Living Life Abundantly

Hard work equates to increased chances of success. And if you really wish to achieve great things in your life, then you ought to work hard. But you see, being a hard worker is not only enough.

You need to be highly productive and being productive means that you make proper use of your time, by doing and working at things that will bring you closer to your goal. This article aims to show you five great ways to be more productive.

Set goals for yourself. It is always important to have goals. If you want to get somewhere and be somebody, it important to set goals that you will work for. It is also nice to write a schedule that will help you achieve the bigger picture. Writing a time table is good because it will guide you through your day-to-day activities efficiently. So that you can make sure that you have all your tasks covered and that you do no miss anything in your agenda, having a written schedule is good. You can refer to it and never lose track of what it is you are supposed to do for the day.

Prioritize. It is very important for you to know your priorities. In a day, you can probably think of dozens of things to do, but you should know which ones are most important and which ones are worth putting off until the next day. You can make a list that will arrange things according to highest and lowest priority so you do not end up doing the things that are down the list, just because they are the easier to do. Do what is most important first, so you can accomplish more at the end of the day.

Stop doing unnecessary things on the Internet. The internet is a great creation but a lot of hours get wasted online. With social networking sites eating up hours of precious time, it is important for you to be able to determine how much time is enough for your daily Internet use. It is best to set rules for yourself, especially if you are just starting out. Eventually these rules and protocols will be in your system, and you will no longer be online longer than necessary.

Be flexible. Even if you try your hardest, there will be problems that will come up, all of a sudden, and when this happens, you have to always be prepared for these. A lot of people get disoriented when something comes up, and will need to recollect themselves before they can move on, which is not really a good way to deal with it. You need to be prepared for change, to be able to cope effectively with anything that comes your way, good or bad. Every moment you waste worrying is time lost, so know how to easily cope.

Be proactive. Take responsibility and do not be afraid to accept challenges. When you begin a task, strive to tackle it positively so that you will always be in your best form. Some people detest new challenges because they are not prepared. Instead, embrace it and think of it as new opportunities to shine and show off what you can do.

~ Living Life Abundantly

“When it has to do with my life, I want to be the one in control.” —Janet Jackson

What does it mean to be in full control of your life? Well, it is very much like driving a car. It does not matter what car you drive. It could be luxury car or a small beat-up second hand automobile; it could be manual or automatic transmission, it does not matter. When you are in a car, who is on the driver’s seat?

Do you have a driver who takes you to places? Do you take your seat at the back of the car, tell the driver where to go and just close your eyes trusting that he will bring you to where you are supposed to be?

Maybe you are a passenger in someone else’s car, and you do not even know where you are heading to. You take your seat and watch the outside world change as you speed past it.

Are you in the driver’s seat but someone else is giving you directions? A mere operator, you hang on to your companion for the turns to make. You know where you want to go, but you do not know how to get there, so you let this person take the lead.

Do you have full grip of the wheel, the gas, the breaks, the cloth and the gears? You are the one who decides on whether to taker right or left, and you decide on whether to take the shortcut or not.

Which one are you, when you are in a car?

Are you reliant on a driver to take you to your destination? Sometimes you get there, sometimes you don’t. Probably because you have fallen asleep at the backseat and failed to warn the driver making that wrong turn so you missed your destination. What is sad about it is that these people rely on other people not realizing that they have this amazing opportunity to take a good hold of their journeys. They decide to let go of their power and let other people do the work for them.

Are you the passenger? Since you do not know where to go you are content with just sitting at the passenger’s seat and riding someone else’s dream. All your individual aspirations are forgotten, because you are too afraid to take the wheel on your own. You let go of all your hopes and dreams hoping that maybe this journey you are on will lead you there. You are afraid to take risks, so you take the safest route to somewhere. Unfortunately, you really do not know where this road will lead you.

Are you dealing with a backseat passenger who seems to know the road more than you do? You are overpowered by this person’s presence and you just let yourself be controlled because life is easier when you are not in charge. The blame is not on you, so you take your seat and decide to be a follower.

Are you the driver of your own life? Do you make all the decisions? You know you could get lost along the way, but you also know you can turn back and try again. You know there are risks to take, problems to encounter. There is no guarantee that this journey will be smooth but you know that what is most important is the chance to take charge of your life. You want to get to the top on your own accord and you want to lead yourself to success.

Are you in control of your life? Whose hands control the wheels? Whose command was it when you turned right? Hopefully, it was yours.

~ Living Life Abundantly

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” —Sophia Loren

While some people are blessed with perfect journeys to the top, this is not really what happens to everyone. In fact, even the most strong-willed person will find great obstacles along the way. There is really no guarantee that mistakes will not be met along the way.

There is still a great likelihood that you can get off track and lose your way. The road to success does not follow a straight line. The train you are on can easily be derailed and if you do not act on it fast, you may never find your way back anymore. If you are not careful, you may totally lose your way and find yourself elsewhere, where your dreams are obscured.

People make mistakes. Even if you make exacting moves, you can easily commit an error and cause some destruction to your own journey. Your only protection will be to get yourself ready for anything. You need to assume that mistakes will happen so that you can prepare accordingly. You need to be ready to fight back because there is a need to.  Failures happen to everyone and what is most important is what you were able to do after encountering one. What are you going to do when you get off track? How are you going to find your way back?

#1: Take responsibility for what happened

Most of the time, when you have encountered a failure, you try to look around and pass the blame on other people. Meeting a disaster is not exactly easy to take, and meeting a disaster that you have caused on your own, is even harder. The first thing you need to do is to admit what you have done wrong. Take full responsibility for your actions and begin to look back at what happened. It is important for you to find out where things have gone wrong so that you can move forward and find your way back.

#2: Forgive yourself
Another reason why people find it hard to bounce back is because they blame themselves for what has happened. Especially if your actions affected other people, you find more comfort hiding behind the shadows rather than facing the music. Admitting responsibility for a bad move is a noble thing to do, but you should not dwell on what you have done longer than necessary. Do not beat yourself up because it will truly hinder you from doing anything else. Every time that you are reminded about what has happened, you will be hindered to make a positive move. Forgive yourself, and forget about what you have done. Instead, think about your next step.

#3: Do not be afraid
What you have done may or may not happen again but this does not really matter. Perhaps, you are afraid about making a mistake again, so you avoid taking risks and choose to stay on safe side. Well here’s something you should know: life is a risk. There is no telling what will happen in the future, so everything you do from today until the end of your life is going to be a risk. If you are always going to be haunted by that one mistake you made in the past for the rest of your life, you will be hindering yourself from achieving so much more. Do not be afraid. Mistakes happen to everyone and yes, it will happen to you. It’s inevitable so why be afraid?

~ Living Life Abundantly

“Love is more than a noun — it is a verb; it is more than a feeling — it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi

There are countless characteristics that a person should equip himself or herself with, in order to attain success. A number of these things are pretty much obvious. Hard work is one of them and it need not be explained; if you are hardworking then you go beyond natural talent and ability. Hard working people exceed most expectations and this is a good trait to have.

One trait, however, that may not make sense to a lot of people is sacrifice. You need to realize that sacrifice is a lot of things. It is about enduring all, it is about letting go of personal wants and needs. it is about swallowing your pride. It takes a lot for people to understand the true meaning of sacrifice, but if you are able to totally grasp what it means, you will see what it can do to your life and to your goals.

The Many Faces of Sacrifice

There are so many levels of sacrifice that needs to be made when you are working your way to the top. Some of these may not mean much to you but you have to understand how important it is if you seriously want to make something out of yourself.

Sacrifice your social life. A lot of people think that they are able to accomplish great things while they go about partying like a college freshman every night. They think that they can juggle things efficiently, but they do not know that there are some things that need to be let go sometimes. It does not mean that you have to say goodbye to your friends and forget a little relaxation and night out. What is important here is that you are able to prioritize. If you have an important meeting the next day, then you should not be getting yourself intoxicated and hung over for the next morning.

Sacrifice relationships. Yes, relationships are important and no one can live alone, that is true. But when you are setting yourself for a journey, you have to be a little wiser and not be limited by the strings of relationships. Again, it does not mean that you have to dismiss relationships from your life, but you need to learn how to separate work from relationships — to be able to identify between boundaries. Do not compromise your journey by making the mistake of not knowing where to draw the line between your career and your personal relationships.

Sacrifice luxury. Many of the rich and famous have gotten to where they are now, first by knowing how to handle their money. If you want to be rich, do not live a lavish life especially when you are still building your path to success. Learn how to save your money and prioritize your expenses. You do not have to embrace all the luxury in the world, instead make profitable investments that you can benefit from. You need to learn to live within your means, especially if you are still on your way. Do not throw your money by making impulsive purchases.

Making sacrifices can be painful and hard, but you have to think of it this way: at the end of it all, you will have accomplished something for yourself, and the sacrifice will all be worth it.

~ Living Life Abundantly

“Of all the entrepreneurial opportunities available today, one of the most important is direct selling, also called network marketing.” – Paul Zane Pilzer, Nobel Prize Winning Economist and Author

Your boss does not want you reading this.

The truth is, if you truly took this message to heart, you could fire your boss. Not immediately, but it would happen.

Like most people you probably expect to retire one day, maybe in a few years, maybe in a few decades, but you hope to be able to one day have the retirement income coming in reliably every month as you finally relax and enjoy it.

But something is very wrong with this picture. You’ll be elderly by then! You’ll have the free time, but who wants free time when they’re 65?

What your boss doesn’t want you to know is that your financial freedom is less than 5 years away. You can make it without a boss. It’s more fun too. The traditional plan for an employee is to work for 40+ years, giving away most of their life to completing someone else’s tasks, then relaxing when you’re too old to live the life you dreamed of.

For Network Marketers the plan looks a little different. Set up a business in your spare time that will pay you even when you stop working… then stop working!

Just imagine… where would you be now if you had read this message 5 years ago?

A network marketing business gives you the freedom most people never even glimpse. As your business grows (and you’re helped every step of the way by other people just like you) your income increases. This is income on top of your regular job income, because you don’t have to quit your job to do this. Most network marketers won’t quit their jobs until their business-income overtakes their job-income. Then they fire their boss, walk out, and never look back.

If it takes you 5 years – heck, even 10 years – to eliminate the need for a job, what would you do with your time? Most people would travel more, get serious about their hobbies, volunteer their time to the charities they’re passionate about, learn new skills, visit friends and family…

And yet these same people, with their same wishes, spend their time working for a boss, worrying if they’ll get fired, arriving home late, then flopping down in front of the TV in sheer exhaustion.

Be different. Make your plan. It’s 5 years away.

An Optimist is a person that has a positive outlook on life. Sometimes being optimistic is easier said than done. Here a 10 things you can do every day to be an Optimist…

Commit Yourself:

1. To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
2. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
3. To make all of your friends feel that there is something special in them.
4. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
5. To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
6. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
7. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
8. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
9. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
10. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit presence of trouble.

~~~Optimist International~~~

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Sometimes we get so caught up in what things “look” like and we allow our emotions and feelings to resonate with every thing that is wrong with too little focus on what’s good.

In every situation there is something good to be found…but you have to look for it…some of us are so used to looking for the bad we can’t see the forest for the trees. You have to mentally flip the switch and change your thinking.

Instead of seeing your glass of life as half empty take baby steps to begin seeing it as half full…with work you will begin to see your glass of life as over flowing (abundance). It all begins in your mind and with your attitude.

“No time for moping around, are you kidding?
And no time for negative vibes, cause I’m winning
It’s been a long week, I put in my hardest
Gonna live my life, feels so good to get it right” ~Mary J. Blige

Every now and then we need an Attitude Adjustment and some inspiration. That’s all it takes to be just fine. We can learn a lot from Mary J

“Just Fine”

You know I love music
And every time I hear something hot
It makes me wanna move
It makes me wanna have fun
But it’s something about this joint right here
This joint right here
Its makes me wanna…..Woooh

Let it go……
Can’t let this thing called love get away from you
Feel free right now, going do what you want to do
Can’t let nobody take it away, from you, from me, from we
No time for moping around, are you kidding?
And no time for negative vibes, cause I’m winning
It’s been a long week, I put in my hardest
Gonna live my life, feels so good to get it right

So I like what I see when I’m looking at me
When I’m walking past the mirror
No stress through the night, at a time in my life
Ain’t worried about if you feel it
Got my head on straight, I got my mind right
I aint gonna let you kill it
You see I wouldn’t change my life, my life’s just…..

Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
You see I wouldn’t change my life, my life’s just fine

Feels so good, when you’re doing all the things that you want to do
Get the best out of life, treat yourself to something new
Keep your head up high
In yourself, believe in you, believe in me
Having a really good time, I’m not complaining
And I’m a still wear a smile if it raining
I got to enjoy myself regardless
I appreciate life, I’m so glad I got mine
So I like what I see when I’m looking at me

When I’m walking past the mirror
Aint worried about you and what you gonna do
I’m a lady so I must stay classy
Got to keep it hot, keep it together
If I want to get better
You see I wouldn’t change my life, my life’s just…..
Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
You see I won’t change my life, my life’s just fine

I aint gon’ let nothing get in my way
(I ain’t gone let nobody bring me down, no, no, no)
No matter what nobody has to say
(No way, no way, no way)
I ain’t gon’ let nothing get in my way
No matter what nobody has to say

Feels so good, when you’re doing all the things that you want to do
Get the best out of life, treat yourself to something new
It’s a really good thing to say
That I won’t change my life, my life’s just fine

Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
You see I won’t change my life, my life’s just fine

So I like what I see when I’m looking at me
When I’m walking past the mirror
No stress through the night, at a time in my life
Ain’t worried about if you feel it
Got my head on straight, I got my mind right
I ain’t gonna let you kill it
You see I wouldn’t change my life, my life’s just…..

Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
Just fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, ooooh
You see I wouldn’t change my life, my life’s just fine

Like most people, I’m confused by the “Easter Bunny” and the array of colored eggs. Rabbits don’t lay eggs and if they did I doubt they’d come out in different colors… Easter is not about bunnies, chicks, chocolates, jelly beans, eggs, pretty dresses, big hats, tailored suits, polished shoes, or baskets.

…I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly…” Jesus

May we remember the true meaning of Easter and not get caught up in the things that don’t really matter.

Be Blessed Happy Easter

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