BE ALL YOU CAN BE

 Are you just floating aimlessly through life,just doing the bare minimum,just doing enough to survive. Do you have plans and dreams that you have put aside,telling yourself that they will never come to reality. Well with that kind of attitude,let me tell you what is going to happen for you,absolutely nothing. If we are going to see our dreams come to reality sometimes we'll have to motivate ourselves to get where we need to be. Due to the pressures of everyday life, we sometimes tend to forget about the great power that lies within us, to be all we can be.We need to get excited about life once more.What a great feeling it is to be alive.We need to wake up in the morning with great plans for the future,we need something to look forward to,something to keep us going and hopeful towards the future.

  Whatever it is that you want to do,you need to start making plans to do them right now,get out your pen and paper start putting your mind to work,I can see the big smile on your face and if you're not smiling you should be, look at the limitless possibilities within you that are just waiting for you to just start thinking in order to become a reality.You can do anything you want to do,you just need to get serious and work out a plan to get where you want to be.Don't just go through life doing just enough to get by,be all you can be,don't hold back.
This is not a dress rehearsal you won't get a second shot at life,so make the most of what you have and always try your best to perform and be at your optimum at all times.

   Get your mind in soldier mode and BE ALL YOU CAN BE, life is short,so stop wasting time watching tv and going on facebook to catch up with the latest gossip,stop watching ppl ,you need to get serious about your own life.If you follow the tv and facebook you'll end up getting nothing done, try to manage your time better ,find sometime for your dream,get on google and do some research on what you want to do,find someone who is already on the path you want to take,ask them questions,get interested in your own dream and stop watching actors live their dreams on tv,while you sit around going nowhere fast. BE ALL YOU CAN BE !!! STOP WASTING TIME !!! TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN AND TIME LOST CAN NEVER BE REGAINED !!! SO GET MOVING !!!!

Actions Speak Louder Than Words.

   Do you get up everyday and just talk about doing this and doing that but never do anything ? Are you just a talker ? Well actions speak louder than words so you better shut up and start actually doing something.If you just talk the talk and never walk the walk people will never take you seriously.How can anyone take you seriously if you don't take yourself seriously and further more "talk is cheap".We have to take action people,we can't go through life just talking and wishing that things will happen.If we don't get up and start doing what needs to be done,it'll never get done.Life is short folks stop putting off stuff,never put off what you can do today for tomorrow.Make up your mind to start doing what needs to be done today.
   You see my friends although things may seem impossible at first,the minute you make a serious decision to go after what you want in life,doors that were closed will start to open,you will start to meet people who can and are willing to help you do what needs to be done.Many successful people will tell you their lives changed the moment they started to take responsibility for their lives.We must take full responsibility for our lives and stop expecting others to do things for us.Taking responsibility is vital to achieving our goals in life,nothing will happen unless we take responsibility and start getting things done.Take time out to plan and organize,if you fail to plan,you plan to fail.We all want success in life,but success won't come if we continue to sit down.So get up,stand up !!! Start doing what you know deep down in your heart you want to do,stop listening to the nay Sayers,dig your heels in deep,stop talking and start doing.As we say in Jamaica,"ACTION !!!  NOT A BAG A MOUTH."
     The bible says "Faith without works is dead." So even if you believe,you still have to get up and do something,there will be no manna falling from the skies.So make a decision right now to start today,start dreaming,start planning,start believing,start doing.Make "Action"  the keyword  in your life.

DO YOU BELIEVE ?

Do you believe you can do what you want to do ? Is there any doubt in your mind ? What is it that is causing you to not believe in yourself ? These are all necessary questions that you should ask yourself,because if you are going to achieve your dreams and your goals the first person you will have to convince is yourself.If you don't believe in yourself,how do you expect other people to believe in you.So the million dollar question is how do you get your mind in a state of belief ? Well there are a few basic steps that you can take,you will however have to be committed to these steps or they won't work.
 Firstly you will have to sit by yourself and do some soul searching,do a self evaluation of the root cause of your non belief in yourself,maybe it's something that someone said,maybe it's something that someone did,no matter how bad it was it can be turned around into a positive.Don't allow negative people to get you down.After you dig deep and find what's been holding you back,the next step is to now do something about changing all of that.Remember whatever it is that is troubling you,no one can change it but you.You now get your pen and paper.Divide the page in two by drawing a line through the middle,on one side you have PROBLEM and on the other side you have SOLUTION. You now write down all you think is holding you back on the PROBLEM side and really think about what can be done to turn this around on the SOLUTION side.Every problem has a solution and most times we know the solution to our problems but we're just afraid to confront the real issues and get rid of them once and for all.If you're having trouble coming up with solutions you might have to get a trusted friend to help you with this sometimes two heads are better than one to think stuff through.
   Secondly you will have to develop your TENACITY, the V2 Vocabulary dictionary defines TENACITY as follows "Persistent determination in holding to something, especially opinions, valuables, and routines." You will have to develop a thicker skin so that no matter what anyone does or says to you in the future you will under no circumstance lose sight of your goal.You may have to start reading some inspirational/motivational  books to help you in this step,if you can even get your hands on some inspirational/motivational tapes while you drive or workout to help build you up that would be great also.
 Thirdly you will have to surround yourself with positive people who are willing to help you overcome your fears and people who encourage you and genuinely want to see you succeed. You might have to get rid of some of the friends you have now,some of these people are very toxic and they carry a very negative energy with them,they never have anything good to say about anything or anyone.You will have to move away from that type of environment.You might not realize it,but they are hurting you even more than you think.They flood your mind with negative emotions,and the thing about it is, a negative habit sets in easier and quicker than a positive one.
     You will have to commit to change,change won't come easily.In order to get where you want to be you must believe you can get there,so put the above steps into action and I'm sure you'll see a positive change and you will start to believe in yourself and your abilities a lot more.

LIVING LIFE YOUR WAY

Are you living your life the way you want to ?. Are you depending on someone too much for every decision that you make ?.Are you constantly seeking the approval of others for things that you do ? Do you always think about what people might say before you buy something even though you like it ? If you said yes to any of the above you are not “ LIVING LIFE YOUR WAY ” .This kind of life is not the best,because you are never being yourself. You are not the individual you were created to be, you are being a FOLLOWER. LEADERS do not behave this way,LEADERS do what they want to do and if you want to follow that’s up to you and if you don’t well that’s okay too.When you live your life this way you are constantly bound to the opinion of others and if you really want to live a free life you won’t care what others think.As long as you know that you are doing the best you can do for you and your family it shouldn’t matter what other people think.

Don’t allow yourself to fall in the trap of trusting your friends more than you trust yourself,sometimes your friends really don’t want to see you excel,so they will say and do things to keep you down with them,even though you know that particular thing maybe right for you.What is good for you will not always be good for them.You have to weigh the pro’s and cons of the situation and make up your own mind.Sometimes you may even lose some of your friends when you are forced to take a stand for yourself and say what you truly feel. I think it’s far better to live life by your own rules and not follow the rules of someone else. Never try to please people too much,cause if you live your life that way people will catch on and they will try to take advantage of your kindness.A lot of people out there take kindness for weakness,they don’t understand when people are being genuine and are trying to help them,they only see an opportunity to try and take advantage of a situation.Sometimes you have to please yourself and not care what people think or say.Some of the people you are going out of your way for,if you really check it out they would never go out of their way for you,but sometimes you want to be their friend so much that you lose yourself and become their personal slave without even realizing what you’re doing.(A lot of fellas fall victim to some females this way and a lot of ladies fall victim to the fellas this way.)

NEVER WASTE YOUR TIME ON A PERSON WHO IS NOT WILLING TO WASTE THEIR TIME ON YOU. You’re too old for that,this is not primary school or High School you are an adult and you should behave like one.Don’t waste your time trying to win someone over who isn’t even giving you the time of day.There are a lot of people out there who are willing to accept you as you are.Without you having to transform into someone you’re not everytime they come around.You will just have to accept the fact that not everybody is going to like you.If you are in a relationship and every day things are bright and beautiful and you never argue with your mate and you’re constantly walking on egg shells to keep that person happy.That relationship is superficial because you are not free to be yourself. THE GREATEST PERSON YOU CAN BE IS YOURSELF.because there is no one like you. Be yourself and stop following the crowd. We should all try to “LIVE LIFE OUR WAY”. So at the end of the day we can sing like Frank Sinatra and say “ I DID IT MY WAY.” Never let people control your life,if you do you’re going to have a long hard life.

DETOXING YOUR MIND

When we think about detoxing we normally think about,getting unwanted waste out of our physical bodies. We don’t think about getting the unwanted waste out of our minds.There is a lot of junk in our minds that is just taking up unnecessary space and we could get a lot more done and reach further in our lives if we rid our minds of this junk.There are a lot of things that happened to us in the past that some of us are yet to let go of.These things are like a cancer and are poisoning the good things that exist in the mind.The way we get rid of these things is to stop talking about what happened to you from 1910,whenever we do this we are only allowing these things to take deeper root in our minds and fester, whenever you talk about whatever happened to you,you are allowing it to expand.Whatever happened to you is in the past let it stay there,try to replace those thoughts with positive ones think about the great plans you have for your life and strategies you’re going to put in place to achieve these great plans.

Life is too short to spend it looking back and thinking about all the negative things that have come our way.We are wasting valuable time that could have been spent on something a lot more positive that could help us reach higher heights.Detox your mind of such junk. Some of us need a mental detoxing more than a physical one,cause the mental one is actually hurting us more than the physical one.Some of us are poisoning our own minds and sit every day blaming others and don’t realize that if we just make some minor adjustments we would see our lives moving in the right direction.Stop worrying about things you cannot change and focus on changing what you can.Whatever you don’t like about yourself,”CHANGE IT”, only you have the power to do that.Trust me nobody is going to do it for you. You can sit and read one million of my notes,if you sit and do nothing,nothing will happen. You can start by “Detoxing your mind.” Free yourself from pain and misery. Bob Marley said “ Emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our minds.”Any change you’re looking for in the world,that change will only start inside you.Everyday people look to politicians and pastors and other leaders for change,not realizing that the change they really need is in themselves.Barack Obama can’t save you,Bruce Golding can’t save you,”ONLY YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF.”

FALLING VICTIM TO NEGATIVE INFLUENCES

Too often we allow ourselves to fall victim to the negative influences of others.We take what jealous insecure people say to heart and end up living a miserable life,but if we’re going to live this life to the fullest we’ll have to learn how to ignore these types of people AND WHAT THEY SAY. Learn to avoid them when you see them coming,but we’re not always going to be able to escape them when they come across our path,so how do we deal with them ? Here is how,you have to develop some positive statements that pertain to you and whenever they come and talk that stuff you repeat those positive statements to yourself. For example when someome comes and says something to you that you don't like. You can say to yourself “ I am not who people say I am, I am who GOD says I am. I am the greatest” You see friends It’s not what they call you.it’s what you answer to that matters.Human beings seem to tend to remember when someone tells them something negative and it bothers them for the whole day,we have to learn to not let those kind of things stick in our minds.We have to learn to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones IMMEDIATELY. Don’t allow that junk to get down inside of you,cause things like that will only go down and poison the good inside of you.You’ll start to get angry and bitter.Don’t let some fool cause you to stop being the great person you are,learn to get above that,don’t allow yourself to stoop to their level.

Eagles are birds that fly at the highest altitude,no other bird can get up where they are.So whenever there’s a storm the eagle just rises above the storm where the atmosphere is clear.So be an eagle and rise above all that negative behaviour and comments.Don’t pick around with the chickens.They never fly they’re always just looking for something to pick at. Have you ever seen a chicken fly more than a few feet at a time ? So why do you want to stay at their level. Soar like the Eagle and see the world from a different altitude.Everything looks so small when you’re looking down at them.Get to a higher altitude. Try to forget the negative comments. I heard someone say the other day “ RUDENESS IS A SIGN OF LOW SELF ESTEEM.” Some of these people have problems and the only way they know how to solve them is to make someone else miserable haven’t you ever heard “ MISERY LOVES COMPANY.” Don’t let them get to you.Sometimes you’ll have to stand up to them and put them in their place once and for all. Tell them to go and sort out their troubles and quit passing them off on other people.
People are always going to say things we don’t like from time to time,we just have to learn how to deal with them and their insecurities.Life is too short to let these kind of people take our joy and cut into our happiness.

BEING A GO-GETTER

Do you constantly go after what you really want no matter how many times you failed to attain it in the past. Do you give up after trying once ? Do you tell yourself you can’t do something even before you try to do it ? If you said yes to any of the above,you are not a GO-GETTER. To be a GO-GETTER,you have to be resilient,you have to know exactly what you want and go directly after it ? If you really want to live a truly fulfilling life you’ll have to learn to go after what you want regardless of what people may say or do to try and stop you. What you must understand is whenever you put yourself out there and say ,ok this is what I really want and tell your family and friends,they are going to be those among them that will try and discourage you and try to convince you that your plan won’t work and they will come up with all the stats and facts to try to prove to you that it won’t work,but the thing is they have never tried it for themselves so they’re not in a position to tell you whether your plan will work or not. You have to be very careful who you take advice from.The best man to take advice from is the man who is currently doing what you want to do or the man who has done it.We have to learn to listen to our inner voice,sometimes there’s a little voice inside of us telling us to try and do what we really want to do,but sometimes after you tell certain people,you don’t want to bother trying after they give you their opinion. Hey I’ve learned that there are those among us that really don’t want to see you strive,because presently they think of themselves being above you and if you try, you might pass them by and leave them behind,and it boosts their ego the way things are at present.So learn to listen to yourself and trust yourself.Stop waiting for other people to give you their blessing on your idea.You might get a curse instead.lol.So Keep your dreams alive and don’t let people get you down.Some of them have been locked into mental slavery and refuse to free their minds. If only they could truly see how beautiful this world of ours is and stop conditioning their minds to only see the negative aspect of this life.

If you’re not doing what you truly want to do with your life you need to ask yourself ,WHY ? and do a proper self evaluation and see what steps can be made to really go after that which you truly want to do.NOTHING’S IMPOSSIBLE WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY.So whatever it is you really want or want to do there are ways to attain it,you’ll just have to think a little harder and get yourself organized and find all the books and videos on what you want to bring your dream to reality.We will have to learn to stretch our minds.Nothing worthwhile in this life is going to come easy.If it comes easy it will probably go easy.Hard work and determination,focus and drive is what you will need to succeed.You will have to learn how to motivate yourself sometimes and not wait for people to pat you on the back before you put another step forward towards your goal.

Associate yourself with positive people and folks who are trying to help pull you up if they see you falling.Being a GO-GETTER requires proper mental fortitude,you will have to be strong willed and have a clear mental picture of where you want to be in the next 3-5 years.Nothing is going to fall from the skies,If you are one that prays often.I’m sorry to be the one who has to tell you this but prayer by itself will not take you to where you want to be.The very same Bible you read says “FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD.” Meaning you will have to do something too.GOD helps those who help themselves. Don’t be fooled. You were born with a brain like everyone else to think and create the life you truly want to live. We become what we think about,we are the sum total of our thoughts up to this point……………….So do you want to live the rest of your life just floating around being pulled this way and that way by others or do you want to take charge and be a real GO-GETTER and do what you want when you want regardless of what people say or do. Well the choice is yours,you must make a commitment to change your life for the better and stop leaving your life up to chance and circumstances.You have the power it’s locked away between your ears.Take time and think and free your mind and you will live a life worth living and you will know what it means to be a real GO-GETTER.

Plan for Success

Do you have a vision of success in the future ? Where do you see yourself five years from now ? Do you have a plan for your future or are you just floating along with the wind ? Well let me tell you,if you're just floating along with the wind you're sure to get a direct ticket to "nowhere".Take a ship for example when the captain starts his journey he begins with the destination he's going to in mind,he therefore plots his co-ordinates for that journey and sets sail to his destination,he begins with the end in mind and so it should be for us in our daily lives.A lot of us say we want to do things and we never start because we have no plan,we have not made a firm decision to pursue this dream or goal that we have,so hours turn into days,days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months and months turn into years and there we are still on the grand road to "nowhere".Then before you know it it's too late and age has caught up with us.
  So we have to get ourselves in order we have to straighten up,we have to start right where we are,a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.Don't listen to those around you ,telling you,that you can't do it or who started to do it and failed.Everyone has to get their own experience,because that person failed doesn't mean that you have to fail. You have to develop your self confidence.Marcus Garvey rightly said "without confidence you are twice defeated in the race of life".So get yourself together stop making useless excuses and finding all kinds of dumb reasons to justify your inaction.Life is short my friends,before you know it our opportunities shall soon past,so make the best of your life while you have it,everyday above ground is a good day.