Motivation No-No’s…
7 Steps to Be Instantly Average
Who wants to be authentic or successful or outstanding or passionate or evolving when it’s so much easier to be average?

Just in case you struggle with lowering your sites and settling for less, here’s 7 tips to get you started down the path of mediocrity.

1. Worry About What Others Think
Live for the approval of others. Do what you think they want–or won’t notice. Check each of your decisions by the benchmark of group acceptance.

2. See the Finished Product
Be overwhelmed by success. See only the clean and shiny after-pictures instead of the small steps that made it possible.

3. Do Safe
Don’t take risks. Small, medium, or large. Instead, live safely in the cocoon of seeming comfort. If you’ve done it before, keep doing it. And only it.

4. Think ‘Forever’
Treat each opportunity–or life overall–as infinite. Put things off today because, hey, you can always do it tomorrow. Don’t rush. Don’t hustle. Wait. Wait until it feels just right. Then keep waiting.

5. Compare Down
Compare yourself with people who have less, give less, do less. This will make you instantly feel better. It will also keep the pressure off. As long as you’re not drowning, there’s no need to kick hard.

6. Keep It Fuzzy
Don’t mess with your fears. Keep them just how they are: fuzzy and heavy. Let that vague feeling hold you back and scare you. Let those unclear doubts make your stomach twist and legs freeze. Don’t reduce your fears to their facts. Keep ‘em fuzzy.

7. Make Failure Permanent
Always, always, always see failing as a final fall. If you mess up–game over. You can’t get back up, you can’t brush yourself off. You are done, and you look like a fool for trying.

Follow these simple tips and you too can be average! (Or do their opposites and start to live a better, more exciting life.)

Why Winners Win And Losers Lose! by Gary Simpson

Here is a 20 point list that discerns the difference between winners and losers. You can learn why winners win and losers lose very quickly by checking this list.

1. Winners have dogged determination. Losers lack the ability to see any project through to a satisfactory conclusion.

2. Winners never give up, give in or surrender. Losers quit the moment things get the slightest bit difficult.
3. Winners make exceptional use of available time. Losers waste time engaging in useless activities.
4. Winners plan and map their route to success. Losers consider plans belong to builders and maps belong in glove-boxes.

Read the rest….

‘Your INPUT will determine your OUTPUT, so guard what you PUT IN and you won’t be PUT OUT!’

Take particular care as to what you allow to enter both your ear and eye gates. For what you allow to pass through here will determine what comes forth from your mouth and will be demonstrated through your actions. It will determine what fills your mind and will ultimately influence your destiny. Imagine having a sentry on guard twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Choose to avoid certain places, switch channels on the television and refuse to be bombarded by unwanted visual or verbal stimuli that is not healthy for your ongoing personal development. Say ‘no’ to the mediocre and only ‘yes’ to the excellent.

Words by Peter Sinclair.