Expanding Your Comfort Zone into POWER

Today's article is to help expand your comfort zone to increase your wealth. If you challenge your mind to expand your comfort zone, naturally, you will expand your wealth zone. By striving to grow your comfort zone, you are constantly taking risks and finding more opportunities, ideas, actions and growth than you ever imagined.

Here are 10 Actions you can take RIGHT NOW that will question your current comfort zone, and will take you to a place of more WEALTH and more POWER.

ACTION #1: THINK LIKE A CHAMPION

Donald Trump says you should ask yourself: If I had nothing to do at all, what would I do? Write out your gut reaction now and discover what might be missing in your life.

ACTION #2: EXPAND YOUR WEALTH ZONE

T. Harv Eker says you should expand your wealth by expanding your mind. Keep track of your thoughts for an entire day, and replace any negative thoughts with empowering ones.


ACTION #3: RECAPTURE YOUR CHILDLIKE WONDER

Mark Victor Hansen says our creativity causes our talents to surface. List your top three talents. Select one that brings you the most joy and makes time disappear. Can you turn it into a business?

ACTION #4: START YOUR BUSINESS NOW

Step off of the recession roller-coaster and control your income source. Find out if you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur by taking my quiz.(Private Message me to Receive Your FREE Quiz!)

ACTION #5: TO-DO LIST

Mel Robbins says getting more accomplished isn't about managing time; its about managing YOU. What's one thing you could accomplish today that would make you feel fantastic at day's end? Do it now--and start every day with that question.

ACTION #6: GO INTROSPECTIVE FOR A MINUTE

Are you a good leader? John C. Maxwell says good leadership is not about how far you advance yourself, but how far you advance others. List the ways you are adding or subtracting value to your team.

ACTION #7: STRIP BARE

Richard Branson believes in perseverance, imagination and risk. Write down a risk you know in your gut you should take for your business. Now do it.

ACTION #8: SCORE BIG

Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets says, You can't separate yourself from the pack unless you rise above average. Stop sitting on the average sidelines and step into the game. What two decisions can you make right now to live at a higher level?

ACTION #9: LIFE IS THE BEST TEACHER

Bethany Hamilton, at the age of 13, lost her arm after being bitten by a shark while surfing. Instead of giving up, she learned to embrace adversity and continues competitive surfing today. What three things have you learned from your biggest adversity? Now put them into practice.

ACTION #10: WELCOME CONFLICT

Only GREAT teams argue... Conflict avoidance leads to mediocrity. Send your team members an email encouraging openness at your next meeting. Tell them to refrain from mean-spiritedness or personal attacks, but to speak their mind. Learn what concepts and ideas your team members are passionate for. Compromise and artificial consensus only leads to mediocrity.

What suggestions or other ideas do you find important in expanding your comfort zone that other readers should know? Please share them, so we can all benefit, by commenting below. Thanks, The Sherlocks

It is a Challenge to Succeed

“I am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How come this other guy is happy and prosperous and I’m always struggling?” He then asks, “I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn’t fair. I’m even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way,” he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see...

You have to be more than a good person and a good worker. You have to become a good planner, and a good dreamer. You have to see the future finished in advance.

You have to put in the long hours and work with the setbacks and the disappointments. You have to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You have to be prepared-- and willing-- to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success.

Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn’t really all that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you’ll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
 
I’ve often said that to have more, we must first become more... and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences, it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort.  

Whether we try or don’t try.

Join or don’t join. 

Believe or don’t believe.

I’d like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you’ve forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you’re headed. After all, you’ve only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what you can do and what you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help, and in the process, how that can help you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

Share your thoughts in the comment section below! Post your suggestions on how you plan to tackle your challenges to succeed into your day.

Our Lives Are a Compilation of the Little Things Decisions We Make

Over my career I have read and heard thousands of quotes from great leaders, but there is one I replay in my mind more than any other. Jim Rohn, one of the greatest personal development teachers of our time said,

“Success comes from making a series of good decisions over time, while failure comes from making a series of bad decisions over time.” 

I believe this is one of the most accurate statements of human achievement ever articulated during the 20th Century.

Decisions to Ponder
Every day we each make hundreds of little decisions, most of which seem inconsequential at the time. But every decision—no matter how little—will lead us closer to or further from our goals. Today’s lesson will focus on what I define as “either/or” decisions, because you’re deciding to “either” do something “or” not do something.

• Do we get out of bed early enough to properly prepare for the day?
• Do we straighten up our bedroom and make the bed before heading out the door?
• Do we dress and groom ourselves so that we make a positive impression on people?
• Do we make food choices that will improve our health?
• Do we control interruptions so we can focus on our responsibilities?
• Do we set aside specific time to spend with our children?
• Do we show our spouses that we love them?
• When talking on the phone, do we sound happy to be speaking to the other person?
• Do we exercise even when we don’t feel like it?
• Do we think about what we want to say before speaking?
• Do we show courtesy by holding the door open for someone else?
• Do we compliment people when they are deserving of one?
• Are we friendly in our emails?
• Do we say please and thank you?
• Do we show people respect by letting them finish talking before responding?
• Do we apologize without making excuses when we are wrong?
• Do we have a positive attitude even when things don’t go our way?

The Power of Our Decisions
These and hundreds of other little decisions we make each day may seem insignificant when looked at individually, but when looked at collectively they influence every part of our lives. From our relationships to our health, no part of our lives is exempt from the effects of these little decisions.

We are where we are and whom we are at this very moment in life based on the decisions we have made. Our physical health is largely the reflection of our decisions. Our finances are what they are because of our decisions. Where we work and what we earn is the outcome of our decisions. The state of our relationships is the result of our decisions. Everything we have or don’t have is a reflection of our decisions.

We can avoid accepting personal responsibility for our decisions by blaming others, but if we consider how something occurred, it all points to a decision we made.  From time to time there will be exceptions, but if we are honest with ourselves, our lives are a mirror image of our decisions.

There is also a positive side effect from intentionally making good decisions.  When you make wise choices regardless of how little they may be, you will feel happy with yourself and who you are becoming because you will know you are doing the right thing.

Improving Our Decision-Making
If deep down inside you want to become a better person and enjoy greater success and fulfillment in your life, then consider these suggestions.

• Accept responsibility for your decisions and stop blaming others for where you find yourself today. This is the first step forward.

• Become aware of decisions you are making every day and start making decisions consistent with the person you want to become.

• Believe in yourself and in your ability to make good decisions. Follow your gut and do what you feel is right; 95% of the time you will make the right decision.  Like any skill, as you become intentional about making positive decisions, you will get better and better.

What methods do you use to make these little daily decisions? Which ones present the most challenges? I encourage you to share your thoughts in the comment section below.



The little decisions you make each day will form the person you become tomorrow.