Tag: focus
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Mid Year Review: How Are Your Goals Looking?
The year is breasting the halfway mark and it is about time to pause and take stock of the journey so far. New Year’s resolutions have earned a bad reputation due to high failure rates. To make one feel better, some folks have changed the terminology to Annual Goals. Whatever appellation it goes with, if…
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Faith, Focus and Follow-through (FFF)
As we bid goodbye to 2009 and fine-tune our goals for 2010, I want to share a few nuggets that will stand us in good stead in the coming year, as we seek to improve on our planned outcomes compared to the passing year. We may have realized by now that wishes and prayers alone…
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As We Prepare to Bid 2009 Farewell
There can be no happy new year, without a happy new you. You simply have to change, end of story. If you remain the same, same mindset, same outlook, same modus operandi, you get same results. Nothing will change, no matter how many colourful stickers you accumulate. Garbage in, garbage out. It is the law.…
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Anatomy of Excuses
If you live on the planet, then chances are, you are familiar with excuses. There is always an array of reasons why something planned did not happen. They range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Webster’s dictionary defines an excuse as: 1. A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise…
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Forget the Past: Look Forward
Nostalgia imbues the past with a magical and romantic quality. It draws us like iron to a magnet, especially where there is no hurt or regret involved. The good old days is a favorite phrase, memory lane is a well-worn path. For those of us yet to actualize our dreams, the past seems much better…
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Discover your passion
What makes you tick? What makes your creative juices flow and your adrenaline surge? Before you went to school to go study to get a job, what is it you really wanted to do? What is your passion? You need to discover your passion. Take your mind back in time. Before your parents and committee…
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Make your vision plain
Having a vision and tucking it away from your subconscious is like having none. Having a vision is not good enough, you have to move constantly toward it before you can stand a fighting chance of accomplishing it To move towards it constantly, you have to see it constantly. Out of sight, is most often…
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Accepting responsibility for change
Change is the only constant thing in life. It starts right from conception, a series of rapid changes up to infancy. We go through changes right up to old age until we take the final bow. Accepting responsibility for change is a challenge most of us have. For us to grow, or make progress, we…
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Using your mind
Your mind is the most critical asset in your journey to financial freedom. Arriving at a decision you cannot see is virtually impossible. You have to see it first before you start moving towards it. The major snag is, you see with your mind’s eyes, not your eyeball. I have always wondered why it is…
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Pursuit is the proof of desire
I started my journey to financial freedom this season, 2001. What has kept me focused all these years is my desire to be free, free to do what I want to do, and be what I was born to be. That desire has given me focus, which I consider to be the engine or powerhouse…