negative influences. You have eliminated these influences from your life and you have surrounded yourself with positive, empowering friends.
  
  
• You take time to dream on a regular basis.
  
  
• You take time to plan and you create action plans and daily plans.
  
  
• You take strategic action every day (from the plans you created) and every day you are moving one step closer to your goals and dreams.

When you are doing the above things diligently and faithfully every day, there WILL come a time when opportunities will come your way that WILL catapult your success.

It may well even look like you have actually achieved “overnight success”.

But you will know that what you have achieved was built on a FIRM foundation that took TIME to build.

So then, what is the purpose of making today’s affirmation?

• You are conditioning your mind to be look for opportunities and be alert to them. You are creating EXPECTANCY.
• You are inspiring yourself to take action NOW on what is in your hand to do NOW.
• You are building your faith to recognize that because you are diligent and faithful to move forward every day, one day what is in your hand to do WILL catapult your success.

Today’s Challenge:

1. Stay diligent and consistent with your daily training and action plans.
2. Stay alert for those opportunities that WILL catapult your success.
3. Seize those opportunities, and enjoy the ride and the success they will take you to.

P.S. Make sure you have a copy of Champions Are Born, Losers Are Made in your library. If you have not yet ordered your copy, TODAY is the day!

Or is it one of those obstacles in life that you either stress about, put up with or find a way to overcome? (Notice that pressure does NOT have to cause stress.)

Stress happens when you react negatively to pressure.

Interesting fact:
It is rather interesting that the past two weeks have been full of pressure days for me. Not high pressure, but today is the 16th day of a 17 day “marathon” of a work schedule with no break. Most days were not long hours at all but I am a night person, so early mornings are very difficult for me. (By early I mean 4.20am alarms every day).

By the way: the company does not do that to you. When you work in the service industry your whole goal is to please your customers, guests or patients. People’s needs and plans do not have a schedule that fits with yours. This is understood when you choose to work in this industry. At least I hope it is. If not, you will either be miserable for the years you choose to stay, or you will quit.

Ok, that last paragraph was a “mini rant”

The pressure for me was my body resisting the constant and consistent early mornings and the physical tiredness that hindered me from keeping my regular schedule of writing. I don’t like getting behind on my schedule, but when you leave home at 4.30am to arrive home again at 11pm, your home agenda will be affected. It can happen to us all at times.

This may not sound like pressure to you, but as a friend once commented: “What is easy for you may be hard for me, and visa versa” In the light of this comment, we can conclude that pressure is really a personal experience.

Your pressure may leave me exclaiming “what you call that pressure?” You may look at what I call pressure and respond the same way.

I found this time to be a great opportunity to learn to pace myself, take rests in the afternoons (which is not a regular habit of mine), and not allow myself to worry about deadlines.

When your schedule is under pressure it is good to remember the quote: All you can do you can do, so all you can do is enough.

Today is Day 79 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about, and today we are declaring:

Yes you can either adopt a “grin and bear it” attitude or you can take advantage of it to refine your life and dream. The decision is yours.

Today’s declaration is telling your brain what you intend to do with pressure in your life!

Pressure times in our lives are a great opportunity to stop and reevaluate.
Here are some questions to help you to evaluate your present direction to make sure you are still on course. There are times when we create our own pressure. One huge way to bring extra pressure to your life is to get off course.

1. Have I taken on extra commitments that are overbalancing my daily schedule? For example, do the extra commitments I have taken on rob my family time, personal time or daily learning and training program time?
   
   
2. Do I live in constant noise with no time ever (or hardly ever) to simply relax in quietness and solitude on a regular basis? This is important for your balance mental and emotional health!

   It is also important to spend time alone aside from all the noise to dream, meditate and plan.

3. Is my life moving in the direction of achieving my dreams, or am I involved in activities that are creating detours or obstacles for my dreams?

Today’s action plan:

• Take some time alone to think about the three questions mentioned above.
• Write down your answers and then write down what you plan to do to make the required adjustments in your life.
• Take action on what you have written down!

Further reading:
How To Conquer And Not Just Cope
Are You Conquering Or Coping?

Life is full of challenges, and there is always an opportunity to give up if we will take it. Resigning to a situation or just coping with it is the same as giving up.

However I know that you won’t ever give up, because YOU are a champion and you are called to conquer!

Here are some tips to help you conquer the circumstances that life may throw at you.

1. Confront.

Ah that nasty word that not everyone likes to hear. I know it is often easier to avoid or ignore a situation or event than it is to confront it. But avoiding something is to live in denial and conquerors don’t live in denial.

No situation is going to change if we ignore it.

Conquerors face the truth and they face it with faith and a positive mindset focused on winning. You are a conqueror, right?

2. Consult

This is where you can begin to understand the importance of keeping a journal. When you have a record of the experiences of your life and how you conquered them, it serves as a positive encouragement in times when something else shows up to challenge you.

Your journal may contain notes about your relationship with God and how you saw His Hand changing impossible situations for you as you stood in faith.

These will certainly inspire you to stand in faith once more and expect to see yet another miracle happen in your life as you face a new and challenging situation.

You will have noted your strategies, your solutions and the advice you received during challenging situations in the past as well as your decisions. These will also certainly serve to once again help you discover the solutions for the present challenge.

3. Challenge

Everything that happens to you in life will either make you or break you. The choice is yours.
Since you are a champion, I know you will choose to take this event and make it into something that will change you for the better.

When there are important choices to make the best thing to do is to find some time alone to be quiet for a while. Of course your journal and a pencil or pen will be with you.

The first thing to do is to make sure your emotions are quiet. You will not want to make any important decisions based on emotions. Your decisions will be based on what is the best for you and your family. The decisions you make should take you closer to your life’s purpose.

Refer to Finding Your Life Purpose

4. Choice

The decision (or decisions) you make that will lead you to conquer will be made after you:

• Face the facts. No burying your head in the sand or ignoring anything hoping it will go away. It won’t.
• Have taken the time to reflect, and consult with your journal.
• Have made sure your emotions are well under control
• Have taken the time to note down the pros and cons, and taken a good hard look at them.
• Face the consequences that may occur as a result of your decision.
• Decide you will deal with these consequences (NOT resign yourself to them).
• Accept the challenge to confront everything that may occur and pursue victory.

5. Create

Let your creativity flow. Lots of very positive solutions can some when your mind is in a creative mode. Above all remember:

Recommended reading:

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life.

So what does it mean to cope? The dictionary gives several meanings which include “get by, make it, put up with it”.

The word “cope” is actually a very negative word. It is synonymous with resign. The resigned person has usually given up in at least one area of his/her life. You will hear a resigned person say things like:

• Well I tried to make a change, but it did not work, now I will just have to grin and bear it.
• We will just have to cut down on some things. I think we will make it.
• Well I guess I will just have to put up with it, what else can I do? (Have you heard someone say something similar to this lately? I have.)

OK:
** We may be facing difficult times as far as the economy goes.
** We may be facing difficulties in family relationships, work relationships, with friends or foes.
** We may be facing many impossibilities and obstacles that seem to be holding us back from realizing our dreams.

BUT

We ALWAYS have a choice! We are born to conquer!

Are you focused on coping or conquering?

A famous evangelist you may well have heard of, Oral Roberts, often proclaimed in his preaching:

You can’t go under for going over!

Are you focused on going over? Or are you struggling with fears that you will go under?

That can be you! You can live a life that is so focused on conquering it has no time for defeat. It depends on you! You may find yourself having to make a choice many times a day. The choice will be:

Am I going to resign to this situation? Or am I going to find a way to conquer it or in spite of it?

What is your answer? Your answer is the first step in the direction of your choice.

It takes faith to conquer. Here is an excellent book that will help you turn your live around to focus on conquering in every area of your life.

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life.
As Jesse says:, “Somebody is going to succeed…why not you?”

Jesse explores such topics as:
* The amazing power of your God given human imagination.
* The strategic power of “determined” thoughts
* What to do if you feel it’s too late for your dream. (Good news here)
* Use the magnetic power of words to draw in what you know is yours.
* How to overcome discouragement
* What are the “Greatest Weaknesses” and “Destiny Killers”