Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
March 17, 2008 Issue 292
From the Desk of Bob
Greetings!
I love seeing and hearing about people just like you who are improving, growing, changing and achieving goals, dreams, and desires in their lives. It stirs up so many good things in my life and I receive such great joy and encouragement in these experiences.
When I personally have shared a tool, a resource, a system with someone that I have been working with, and it works for them, well now, that totally encourages me to keep pressing on toward the fulfillment of my life mission and purpose. It is, in fact, what energizes and propels me to keep on doing what I do!
The greatest benefit I gain from my business and profession is that I get to be surrounded by successful people like you who are reading this e-newsletter. I am so humbled that I am in this position of sharing the story of my life with you. I hope that as I share in these articles, these SEEDS of SUCCESS, that there is a nugget in them that you can take and apply in your life.
To your continued success! Bob
bob@mrattitudespeaks.com
In this week's issue
Life Attitudes
Seeds of Success: Stretching Our Comfort Zones
Sunny Side of Life
Mr. Attitude's Life Tested Tools
Life Attitudes
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." -Denis Waitly
"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness." -Les Brown
"Life loses its meaning when we get stuck up in a comfort zone." -M.K. Soni
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Seeds of Success: Stretching Our Comfort Zones
By Robert A. Prentice
Everyone knows that the more warmed up and relaxed a runners muscles are before he begins running a race, the greater the ease he will have in running that race. He warms up by doing various stretching exercises to stretch out his muscles, and if he fails to do this, it is not very likely that he ever win any races. Stretching is not usually considered fun for the runner, but it is very beneficial and most vital to success!
Stretching is also important in other areas of life as well-even when we are not going to be running a marathon any time soon. I am talking about stretching out our comfort zones.
Stretching out our comfort zones is not something most of us enjoy because we like our old comfortable ways and we don't like pain. Sometimes we just get lazy and it's just easier to keep doing the same old stuff in the same old way. We lose our focus, our priorities get out of whack, and we get to the point where we need something or someone to thrust us out of our normal thinking and operating if we are ever to get our of the rut we are in.
Ultimately when we are stretched it forces us to think differently, to operate with new mind sets, and achieve more with healthier attitudes about time and the preciousness there of. Stretching out of our comfort zones brings about much needed change, and change is a great motivator.
Recently in the business world I made some decisions to "rebuild" my business from scratch after twenty-some years of operating with many of the same attitudes, processes, thinking, and systems. This decision has forced me to stretch like never before in my entire professional career. Stretching has been so incredibly good for me and the sales have been record breaking.
Actually, I thought I had made this kind of radical shift in the past but found out that I had never before stretched near what I was truly capable of. My point is this: Each of us has much more potential than at first we might think we do. We must keep stretching, keep changing, and keep growing. It's refreshing and feels so good!
Let me encourage you to stretch more than you ever thought possible. Allow it to happen; cause it to happen. Fasten your seat belt and hang on. Stretch like a rubber band being pulled hard from both ends. I guarantee it'll be the joy ride of your life when you make the decision to stretch your comfort zone!
On the Sunny Side of Life
A couple arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up their car and were told that the keys had been accidentally locked in it. They went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door.
As they watched from the passenger's side, the wife instinctively tried the door handle and discovered it was open. "Hey," she announced to the technician, "it's open!"
"I know," answered the young man, "I already got that side."
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