Fast Forward...

“When you know where you are you will know where you are going!” ~ Dr. Joyce C. Mills

I am amazed at how frequently my friend Dr. Joyce Mills’ comment comes to mind: “When you know where you are you will know where you are going!” In my message for you today, it is imperative that you have that kind of clarity. I imagine it is easy for you to say, “I am here in this state today, but want to be in a very different one over the course of the next two years.” The clarity about where you are will help you decide the steps necessary to get where you are going!

Take a few moments of quiet reflection and fast forward two years. Take out a piece of paper and answer the following questions. Don’t just read through them and have a passive mental connection – really take the time to get in touch with yourself and actively engage yourself in the process by writing down each response. I did this over the weekend and rather than feeling frustrated that my objectives were unrealistic, I gained clarity about how to actually attain them!

How do you feel?
What are you doing?
Do you like what you see?

I am not necessarily talking about the material things that you may have amassed; I am talking about the new you! Did you seem different to yourself? Did you seem wiser, perhaps calmer – more in tune with things – perhaps at peace?

When you are willing to work forward with a specific strategy – you truly can glimpse your future, and the amazing thing is that if you fast forward and think about the process in which you engaged and feel how differently things have become – you have at your disposal a perfect tool to design your strategy - by working backwards as to how you got there. Just keep in mind that the big change in your future begins with the smaller changes you are willing to make in yourself and the manner in which you strategize your future!

My little eZine is called Giving You the Edge for a very specific reason: when a well-planned and executed strategy begins to come together, you gain an almost unfair advantage within your business community. The changes in your personal life impact the business choices you make, and you gain an increased ability to look two years into your future – seeing the process and feeling the results of your efforts.

This fast forward process helps reveal all the positive steps you have taken; it allows you to sense the mistakes you might have made and gives you the advantage of wisely making better decisions as you execute your strategy. Making right choices is foundational to creating the future you desire; they give you the freedom and lifestyle that you want at an accelerated pace. When you fail to fast forward you are faced, at that two-year mark, with wondering why things seem to continually fail you or feeling discouraged and disappointed that you seem to be caught in a position of merely accepting what life throws your way.
Vision without action is doomed to fail; if you find and copy the success principles of those around you it is possible to gain leverage through team efforts, marketing concepts and little known tips, tools and resources. As you learn to fast forward and strategize your success, you begin to execute one of the primary success principles: “People don’t make money – systems do!” Combine your desire with clarity of purpose and direction and create a strategy (system) and you will leave your competitors behind in a cloud of dust. You will experience a new you; a person who works from systems, seeks continual new skills sets, and learns to outsource activities which don’t maximize your greatest revenue generating skills.

Go ahead… fast forward two years:
• Reveal what you really desire,
• learn what it takes to keep you motivated, and
• uncover the systematic, strategy-developing steps necessary to drive you toward all that you see in your amazing future.

Until the muses visit me again… I encourage you to engage in positive, life-altering activities that will provide you with long-term, sustainable benefit.

Anna Weber
www.4-dsuccess.com

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