Weekly Awesome Awareness

Life is to be lived, enjoyed and appreciated. Every day is a day to be celebrated. Sounds like I am viewing life through rose colored glasses? No. I do have a life filled with gratitude.
When you look at your life and choose to celebrate the good things, you will find that you receive more blessings. You will always receive more of whatever you give your time, energy and focus. Why not focus on the things you choose to receive?
Could life really be that simple? As reality sets in, we realize that thinking positive is the first step. Step two is taking the action to support that decision. Step three is cultivating the expectation of success.
Step one defines the positives in your life:
1. What activities or thoughts were awesome today?
2. What events both major and minor can you celebrate today?
3. What and who are you grateful for today?
4. What activities are producing the best results for you in your business?
5. What activities are producing the best results for you in your personal life?
6. What progress have you made toward achieving your goals?
Step two implements every item in step one:
1. How can you take even more positive action to improve each activity and thought?
2. When you truly celebrate the little victories and learn the reasons behind them, the easier it is to re-create them and build them into big victories.
3. I keep a gratitude journal in which I write at least 10 items every day. They are rarely the same 10 even though some of them repeat on a regular basis.
4. Tracking your results is a key factor in the wise use of your time, energy and money. Where are your sales and top networking contacts finding you?
5. Your personal life absolutely affects your business life. Even though we try not to allow business to dwell upon our mind during personal time, let's be honest, it does creep into our thoughts. The two are intertwined. How can you maximize your personal life for your own sake and that of your loved ones? Make the personal an asset to boost your life inside and outside working hours.
6. As you reflect at the end of the day, have you been busy or productive? A carefully designed priority list for the day and adhering to that schedule helps insure that your time will be spent on the important and urgent or at least the important details rather than wasted on trivia.

Step three emphasizes believing in yourself and your goals with such strong focus and emotion that you already see the goals achieved before they are a reality in your bank account or paper documents. Visualize the goals already achieved. See every detail in living color. Experience each one with all 5 senses. Hear the words of praise, see the victory celebration, touch the evidence of accomplishment, smell the sweet scent of victory in the air and taste the congratulatory kiss from your loved one. Truly place yourself fully into the experience as already accomplished. Hold that image and take the action steps to make it come true.