It is Finished
See peeps it is finished, the days of old are gone, they can not come back, for example an hour ago can not be lived out again, sure you can attempt to do what you did then, but the result may have a different appearance, of how it was lived out, that hour ago, just as in our past whatevers, it is gone, it can not be lived out, to the same exact whatever, there will be differences. Now with that said, you need to settle it, in your heart and mind, that the past is finished. This should free you up, this should excite you, for NOW you can create whatever it is you desire to happen, now of course, if you are sitting, in your room, and desiring to be on a boat, in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, catching the BIGGEST Marlin, well you can desire it would be NOW, but in reality it will be an imagination gone amazingly awesome, or you can put a game plan together to make that a reality, to allow the manifestation become that real life experience.
Here we will learn how to take action, to allow the NOW moment become a powerhouse of successful action plans. We are going to learn how to take a IQ from where it once was to where it can be, HIGHER! And how is this, by knowing a bit of the game, by understanding some of the rules, by taking action to shift/change your once old action plan, for some of us, there was not much of an action plan, so this will be easy, for when you move to create one, you have already shifted your reality and empowered your NOW! So grab that pad of paper and pen/pencil, or open up your notepad on your laptop or desk computer, and lets get busy taking a NOW control action plan and seeing a new reality become a conscience moment of empowering SELF!!
Let’s get this party started and understand that IQ is important in some circle of influential people, they believe that a Higher IQ gives them the right and privilege to better stuff, behaviors, privileges, just because they have a higher brain power. SO flipping what! Don’t care about your superior, higher IQ, for it will not stop those of us that have a spirit of “forget about it”, and just go for it…lets see what a new emotional IQ can create, and over take the prideful and arrogant brainiac IQ. (Now understand I am coming across hard on those that believe themselves better than those that are beneath them, cause I should, and don’t care to allow them to know it, because there pampas ass can do something about it that helps the overall good of mankind, or go back to your country club and live that reality.) Emotional IQ has a powerful action plan that will cause anyone that implements a NOW action towards the 18 factors, to creating a new reality. This is for those that have a deep desire to shift there present reality, and embark on a new adventure of success. These 18 actions will increase your emotional IQ and allow you to improve your life, your life style, your life experiences. You will see that you will begin to change, to change your environment, your reality. Your family and friends will see and feel the shift/change, and some will jump on board and desire what it is your doing, so that they can do the same, and more than likely, you will have your detractors and they will do there best to hold you back, to stop your flow, to see you back to there standards of what they defined you as, and it is here I am challenging you to NEVER STOP IMPROVING YOU!!! Who the flip cares what the na sayers have to say, for they are not helping, only holding you back from the success you are and are meant to be. Shoot, you fire back at them by BEING YOU, the new and improved and always in motion, man/woman of success.
18 Factors that will em-bold your life and cause your head to be held HIGH, your chest out, and your shoulders back…you will see yourself different, feel yourself becoming different, you will experience the world around you, will treat you different. Dreams will become a reality, and life will take on a whole new look, feel, smell, and experience. Your NOW will only become a better moment of reality, for these 18 actions will allow you to fly high, whereby you may touch that sky. Now is the time to get excited and know that it is up to you to make the change(s), it always has been. No hand outs here, well except for what I am going to share, lol…it is totally up to you to daily take action, and work on one, or as many as you think you can work on, that will not overwhelm you…and shoot fail at this, what I mean by that take on as many as you desire, and see where your breaking point is, and step back, and find out what you are strong at, allow those to remain a strength and then work on the weakest on and go from there. These 18 Factors will truly shift/change YOU! You will truly love the person you are and are becoming.
We can shame the educational system for not teaching us this, but hey, why cry over spilled milk, and clean it up and move on. Lets take this next step, shoot we can do this together…you are not alone, I am on the same path and working on these each day. Some I have allowed myself to be great at, for I know I have them, but others I am working on, and sharpening each moment to improve and better myself. For my end game is to the best me each day I wake up and tackle that day, knowing if I keep that mindset, the moment and time I pass onto the other adventure of life, in my death, I can know I have done my best, and seen my life improve each day. We got this, we got this action plan, and we got the success that we were destined to BE!!
The first of the 18 Factors is growing your powerful vocabulary. You will be amazed at this. I know I am not the best with my words, and it is in my limited understanding of words, that I get myself fowled up in conversations, yet over the years, I have learned that when I began to improve on my vocabulary, it shifted/changed the people I was able to communicate with. This allowed me to enter into some amazing influential circles, and gave me the opportunity to befriend some pretty remarkable world changers. Which in turned gave me leverage for new adventures to be had in my life. Listen, if you take the dictionary and a thesaurus, and begin studying out words, and begin to use them in everyday conversations, you will begin to see yourself shift/change. Your now moment will begin to be empowered and trust me on this, your self confidence will increase, and you will begin to know that you belong in those influential circles. And in time, trust me time is your friend, it is an asset, you will begin to embrace time and love time, for it is a staging ground for you to become stronger and better, and in the perfect time, you will then be able to step into a new arena, an arena of success that will enhance your life and life style. So you take action, make time, and implement those new words in your everyday life, and watch the world begin to grow and become brighter and fuller. In study words you will find that words will help you understand YOU, understand the world around you, and understand the relationships you have in your life. This will allow you to listen better, hear better, and respond better. Words are so powerful that this is what created the world we know today, for out of God’s mouth He spoke the world into existence, and those words are still as powerful today as they were then. Think about it, words can create YOUR WORLD! Praise God!! Now lets learn together in using the proper words that can shift/change our world. Let us challenge ourselves to find words that will empower us, encourage us, inspire us, to BE better, see ourselves successful and full of life. This truly will be a game changer for you! Trust me on this, things will begin to change in your life and what will happen is your curiosity of people will begin to change, for you will have a deep desire to hear them and share with them. And when this begins to happen you will see that this spills over into one of the 18 factors of your successful life and life style.
Curious George is a great children book, it is filled with a monkey’s experiences, and out of it, his curiosity influences, challenges, and empowers Hundley’s life…lol. I am reminded of many of there adventures, and sure Curious George may find himself in troubles, that Hundley had to joy of being apart of, yet in the end of the adventures, much is learned and life is expanded to new experiences. See we need this in our lives, we need those adventures, and in those moments we will need to be curious about people. It is in these moments and times that we will have the blessing of using our improving vocabulary, we will begin to stretch our improved selves, and learn about new people. For we will begin to see ourselves exploring the world around us, in doing so, this will attract much to us. Why? Well that is because the world will recognize there is a willing vessel that is a curious as they are. Meaning your self improvement and your desire to be curious about people, will have a cause and effect, it truly will. And in this you will begin to learn new things that has the chance to be apart of your life, or you will see that you are not desiring that. Being curious about people will break you out of your bubble, which is a good thing, now don’t put yourself in danger circles, be selective, yet allow your bubble to burst, and allow the world around you to expand, so that this time on earth can be that exciting and amazing adventure, like a Curious George, and at the end of the day you can place your head on your pillow and play back all the amazing adventures you found yourself in. The world will challenge you to do something you may not want to do, yet truly need to…which is change.
Embrace the power of change, for this 3rd factor of the 18 will enhance your life. Change is GO~OD…oooh sooo Go~ood! Now I am saying this, yet finding out that in my 44 years I like patterns, I like the same things…lol. Which is crazy, cause as a yout (My Cousin Vinny) I loved change. I would change my hair style, my cars, my place of living, shoot change was always happening in my life. And looking back, wow, what an adventure. Guess this is teaching me right NOW, the power of embracing change. Change will bring forth a newness, this will bring forth a powerhouse of adventures and experiences. Change is not for the faint of heart, this is for those warriors, that understand to grow, you have to shed off the old and allow the new to come. Understand something, when you allow change to be a positive action within your daily walk this will allow you to learn about your strengths and weakness. Which is a great thing!
Your knowledge of your strengths and weaknesses will allow you to raise your game. This 4 factor will allow you to see the 18 factors are all important to work together. The reason is that you can rest on your strengths, for when you are weak, and your weakness can be understood so that you can set up a game plan to make the necessary shift(s)/change(s) to improve. Listen, I am reminding myself daily to fail forward. Failure will happen, it is not will it happen, it is when will it happen, and what will you do, will you allow that/those failure(s) to define you, or will you allow yourself to see it as weakness that needs adjusted. Your strengths are such an amazing asset, work them, use them, keep them growing, and understand them, don’t take them lightly, they are strong for a reason. Allow them to bless you and those around you. For you got this baby!!! In this amazing journey you will begin this will help you have a great insight on peeps.
You will begin to see yourself improve to a point where you will have great instincts on people. You will have a great understanding on what kind of people you want in your inner circle, those that you will trust, care for, love, sacrifice, and allow to speak into your life. Your amazing inner knowledge, and gut instincts will influence each decision of how well you allow people to know and understand you. It is important that you have great people around you. They will truly be blessing, and you choose wrong they will not…lol. It is that simple. Understand something here, I desire to believe in the best of ALL people, but I am not a fool, people suck, they will fail you, it is not if they will, but when will they. And in those moments it is that inner greatness you possess, to allow forgiveness to take shape, and making the right decision to safe guard yourself, friends and family, Don’t quit on people, but be leery of there wicked ways and protect yourself. This 5th factor is key to embracing people and allowing the good, the cream of the crop, to be the best for you and them. People will have the amazing way to offend you, don’t allow it!
The 6 sense is a factor that needs to be in motion everyday of every moment in dealing with people, situations, and stuff…DON’T BE OFFENDED! Lol…so easy to say and type, yet so challenging to implement into action. Yet there is so much power that comes from this action. Peeps, trust me on this, you will live a better life not taking on offense, it will cause you to sleep better, you will find your two corners of your mouth to RISE everyday, so much easier and faster than ever before. You will not use wasteful thoughts on offenses, and you will grow and mature in other factors that will have a cause and effect that you will fall in love with…your life will increase in areas you have always dreamed of. Trust me, this is a hard on, yet probably one of the most beneficial and freeing factor of your actions to successful living. No Lie!
Seventh factor of your successful journey is learning the power of 2 letters. Let me tell you what, I had a father that had this down pat, he had a knowledge that I wish I understood as a child. This powerful action would of saved me from so many pit falls, and offenses, and wrong character of people that had influences in my life…if I would of implemented this in my game plan of success at an early age, I know for a fact I would be farther in life, yet I was stubborn and believed that I needed to be a “yes” man. Boy, if my father was alive today, I would so HUG him, tell him how much I love him, and how proud I am to be his son, and that he was right! Lol..that his knowledge and understanding of using “no”, is truly a game changer. Now hear me on this, you need to learn when to use this, meaning you will make mistakes, yet you will hit those grand slams, you will be more successful when using no in those NOW moments. This is not just for others, yet YOU! Just today I was going to buy some shoes, understand I wanted them and yes my old running shoes are getting older, yet did I truly need these new shoes NOW, NO! I am saving money, I am on my way of changing my reality, and buying a house…every penny saved, is more money for the purchase of that house, and items to place in it. So today I succeeded, I was able to use the power of NO and stopped myself from purchasing something that I really don’t need, at this time. People, not to there accord, some yes, but most of the time, people can ensnare you to do things you are not needing to do, at that moment, and the understanding and knowledge and use of NO can truly empower your life and life style…you got this one! This action will help you master the 8th factor of successful living.
My life has been filled with so many of these things that I wish I could have the keys to the time travel machine. I desire so bad to head back to those moments that were a negative to my life and others. Where my actions and lack of actions had a cause and affect that brought forth much pain and suffering. But hear me on this, Praise God, those moments should not of defined me, as I allowed them to. I had the wrong mindset, I did not listen to council as well to the inner voice, I allowed those mistakes to grip me to a place of no action, and gave to much power to them. For the 8th factor you truly need to let GO! You need to allow the mistakes to be a thing of the past and chalk it up as a lesson learned, and YOU learn, but don’t you dare stay locked down in that/those past mistakes. Oh how we have all been here, and it is not a great place to be, we are less than what we truly are. Peeps we all miss it, we all want do-overs, yet when we get to a mindset, and action plans to move on, we allow that negative power to be a thing of the past and we move onto the greatness WE ARE!!! I love you peeps! When we get this and allow mistakes to be a thing of the past we give power back to ourselves. Work on this daily, work on this moment by moment, learn from it, and you get your head up, your eyes up and smile, laugh, and look to those amazing beautiful things before you and rejoice. What can help in healing from these mistakes is a simple action forward, meaning you give, give without your other hand knowing, you give out of the purity of your heart and love.
See this ninth factor has so much power in it. This selfless act as freeing power, it has a medicine in it that no pharmaceutical company can license, and profit from. This action will take you to another level, where life is so much not about you, yet others. And in your selfless action, your love for mankind will increase, you will begin to ooze love to the point people will feel it, experience it, and love being around it. You will find that giving and not expecting nothing in return will keep your focus on other things, other adventures, freeing your mind and heart to receive greater blessings, cause they will come. Understand there is power in sowing and reaping, there is power in being selfless, there is power to be had in allowing the cause and effect to take its natural course. And who cares if it takes awhile to manifest…you remain true to who you are and are becoming…these 18 factors of successful living will truly impact your life for the better, when you apply them to your daily life. You will have so many wins that it will become a norm. This is not to glote about, yet to embrace the natural power that comes with giving and not expecting anything in return. When you are able to do this naturally, trust me you will have to work to this, you will have to train yourself for it. And it is a trainable action, I work at an auto plant and I have learned that training on a process, one by which I did not think I could do, yet over time learned that it was possible, it did become a natural action, whereby I can now do it without a thought, my body as been trained to do the action, you can teach yourself this action, and much of this is your heart and mind. For when you become a master at this you will find that you will no longer hold grudges…ahhh…and that feels oooh so goo~ood!
Your 10th factor is so sweet, you will be so excited when you master this action, that your freedom of self and others becomes so extremely powerful. This will allow you to DO with a spirit of love at all times. Grudges are easy to hold onto and create. Your mind can be your best friend and your worse enemy. When you allow your mind to think the worse of someone, you can allow grudge to grip and rip and a relationship. Relationships are so precious, they truly are. They are as sweet as the sweetest fruit, the best chocolate, the precious jewelry, they are truly heavenly. The challenge is to not allow sour grapes, a bad apple, a negative action or thought to create and cause a grudge that will break you. This will poison your inner mind and heart and take lesson you. This will take away the greatness you are and success that is meant to be. Letting go of what may be rightfully acceptable of holding onto a grudge, which truly when you think about it, nothing is good when holding onto a grudge, you will then empower yourself to truly move in a light and power of success that will only give birth to more success. For your thoughts and heart will not longer be held back and will be free to embrace the new whatsoever of success coming your way. When grudge starts to creep in, use your power of knowledge and understanding, of some of your 18 factors and don’t allow the person/people to become harmful to your growth.
The power of the 11th factor is medicine to a poison that has potential to grow. Negative people suck! They are toxic and just plain ugly. The power they hold is not a power that successful people need. You know those type of people, some can be snakes in the grass, yet overall you can spot them and there is truly no sense in attempting to befriend them, so that you could help them. If they desire a change, they will seek it, and you will know, and you will use your knowledge and understanding in how close you allow them in your inner circle. You have the power to say “no” to them when they keep walking into your inner circle. When you are able to keep them at a harms length away you are protecting yourself, your family, and friends, and allowing the freedom to remain free. Negative people feed off of conflict, you have no room for that. Conflict will never produce a good result. So stay clear of this and keep your amazing positive adventure moving forward. Understand you will make the mistake in this, no worries, for we allow ourselves to make mistakes, cause we slow to anger and don’t take on offense, as well as not allowing mistakes to define us, knowing that perfection is nice to be, yet not easily to maintain.
You will find that the 12th factor of your success is liberating, this frees me up to be the goofball that I am…and gives me that phew moment. I don’t have to be perfect. Man, lets just say at work, we are under such pressure to be perfect, to NEVER, and I repeat NEVER make a mistake. You do, and lets just say, you will hear for it. You will be beat down and feel like you are less of a person. I’m telling you, at work, I am learning so much about focus, laser focus, and to maintain it, so that the red hot stove won’t get me again. I hate getting burned…HATE IT! But you know, I had/have to learn to let go and allow myself to not be perfect, to allow the imperfection to be a moment, but not THE moment that defines me. Cause those moments happen, for we are human, born in a sinful nature of a world, we humans make mistakes, and trust me robots are no where near perfect, I see them make mistakes everyday at work…lol. SO embrace your imperfections and work on seeing where you can make adjustments so that you can minimize those moments. Don’t beat yourself up over them, lesson the value of who you are, yet allow them to be a building block to the better YOU. You are pretty awesome now, and are only becoming more awesomer each passing day. 🙂 And when you are able to accept this, you are ready to tackle the 13th factor of appreciating YOU!
What you have now, is everything you need, right? Well I am not sure about that, I know when I moved to TN on April 25th 2014, I had a Buick full of stuff and moved in with my cousin. I did not have everything I wanted, but had what I needed to keep moving forward. It was on this day that my world shifted/changed, and I truly learned to appreciate what I had. I used what was in that car, and allowed it to be a building block to where I am today. I was not complacent of where I was, and created a game plan to make improvements, as I am today. Yet I sure embraced what I had, and truly enjoyed what I did have. There is power in appreciating what you have, for you are appreciating your journey, your choices, your life. I get it if you are not happy, I was not happy, but that is a feeling that can change…and if your not happy now, it is not because of the stuff you have, sure we all want better stuff, take a deeper look, and learn to appreciate what you do have and/or don’t have, cause we all have a story, and that is only a part of your story, it is not the whole story and it is not who you are, and make a game plan to shift/change your NOW reality. Hear me on this, if you are reading this, and you are finding there are truths here, and you are internally taking notes, and making changes, you are NOW making your reality shift/change…just follow up on it, meaning keep on moving in your new awareness and appreciate your story. You truly got this!! Keeping up with the Jones is silly and a challenge I stopped accepting, cause I would never appreciate what I had, my story, and always thought someone else life was better than mine, minimizing my life, my value. I had to wake up from that exhausting reality and I did not by shutting them out.
Your power rests in disconnecting from the world around you. You need this, at times, throughout your life. Shutting down is powerful, cause you will allow yourself to refocus, power up, clean up, detox from the world’s ugliness, and flat out learn what you have learned, reorganize what is important and what is not. You power source will become more apparent of what it is, and you will find yourself rejoicing in the simplicity of life, of who you are and are becoming, and truly rejoice of your amazing family and friends. Thing will become so much more beautiful when you clear the clutter and center in on the most important…you! It is like the airplane safety, whereby you place the air mask on first, then look around to see how you may help. So take a breather at times, and reload.
This next one, is a funny one for me, I am not good at it, for while writing this I am drinking coffee and enjoying the flavor and energy it is giving me. 😉 I have read that it is important that you limit caffeine…WH~AT…say it’s not so! Well there is health benefits for it…in the area of your response and actions. Can you believe that? It was an interesting read, but they say that caffeine affects your adrenaline. This is super great when you need that for when a car rolls over and you want to impress your girl and lift it with one hand, Supermaning it to show how manly you truly are…lol…but they say this is not good when it comes to responding to folks, your hyperness can come across as to much and you may slip up and say or do the wrong thing. Now again this is something I am reading and understand this is a factor I will have to learn as I grow to understand the power behind it. Plus right now, I may be kicking myself for when I attempt to go to sleep, I might be wired and that will have a cause and effect tomorrow, when that alarm goes off and I should be getting up and heading to Church. If I don’t get enough of my beauty rest I may decide to skip church, and who knows, what I may miss. Something shared could have a tremendous impact on my success, and the timing of it.
Sleep is the 16th factor to success, and one that I LOVE to have. I have seen throughout my life that I took advantage of any down time to fall into that sleep slumber, it was safe in my dreams, and my body felt good…lol. I watch mom’s and amazed at all they do, and feel that I need to help them out, so I would take naps for them to support all the lack of nap times they don’t get…lol..in all reality it is important that we do get enough sleep to tackle the challenges that come upon us each given day. We all know that if we are fighting a situation and we did not get enough sleep, it does affect our decisions, our manner by which we handle it/them, and our response is slowed up. Now when well rested, boy we feel like we can take on anything, and almost have that lion like attitude that nothing can defeat us, that we will defeat it. So I am super excited about this one, yet terrible at using it at its ample usage…this one I truly need to work on. One reason, when I do try to sleep my mind is a battlefield and I am not my best friend or encourager, I tend to play back all the boneheaded mistakes I made, it would help if I would implement some of these amazing 18 factors of success, but I see where my weaknesses are and am making the necessary adjustments. So I am a working progress when it comes to the 17 factor of success.
Negative self talk needs to stop! Period!
I should stop right there with that, and we all just shake our heads and go to task with that, yet if you are anything like me, you need a daily dose of Stewart Smiley of SNL…lol. Sweater and all. We need to stop beating ourselves, we need to shift/change our attitude to create a positive flow. One by which we see ourselves as the success we are destined to be and were born as. This world is ugly and it sure likes to spill it’s ugliness upon us. We need to learn to have tough skin, a rock solid mind of positivity, and an action plan to fight back the negative chaos, that desires so bad to beat us down and keep us down. How do we change this tide of negative talk? Great question Russell, how do you do this…lol? I am learning everyday, I am hearing myself talk, and when that crap begins, I change my environment, I stop talking to myself, as hard as that may be, and begin with Praise songs, scriptures, and just talk to a positive friend. Now this is my approach, you got something better, please share, and lets learn this one and help each other out to become stronger…cause shoot we all need this one for sure!! For when we allow ourselves to be extremely positive to self, guess what in return happens…a joy will spring forth…you will smile, you will laugh, you will feel lighter and free to BE!
Power is YOU, power comes by your actions and power comes from the joy of the Lord, not people. Now yes people sure can bring forth laughter, yet the inner joy sure is amazing when it comes from the source of who created the Heavens and Earth. It sure is more pure and flat out liberating. With me sharing this, I hear the nah sayers that want to make fun of this, those that may not have an intimate relationship with God, well that is on them, say what they want, but I will not allow them to steal my joy, why? Who are they? Do they pay my bills, put extra money in my bank account, feed me, cloth me, house me, put gas in my car, pay for my vacations…heavens no, so why in the world will I give them power of my joy! Let them be, and I’ll be me and the better one…lol. And I know where the pure joy comes from, and I am not ashamed to say who I love and serve, God is my Lord and Jesus is my Savior, and the Holy Spirit leads and guides me to all truths, and I LOVE IT!! That joy lives on in and out of me. 🙂 So enjoy this 18th factor of YOUR SUCCESS!!
You truly are more than capable to live these 18 factors of your success out! You have all what it takes to succeed in them daily. It is just up to you to use the knowledge and understanding of them. Give yourself your lifetime to work on them. There is no rush to learn them all and master them. For we don’t have to be perfect, remember…lol. Be encouraged through this and know your success takes action, and here are some examples of how you can walk your success out. So…yeah…It is finished. I am finished in not having a game plan of my success. I allowed an article to challenge me to share in my words, how to walk out success. It is my responsibility to implement them into my daily life. I pray you see some truths and apply them in your life. Feel free to share you story and thoughts, for we all are on the same path of so-journeying this world together. Lets work on doing it better, and being a better person, so that we can truly be what God desires out of us…Love!
Happy so-journeying peeps!
LOVE YOU PEEPS!!
