Each and every day, there\nare people all around the country and world who are living their dreams. Millionaires are made every day. Families are experiencing tremendous\nrelationships. People are becoming more\nand more healthy. Life-long learners are\ngrowing intellectually and improving their chances for success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fact is that living\nthe life of your dreams is possible. People prove that every day. Someone\nsomewhere is going to get rich, get healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have you ever wanted to\nmake more money? Have you ever looked at\nsomeone who has money and wished that it could be you? People think about\ngetting wealthy all of the time, when only a small percentage actually does.\nBut any of the masses could. Someone is going to start a business. Someone is going to make a great\ninvestment. Someone is going to begin\nthe journey to great wealth. So why not let it be you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Someone is going to\ndecide to improve their relationships. \nSomeone is going to enjoy love with their family. Someone is going to schedule some meaningful\ntime with their friends. So why not let\nit be you? Someone is going to go back to school to improve their life. Someone is going to become a life-long\nlearner. Someone is going to set a goal\nto read a book. So why not let it be you? Someone is going to look in the\nmirror and see that they need to lose a little weight and they will make the\ndecision to become healthy. Someone will\njoin an aerobics class and improve their health. Why not let it be you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think that by now you\nget the point: Every day, people are\nimproving their lives. Whether you do or\nnot doesn’t matter to those who do. They\nare going to do it, regardless. It is\nsimply a matter of a decision being made. Let that person be you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first and most\nimportant is to make a commitment to work on yourself. Are you going to improve or stay the same? No\nmatter what you have achieved, you are at a certain point right now. What you\nhave achieved in the past is fine, but it doesn’t make a difference for the\nfuture. The decision about what you will become is made each day and every day.\nEach day someone is making the decision to better him or herself. Let that person be you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second is to make a\nplan. Once you have decided to become\nbetter you will have to have a plan. It doesn’t have to be a long, intricate\nplan. It can be simple. Save a naira a\nday. Walk a mile a day. Read an article a day. That is a simple plan with\nachievable goals. Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into\nthe future of their dreams. Let it be you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The third is to begin to\nact. All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key\nto turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a\ndime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but\nthey are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is\navailable. Someone will act today. Let\nit be you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My encouragement to you\nis to stop looking at others who live the good life, wishing that you were as\nwell, and instead begin to commit to your improvement, develop a plan and act\non it. Someone is going to. Let it be\nyou!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CHANGE YOUR PACE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of us have\nexperienced at one time or another the feeling of renewal that comes from a\nchange of pace. We may be walking or\ndriving along slowly, and something happens that makes us speed up. New\nsensations occur; new thoughts cross the mind. \nWe become more alert. Or if we have been walking breathlessly beyond our\npace there is a feeling of relief, even repose, in slowing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pace that kills is\nthe pace that never changes; frequent change of pace will keep us from tedium\non one hand or apoplexy on the other. For most of us a change of pace means\nslowing down, but in many activities we should speed up. We may walk and talk too fast but think and\nwork too slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone in journalism\nknows that as a deadline approaches the reporter, the make-up artist, the\npeople on the copy desk all turn out better work in half the time it takes when\nthere is no pressure. The acceleration\nreleases latent powers. I have seen people, when there’s time, bone for an hour\nover a title or a heading….conjuring up, as the slow mind at work will,\ndozens that are no good. But as the last hour approaches, when there is no time\nto dally, their minds click and the captions come in a flash. It is not mere\nspeed that does the trick, but speed that follows deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts in charge of\nreading clinics point out that the best way to get something out of the printed\npage is to read it fast, to set about to see how quickly it can be\nintelligently covered, because the mind may wander when reading is too\nslow. The chances are that you should\nchange your reading pace from one of leisurely inspection to one of\nconcentrated, swift consideration. On the other hand, if you have allowed\nyourself to become a hit-and-run reader, you may need to give more time. No one pace is adequate in reading. There are\nbooks to be read hastily and others to be read with loving delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a cousin whose\nslowness is the despair of his teachers, not to mention his kin. At the age of nine he gets his work done in\nhis own good time. The other morning his mum suggested with wisdom that he\nwrite a letter before going to school. His other letters had taken as much as a\nday, off and on, to compose. In this case, his time was limited to 20 minutes\nin which to write his grandmother everything he could think of. The result was the best letter he had ever\ndone. It was the change of pace that did it, by putting emphasis upon the\npreciousness of time and the importance of using it to maximum effect. We’ve\nbeen kidding ourselves too long with the notion that we are rushed to\ndeath. We are rushed with the wrong\nthings. In these we ought to slow down, but in others speed up. “Slow and easy” is no motto for an\ninteresting life, as some contend. \nIndeed slowness may be a deterrent; often a person can get further with\na difficult job by plunging into it full steam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not infrequently a change\nof pace is in itself a means of learning. Thus a change in tempo may increase\nenjoyment whether or not it improves our work. If you are doing something\ntedious, it may become fun if done at a changed speed. Many tasks….to mention\nonly cleaning house and writing letters….are oppressive in part at least\nbecause they are time-consuming. But if we make them an affair of dashing\ncavalry our attitude changes. The job\nbecomes an adventure, or a contest at least. \nFor, oddly enough, a job done at different speeds is not the same job at\nall. The motions and emotions connected with it are different. Many people who pine to change their jobs\nneed only to change the pace with which they do their jobs….mix up their work\nand get variety into the tempo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Change of pace is like\nwhat we call second wind; in moments of fatigue it sets up a fresh current of\nnervous energy. If you have been methodically moving around the house, making\nbeds, dusting, sweeping, try shifting the flow of your energy into a different\nrhythm. Or in the office, vary rush\ntyping with work at slower speed. As you work at any fatiguing task you’ll find\nthat change of tempo rewards you, like the second wind, with a glowing sense of\npower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nowhere in the simple\nacts of daily life does a change in pace make more difference than in eating.\nMost of us gulp our food, and we miss half the fun of eating. I was a fast\neater, and so tried imagining that I was a slow-motion picture of myself. Then\nI really tasted for the first time foods I had been eating half-consciously all\nmy life. Since in my work I have to talk a lot, I have fallen into the habit of\ntalking rapidly. Lately I decided to alternate rapid speech with periods of\nslowing down, weighing each word, and letting its implications have full play.\nAnd this, I find, keeps the auditor’s attention on edge, and makes me phrase\nmore clearly the ideas I want to convey. \nBut it does more….it affords me a new sense of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haven’t you, on the other\nhand, known dreary, hesitant people who ought to try talking fast for a\nchange? While they fumble vaguely with\nfacts, ideas and phrases, you’d like to jolt them into thinking a sentence\nswiftly through before they began it, so that words would follow one another\nwith logical sequence and zip. \nDeliberate speeding up would not only add tremendously to their\nconversational effectiveness, but would also transform them by giving them a\nnew and more sparkling personality. In our method of thinking, above all,\nchange of pace can be invaluable. The\nalmost universal curse of worry is simply thought slowed down to a stumbling\nand circuitous walk. To think through\nand settle once for all a problem in the shortest possible time, and to act\nbriskly and daringly on our decision, is to annihilate the problem of worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand, on\nbusy days, try slowing down instead of speeding up. Linger over breakfast; pretend that you have\na lifetime for the many things which must be crowded in before night. Live at slow motion. Instead of racing, make\nyourself stroll. And, paradoxically,\nwhen evening comes you will have actually done more work than if you had pushed\nyourself. To live all one’s life at largo would be deadly boring. The symphony\nyou like or the musical composition that stirs you is neither fast nor slow\nthroughout; it has as much variety in tempo as in mood. It is this in part that keeps your interest\nkeyed to the theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we are hectic and\nrushed it is not necessary to pull up stakes, move to the country and drive a\nhorse to change the pace of living. It’s\nnot the city or business that wears us out; it’s our response to it, our meeting\nlife head-on without slowing down or speeding up. So if you are hitting a terrific pace, slow\ndown. You don’t have to slow down forever: \nit’s the change you need. Or if\nyou are going too slowly, if you are not alert but stodgy and graceless in your\nliving, “step on it” a while. What’s tedious in one speed may be\ndelightful in another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LIVING OUT LOUD<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am now receptive to the\nidea that it is time for me to stop whispering and to start living out loud.\nStop hiding! Stop holding yourself back\nand playing yourself down! Stop worrying\nabout how you look and what people are saying. \nStop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they\nare whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are\nokay or to make you feel special. Life\nis special! It is a special gift. This\nis your life! Now take your gift and\nlive it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Living out loud means\nhaving the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. It means\nadmitting your mistakes without beating yourself up. It means not taking who\nyou are and what you have for granted. \nRelease all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live out loud if you\nare hiding behind what was. Living out loud means focusing on what is, right\nnow, and that is you! To live out loud means showing up as your authentic self,\nwithout your makeup. It means acknowledging your shortcomings and celebrating\nyour strengths. Living out loud means broadcasting your needs, your likes and\nyour dislikes as they relate to your fears and frustrations. It means that you\nlet people know exactly who you are and expect them to be as thrilled as you\nare about who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to live out loud\nyou must have faith in yourself and in the process of life. You must have principles you live by and\nstandards by which you can govern and gauge yourself. Most important, in order\nto live out loud you must love yourself enough to tell yourself and everyone\nelse the absolute truth about you. When you can do that, you can live out loud\nand be very proud about what the world will hear about you. Until today, you\nmay have been living your life in a whisper. Just for today, take one step\ntoward pumping up your volume. Stand up in yourself! Stand up and be yourself!\n\n\n\n\n\nVGKT3K\ufffd\ufffdw3\ufffdR\ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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