Success is about paying it forward

Every now and then we need to recharge our batteries. This is my weekend to go do just that. And before I head off I wanted to write about giving.

Imagine…

You made a choice to really go for your dreams in life. You decided today to live your dream instead of allowing life just happen to you. Today (right now) you made a conscious choice to be, do, or have what you dream of and have dreamed of for so long.

Now…

Bound five years forward.

Dateline: April 13, 2017

You are living your dream. You planned, took action everyday, adjusted along the way until you arrived at your definition of success and the life you dreamed of on April 13, 2012.

What do you have? Who is around you? Where do you live? What do you do?

All great questions and not the right questions. Sure life is about getting what we desire and it is about so much more. Life is about giving. If you go get all the things you dream of and forget to give back you never really completed 100% of your dream.

If you are smart enough to think it, choice it, work for it, and live it, you are obligated to help someone else do the same. That is what I believe. I do not believe we work in a vacuum. We need others to help us find our way and to live our dreams. It is rare when we do it alone if at all.

So visualize five years forward. You have it all. You are living the  life you imagined on April 13, 2012. Now, what would you give back to the world when this comes true. It doesn’t have to be money. What you give might be bigger than that… so share.

What would you give back on April 13, 2017 and why is that so important for you?

Brian Tracy books and success quotes

There are several books on my bookshelf at home that I reference often. One the authors that I enjoy is Brain Tracy. He had written many books on the subjects of personal improvement, success, leadership, and sales success. I find Brain Tracy’s books easy to read, informational, and easy to apply his rules.

Brian Tracy’s books I enjoy.

Goals!

Flight Plan

Maximum Achievement

Be a Sales Superstar

Create Your Own Future

You can certainly purchase your copy at iTunes, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or BrainTracy.com. I make no money on any of these links. Just wanted you to be armed with some of the best personal improvement material available.

Of the books above, Create Your Own Future is my favorite. This book shares 12 critical factors of unlimited success. I wanted to share the quotes Brain Tracy share at the header of each chapter or section of this outstanding book.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. – Thomas Edison

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do exist. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life be has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

The greatest thing that a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that he has been given him. This is success and there is no other. – Orison Swett Marden

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. – Proverbs 3:13-15

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better; faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. – John Paul Getty

The greatest revolution of my generation is the discovery that by changing the inner attitudes of your mind, you can change the outer aspects of your life. – William James

The best portion of a good man’s life, – his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth

More gold has been mined from thoughts than has ever been taken from the earth. – Napoleon Hill

The source and center of all man’s creative power is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. – Robert Collier

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.  – Johnny Carson

If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, at this very moment, and just where you are. – James Allen

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. – Winston Churchill

So many good words from the masters of success. Each quote a life lesson on it’s own.

Think…

Which quote is your favorite and how can you apply it to your life today?