Willie Horton's Personal Development Ezine

Issue No: 255 - January 30, 2012

Today's Quick Tip

Take a couple of minutes. Get a piece of paper. Write down the things that you definitely should NOT be doing today. Your list might include: thinking useless thoughts, worrying, gossiping, needlessly reading every email, listening or watching all the bad news that makes you feel that it's OK to be just OK! There's lots more, of course, we all have our own wonderful ways of wasting time, feeling busy but getting nothing done that will bring us to where we want to be. Stop the nonsense and you might make sense of your life.

Today's Personal Development Video

Today's Reflection

ACHIEVING EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS SUCCESS

KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT

Normal people are mad (so says 70 yrs research) - therefore, normal businesses are, at the very least, dysfunctional (so says 40 yrs research). Normal business plans are based on historic performance - which will either vastly under-estimate real potential, or drive a business towards ruin - and are based on normal perceptions of the world. But, which would you prefer - a business that's successful in comparison to those pathetic norms - or a really, truly and abnormally successful business?

Last Monday, I posed a question for you - 'Do you know what you want from life?" You'll find the detailed question here. You need to be able to answer this question for yourself - because your answer will focus your mind. And how your mind is focused determines your behaviour, actions and reactions.

Without that focus, your mind will continue to focus on what it's been focusing on for the entirety of your adult life - the stuff you learned, for better or for worse, during your fomative years. And that is why so many people feel that their lives go round and round in ever-decreasing circles.

Break the cycle. Focus your mind. Paint yourself a picture of what it would be like to achieve what you want - and write it down - handwrite it. But don't be confused, simply wirting it down, whilst it concentrates the mind, will not, of itself, bring the things about. Focusing your mind enables you to act and behave in a manner that will lead you onwards and upwards.

After all, if you know where you want to go, you're far more likely to get there.

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