Summary: What Are You Putting In To Your Life? What you put into your mind is what comes out in your life. Be accountable to yourself and feed your mind positive thoughts. What Are Cliff and Tracy Doing? Lives of the podcasters: Cliff took his first solo vacation. He had a client meeting set up, but the client had to cancel. The client suggested Cliff take advantage of all that was in place for the meeting. Cliff and his wife enjoyed the weekend, then she flew home and Cliff took some relaxing “me” time for a few days. Tracy has been traveling for business. He attended the NRB convention in Nashville, followed by a trip to Honduras to help set up for a national event, “One nation, One day”, at which Honduras hopes to improve the image the world has of their country. It is a Faith and Values Festival scheduled for July 2013. Your Limitations are of your own Making We sometimes put limitations on ourselves. Tracy remembers when he directed his first movie, he was uncomfortable saying “I’m a director”, but by his third movie, he was comfortable with the phrase. He now believes it and so he acts on that self-belief. Napoleon Hill said, “Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a positive mental attitude – your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are. Cliff names each year. For him, 2012 is “The year of Bigger Dreams”. Three of the items on his list of goals for the year revolve around speaking engagements (#5, 6 & 8). They are already accomplished and it’s only March. Cliff wanted to be a keynote speaker. It was important to him that people take his content, his career, serious; that his message gets exposure. Having a session during a multi-session scheduled event means some at the event will come to hear what he has to say, but as keynote speaker, all will hear what he has to share. What Are You Creating? If you want to be somewhere else is life, believe it can happen, write it down, talk about it. We are creative beings and we create things every day, the key is “what are we creating?” When we speak our ideas/dreams, we feed our minds and then the subconscious can work to find a solution to make it happen. In the book, “Millionaire Mindset”, by Gerry Roberts, we learn to go where people are that you want to be like. Emulate them, it’s not be a fake or phony, it’s learning how to live that life. You learn to achieve your goal through a one day at a time process. Impacting Honduras When Tracy was in Honduras, he shared his three key steps to achieving success with the Commander of the Police. The man was so impressed, he asked if Tracy would speak with the 150 detectives that work for him. Tracy agreed and shared these steps with the men. After Tracy finished, the Commander spoke to his men. He told him he wanted them to follow these steps: believe you can, write it down, and talk about it. What Is The Real Question? Tracy likes a book titled, “The Question Behind the Question”, by John G. Miller, which explores the real reason of the question. Often a question is asked from a victim mentality such as “Who dropped the ball?”, when the real question should be something like “What can we do to provide better service?” Asking the right questions for the right reasons is a sign of good leadership. John Wooden said, “A true leader is one who turns around and has other people following him. Otherwise you're just going for a walk!” Many books talk about the victim mentality. If it’s not working for you, ask yourself if you have written down the tasks you need to do to make your dream happen. Focus on those things that matter. Sometime fear will get in the way and stop us from taking that next step. Overcome the fear. Try to develop relationships with people than can help you, but sometimes it’s scary because they are at the next level and you think you can’t get there.
