Willie Horton's Personal Development Ezine

For those of us who are old enough - and bold enough to actually admit it - to recollect the musical, South Pacific, you will know the words of the song... if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?

Highly successful people are highly successful becuase they are highly focused, motivated, even driven. They know what they want and they're prepared to go to whatever lengths it takes to get it. They are singleminded and it is that very singlemindedness that dictates their behaviour, actions and lives.

Contrast that with most of us. Most of the people that I work with or talk to aren't really sure what they want out of life. It's damn difficult to find what you're looking for if you don't know what it is. Alternatively - and this is, no doubt, a product of our fast lives where nobody can stay focused on the same thing for long enough - many people know what they want, but what they want is as changeable as the weather. It's much more difficult to hit a moving target than one that you've got firmly in your sights.

Your normal all-over-the-place mind needs something to aim for, something to focus on and, above all else, something that turns you on, something that will have you leap out of bed each morning.

Until you give your mind that kind of focus little is going to change in your life. And so many of us are aching for change right now.

PS - Many 'highly successful' people are so focused on what they want that the rest of their lives are askew - or worse, they walk over other people's lives. That's not the kind of 'success' I'm talking about.

HOW TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF (AND OTHERS)

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