Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
October 22, 2007 Issue 271
From the Desk of Bob
The other day I found myself down on the living room floor playing trucks and cars with both of my grandsons. I have reflected on this most precious opportunity quite a bit lately. The three of us laughing, playing and enjoying our time with each other was most gratifying.
Let me encourage you to take time to share in the lives of others. The reward is priceless and the memories last forever.
Take Action! Bob
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Life Attitudes
Seeds of Success: Self-Confidence in Action
Sunny Side of Life
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Life Attitudes
"Your chance of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
-Robert Collier
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
-Samuel Johnson
"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."
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Seeds of Success: Self-Confidence in Action
By Robert A. Prentice
I love this short, but very powerful, phrase: Take Action and Become!
When we take action on a project, a thought or an idea, good things can happen for us and for those around us. In order to take action in life we must possess a measure of self-confidence. Taking action also requires us to stretch and to move out of our comfort zones.
If we are to move out of our comfort zones, we must face our fears. Facing our fears requires us to shift and change our thinking and primarily shift our attitude. These actions have the potential to change our life in the most incredible manner. This life-enhancing cycle of shifting, changing, building, growing, achieving, and then step by step shifting our attitudes, again results in more and more and more self-confidence.
My wife and I are in the process of moving into our dream house-a big farmhouse that was moved into town a number of years ago, and just happens to be located across the alley from our present properties. The house had been vacant for a few years and many times we thought it would be great to own it, but if all we had done is think about it, yet never took action, obviously we would not have become owners of that house.
Becoming owners of this house has stretched us-and probably will continue to stretch us-in a number of ways. We have never owned such a large house before, and as we recognize the enormity of the responsibility of it, it can be a bit overwhelming. With three levels, fourteen rooms, all the plumbing and wiring and heating systems, painting and decorating, furnishing, not to mention yard work and landscaping, Vicki, Elie and I have taken action on one thing after another and seen our confidence level grow as we have faced the obstacles (The pipes are leaking; we need to find someone to help move the heavy stuff, etc.) and the fears (What if I mess this up? What if we spent all that money on carpet and we don't like it?) Vicki and Elie would say they didn't know anything about painting, but with each room they have painted, they have gained a bit more self-confidence and expertise, and are really proud of themselves for what they've accomplished. It's for certain, without taking positive action there would be no positive results! And how awesome that in the process of making our house into a home, we are improving ourselves as well! We are learning and growing together as a family, taking action, and accomplishing our goals and dreams.
The most wonderful aspect of this self-improvement/growth process is that with more self-confidence we all can accomplish more of our goals, dreams, desires and the many things that our mind can possibly conceive. As we think positive and healthy thoughts-and act on them-positive and healthy results are produced.
Today, I encourage you to Take action and become!
On the Sunny Side of Life: Spell Cheque
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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