Can we get much higher?

We do not have to settle for mediocrity. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

Can we get much higher? 

A genuine question posed in a verse of Kanye West's song 'Dark Fantasy'. Can we get much higher? What do you do think? Do you think you have the ability to climb a little higher? Do you think we can push just a little bit more?

Do you sometimes feel you have reached your optimum capacity? 

Do you occasionally feel that something or someone, in fact most of the time 'yourself' is restricting how high you can get? 

We all feel like this sometimes. Believe me 'We can get much higher and we can reach the top'.

Can we get much higher? I can, therefore you also will!

Thomas Edison, once uttered "Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up". Climbing that rope towards success can be a difficult feat, however, only real champions look at the cuts and bruises on their hands and keep climbing.

You never know when your breakthrough will occur. Giving up is NOT an option today. Louis Pasteur, the microbiologist credited for his breakthroughs in the anthrax vaccines, quoted '... the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity'.

Success, my friend is not for the faint-hearted, but a lengthy tasking process as suggested by Atkins (1985). A vital component for our success is our ability to be tenacious. Dictionary.com defines 'Tenacious' as doggedness: persistent determination. Get determined today.

Yes! we can get much higher!

Yes! we can achieve greatness!

Yes! we will triumph!

“When you feel like giving up, just remember why you held on for so long.” Caitlin Salloum

Have a fabulous week

‘The Hunger Games’

Imagine your dreams and goals as a 'lifetime league competition' not only with your peers across the whole world but ultimately with yourself. It is an accumulation of games that you will play throughout seasons. Some seasons will go well others will not, in the end you will both win and become triumphant at the top of your profession or you will be relegated to a new division, a place where you will be ordinary! (IF THAT’S YOUR GOAL, STOP READING NOW!)

Each game that you will play has to be treated as if it were the last, blood sweat and tears has to ooze from it, every fibre in your body has to feel the mental and physical pain that needs to be endured in order to reach the last seconds where you can lay down ‘temporarily’ victorious in your achievements.

Any successful man or woman will tell you that the most important time during these lifetime games is what you do within pre-season. It is the work and effort you put in whilst your competition are resting that will set you apart. Whether you are in a business environment where are the first and last one in the office or you are an athlete and the first and last one on the training field, you have to take the training home; what you do off the stage is what gives you that extra inch over your opponent.

It is a battle to the ‘death’ and that’s simply how you must view it; either you WIN or LOOSE.

OKAY…… OKAY I lied, there is a middle ground and that is being in ‘limbo’, it is probably the worst place to be. You simply become inert, you find yourself coasting with no sense of direction and purpose eventually becoming a slave to society on a huge conveyor belt heading for the end of the line.

The hunger games is a phrase that you need to instil in your mind-set TODAY and just the like the film you have to treat your goals as a fight to the death, lets be honest there are hundreds, thousand and even millions of others with the same dreams and aspirations. Simple logic will dictate that not everyone can become a champion there has to be some losers….ARE YOU A LOSER?

Well then, I suggest you continue your training RIGHT NOW, if your in pre season then do everything you can to prepare yourself for the new season; its coming and the way that world has been changing and shaping up its going to be the toughest season yet; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, ADAPT NOW!!

Vince Lombardi said “I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfilment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”

Prepare this week for battle – lets go!

Do More...

Can you honestly put your hand up and say 'I am working to my fullest capacity'. Probably not! Then the next question is for you...why not? Are you scared your might actually achieve your dreams?

The truth is, regardless of how far we currently push ourselves, we can always work at least a further 1 to 100% harder. Fact!

According to Colin Powell, "A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work". Hard work simply means, pushing yourself past your comfort zones, putting in extra hours into your business, staying beyond your contracted working hours, etc. 

Defining Hard Work is simple. DO MORE!

DO MORE than you did yesterday
DO MORE than your competitors or counterparts
DO MORE than your body or your mind expects

Push past your limitations! The real secret was stated by Lowell Thomas "Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can". If you wish to succeed you must be willing to adopt a new mentally. The mentally that suggests that Hard work is your friend. 

I can across this very interesting mathematical formula - check it out

Think of the letters in the alphabet represented as numbers:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

If you are not giving at least 98% effort, then it truly is not HARD WORK.

Thomas Edison once quoted "There is no substitute for hard work." If you look around, you will see that all great achievers have put in immense hard work". No successful person has ever vouched for their success through any other method, but hard work and dedication. Hard work seems to be the most consistent way to achieve your goal. In life we are simply rewarded fairly according to what we contribute and what value we add. As John Capuzzi quoted "A free lunch is only found in a mousetrap".

DO MORE…