Success Coach Take control and Stop Just Drifting Through Life
Take Control and Stop Just Drifting Through Life
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Too many people just drift through life, going with the flow, never having any direction about where they want their lives to go. They are like a paper cup that blows around in the car park at the shopping Centre. It is totally at the whim of the wind and it just floats around from one side of the car park to the other. Do you know anyone like that?
The same winds of destiny blows over all of us, why is it that some people are able to make a huge success out of their lives, whilst other people never seem to achieve anything at all. If the winds that we face every day, are the same then, the only difference can be the set of the sails. How do you choose to set your sails, are you going to allow the wind to blow you wherever it whims you to go or are you going to take control of your sails from today and start determining where your ship will sail to.
There are three types of people, winners, losers and winners in waiting. Losers are people that have given up on their lives; they are victims of their own self-doubt and accepted their lot in life.
Winners are people that have created harmony in their lives and have created a set of success habits that are supporting their success. Their relationships are great, they have good health, their finances are under control, they are contributing freely to their community and they are living a harmonious life.
Then there is the vast majority of people that I like to call winners in waiting, they are that group of people that are not completely satisfied with everything in their lives and are hungry for success. They are eager to improve their lives and are looking for the guidance to help them achieve meaningful change in their lives.
Think about your life right now, where do you fit in? Have you given up on your potential or are you hungry to change and improve your life. Although you may be excelling in some areas of your life, can everyone here today say that they are completely satisfied with everything in their lives right now?
You have everything inside you right now to become anything you want and guess what if you lack the specific, knowledge or skills that you need then there is a book that has been written, an audio program made, a workshop offered or training program where you can get all the knowledge or skills you require.
Learn to start practicing a few disciplines every day that are focused on leading you to the success you desire, then commit to keep taking action until you are successful and you can achieve anything. Remember that success is never about what you accumulate but rather about what you become.
Remember that it is as easy to carry out the daily disciplines necessary to succeed as it is not to. That is in fact the only difference between successful people and those that simply accept mediocrity, the successful people commit to the disciplines needed and the average people do not.
I believe that carrying out the disciplines is far easier than the price paid when you do not carry out the small daily disciplines. Those prices are failure, divorce, bankruptcy, damaged health, lack of energy from an abused body etc.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
Success Coach – The Road To Success
The Road To Success
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Before starting on the road to live your dreams, first define what success means to you. This clarity will allow you to discover the why behind your dreams and create the inspiration for you to do what it takes to succeed rather than what is comfortable. Once you have defined the promise (what is success) you will be prepared to pay a pretty high price (do what it takes) to succeed.
Examine your thoughts right now; they will give you a very clear picture of what your future will look like. Your dominant trend of thought today will determine what will manifest in your life going forward. Consistent positive and productive thoughts will deliver a far more desirable future than consistently thinking the opposite would
When you look back over your life one day are you going to be filled with regrets for what could have been? Pretend right now you are at the end of the most amazing life possible. What do you see? Now all you have to do is create the habits, beliefs, vision and goals to support just that picture of possibilities and it can all be yours.
If you want to make any philosophy, process, project or goal work in your life, you will need to use a dirty four letter word on a regular basis. The consistent and persistent application of this dirty word will reveal the success that has remained hidden from you for so long. That dirty word is WORK.
By work I mean be industrious, be creative and make the most of your potential. I use my guidance system, namely my emotions to guide every decision I make. The emotion I seek most is happiness. Any activity that will bring me more happiness and is in line with my vision, I do more of that. For me work, means taking inspired action that is in line with your life purpose.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
Success Coach – Set Your Potential Free
Set Your Potential Free
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Right now, is the time for you to emerge from behind the clouds that are hiding your ability and for you to finally allow the light of your unlimited potential to shine. Ignite the spark of possibility and allow it to burn in a brilliant blaze as you explore, discover and live your potential. Then aspire to live your life like a superb meteor, using every atom of your existence as you spread your magnificent glow over everything you touch.
Risk your significance and offer the gift of a better world to everyone you touch, choose to live your life as fully as possible and feel that you completely inhabit every second of your day. Set the promise of your unlimited potential free and see it soar to unimaginable heights on the wings of your efforts and focused commitment. Be passionate and enthusiastic about everything in your life and everything is possible for you.
The size and scope of your dreams only determines what you can achieve and permits you to preview what could be. Clarity of purpose coupled with consistent, planned and focused action allows you to convert this probability, into possibility and finally your reality
Anything outstanding that has ever been achieved started out as only a dream, an idea in someone’s head. You can also create wonders with your dreams and hopes, if you also, nourish and protect them and accept that you will need to nurse them through challenges, until you get to make them shine as they become your new reality.
Giving and or sharing your treasures is very noble, but assisting others to uncover and utilize, their own internal hidden treasures is the greatest gift anyone can bestow. What you do will help you make a living, when you help others discover their hidden abilities and potential you help make a life.
Treat your dreams like stars, although you may never touch them, the guidance they offer you, will inevitable lead you to uncover your potential and will serve as an index to your greatness. Search deeply inside yourself and turn your dreams into reality, by discovering, awakening and unleashing the giant that resides within you.
Live in the moment, never allowing your dreams to run ahead of you, for the person that only looks outside of themselves is simply a dreamer, those that learn to look into their heart, awaken their belief in their ability and they unleash their unlimited potential. Recording and time defining your dreams, is simply the start, realizing them is the art
To encourage sustainable success, your opinion of yourself and belief in your own abilities and potential must serve as the foundation for developing a picture of who you really are and what you are capable of achieving. When you allow the opinions of others to become the basis of your self portrait, you dis-empower yourself and limit your potential.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
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Success Coach – Effortless Success
Effortless Success
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Oprah says that success is when “Opportunity meets Preparation”. This is a very simplistic view of success, yet a very realistic approach. From my experience it is usually the simplest approach that seems to be the most appropriate and offers the best opportunity for effortless and sustainable success.
I believe that there are two other crucial concepts necessary to ensure that you are able to explore and exploit any opportunities, namely you must have a deep rooted belief in your ability to achieve the desired results and you must be prepared to take appropriate and persistent action that is in line with achieving the outcome you want.
From this it becomes clear that success is dependent on four things.
1) Ensuring that you invest enough effort, time and resources into acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for any opportunity that you may wish to utilise.
2) Actively discovering or uncovering any opportunities that are suitable and match your needs and expectations. Opportunities are very often disguised as challenges and it is a crucial skill to be able to sift through any challenges or road blocks that cross our paths and try to discover the opportunities that lie hidden within these challenges. Create the belief that challenges are the very catalysts that will allow you to see things differently, allow you to discover new opportunities and unlock your hidden potential.
3) No matter how good any opportunity may be or how well prepared you are, nothing can or will happen unless you believe in your ability to succeed or until you begin to take action that is aligned with the desired outcome.
4) Set time slots daily to allow you to take consistent and persistent focused actions that are designed to exploit any opportunity.
Stop complicating everything in your life and accept that success is simple and inevitable when you follow this simple process and you develop and consistently apply a system that ensures you have designated time slots available in your day for applying this system consistently.
The compound effect of consistently taking small daily actions over time, will ensure that you are able to achieve anything you desire.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
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Success Coach – Change Is Inevitable, Success Is Optional
Change Is Inevitable, Success Is Optional
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The one certainty you have in your life in these fast moving and evolving times; is CHANGE. Whether by choice or by circumstance any change you experience thrusts you out of your comfort zone into a world of the unknown.
It is during these times that your FEARS and self-doubts creep in and you become uncertain; as to how you can keep moving forward. This is the time that you need courage and belief to carry you forward. Courage to take some tough decision,s without a lot of facts and complete belief in your-self and your abilities. This will allow you to manage and overcome any challenges that will inevitably cross your path, as you evolve and change.
Change is inevitable so don’t just accept change, expect and prepare for change and you will have found a success tool that will help accelerate your success. Change is most often mysterious and unpredictable, but often very necessary to allow you to grow and develop. All progress requires change, but remember that not all change is progress.
Maintain your deep rooted belief in your own abilities, that you will cope with anything that may come your way and see all change as merely something that has come along, to help spur you down your path of success, allowing you to evolve and develop into a conscious and brilliant human being.
Managing change is difficult and moving through the transition required, with confidence and ease is tough. You will feel unprepared and vulnerable. This is the time to take stock of your skills, wisdom and resources that are available to you right now. Skills, wisdom and resources that will help you manage any change and reveal all that you have going for you.
Start harvesting and applying the wisdom and skills you already have so that you can begin to see that you have do some control and allow you to begin to calm your mind and help you to feel more grounded and certain about your circumstances.
Remain patient and force yourself not to expect instant gratification or to a quick fix. As desirable as getting the change and uncertainty behind you, may be, remain focused on applying the correct judgement call to the change; rather than a quick solution that will merely make things worse.
Managing and growing within change is never about beating the clock, it is about cultivating patience, learning, growing and forging a path toward new and greater success.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
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Success Coach The People You Surround Yourself With Mirror Who You Are
The People Around You Mirror Who You Really Are
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Strive to hold the highest consciousness possible and aspire to surround yourself with the RIGHT people. People that reflect the qualities you want to see in your own life. This will help you keep your focus and energy on the business of utilising your excellence and exposing your brilliance.
When viewed from a spiritual perspective, people are in essence a reflection of our inner aspirations and people that inspire you are merely people that mirror the qualities that you are waiting and ready to express yourself. From a different perspective it is true too that people that irritate us are also a reflection of some characteristics that we are hiding from ourselves or aspects that we are unclear on in our own lives. So if anyone irritates you, look at the reason that they are so challenging and see if that may be an area that needs work in your own life.
This is a very powerful tool that when used properly will allow you to uncover some very real issues in your own life. The issues that you find the most irritating in someone else is often just a reflection of a characteristic that you are dissatisfied with in your own life. Have the courage to be completely honest with yourself and utilise this very empowering process to unlock issues that may be keeping you trapped in mediocrity.
When you make this small shift in the way you view people around you; you empower yourself to utilise the feedback from people around you to your advantage.
Take a critical look at the people aroundyou and identify people that are bugging you the most. Explore the reasons why they are driving you batty and record these in your journal. Take a deep breath, have the courage to be brutally honest with yourself. Examine the list again, exploring each one from the perspective of “Could this be my issue” and then see what action is necessary to eliminate these negative characteristics from your own life.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
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Success Coach – Building A Dream Team
Creating A “Dream Team”
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Before you start to build your “Dream Teams” it is very important to go right back to basics and to explore the fundamentals. Ensure that you have a crystal clear picture of the organizations overall mission and vision and then create a clear understanding of exactly how your teams can become part of the big picture.
Start the process by first creating a philosophy and define the overall mission of the team. Define and understand the core values and revisit and refine your unique positioning statement and recommit to communicate and apply all of these in your teams
Build a set of goals that are aligned with the overall goals of the organization and then take a really hard look at your current teams and see if they are suitable to meet the desired outcomes. You will always get what you ask for, so have a really clear picture of what your teams must look like and who you want in your teams.
Look at all your teams through the eyes of a recruiter. Take a really hard look at the current team members and identify the stars, which you would have no hesitation including in your team right now. Identify those team members that can be developed into stars and lastly have the courage to identify those team members that are dragging your team away from success.
The core values that flow from the “TOP” must foster the proper attitude toward teamwork and human capital. The message that is heard must support the teams by offering support to train or recruit the right combination of people and a dynamic team configuration that will ensure the teams can function properly. Then simply pull the trigger and allow the process to unfold.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
Success Coach – The Benefits Of Giving
The Benefits Of Giving
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The lasting and most wonderful part of giving to others is not that you only brighten the life of someone else, but that you will actually experience both physical and emotional benefits yourself. The act of selfless giving sees your body excrete some extremely beneficial hormones that have incredibly positive effects on your body and emotional state.
The positive physical responses and benefits that will accrue to you as you direct your energy towards assisting others will allow you to overcome negative emotions that could contribute to many different types of stress induced psychological or physically illnesses. The extra endorphins that are released in our bodies, during acts of kindness, has very positive effect on our systems and results in what is commonly referred to as a “Helpers High”.
Many studies have shown that the benefits of helping others extends well beyond merely the physical, into assisting us to foster personality traits that assist us to foster sustainable success in every facet of our lives. These studies have shown that people that regularly help others are more successful, happier and have better relationships than people that do not.
With the potential to experience such huge positive benefits in your life, can you continue to justify not contributing energy towards assisting others any longer? This is one of the habits I recommend you develop, in your life as soon as possible, as it will be one of the greatest contributors to your sustainable success. My wish for you is that you will become inspired and that you will make giving a natural part of your everyday life.
Author: Success Coach Andrew Horton
Success Coach – Sustainable Success Is About Persistent Effort
Sustainable Success Is About Persistent Effort
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Sustainable success is not the result of strength, talent or skill, but rather an outcome you enjoy as a result of sustained effort and perseverance. The only difference between those that get to realize their potential and those that don’t, is an invincible determination to succeed on the part of the people that believe in and realize their success.
The positive changes you desire in your life will begin to materialize, as you develop the patience and perseverance to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles you will encounter and you completely commit to become the success you desire.
It is of little value to apply the first ingredient of success, namely “Making Good Decisions” and then you lack the will to, manage your decisions and the discipline to apply your energy to support them.
Begin to examine the opportunity that lies within you, to explore and know an extraordinary life. Awaken from the slumber that is keeping your dreams as only distant thoughts, with a low probability of materializing and begin the conscious work of converting them into something real and tangible. Visualize your dream in the present, create a believable action plan that can be applied daily, then simply pull the trigger and see your thoughts become real.
To convert your life into the joyful, effortless, successful and carefree promenade that you deeply desire. Will require you to develop and apply a set of success habits that will keep you focused, determined and completely committed, to exploring your excellence, expressing your abilities and exploiting your potential, on a consistent basis
The right mindset and attitude are invaluable assets and when applied correctly will catapult you toward your success. Work from the standpoint of continual HOPEFULNESSS, always looking for the opportunity within any challenge. It is only from a position of HOPELESSNESS, that you loose all control.
You are the creator of your life experience; make every moment count by striving to bring the best out in yourself every day in every way. Your success and the impact you have on the world is built with your best, consistent and persistent daily effort.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
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Success Coach -Winners In Waiting
Winners In Waiting
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Do you feel like you have untapped abilities and potential, yet you feel lost, unsure and disorientated and locked away from opportunities. You are what I call, “A WINNER IN WAITING”. Unleash your dormant excellence, by initiating small meaningful changes that will allow you to explore everything, from a slightly different perspective. Repeat this process, until you see things begin to align with your expectations. You have the capacity to change and to lead meaningful and productive life, what are you waiting for.
The world is waiting for you to unwrap, the gift of your unlimited potential and for you to start delivering on your brilliance. Stop doubting your abilities, have the courage to finally unleash that hidden potential and reclaim your excellence. Stop limiting your progress with self doubt, create a positive innate belief in your abilities, then have the courage to unleash your excellence on the world and you will see that anything and everything is possible for you.
When you find yourself not liking your life it makes you wonder what kind of thinking you have been doing. Each of us is the architect and interior designer of the life we are living. Consider a review of the building codes and don’t be afraid to tear down a poorly designed structure, or redecorate an outdated room. Last but not least. You get to decide if you want to live in a cottage or a mansion.
Are you choosing to live a superficial life and acting like a victim of your circumstances, because you find accepting and acting on the reality, that you have the power to have, do and be anything you choose too daunting? Stop hiding from your magnificence and make the choice to once again become the director of your own future and learn to live your potential.
Creating the future you desire and building the equities that will deliver your dreams, begins in your imagination and gains momentum as the picture of your success grows in your consciousness. Work to make these images completely vivid and real in your minds eye, take consistent inspired action and you will turn possibility into probability and finally your reality
When last did you take inventory of your skills, abilities and potential? Have the courage to do just that and you will astound yourself with how wonderful you really are and what you have to offer the universe. Believe in yourself, decide you are prepared to pay the price of success, take inspired action and you will see magic begin to happen in your life.
You have a unique gift that is waiting to be discovered and put to use to create the life of your dreams. Although this gift of your unique personality and individual talents may seem hidden, once you find yours, use it with persistence and you will be rewarded with a sense of happiness and deep satisfaction, nothing else can provide. Accept that your journey is now and exists at this moment and that you have an ability to do something totally unique and special. Invest time to discover your “niche”, your unique purpose, then live in alignment with this and anything and everything is possible for you.
Author: Andrew Horton Success Coach
