No, true success is being able to do what you want, when you want to do it, with whom you want to do it, for however long you want to do it. (quoted from John Di Lemme).

Here is a secret: You will not be able to reach this lifestyle without applying some focus, discipline and diligence to the pursuit of your dreams.

Well, this should not really be a secret, but if you look around you and see so many people chasing their fairy tale dreams (for example: success the easy way – win the lottery), you would think that the genuine way was a secret.

Hindrances to Positive Living:
The biggest hindrance to living in the positive realm where faith rules is FEAR.

Fear very often reveals itself with excuses. This is why today’s affirmation (which is #119 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge is so important.

When you repeat this affirmation, you are also making a decision to look fear in the face and resist it.

• Excuses justify fear, but in reality they reveal that you are more focused on fear than on faith.
• Fear hides behind excuses.
• Your excuses may seem logical and valid, but stop and analyze them and you will see that they are fear in disguise.

The more you resist a negative voice, the less it will bother you. This will certainly happen when you choose to resist the negative voice by focusing on the positive voice.

This is the strategy of displacement, and is in my experience the most effective way of running the negative thoughts, words and mindset out of your life.

Focus on faith, on positive words and thoughts and there is no room for the negative fear thoughts.

The attitudes and thoughts that you feed with words are the ones that become strong in your life.

You choose which attitudes and thoughts to feed (by agreeing with them, repeating them and living them).

Feed your mind and brain with thoughts and words of faith and your attitudes and mindset will become strong in faith. You will tend to look at obstacles and problems with solution seeking glasses. You are learning to live in the positive realm and success is within your grasp.

Feed your mind and brain with thoughts and words of fear and you will find yourself running from obstacles, fearing challenges and constantly making excuses.

Today’s Challenge:

• Make a decision to become alert to any excuses you may unconsciously be making.
• Make a fresh decision to feed your mind every day with positive words, articles, books, recordings and videos. This is how you give your brain the right tools to enable you to focus on the positive, and consequently live in the positive realm.

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The more you build yourself up in faith, the less fear will have a foothold in your life.

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the Lifestyle Freedom Club.

If you are not involved in this challenge, it is not too late to start. Go now to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

“Champions are born, losers are made” John Di Lemme.

This is the story of a champion who absolutely refused to allow life to make her a loser.

She was born a champion and is STILL a champion despite great obstacles. Champions always face obstacles with a determination to conquer.

What would you do if you were in Hee Ah Lee’s shoes? Many people would simply give up and allow their adversity and depression to crush their dreams, right?

What obstacles could have stopped Hee Ah from playing the piano?
She was born with a TOTAL of four fingers (two on each hand).

What about the parents of a child with such challenges? Most of them would be in great despair. But not Hee Ah’s mother. She became a great support to her daughter and encouraged her to follow her dream.

I see three main characteristics in the life of this young lady that would make sure you could overcome any obstacles in your life.

Desire.
Hee Ah had a desire to play the piano, but she only had 2 fingers on each hand (a total of four fingers). This is an “insurmountable task”. BUT Hee Ah has done it demonstrating to the world that NO OBSTACLE need stop you from following your dream. (Watch the video below).

But your desire must be STRONG. It takes a strong desire to inspire the courage, determination and diligence to pursue your dream and achieve it.

Do you have an impossible dream? Read on.

Determination.
As you watch the video, you will see a lot of determination in both Hee Ah herself and her mother who supported her.

Hee Ah’s music teacher is as hard on her as she is on any other student. How easy it would be for Hee Ah to adopt the attitude of “its not fair!” or “I can’t be expected to be as good as someone with 10 fingers”. But not Hee Ah. When you hear her play you will know that is certainly not her attitude. Hee Ah is a champion.

What do you think?

It takes determination to really follow your dream.

Diligence.
It takes diligence at the best of times to play any instrument well. How much diligence do you think Hee Ah has applied in order to achieve her dream?

Take a look at this video, it will inspire you to throw out ALL excuses and follow your dream!
Hee Ah Lee Four Fingered Pianist

What has been stopping you from following your dream? After watching this video, I am sure you have no excuses left, right? (I know this is a GREAT inspiration to me). Yes you CAN reach your goals in life.

It will take diligence to persist in following your dream. This is how you will become successful.

Throw out all excuses right NOW and start pursing your dream.

Remember you will need – Desire – Determination – Diligence.

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A very subtle reality is that often your main focus resides in your subconscious mind. This means that you may not even realize what you are really focusing on. And remember, your mindset is created by your focus.

So how can you discover what your main focuses really are? How can you change any wrong focus?

1. By taking notice of your reactions to situations and obstacles in life, you can discover some of the attitudes that are residing in your subconscious mind.

2. You can make a conscious effort to refocus on the things you want to reside in your subconscious mind so that the new thoughts you store will erase the old.

When an obstacle crosses your path, one of two things will happen:
A. You will have the strength to focus on looking for a solution, rather than being distracted by the problem or obstacle. This will happen when your mindset is strongly positive because your subconscious focus is set on winning.

Or ..

B. You will find yourself tending to look at the worst case scenario, and so will look at the obstacle from that perspective rather than focusing on looking for a solution.

So it is easy to see that your reaction towards any obstacle that comes your way has a lot to do with your mindset.

If your focus is already on winning, then your reaction to any obstacle will be positive. You will be set on overcoming it. This is because your mindset created by your focus is positive.

When your focus is always positive, you have already decided on three things:

• You WANT to reach your goal.
• You ARE CAPABLE of reaching your goal.
• You WILL reach your goal.

However if your focus tends to be a little on the negative side, the obstacle has a chance of causing you to give up. Again this is because your mindset has no positive foundation.

If you find yourself accepting failures, you may have unconsciously given yourself room to fail with such thoughts as:

• Well, let’s see how this works out.
• If I don’t make it at least I will have the satisfaction of knowing that I tried.
• Well you know how the saying goes: “Aim high and you won’t shoot low”.
• If I reach half of what I plan to do, I will be happy.

I have heard many people say things like this. Many of these folk are not aware of what they are really saying. They are preparing excuses for possible failures. They are giving themselves a reason for failure.

In other words if you think in any of these ways according to the examples listed above, what you are really doing is weakening your determination to succeed. I am sure that you can see just how negative this way of thinking is.

I know you are a champion. So you are preparing and training your mind for success by focusing exclusively on reaching your goals. You give yourself no reason to fail and every reason to win.

It is extremely important to train your mind to stay focused on success without giving yourself a loophole of any kind to fail. In other words, don’t give yourself any excuse for failure.

Any thought that uses the word “if” in the context of a negative possibility will turn the focus of your subconscious mind to accept the possibility of failure. In a very subtle way this contributes towards training your brain for failure, instead of cultivating the mindset for success.

So my challenge to you today is to train your mind to always focus on POSITIVE outcomes because:

This post is a part of the series: 7 Ways Your Focus and Your Mindset Will Affect Your Success