Limitations

“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.” - Denis Waitley

When you focus on all that you can not achieve you will not reach success. Truly happy people, truly successful people focus on possibilities. What do you center on in your life? All that you can’t do or all that you might be able to do?

Affirmation – say: “I will focus on the possibilities in me, instead of my limitations.”

Focus

Are you going 90 miles an hour? Doing a million things, yet nothing gets accomplished? STOP and focus. If you need to make a to-do list and prioritize! For heaven’s sake stop doing what is in front of you at the moment…it’s distracting you. You must do the important things first and everything else can wait.

Affirmation – say: “I will focus my attention on the most important matter at the moment.”

Multi-tasking

Multi-tasking is not something to always be proud of. If you are a perfectionist, you probably take pride in saying that one of your best skills is multi-tasking. If you are a guilty parent, you probably think multi-tasking is a requirement. If you are a go-getter at work, you probably think multi-tasking makes you more efficient.

If you do true multi-tasking – i.e. more than one thing at a time, then you are not giving anything 100% of your focus or effort. Mistakes will be make. Try this on for size: “Task Switching.” How fast you switch between tasks is up to you. Just keep in mind the 100% focus.


Affirmation – say: “I will give the things I do and the people I interact with 100% of my attention and effort!”

Self-Pity

Instead of focusing on “poor me, it’s too hard.” Think instead of what you can do for this moment. We tend to focus too much on what we don’t have or can’t do that we never can see what we CAN do. Solutions are the answer to the power of positive energy and the end of self-pity.

Happy New Year

Take the time to reflect.  Many of us focus on what was wrong with 2009 - but what went right?  How will 2010 be better?  How will you be better?  Try at the very least to be optimistic!