Pushy Dreamers

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.

“I am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How come this other guy is happy and rich, and I’m always struggling?” He asks himself, “I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn’t fair. I’m even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way,” he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see you’ve got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You’ve got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer. You’ve got to see the future finished in advance. You’ve got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You’ve got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You’ve got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn’t really all that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you’ll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

I’ve often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences; it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don’t try. Join or don’t join. Believe or don’t believe.

I’d like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you’ve forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you’re headed. After all, you’ve only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

Who needs Tony Robbins when you can motivate yourself? Overcoming the emotional hurdle to get stuff done when you’d rather sit on the couch isn’t always easy. But unless calling in sick and waking up at noon have no consequences for you, it’s often a must.

For those of you who never procrastinate, distract yourself or drag your feet when you should be doing something important, this article isn’t for you. But for the rest of us humans, it’s good to have a library of motivational boosters to move us along.

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5 Secrets For Breaking Your Bad Habits by Jonathan Lockwood Huie

By nature, we are all creatures of habit. We instinctively adopt familiar routines for most activities. We eat about the same number of meals each day – at more or less the same times. We have a regular pattern of sleeping – unless it is perturbed by illness or shift work. Most everything we do is habitual.

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Would you have quit a six figure job to pursue a passion? Bevy Smith did. Leaving  a career in advertising to create something greater, Bevy is now known for being a writer, television personality and the creator of Dinner With Bevy. In pursuing your dreams, Bevy shares her story, advice and words for a PushyDreamer to live by… “Just damn the nay sayers”! We couldn’t agree more, thank you Bevy!

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the “time to be right” to start doing something worth while. Do not wait. The time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Napoleon Hill

“I believe in myself” and “I believe in my dreams” are two affirmations that have taken PushyDreamers a long way. Understanding and realizing that in order for dreams to come true, it is important to believe in two things, our dreams and most importantly ourselves. So to make it easier on ourselves and others, we created the dream bracelets to wear as a daily reminder of our purpose and our strength to move forward. Get a bracelet or make a note and place it somewhere you will see it daily as a reminder to repeat those necessary words to help dream bigger and push forward.

“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.” - Jim Rohn

Richard Golding’s move was inspired by Forbes 2007 Billionaire List, after noticing the few miners on the list, and having access to gold, he didn’t think twice about jumping on the opportunity to move from Atlanta to Ghana. With plans on helping the community, installing street lights in rural areas, and building small elementary schools for villages he works in, he takes a moment to share his favorite reads that helped push the movement forward.

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If you want to know anything about college recruiting process, just ask Al Woods. He blogs and set up a business to helps parents, basketball players in high school,college and overseas who are talented but lack that knowledge and push from coaches to take them to the right college. Wanting to make it easier for our young pushy athletic dreamers, we asked Al a couple of questions.

1. There are a lot of kids who are talented and without guidance, what advice can you offer teens who have a passion but need direction.

My advice to high school athletes would be to get involved with some kind of travel team, club team or athletic organizations where they can focus on developing their athletic skills.  Many of these clubs and organizations participate in the summer months.  What I hear most often  from college coaches is that they want the athlete who is a student of the game which basically means someone who is devoting all of their time and effort to developing their athletic and academic skills.

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Allowing T-shirts to be his canvas, CEO and Founder of Gifted Elite Clothing, Jay Cruz tells us how he generated attention, the benefits of doing it for love and why keeping a tight circle is important.