Momentum

Posted on October 25, 2010

HI Everyone….

I have to admit that it is amazing how just the right article appears in front of me when needed…
Thanks to the law of attraction…
This article below is by Darren Hardy and he is talking about Momentum or Big Mo and how true it is when starting any new venture that so many people quit before they have given themselves any chance to build momentum.
With my business in the Personal Development industry we use 90 day plans so if you follow your plan for the 90 days by the end of it you will be amazed at the momentum you will build then guess what!!! you plan the next 90 days.

So many people over estimated what they can achieve in One Year but under estimated what they can achieve in 5 or 10 years.

I’m sure after reading this article below you will have your next 90 days planned….
I would love to hear from anyone that is already gaining momentum from their plan and what you have achieved.

Until next time
Chrissy Greig

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Momentum by Darren Hardy

I’d like to introduce you to a very good friend of mine. This friend, also close to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Michael Phelps, and every other superachiever, will impact your life like no other. I’d like to introduce you to Mo, or “Big Mo,” as I like to call it. Big Mo is without doubt one of the most powerful and enigmatic forces of success. You can’t see or feel Mo, but you know when you’ve got it. You can’t count on Mo showing up to every occasion, but when it does—WOW! Big Mo can catapult you into the stratosphere of success. And once you’ve got Mo on your side, there’s almost no way anyone can catch you.

Harnessing the Power of Big Mo
If you remember your high-school physics class (you do, don’t you?), you’ll recall Newton’s First Law, also known as the Law of Inertia: Objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, unless something stops their momentum. Put another way, couch potatoes tend to stay couch potatoes. Achievers—people who get into a successful rhythm—continue busting their butts and end up achieving more and more.

It’s not easy to build momentum, but once you do, look out! Do you remember playing on merry-go-rounds when you were a kid? A bunch of your friends piled on, weighing the thing down and then chanted as you worked to get the thing moving. Getting started was slow going.

The first step was always the hardest—getting it to move from a standstill. You had to push and pull, grimace and groan and throw your entire body into the effort. After a while, you were able to get up a little bit of speed and run alongside it. Even though you were moving (and your friends were cheering louder), to get the speed you really wanted, you had to keep running faster and faster, pulling it behind you as you ran with all your might. Finally, success! You jumped on and joined your friends in the joy of feeling the wind in your face and watching the outside world turn into a smear of colors. After a while, when the merry-go-round started to slow down, you’d hop off and run alongside for a minute get the speed back up—or you could simply give it a couple good pushes and then hop back on. Once the merry-go-round was spinning at a good clip, momentum took over, making it easy to keep it going.

Adopting any change is the same way. You get started by taking one small step, one action at a time. Progress is slow, but once a newly formed habit has kicked in, Big Mo joins the party. Your success and results compound rapidly.

This I Believe by Denis Waitley

Posted on October 19, 2010

Hi Everyone…I just discovered this Poem by Denis Waitley and I wanted to share it with all of you….These words are ones that we should live our life by…This is one of those poems that you could repeat to yourself each morning so you can remember what is important and that is TO BE THE BEST YOU ..YOU CAN BE

Hope you enjoy …Chrissy Greig

This I Believe by Denis Waitley

I believe in myself.

I believe that all people have the equal right to become all they are willing and able to become.

I believe that I am a good as anyone in the world. Although I may never be on the cover of Time or People magazine, I still have time to be one of the people who make a really positive difference in the world.

I believe that although I may not be the best looking in the group, I’ll always be looking my best in every group!

I believe in this and the next generation, and believe we’ll build a better nation.

I believe that good health means more than wealth.

I believe in caring and sharing, rather than comparing.

I believe of all the people I see, still I’d rather be me!

Evaluating Your Associations..Jim Rohn

Posted on October 18, 2010

Hi Everyone…..

I have shared below some words from the famous Jim Rohn on his thoughts about the Power of Association.

I think it is interesting that we are so influenced by the people that we associate with and sometimes don’t even notice it.

I had never considered this until I started my Personal Development Business and the more I educated myself the more I discovered that so many people live their lives in a negative bubble.

I now realize that I did this as well…I think back and cringe about the conversations that I had with friends and family. Why does this stuff always happen to me and it’s not fair why are they so lucky.

I now surround myself with people that are just like me..
*********that love sharing positive thoughts
*********that love creating 6 and 7 figure incomes
*********that love to show others how to do the same
*********that love being in the position to help Charities
*********that love that they are in control of their Lives
********* THEY JUST LOVE LIFE
So I ask you to listen carefully next time you are having a conversation with a close friend or family member and take note are they living their life in a Negative Bubble and more importantly are YOU doing the same.

If you want to make some major changes to your life you must take responsibility for your decisions and thoughts that have brought you to where you are right NOW.

Are you ready to move forward towards a more positive future?????
Then it is time to surround yourself with people that are living the LIFE that you want to LIVE.

You have two choices

1…To live your life surrounded by Negative Events

2…To live your life surrounded by Positive Events

I know which one I choose …What about YOU????

Please share your thought on this TOPIC

To Your Success
Chrissy Greig

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Evaluating Your Associations

If you were to evaluate the major influences in your life that have shaped the kind of person you are, this has to be high on the list: the people and thoughts you choose to allow into your life. My mentor, Mr. Shoaff, gave me a very important warning in those early days that I would like to share with you. He said, “Never underestimate the power of influence.” Indeed, the influence of those around us is so powerful! Many times we don’t even realize we’re being strongly affected because influences generally develop over an extended period of time.

Peer pressure is an especially powerful force because it is so subtle. If you’re around people who spend all they make, chances are excellent that you’ll spend all you make. If you are around people who go to more ball games than concerts, chances are excellent that you’ll do the same thing. If you are around people who don’t read, chances are excellent that you won’t read. People can keep nudging us off course a little at a time until, finally, we find ourselves asking, “How did I get here?” Those subtle influences need to be studied carefully if we really want our lives to turn out the way we’ve planned.

With regard to this important point, let me give you three key questions to ask yourself. They may help you to make better analysis of your current associations.

Here is the first question: “Who am I around?” Make a mental note of the people with whom you most often associate. You’ve got to evaluate everybody who is able to influence you in any way.

The second question is: “What are these associations doing to me?” That’s a major question to ask. What have they got me doing? What have they got me listening to? What have they got me reading? Where have they got me going? What do they have me thinking? How have they got me talking? How have they got me feeling? What have they got me saying? You’ve got to make a serious study of how others are influencing you, both negatively and positively.

Here’s a final question: “Is that okay?” Maybe everyone you associate with has been a positive, energizing influence. Then again, maybe there are some bad apples in the bunch. All I’m suggesting here is that you take a close and objective look. Everything is worth a second look, especially the power of influence. Both will take you somewhere, but only one will take you in the direction you need to go.

It’s easy to just dismiss the things that influence our lives. One man says, “I live here, but I don’t think it matters. I’m around these people, but I don’t think it hurts.” I would take another look at that. Remember, everything matters! Sure, some things matter more than others, but everything amounts to something. You’ve got to keep checking to find out whether your associations are tipping the scales toward the positive or toward the negative. Ignorance is never the best policy. Finding out is the best policy.

Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the little bird. He had his wing over his eye and he was crying.

The owl said to the bird, “You are crying.”

“Yes,” said the little bird, and he pulled his wing away from his eye.

“Oh, I see,” said the owl. “You’re crying because the big bird pecked out your eye.”

And the little bird said, “No, I’m not crying because the big bird pecked out my eye. I’m crying because I let him.”

It’s easy to let influence shape our lives, to let associations determine our direction, to let pressures overwhelm us, and to let tides take us. The big question is: Are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

Next week, we’ll take a look at the three forms of disassociating from negative influences.

Overcoming the Fear of Rejection

Posted on October 12, 2010

Hi Everyone….
I have just read this article by Denis and thinking how true it is.
We all find it hard to deal with rejection in any part of our lives but as Entrepreneurs we have many ideas that are different so overcoming rejection is part of Life.

I would love to hear from you on your thoughts on OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF REJECTION

Thanks Chrissy

A great book to read is “Go for No” here is the web site link

http://www.goforno.com/…..

I hope this article by Denis Waitley makes you more comfortable with !!!!!!!!!REJECTION!!!!!!!!!!

Overcoming the Fear of Rejection by Denis Waitley

To conquer your fear of rejection, you need to handle the word “no” in a constructive way. When people turn you down after a presentation, you have to interpret the “no” as “no this is not right for me now.” We also can interpret “no” as meaning, “I need to know more about this opportunity or the products before I can say yes.”

I look at the service I offer to others as a gift that almost everyone desires. It’s like a nutritious dessert. What if waiters or waitresses in a restaurant said to customers at their tables: “Would you like our special strawberry parfait for dessert? It’s the best in the world!” And they were told “no” by their patrons, three out of five times.

Would they go to their manager, throw up their hands and quit, lamenting, “They don’t like me or my strawberry parfait”? Of course they wouldn’t. They’d go on about their business, thinking the patrons had missed out on something delicious.

That’s why I treat products as a gift, much more nutritious and beneficial than a fruit dessert. But what is being rejected is the presentation, not the presenter. When I can separate my self-esteem from offering the products or business opportunity, I can live with rejection and look for ways to get a positive response more often.

When you are experiencing rejection, that’s the time to network with mentors and role models. It’s also the time to listen to upbeat music and read articles like this, to attend meetings and conference calls, and to hang around with optimists and winners.

There are basically four things we do in selling our products and services, and only four. We use the products and services ourselves, we talk to people about the products and services, we talk to people about the financial benefits we offer, and we coach them to refer us to others who do the same thing. First, we are coachable and willing to learn something new every day. Then, we become coaches. All you really need to move up to the next level is have faith in yourself.

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose your feelings is to risk revealing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk rejection. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing at all. People who will risk nothing do nothing, have nothing, and become nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live. Chained by their certitudes, they are slaves.

They have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is truly free. And one last idea you can live and believe, is the more that you give, the more you’ll receive.

DENIS WAITLEY

Excellence Is a Habit

Posted on October 7, 2010

Hi Everyone….
Below is a Poem by Denis Waitley…….I really related to the words in this poem because with my personal development business I have discovered many limiting beliefs (habits) that have held me back in the past from achieving the results I deserved.

You can be influenced by so many things ..next time you are in a conversation with someone listen for negative comments and think about if you use more negative comments in your conversation than positive ones.

During the day do you have more negative thoughts than positive ones by making notes of these things you can work out if you have negative habits that are holding you back from Living Your Life ….

BECOME MORE AWARE OF YOUR WORDS AND THOUGHTS

I would love to hear from you about what you have learned about your thoughts and words…

Chrissy Greig
www.christinegreig.com

Excellence Is a Habit by Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images.

And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

Habits are like submarines. They run silent and deep.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Winning and losing are both learned habits.

Seeds of Discipline: Excellence Is a Habit by Denis Waitley