Failure?? I Think Not!!!

Failure??? I think not!!!!

Been a few weeks since my last post. I have been so busy :). The Compound Effect has been so helpful. I have been following my plan and goals. Have failed miserably with parts of the plan. At first I would get so frustrated. I would feel like I had failed. Sometimes I would wonder if I could even get it right. I have bought the audio version of the Compound Effect and have made the decision to play it everytime I was in the car so I could keep on track.

Over the last week I have started seeing some positive results. I am so excited that even with my perceived failure I am still seeing results. Whoop!!! I am realizing there is no failure. The only failure is if I quit and that's not happening. So even when I do it wrong, as long as I am moving forward, improving what I am doing I will gradually see my goals achieved.

So don't ever quit on what you want in life and remember this .... If it's something that is way outside your comfort zone. It's probably something that you could benefit from doing.

Book ends.

Wow. Reading through a few chapters of the Compound Effect again. So struggling with keeping on track with my goals. Felt like I was failing. It's amazing how I can read something and not remember it.

Darren Hardy was talking about keeping a schedule. Ugh schedule????? Kids??? Life??? How do I do that???? Then I read his explanation about book ends. I may not always be able to predict the unexpected in my day. But!!!!! I can control the beginning of my day and the end of my day. The routine to start and end my day right. I know I can do that. Have the morning routine. Working on the evening. Love his suggestions.

I continue down this road. :)

Determination

It's Sunday.  New week starting.  For parents, tomorrow the kids go back to school.  Whooop!!!.  We all love them, but when it comes to keeping a plan in place, wow they sure can throw a few monkey wrenches into those plans.  :-)

My friends Pam and Phil Pettigrew made a decision a while back.  They both decided they were going to start running and run in some races.  This is a couple who never did stuff like that.  They were out of shape and busy and dealing with life.  But they did it and they keep changing their goal and achieving more!!!! It's been amazing to watch and so encouraging.

I would hear things from them like, I ran in the cold today or in the rain, I never thought I could do this, Ugh I am tired and I need to run.  At the beginning it was not easy for them to do some of those things.  I remember Pam telling me at the very beginning she was not sure if she could do it.  But they did!!  It was determination that pushed them through.  They had their goal set.  Their determination to succeed got them out the door on days most of us would have curled up in bed.  This did not happen over night.  There has been a gradual process they have gone through.  A series of small decisions that got them to their goal.  If they failed on one day they did not let it stop them the next day. Phil and Pam don't realize it but watching them encouraged me.  

I don't think we realize the impact we have on those around us as we live our lives accomplishing our dreams and goals.  When we do things that we thought we could never do it encourages another to go and do the same.  They start to believe that maybe then can too.

I have so fallen off my routine that I established just before Christmas.  Have to say I have felt a little discouraged.  My first thought was, I am not going to be able to stick to this.  blah blah blah started happening in my head.  The negative chatter.  So today my word is DETERMINATION.  Today is a new day.  What I didn't do yesterday has no impact on what I can accomplish today.  Each day is new.  So if you have been feeling a little discouraged that goals you have set are not being met.  Why don't  we all agree together, that everyday will be a fresh new page.  A day of unlimited possibilities and we will not let the negative chatter of the week before decide what today or tomorrow will be.  So as I move forward in my year this will be how I start each day :-)

Special thanks to my friends Pam and Phil.  Who have no idea how they have encouraged me.  You two rock!!!

My First Post

Ok here I go.  This is my very first post.  Whoop!!! Learning curve for me lol.  

As you can see from my "About me" I have been on a journey over the last 4 years.  I have 3 amazing children and my goal is to become everything that I can to show them what is possible in life.  

What have I decided to blog about?  Goals!!!  Why goals you ask?  Well I personally have struggled over the years, trying to understand how to set goals and achieve them.  I am going to be 46 at the end of this month.  There are so many things I still want to accomplish and I am beginning to realize that I have goals in my mind.  Some are clear and some are as clear as mud.  So...... This year is a year of learning the art of goal setting, following a program and accomplishing those goals.

Here is my biggest fear...... Failure

As I shared what I was doing with a few of my friends I realized they basically had the same fear.  So I decided to document the next year.  As I go through this process I will share my fears, my dreams, my hopes and my goals.  My successes and my failures.  My hope is that this blog will encourage others.  Even if one person makes the decision not to allow their past to dictate their future.  To get up one more time and take one more step.  That will be one person who will go out and do the same.  Encourage another to go and get up one more time, who will eventually go and encourage another and on and on.

I have no idea what will happen. I do know I will make some mistakes along the way.  But I have just finished reading "The Compound Effect" by Darren Hardy.  I have realized it is the small decisions that can change the course of my life.  

So here I go.  When I look back on December 31, 2013 I will be able to see what those decisions were and where they took me.  

The Journey begins