Willie Horton's Personal Development Ezine

Issue No: 243 - December 12, 2011

Today's Quick Tip

Choose the times at which you're going to stop yourself throughout the day to ask yourself this simple question: "Where am I?" Most of the time, you'll be physically there but mentally elsewhere... it's just the way we're made. But stopping yourself to ask this question at regular intervals will, quite literally, call you to mind, place you in the moment, focus your mind. And focus is the key to happiness and success.

Today's Personal Development Video

Today's Reflection

NOTHING CHANGES UNTIL YOU DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT

ARE YOU ON THE RIGHT TRACK?

I'm constanly amazed by the number of people who I meet that expect something different to happen in their lives whilst they continue, slavishly and automatically, to do the same thing! How can you expect something novel to result from doing the same thing. It doesn't make sense. But, then again, neither does the normal mind - stuck as it is in a rut of repeated living. For something different to happen in your life, you're going to have to start doing different things yourself. But what?

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It's all too easy to go through your day, busying yourself or fooling yourself into thinking that you're busy and achieve little or nothing. As normal people who live normal habitual lives, this is the routine mode in which we operate. And, as a result, we never get within spitting distance of achieving our goals.

The interesting fact is, however, that, as things stand right now on this Monday morning, you are within spitting distance of your goals - you just need to spit in the right direction!

All our actions, all our thoughts, all our intentions should be pointed in the right direction - the one that will get us to where we want to go in life. As an important aside, if you're not sure where you want to go, it's highly unlikely that you're going to get there!

What am I saying? In everything you do, in every thought that occupies your mind, you've got to ask yourself the question: 'Will what I'm doing or thinking take me to where I want to go?' If the answer is 'No', stop it! Start doing the things that will take you in the right direction - only you can. You can start right now by changing the routine of your normal habitual day.

This Week's Recommended Read

Today's Personal Development Article

NORMAL CRAZY PEOPLE by Willie Horton

Only an idiot wouldn't recommend his own work from time to time... and I do my level best to not be an idiot. So, here it is, a couple of weeks to go to Christmas and what would be better over the festive season than a hearty laugh, a good cry and, perhaps, a whole bunch of stories with a moral that we could all learn from. That's what my latest book, Normal Crazy People, is all about. Check it out below on Amazon. And, by the way, it's only available in the Kindle Store - so, if you have an iPad, Tablet, Kindle Reader or even a good old-fashioned PC you can read away to your hearts content without cutting down a single tree!

DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE

by Willie Horton

We've all got difficult people or situations to deal with in our daily lives. The trick is to deal with them before they become difficult! However, to do this, you need to be more attentive to what is actually happening in the present moment than the normal person is. In doing so, you will notice inappropriate behaviour before it gets out of hand and be up to the task of saying what needs to be said in the nicest possible way.

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