Life, THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY

LIFE, THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY
I would like to speak today about life, the ultimate journey. And what a precious journey and precious minutes on the earth life can be. It's all in your approach, my children. It's all in your approach, it all in how you look at a day, a month, a year. Life is exactly what you make of it and your attitude and how you approach and go into each day will determine the kind of life that you live will determine what you get on the earth.
So, I hear so many of you complain, 'my life is miserable, I don't have this, I'm not in a relationship, my relationship sucks, my kids are so awful I can't control them.' God asks you today to turn around and look inside yourself.
Why is that I hear so many of you, so many of my children unhappy, distraught, distressed, frustrated, depressed? What is this all about? What have you have chosen for your life? Where is it that you wish to go and why is it that when you get up each day you drag yourself to do the things that are necessary to perpetuate your life? Why is it that you have come to this state of frustration, depression, so many of you on anti-depressants that it amazes me, so many of you drinking alcohol to numb the pain, so many of you taking drugs, not to feel.
Do you believe for one moment that God wishes this for you to destroy this beautiful temple that I have given you to walk the earth. Do I sound distressed today? Well, I am. God is frustrated and furious that so many of you care so little about your body, your health, your being. I think of you as precious and you don't even love yourself.
There is no other time but now to evaluate, to evaluate who you are, where you are at and what you wish and where you wish to go. And you cannot approach even the next moment of this day in a negative posture and think you will ever get more than that. For it is with positive thinking, for it is with love for oneself, for it is with unconditional love for all things on earth that you bring a different life to you. Your approach brings you exactly what you get. What approach will you take? Today, tomorrow, this week, next week, next month? If you continue on the path you have chosen this path and you do not change then you will get exactly what you have gotten up until now.
So, my children, each and every one of you, what is your choice today? Will you choose another path, will you work long and hard to put out position so you will receive positive in your life, or will you just complain, go on your merry way, and just repeat the patterns that you have repeated up until now. For it is not, for it is not with negativity that you will have a positive impact on your life. For it is not with negative thinking and holding onto pain, and anger and sadness that you will have a happy productive life without alcohol and drugs. For it is not without working on your inner being to come to a point where you love yourself that you will ever change one iota of the life you are living that you are complaining about.
And I must put in now, without, without a belief in God, something greater than yourself, without a connection to a supreme power, without that you will have always have a piece that will be missing and a void. Your life will never feel totally complete.
A lot to think about today in this message. I, I ask of any of my children who are unhappy, distraught, stressed, not believing in themselves, not loving themselves, to take out today a pen and paper to write out today what is the path you wish to take, and I ask that you make the greatest decision that you have ever made in your life and the wisest choice for yourself, to change, to come to positive thinking and to find me. For it only with those first steps and with a change in attitude and a belief that you can do this, that you can actually get your life on track.
Be with us, feel my love and know that I, God, believe in you and that all things are possible.

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"Life style" for New year - 2007

Create a Personal Strategic Plan!

Success is not an accident. It begins with a well-conceived plan. You can and will achieve more in the next year than you have in the past ten with a disciplined Personal Strategic Plan.

Personal strategic planning is a disciplined thought process, which produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide who you are, where you are going, what you do, and how, when and why you do it. All of this is done with a focus on the future.

The purpose of personal strategic planning is to help you:

- Provide direction, meaning, and purpose for your life.
- Make decisions that positively affect your future.
- Focus your energies on what's most important.
- Achieve the greatest results in the shortest period of time.
- Significantly increase your level of performance.
- Enjoy more time, money, balance and freedom.
- Eliminate uncertainty, anxiety, doubt and fear.
- Leverage your skills more effectively.
- Enhance your quality of life, and overall peace of mind.
- Be more, do more and ultimately to have more from life.

Personal strategic planning is based on the premise that life will not go according to plan, if you do not have a plan.

A successful plan must include the following:

Personal Philosophy: Every person has a personal philosophy, consisting of some rules adopted from one's parents, culture, religion, acquaintance and so on.

Generally speaking, these rules, as a body are not well thought out and contain a wealth of inconsistencies and contradictions.

Legacy Statement: Your legacy serves as your life's defining statement. It serves a two-fold purpose. First it provides an overarching framework for all mission statements and goals to follow.

Second it answers the question, "What do I want to be remembered for?"

Mission Statement: A mission statement is a declaration of who you are, why you exist, and what you intend to accomplish.

In business, the organizational mission answers the big question: "What is our business?" In personal planning, the question is "What is my life's business?" In both cases, the answer must define the reason for being.

Core Values: Our values act as our compass, guiding us through life's terrain.

One certain way of knowing that you are living in accordance with your values is by defining guidelines and measurements for value centered living.

Code of Ethics: Words quietly influence our attitudes and opinions.

Codes of conduct, personal creeds, and pledges all reflect an effort to make sense of things, to organize behavior, and to better understand ourselves.

Lifetime Objectives: Your objectives should be written within the framework of your Legacy & Mission Statements.

The key to any Personal Strategic Plan is to visualize your desired outcomes in advance. Be sure to write and rewrite your Lifetime Objectives as affirmations of the future you are working to realize.

Goals: The key in writing your goals is to make them measurable, specific, and time-bound.

Goals need to be written for each of the ten critical areas of life to include: Personal, Health, Recreation, Family, Friends, Community, Career, Financial, Household and Spiritual.

Personal Board of Directors: A personal board will accelerate your progress by providing both wisdom and support for the attainment of a specific purpose.

Maintenance & Performance Check-Ups: On a monthly basis, you should pause to evaluate your performance. What progress have you made? Where have your been challenged? What do you need to do differently or more of?

It is also important to step back and consider whether any of your goals are unachievable.

Personal Reason Why: You won't become successful until and unless you identify, support and empower your reasons why. Your why's provide fuel for achievement, and are the reasons behind all action and inaction.

The hallmark of all high achievers is a burning why. They know what they want, how and when they will achieve it, but most importantly they know WHY they want to become successful at achieving their goals.

In Summary

You can significantly increase the odds of success, if you know who you are, what you want, where you are going, how you will get there, and what you will do once you arrive.

The best way to predict your future is to create it. Therefore, a well-defined personal strategic plan, properly executed, is your meal ticket to success.

In order to best prepare yourself for success, I am delighted to introduce you to My Goals - Personal Strategic Planning program.

This exciting program is like having an insurance policy on success. It will focus your thinking and challenge you to reach for new heights.

Happy holidays to you and your family, and my very best wishes for a prosperous, joy-filled New Year!

Everything Counts!

Gary Ryan Blair

About the Author: Gary Ryan Blair is a visionary and gifted conceptual thinker. As President of The GoalsGuy he has created a world-class library of products and services which are designed to inspire people to realize their full potential while making the heart sing, the mind expand and the spirit soar. Visit The GoalsGuy Shop for all of your goal setting and life planning needs.

© Gary Ryan Blair 2006

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