be the change i want to see in the world

in my bedroom. I recently watched “Ghandi” and was remindined that one person can make a difference in the world peacefully yet determined to get their point acknowledged.

It isn’t an easy task to be peaceful while making a change in the world but it definitely can be done.

The cowboy mentality of brutal bullying has been rampant the past few years…maybe now is the time for reason and diplomacy…seems that is the new age we are entering now.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,
you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is
not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Colin Powell

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or
excellence, but we rather have those because we have
acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Champions do not become champions when they win the
event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they
spend preparing for it. The victorious performance
itself is merely the demonstration of their
championship character.”

T. Alan Armstrong

The last 2 years have been spent sorting through goals, philosophising and generally muddling through millions of ideas. Literally.

Many of the goals I have incorporated in my daily routines.

Many of the goals are old ones that have already been accomplished or no longer hold any interest for me.
These will be discarded.

Many of the goals are flights of fancy…the what if I could do anything variety. These will happen…some will work, some won’t. That’s okay.

What I discovered is that I am a Renaissance Woman,a person taking on multiple roles.

I can work with that.

By: Brian Tracy

How to set standards for excellence and back them with total integrity.

A Commitment to Excellence
Leaders have specific responsibilities and must fulfill certain requirements. One requirement of leadership is the ability to choose an area of excellence. Just as a good general chooses the terrain on which to do battle, an excellent leader chooses the area in which he and others are going to do an outstanding job. The commitment to excellence is one of the most powerful of all motivators. All leaders who change people and organizations are enthusiastic about achieving excellence in a particular area.

Be the Best!
The most motivational vision you can have for yourself and others is to “Be the best!” Many people don’t yet realize that excellent performance in serving other people is an absolute, basic essential for survival in the economy of the future. Many individuals and companies still adhere to the idea that as long as they are no worse than anyone else, they can remain in business. That is just plain silly! It is prehistoric thinking. We are now in the age of excellence. Customers assume that they will get excellent quality, and if they don’t, they will go to your competitors so fast, people’s heads will spin.

Have A Vision of High Standards
As a leader, your job is to be excellent at what you do, to be the best in your chosen field of endeavor. Your job is to have a vision of high standards in serving people. You not only exemplify excellence in your own behavior, but you also translate it to others so that they, too, become committed to this vision.

This is the key to servant leadership. It is the commitment to doing work of the highest quality in the service of other people, both inside and outside the organization. Leadership today requires an equal focus on the people who must do the job, on the one hand, and the people who are expected to benefit from the job, on the other.

The Most Respected Quality
The second quality, which is perhaps the single most respected quality of leaders, is integrity. Integrity is complete, unflinching honesty with regard to everything that you say and do. Integrity underlies all the other qualities. Your measure of integrity is determined by how honest you are in the critical areas of your life.

Integrity means this: When someone asks you at the end of the day, “Did you do your very best?” you can look him in the eye and say, “Yes!” Integrity means this: When someone asks you if you could have done it better, you can honestly say, “No, I did everything I possibly could.”

Integrity means that you, as a leader, admit your shortcomings. It means that you work to develop your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses. Integrity means that you tell the truth, and that you live the truth in everything that you do and in all your relationships. Integrity means that you deal straightforwardly with people and situations and that you do not compromise what you believe to be true.

Action Exercises
Now, here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, identify the area of your work where excellent performance can contribute the very most to productivity and profits. Focus all your efforts in this area.

Second, do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching. Imagine that everyone in your company was going to do their work exactly the way you do yours.

Never compromise your standards!

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon, M.D.

From “How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic’s Guide to Spiritual Happiness” by Karen Salmansohn:

If you keep doing what you’ve always been doing, then you’ll keep getting what you’ve always been getting.

You must courageously break the habit of your habits, or every year you will be doomed to live out: “Same #$x%x! Different outfit.” The style of your clothes may change, but the style of your circumstances won’t.
The first trick an elephant trainer teaches an elephant is not to escape. When the elephant is still but a baby, the trainer chains the infant’s leg to a huge log, so when/if the elephant tries to escape, the log proves stronger and he gives up. Eventually the elephant becomes so used to its captivity, that even when it has grown huge and strong, all the trainer has to do is merely tie the chain around the elephant’s leg to anything—even a tiny little twig—and the elephant won’t even try to escape. It has become a prisoner of its past.

The elephant and its twig remind you of your childhood. Though you believe childhood habits can’t be broken, that was then. This is now. Time has passed. You can let go. Move on…Can’t you?

Yes, you can…step back from that twig! The trick is: you must first see it’s only a twig!

“without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness:
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness
in your smile.”

Mother Teresa

about the past or the future. I was thinking of sleep. Now I am ready to get out there and kick some butt.

I am not a victim. I am not weak. It is a misconception people have about me because I have been very quiet and not asked alot from anyone.

That is about to change.

Professional performers are the most dedicated people alive. While amateurs are dedicated when things are going well, champions are always dedicated.

In other words, it’s not what they do, it’s who they are. The great ones don’t know any other way. Their dedication to excellence shines through in everything they do.

Dedication is a habit they’ve developed; it serves as a cornerstone of their success and fulfillment in life. Average people are more dedicated to pleasure than performance.

The top 1% of world-class performers invests thousands of dollars every year on self-development books, DVDs. CDs, seminar, workshops and retreats.

Most amateur performers haven’t read a book since high school and wouldn’t attend a self-development seminar unless you paid them. The masses tend to believe education ends with high school or college graduation.

The world class tends to believe formal education only teaches you how to learn, cope and manage yourself in the world as an adult. They believe real education begins after school lets out.

Dedication to getting what they want from life is a driving force behind champions.

While the masses seek perpetual pleasure, the great ones focus on achievement.

The irony is that professional performers tend to experience great pleasure as a result of their achievements. Such feelings of accomplishment and fulfillment are an additional benefit only the great ones enjoy.” Quoted from Steve Siebold

What is the book you are reading now? Is it for pleasure or gain? Remember, the person you will be in one year will be guided mostly by the people you hang with and the books you read. Be careful of both

They take themselves lightly. :)

My therapist says that’s what I need to do now. Lighten up, forgive myself as my Father in Heaven has done and go out and have a good life.

daydreaming about this and not actually doing anything.

I have plans that others may actually do because when God gives us things to do and we ignore him he will ask someone else. He has a plan. It will be accomplished. His will be done.

So it’s time to get off my pity-pot and get busy.