Cover All The Bases
"Look back in
forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude."
- Zig Ziglar
(1926-2012)
Author/Speaker
One day
while I was driving with my 11 year old grandson, he asked me, “How do you
remember everything you have to do to drive the car?” I told him, “I really don’t think about it
much at all. I just drive.” I could see that confused him a bit so I
tried to explain that there are tasks we do all the time that have many steps,
but we don’t think about the steps, we just do it.
Tony Robbins calls this
“chunking”. Chunking is when you take
many steps and they become one step, or one task. The example I gave to my grandson was that of
getting dressed. When you get dressed in
the morning you have several things you have to put on and several tasks you
need to do. “Do you think about each one
before you do it?” I asked. “No,” he
said, “I just get dressed.” Well, that
is exactly what chunking is. You just do
it.
This same principle can apply to
our attitudes. During the course of our
day we are faced with many challenges and situations that create emotions or
responses we need to control. An
undisciplined person will be moody, fly off the handle and often deal with a
bad temper. That is because they do not
have control in their lives. The
success-minded person will face life and all the challenges that go with it
with a positive and productive attitude.
This attitude is based on a
series of choices we make about the things we face. Do we respond in anger or do we find a
solution? Do we thank someone for
something they have done or do we let it pass so we can think of other
things? Life is full of choices we have
to make every minute we live. So how do
you make the right choice each time we are faced with a challenge? Here are four things you can do to make the
right choice every time.
1). Make the Choice Ahead of Time
Success-minded people know that
to be successful in life you must make the right choices before you face a
challenge, not during or after the fact.
You decide now that you there is an answer to every problem and you will
find the answer. Decide now that anger
and negative behavior never accomplishes a thing and you will face life from a
positive view point. Once you have made these
choices you never have to make them again.
You just do what you know to do.
2). Keep in a Positive State
Being positive is more than just
how you think. That is a big part, but
only a part. How you hold yourself, move
and talk also play a part in being positive.
Discipline yourself to stand straight, look forward, walk at a confident
pace and, above all, keep a smile on your face.
Smile when you talk to others and always show respect and kindness in
your words. Do this and it will be
impossible to be negative or depressed.
3). Make Life an Adventure
Success-minded people have fun
in life because they see it all as one great adventure. I know it is easy to think your life is dull
and uneventful most of the time, but that is just what you want to see. Start seeing life as something to conquer; as
an adventure to have, not be subjected to.
When you wake each day expecting to have an adventure, you will face the
unknown with excitement and eagerness rather than fear and dread.
4). Be Grateful for Everything
Above all things that create a
positive and productive attitude, nothing can compare with gratitude. The grateful person knows that each day is a
gift. Every person they see is an
opportunity to show kindness and to add value.
They see every challenge as a way to become better, to know more and to
move closer to their goals.
The secret to living this
positive and highly productive life to do these things every day till they
become a regular part of your life. You
do not do each one on its own, rather you chunk them into one way of
living. Like getting dressed or driving
the car, you just do it.
To discover how you can achieve the dream you have believed was
impossible for too long, read On The
Journey To Achievement by John Patrick Hickey. You can get a signed copy for yourself and
get one for a friend, by going to http://www.johnpatrickhickey.com/it-is-good-to-set-goals-better-to-achieve-then/.
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