Success in a Heartbeat

By Joanne Victoria

Success in a heartbeat is simpler than you think. The book, "The Secret", may talk about the Law of Attraction, i.e., drawing something to you. Pushy For a Moment is about what is already inside of you.

What if you could live the life you want rather than chase the story of what you want to be? Opportunities appear when you open up to infinite possibilities and own a vision for your life. Create a method to continually achieve success with Pushy for a Moment.

What is a Pushy Moment? It's that moment when an intuitive flash comes to your mind, but you do not act upon it because of the rules you or society set for the situation. You simply lack the confidence to believe that your ideas carry great weight and you don't want to be rude or offend anyone.

From a very young age, we are conditioned to be polite. But who defines polite? If a quick interruption propels you toward your future, wouldn't you want someone to tap you on the shoulder and make a suggestion? Being Pushy is about discovering opportunities for you; how simple actions change peoples' lives.

If you've had an intuitive moment that you didn't act on, you now have permission to go for it. Be Pushy for a Moment and maximize your ability to find new information and create a life that holds meaning for you.

What have you got to lose? Nothing except a life you'll love because you simply allowed yourself to act on a hunch! When you encounter a new decision point in your daily routine, you instantly evaluate it. Your instincts immediately trigger a response to your past experiences, education or other lessons. This moment, if captured without your mind censoring it, becomes your next right step.

This instant blip, what many label as a hunch or feeling, instead reveals what's real. People who practice being Pushy for a Moment recognize this feeling as the reality of the situation. Your ability to move through a situation as it occurs leads you to your next right step, and ultimately, to achieve the task at hand.

Being Pushy for a Moment is about how you treat yourself. Rather than quickly dismissing what you feel, tap into the power behind these strong thoughts. They are connected with the reality that crossed your path in the past and bear powerful solutions that will be revealed once you listen for them. These authentic insights prepare you for success by leading you to your next appropriate step.

No matter how prepared we are or how many times we double-check our strategies, unforeseen occurrences may influence our path to success. Unexpected twists and turns can hamper our progress and stop us dead in our tracks, unless we have the confidence to move forward. The confidence necessary to conquer any challenge and achieve your dreams grows from releasing the power of your thoughts. It begins and ends with being Pushy for a Moment.

Constant adjustments are part of any successful journey. By being Pushy for a Moment, you allow yourself to tap into your intuitive knowledge and make clear choices while maintaining your energy and focus. Each Pushy for a Moment instance comprises the basic building blocks for your abundant life.

Success is about moving forward despite any challenges you may encounter. Actions move you forward to experience accomplishment. It begins by cultivating confidence in you no matter what outside influences exist.

Enjoy the ride, trust yourself and be successful in a heartbeat.

Contact E-mail Address: mailto:pushy@pushyforamoment.com Copyright Date: 2008 All Rights Reserved Worldwide Joanne Victoria, America's Vision Coach helps entrepreneurs and solo professionals build successful lives and businesses by helping them be Joanne Victoria, well known as America's Vision Coach, provides insights into Big Picture Outcomes for clients and offers action steps essential to make dreams come alive. Joanne celebrates her Pushy Moments personality because it gives her more possibilities for success. For more information and to order Pushy For a Moment - Instant Solutions to Everyday Challenges, contact: mailto:pushy@pushyforamoment.com Joanne Victoria, owner of New Directions and author of "Vision With a Capital V - Create the Business of Your Dreams", with over 25 years of experience in business development and marketing coaching and consulting, works with and speaks to the real estate industry on how to have more clarity, more satisfaction, more sales and more fun. You can reach Joanne at: mailto:info@NewDirectionsinRealEstate.com, by phone at: 360-377-2995. Book orders in the US: 888-503-2665.

How To Increase Your Personal Value

By Andrew Cox

Your personal value is the most important value you can create. Unfortunately, 7 out of 10 people in the US underestimate their personal value. It's easy to do - without even knowing it. It shows up in invisible ways - in risks not taken, jobs not applied for, opportunities not identified, relationships that never occur. It shows up in negative self talk - like "I could never do that!" or "I'm just a ------."

There are so many messages given since childhood : "don't bite off more than you can chew, " be careful," " don't stick your neck out," " only speak when you're spoken to," " know your place," "don't work too hard." "the more you do the more will be expected of you," what makes you think you're so special?" "don't be stupid." After years of being bombarded by those limiting messages, it's not hard to understand why so many of us undervalue our abilities and our worthiness.

One of the other effects of all those messages can be to let others create our value. If the highest order of our personal goals is to please and satisfy others - to respond to those messages - we can never place the real value we should on ourselves.

Having a limited view of our personal value can be a good thing - if it makes us strive harder to achieve. And for many it does - many of the top leaders and most successful people use their feelings of "not quite good enough" as a way to motivate themselves to show just what they can do. Unfortunately, for many, this same feeling of "not quite good enough" results in not taking risks, not reaching out for opportunities. The result is that personal value stagnates - and being "not quite good enough" becomes a way of life - a firmly embedded belief.

So how can we increase our personal value - in our work, our family, our relationships? Here are methods, tools and beliefs we all can use to better understand and increase our personal value:

Start with this exercise:

Write down all the successes and challenges you have met and overcome. If you're not used to thinking in terms of your own successes, or if your beliefs have been shaped to where you question your own worthiness or ability this may take some time. Write down as much as you can, and keep coming back to it. This is strictly a personal exercise, and is not the place for humility. Begin to notice what happens when you write down positive successes in your life. A lot of today's challenges and opportunities start to look a lot more doable when compared with what you have already accomplished - and there are so many more accomplishments and successes than you realized! Your energy picks up as you begin to realize just how much value you have created.

Create goals for the important things. It's amazing just how many really important accomplishments and successes are never really identified because people didn't take the time to define define them - in writing. Make goal setting a habit.

Start a Success Journal. Force yourself to write down all the things that went right - that you accomplished on a daily basis. Become positively accountable to yourself. Writing down what you did well becomes something you look forward to doing every day. And the more you do it - the more you want to do it.

Replace perfect with good. Nothing limits a sense of personal value more than having the belief that only perfect is good enough.. That belief creates an impossible barrier to accomplishment. Nothing's perfect - striving to do better is what motivates.

Be realistic, but stretch that realism to set the course for accomplishment. Tell yourself "This is a stretch, but it's what I want to do, and I'm going to go for it!" The only way to add value is to reach beyond where we are right now - and that requires a level of risk. Risk and increasing value go together.

Realize the most common assumption people make that keeps them from realizing their true value is the assumption that many other people share the same skills, abilities, experiences, beliefs, attitudes and personal skills that they do. Nothing could be further from the truth. Creating our own value requires the belief that we are truly unique - we are, you know.

Realize that we all feel fear, we all get nervous, we all are insecure in our ability to overcome problems and create solutions. A saying I read years ago said " Be kind to your fellow man - we all have our private hells to deal with." Knowing that even the most self assured, attractive, apparently successful people share fear as an emotion, and have their own baggage of doubts, can help us overcome our own.

Many of us tend to undervalue our accomplishments and experience and put ourselves in small niches. Realize how valuable and broad your accomplishments really are! Good examples are men and women coming out of the military - great experience - but many see themselves as much more limited than they really are. Realize that behaviors, attitudes and personal skills are transferable - and represent the greatest opportunities for success in any job.

Take an inventory of all the value added actions that exist around what you do. Example - A young manager volunteered to take on a one time project for his employer. He was named Project Manager - in addition to everything else he had to do. He discovered project management skills - that he had in abundance - were scarce. He always assumed that others had what he had - a bad assumption. He ended up taking his skills and putting them to work in a business where project management was a core competency. He prospered.

Realize that fears and doubts and negative issues will not go away - they reappear every day. They are one of the engines of accomplishment. Facing them and dealing with them - and in many cases succeeding - and in others failing, but continuing to persist, adds value.

Start today on your journey of discovery of your personal value. Start with the exercise of writing down all the things you have accomplished, succeeded in and overcome in your life. Be prepared to be amazed at yourself.

Andy Cox is President of Cox Consulting Group LLC. The focus of his work is on helping organizations and their people increase their success in the hiring, developing and enhancing the performance of leaders and emerging leaders. Cox Consulting Group LLC was started in 1995, and has worked with a wide range of organizations, managers and leaders - helping them define success, achieve success and make the ability to change a competitive advantage. He can be reached at http://coxconsultgroup.com

Getting That Promotion - What Compromises Are You Making? Please Consider The Narrow Way

By Steve Wickham

Isn't it weird to think no matter how much we think on the meaning to life, we still can't quite work it out? We know the things that don't satisfy and for most of us it's almost all of our experience of life; things that don't satisfy. The things that are supposed to be satisfying and fulfilling simply don't cut it, or are just plain hard work. We can't see the sense in them half the time.

As people, we're constantly trying new and different things to find the key to success and happiness; we often think that we'll achieve it if we climb the corporate ladder or make the higher sports team or get friendly with a certain 'click.' We keep searching in the hope of satisfying ourselves and others who might rely on us. It's innate.

Some get to a point of trying so hard to do this they burn out. They push beyond their reasonable 'safe load limit,' selling out on sleep and eating properly and exercise, all in order to meet unreasonable expectations and flawed goals. They get trapped by their commitments knowing all along the castle that is their lives could crumble and fall at any time. It's folly and unsustainable behaviour.

There has to be a better way. But the better way appears so elusive. How do others get the balance right? How do others balance family responsibilities with work, with leisure, and personal development? And there are more demands - this is simply the start. How do others pay their exorbitant mortgage, and feel free at the same time?

I don't claim to know the answers, but what I do know it this: Life is about finding the 'narrow way.' It's about finding the right balance. Being the 'narrow way' implies it is not easy to live. Finding balance is also not easy, and it was never actually meant to be easy. But it is attainable. It has to be! There must be a way to achieve reasonably whilst attaining life balance. It takes a continual commitment to live a courageous and disciplined life.

The most famous and most influential person to have ever walked the earth highlighted the "two ways of life":

"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it."[1]

This person, Jesus, succinctly gave us the paradox of life, which is also the way to life: if you want to come first, choose last. It is the choice to give by serving, over taking and 'being served.'

The point at which the narrow and wide ways intersect harkens us to a decision. How are we going to live our lives? Will we simply live as the mood takes us? Or are we living deliberately and to a plan - a method of living that requires daily vigilance and maintenance, a method where there is accountability for personal growth through the lifespan? Will we be predominantly a 'giver' or a 'taker' in life?

The wide gate and the road that is easy is the one most take in life; it's not the right way, but still most take it. The way most do not go is life through the narrow gate and the road that's hard. This involves loneliness, suffering, and courage, but reveals life that God predestined for us to have. This is the spiritual life. There are not even very many Christians or people professing other faiths who live this life genuinely. It's about a life of continual repentance or a turning back to God.

Okay, so how does this fit with your life? This is how it could work:

There is often a price we pay for promotion, for instance. For many promotions there is a requirement to put in more hours, and more responsibility is assumed. There might be less family time-and you will never get that time back. It depends what you're called to and what legacy you wish to leave behind that was your life.

There is often a price we pay for the people we associate with, and the time we spend. Some people are good for us and some aren't. Some activities we engage in are good and some are bad.

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better legacy to leave behind than that of a special, loving, and committed husband and father, and secondarily a good worker. But most of all I think I would like to be remembered as someone who actually got the balance of priorities in life right, most if not all his life.

To conclude, what separates us from the next nice and courteous person? It is a daily commitment to this 'narrow way' that provides life. Real life that few really experience. Why would you not want to experience it?

Perhaps Justin Langer puts the 'narrow way' best in his book Seeing the Sunrise:

It takes discipline and courage to look a man in the eyes rather than at his feet.
It takes discipline and courage to train when it is wet and cold.
It takes discipline and courage to tell the truth rather than lie.
It takes discipline and courage to keep focused on your dreams.
It takes discipline and courage to master the basics.
It takes discipline and courage to practise under pressure.
It takes discipline and courage to get out of bed early.
It takes discipline and courage to keep running when you are spent.
It takes discipline and courage to do the little things
It takes discipline and courage to watch your manners.
It takes discipline and courage to do an extra lap.
It takes discipline and courage to trust yourself.
It takes discipline and courage to guard against complacency.
It takes discipline and courage to be honest with yourself.
It takes discipline and courage to be the first on the training track.
It takes discipline and courage to choose right over wrong.
It takes discipline and courage to be on time.
It takes discipline and courage to fight back rather than quit.
It takes discipline and courage to stick to your game plan.
It takes discipline and courage to lead by example.
It takes discipline and courage to listen and learn.
It takes discipline and courage to say no.
It takes discipline and courage to make it to the top.[2]

Not everyone wants to be a successful athlete like Justin Langer, but his recipe for success is just as applicable for any field of pursuit. Be a successful human being by making a choice for the 'narrow way.'

© 2008, Steven John Wickham. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

[1] Matthew 7:13-14 (NRSV) in the Holy Bible.
[2] Langer, J.L. Seeing the Sunrise, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2008), p. 80.

Steve Wickham is a safety and health professional (BSc) and a qualified Christian minister (GradDipDiv). He is also has training and leadership Diplomas. His passion in vocation is facilitation and coaching; encouraging people to soar to a higher value of their potential. Steve's key passion is work / life balance and re-creating value for living, and an exploration of the person within us. His highest goal is doing God's will, in enhancing his life, and the lives of others.

It Is Time For Success!

By Rahmat Dermawan Gulo

Is it not what we all are dreaming of? Being a Success! Yes, of course all of us want to be a successful person. We are very proud if we become a successful person in our entire life, in our jobs, in school or in our relationships. But what a challenge this is! Hope this simplest formula can used for reaching heights of success that you have only dreamed about. Because there is no time to dream on your success but it is time to make it come true. Create your success with this simplest formula.

First you need faith to success! Yes, you must believe that you are such a person that can achieve great success. Be confident to yours self in your way to reach the success. You have to understand that you will need to make an effort, not necessarily a huge one, but let's put it that way: We will definitely need consistence in our doings.

After that you need a consistency in your work. Do what you are things is right. Make decisions that match with your true purpose in life. And consequently is you can achieve faster and better results. Next, you should do it in the right way. Try to learn from someone who is already successful and follow his footstep. Learn from the best and take the advice, learn their methods, imitate their lives and discover their secrets. The last, choose the right time to start taking action. And the right time to do is, Now!

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