To be a champion finisher is certainly the ideal, and I am sure this is your aim in life as it is mine.

Today is Day 97 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

Today we are focusing on being a finisher. Make sure you declare this statement, whether you feel you ARE a finisher (YET) or not. Your declaration is setting the precedence in your mind. You now know what you expect of yourself.

So what stops you and I from completing projects, goals or tasks?

Here are the top 3 hindrances to becoming a finisher.

Hindrance #1: You lost focus and became distracted.
We live in a world full of distractions. There is always something (or someone) coming at you lobbying for your attention. Staying focused is not always an easy task, but it IS possible.

Here are some techniques that may help you to stay focused. Depending on your thinking and learning styles some of these will help you more than others. Some may not work at all for you.

Experiment with them and find what WILL work for you and then determine to stay with it!

• Your attention span may be short.

  Take 15-20 minute blocks of time throughout the day when you will focus on your project. If it is an extremely distasteful or difficult task, schedule one 15 minute block per day for this project. Make this a priority EVERY day. You will be amazed at the results in a week or so.

• You may work better when you are surrounded with people and even a certain level of noise.

  If your project is computer, writing or office work related, schedule a block of time every day when you can go to a nearby cafe and work for an hour or two.

• Turn on some background music. Baroque music is known to be good for accelerated learning environments, along with many of Mozart and Bethoven.

  Here is an excellent CD designed especially for accelerated learning. Music for Accelerated Learning

• As you plan your project, focus on the end result. What will you be able to enjoy once you have completed the task? What will your home look like?

  How will your life be enhanced? Focusing on these things will be a great inspiration to keep working on your project until it is complete.

Hindrance #2: You lost faith when the path became difficult.
When you lose faith, you also lose focus. This can happen because you have run yourself too thin by working so hard at your project your life has become completely unbalanced.

A healthy life is a balanced life. Take some time off to go out to your favorite place whether it be a park, a restaurant, a drive in the country. Go and visit a friend.

Losing faith can also happen because you have neglected your daily discipline of reading and listening to inspirational material that builds your faith.

Personal development is a part of your daily life that you cannot afford to overlook or skip.

Personal development is an ongoing process and never stops even when you HAVE reached your goals and dreams.

If you look into the lives of all great and successful men and women you will find that they maintain a daily discipline of staying immersed in inspirational recordings, videos and books. This keeps them sharp, positive and mentally fit.

Consistent daily physical exercise is also very important.

Hindrance #3: You started something that you are not passionate about, and so should never have started in the first place.

Did you start something because YOU wanted to, or because you felt pressured into doing it by someone else? It is your life passion (your WHY) that will keep you on course and focused. This is why it is so important to remind yourself of your why every day. (Remember, your “why rollover“?).

If you can delegate this project out fine. If not, schedule short blocks of time every day to finished this task. Do all you can to complete this task because you are a Champion Finisher.

Take time to go regroup and refocus on your why and this will help you to discern the times when you need to say “No”.

Resource:
Get involved with this 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge TODAY:Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

No the truth is not new, but it is in more recent times that so many have come to recognize and accept the power that our thoughts and mindsets really have in mapping out our destiny. It seems that the movie “The Secret”, brought a widening interest in subjects such as “the law of attraction“, and “mindset” and the “laws of success”. All of these concepts have to do with our mindset.

Just a notation here: all of these concepts also are presenty being taught in many different and diverse ways. As more articles are added to this blog on these subjects you will discover that the key to finding and applying the real truth of these concepts is BALANCE.

The true law of attraction is all about mindset plus action = success.

The true law of attraction is NOT teaching “create your positive mindset then wait for success to fall into your lap”. You won’t find the latter concept being proclaimed in any way in this blog.

As this blog grows you WILL find many articles calling you to a positive mindset PLUS action.

So what exactly IS a mindset?

Several years ago I spent many hours doing a study of a hebrew word “Yetser” and found that it means:

form, framing, purpose, framework
1. form
2. pottery

graven image
1. man (as formed from the dust)
2. purpose, imagination, device (intellectual framework)

The first place this word is used in the Bible is in Genesis 6:5 (the story of Noah and the great flood).

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The word imagination is translated from this hebrew word “Yetser”.

It was not what man had already done that God judged, it was what they were about to do!

What made it certain they were about to do these things? Their imaginations (or the frameworks of their actions) were already in place.

Everything we do is first planned in our minds and these plans are built on the framework or foundation found in our minds which are our mindsets! Mindset also includes prejudices or prejudging. It is the framework of all of our actions, our reactions and our decisions in life.

So – how does this work in your life and my life?

Let’s look at a an example:
Have you ever done something, and then wondered why on earth you did that? Now just how can one say that EVERYTHING we do is planned in our minds beforehand, when we can do something “out of character”? Or we make a decision or commitment and then wonder why we did that!

Can we really do something “out of character”, or could it be we have some parts of our character that are hidden waiting to ambush us?

Confession Time

One day a few years ago, I “decided” I wanted a Hyundai and went to check on their prices. When I arrived at the sales yard a salesman was there leaning on the rail watching me drive up. Of course he spoke to me, and of course it was near impossible to get away from him and “just look”. They did not have Hyundais available but there were some “nice Chryslers” and just the right price for my pocket book (or so I was convinced).

Before I knew it, I left my trusty Ford behind and drove out in a Chrysler I did not REALLY want. It did not take me long to ask myself the question, Why did I do that? What? Yes that was a tough lesson! This is an extreme example perhaps, but it really happened!

Who’s To Blame?

Of course it would be easy to blame the high pressured salesman! But he was not the culprit. There was a hidden mindset still lurking in my subconscious waiting to pounce and trip me up. It was a mindset of insecurity that allowed me to believe that someone else may know better than I did about what I needed. What a tough lesson (the car turned out to be faulty, it rolled on me in Mexico 5 weeks later. I was left with no car and a huge bill, AND it could have cost me my life! – I will never drive a Chrysler again).

Checklist

• Have you ever been “sold” a product by a salesman you did not really want or could afford?

• Have you ever done something “out of character”?
• Have you ever made a decision and then regretted it?
• Have you ever made a commitment and then when you were fulfilling it you found yourself complaining all the way?
• Have you ever made a commitment and then started looking for ways to break the commitment?

If any of the above apply to you please come back and visit us here at Mindset For Living as we explore ways to change our mindsets and enjoy a life of freedom and health.

If none of the above apply to you please come back and contribute to this blog so others will be helped to find the life you are enjoying.

Please tell us about your experiences and make comments below. We would love to hear from you and your experiences may well help someone else!

To be a champion, we need to make sure we have a champion mindset.

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