Reaching your Potential

 In order to reach your potential, what do you need to change?

We all dream about things that we would like to achieve and choosing to make changes or set ourselves a goal to achieve our dream is the easy part. Actually achieving them is the hard part. 

For example, lets look at the “I want to get fit” goal. We usually start full of enthusiasm and action, we enlist the help of a friend to walk with, we join a gym and book ourselves in for exercise classes, we even give ourselves a treat and buy some new gym shoes and clothes.  However one week later the  5.30am alarm goes off and we  roll over and ignore it  because we are too tired, its too cold  or too wet.  We promise ourselves that  we will exercise later to make up for it, but then our day gets busy and we just don’t have time.  Before we know it, the reasons why we cant exercise get bigger than the reasons that we should exercise and once again, we have failed to reach our goal.

Here’s a tip to help you succeed.  Whenever we set ourselves a goal we have to count the cost and compare that with achieving the goal.  Ask yourself “What is this going to cost me?   Is it worth it?  What will I need to do/be to achieve this?”   When you have  thought it through decide “Am I willing to pay the price?”

The habits that have brought you to the place that you are now in will not usually be enough to carry you to the place you are trying to reach.  You have to stretch yourself.  You have to be willing to change, to learn, improve your skills, grow your self-dicipline and be determined.  Anyone can do this, you just have to make a decision to start.

In other words…….

 “To achieve something you have never achieved before, you must become someone you’ve never been before”.   Brian Tracey

inspiredtoB

Blog 7^th Sept 2011

It’s been a BIG week for me with the official launch of my inspiredtoB Brand.  It is so wonderful to finally see the completion of a dream. I’ve been thinking and saying for ages that “I must get a website for my business”. However, I didn’t spring into action until one of my clients said “In this day and age there is no excuse for a business not to have a website”.  It was time for action!

What followed was a lot of hard work trying to capture the essence of what inspiredtoB is about and translate that to a brand and website. Thankfully in life, its not often we have to do things alone so I enlisted the help of a switched on creative designer who patiently worked through the process with me until we had something that we were both excited and inspired about.  

So, here are four things I have learned along the way that I hope will encourage and inspire you

1.  Dare to Dream. 

 If you can see it, you can believe it and if you can believe it you can achieve it!  So begin to imagine and dream about the things you want to accomplish.   Write them down and set a date for accomplishing them.

2.  Nothing happens if nothing happens.

In other words, you have got to stop procrastinating and take action to make things happen. The good news is you only have to take one step at a time and if you keep doing this and don’t give up you will get there.

3.  You don’t have to do it on your own.

Do what you can then get help from an expert, to do what you can’t do  - ask for help!

4.  It’s worth it.

There is something wonderful about having an idea, even if it is just a tiny hope inside your heart and then having the courage and determination to go after it and achieve it.

So go on, stop wishing.  Believe in yourself, have confidence in your abilities, take action and start achieving!

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities."

— Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)