Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
January 26, 2009 Issue 335

From the Desk of Bob

Everything seemed to click just right for me this last week. I was reminded, looking back, that success is when preparation and opportunity meet. There really is no such thing as luck.

I have been working really hard at maintaining a positive attitude and a healthy attitude towards life and business. I have also been re-reading some of the articles I have written over the last ten years. Good stuff actually.

Excuse my effusion here, but I have been working much harder lately too. The result-I just finished the best business week of my professional career. I need to share with you the success and joy I am having. Thank you so much for being here for me to mention this moment in my life.

Here is just one of the many successes last week I just have to share. I got picked up by ten newspapers that will be running my "Seeds of Success" column in their papers every week. I am excited to be able to share my articles with their readers and bring some positive ideas and inspiration to their communities. And, what's more, they are actually paying me to have it in their paper. Yeah!

I have been reminded again of the power of perseverance. Yes, tenacity really pays! When you press on in the times when things seem to be not so good eventually things start to look a lot better.

Best of success for a great positive week! Bob

This week's "E" word: Effusion
noun: An extravagant and sometimes excessive expression of feelings in speech or writing

Life Attitudes

Winnie the Pooh: "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"

William James: "Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

Albert Einstein: "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

Seeds of Success: Rethink Your Thinking

By Robert A. Prentice

Have you ever noticed how it is so easy to think and continue to think a certain way about something? Technically some of that thinking may not be right at all or maybe something actually changed along the way that makes our thinking obsolete or outdated. Sometimes we can get so attached to our way of thinking about something that we refuse to see there may be another way-maybe even a better way-of looking at the situation.

Recently I was reviewing several math problems with Elie, my teenage daughter, and some of the challenges she was having in her schoolwork. As we were discussing the challenges, issues and difficulties that she was having she stated, "It looked like I just needed to rethink my thinking!"

Well, I almost fell off the chair, such a profound a statement she had uttered. I asked Elie to tell me what she meant by that and she said, "Well if it doesn't work one way, maybe I should try another way." (We decided that one thing "rethink your thinking" doesn't mean is second-guessing our selves.) Once Elie took her own advice, she actually did much better in her math assignment and the frustration was gone.

Well, since then, I have found several incredible opportunities for application, in a variety of aspects in my life, and business where I needed to "rethink, my thinking", so I decided to ask Elie if it was okay for me to write about it in my column this week. Of course, she said yes, and so here we are.

Face it. If something isn't working out the way it should, maybe it is time to pause to rethink your thinking. It is only when we stop and purposefully rethink what we are thinking about that life really takes on a whole new meaning. Things are so much different. I have paused and now to rethink my thinking in a number of the following areas. Here a just a handful of them:

· Helping out more around the house;
· Training seminars that I offer;
· Education and self-improvement;
· Software I was planning to purchase;
· Utilization of space and other resources;
· Some recent business purchases;
· Some recent business decisions

As I have started the process of "rethinking" in each of these areas, and applied some new strategies, I have already begun to notice a growth in my life, business and success-in just the last few days!

Here are what I believe to be the benefits of pausing to "rethink our thinking":

· We will be more effective in our "due diligence."
· We will have less negative stress from our failures and challenges.
· We will have more income from shifts in thoughts and attitudes.
· We will get more accomplished in both our personal and professional lives.

Take action today and begin the process of pausing to rethink your thinking and see what happens!

On the Sunny Side of Life: Intiguing Signs

Sign at a gas station: Please do not smoke near our fuel pumps. Your life may not be worth much but our fuel is.

Spotted in a safari park: Elephants please stay in your car.

Seen during a conference: For anyone who has children and doesn't know it, there is a day care on the first floor.

Notice in a field: The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges.

Message on a brochure: If you cannot read, this brochure will tell you how to get lessons.

Sign on a repair shop door: We can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door - the bell doesn't work.)

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