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‘Your Date with Destiny’

What's your goal, What are you going to finally tick off that bucket list in 2020?

Blueprints 4 Sucess can help you to turn your dreams into reality









The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Final Note: I can actually give you a solid recent example of the process and the results. The step by step process was actually used to create this book.

Make no mistake, it really is a Blueprint 4 Success.






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Nobody on the road, Nobody on the beach, I feel it in the air .....

The summer's out of reach



Today was a public holiday in the UK, known as bank holiday Monday and a day off work for some people (not all) and that's it now until CHRISTMAS.

So how does knowing that make you feel?

It's good to ask yourself how you are feeling (emotional state) because that is the first step in the framework for creating change, How you look at a situation influences what happens around you. Ask yourself what's my focus? Am I focusing on something I want or don't want?

Then ask yourself what do I want Vs what do I really want.

Am I seeing the opportunities or am I only seeing the obstacles, am I focusing on the problem or the solution.

The next 90 days are crucial to staying focused on those goals you set at the start of the year, hopefully, the short term goals are done and dusted, the midterm goals are now your short term goals and you need to focus on the final weeks and months of your midterm and long term goals.

We need to focus on what needs to happen and focus on where you want to go. The summer holidays are over and you now need to switch your focus to what you want to achieve in for the rest of 2019.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up and never give up.

I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU 5 WAYS TO GO FROM A “CAN’T DO” TO A “CAN DO” MINDSET:

1. See problems as opportunities
2. Tell negative people it’s really time for you to go
3. Eliminate limiting beliefs from your life
4. Refuse yourself permission to settle for anything less than you can really be
5. Maintain an ALL IN I can-do mindset

The above is a simple strategy, don't dismiss it because of its simplicity.

You can solve very big problems with very small actions. Ask yourself what is the smallest action I could do right now to start and make a big difference to what I want in the future.

Time to kick on with the final phase. See you all in 90 days.

So hows it going?

NEED ANY HELP?

It's been several weeks since I published the goal setting steps and thought I would drop by and see how everyone is getting along.

Question one is are you still on track> Does your daily actions take you nearer your goal or are you starting to drift off course?



Have a look at the cycle of success above

For those of you who require a little extra boost, I have something very special for you.

DNA – Decision / Navigation / Action

This very simple exercise is based on the story called A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

In the story Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, they came to challenge certain beliefs and attitudes that where having a serious impact on Mr. Scrooge and the people around him.

Use this powerful technique to visit your very own ghosts by doing the following step by step exercise.

First recognize now that there is nothing you can do to change the past, just except all that has happened in your life without regret, judgment or blame. Then realize that even though you’re past thoughts and actions have had a certain influence on who you are today, THE FUTURE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THE SAME AS THE PAST.

Now close your eyes and take a moment to think about the present. Consider the beliefs which could be limiting you from realizing your fullest mental potential.

For example: Consider you may be holding onto a belief such as you have a bad memory, and the older you become the worse it will get, there is no use trying to improve it so why bother, facts just slip your mind and that’s the way it has always been so you except your forgetful and it is just the way you are.

Now as you feel the weight of this negative self-talk reinforcing these limiting beliefs about your mental capacity, ask yourself:

How much has this type of self-talk already cost me in my life? What have I lost and missed out on as a result of these beliefs? In how many ways have I cheated myself and others around me because of my limiting beliefs? What unpleasant emotions do I experience on a daily basis as a direct result of these statements I constantly make to myself (and those around me)? How many things have I not even attempted in my life as a result of these beliefs?

Feeling the full weight of the consequences of holding on to this type of self-talk, I now want you to ask yourself WHAT THESE BELIEFS WILL COST ME IN THE FUTURE.

Now mentally take a step into the future (just as Mr. Scrooge did) and visualize the effects of another whole year telling yourself “I have the worst memory” Think of the challenges you wont attempt, all the people you will shy away from and getting to know, all the stimulation your brain will miss by not trying to take on new challenges. Now consider the cost, the burden of these beliefs affecting your life for another FIVE YEARS. Drag the consequences of your self-limiting beliefs with you five years into the future and ask yourself.

How much more will in cost me in the next five years if I continue to uphold these negative beliefs about my minds limited capability and potential? How many regrets will I have if I don’t change my self-talk? What will I have missed out on? What will I have given up? What will happen to my career in the next five years if I hold on to these beliefs? How will this affect my relationships? My health? What will my children think of me? What kind of role model will I turn out to be?

In your mind I want you to step forward ten years into the future, See, Hear and Feel what life is like for you ten years from now if you don’t change your self-talk or limiting beliefs!

Ask Yourself:

When I look in the mirror ten years from now, how much heavier do you feel as a direct result of these limiting beliefs? How bad do I feel about myself? What are some of the things I haven’t accomplished by not giving up these beliefs?

Now imagine yourself twenty years from now. What profound effect will twenty years of self-talk programming these beliefs into your master computer have had on your life? What will have happened by then? Defeat, failure, disillusionment, despair? Ask yourself now.

How much have I missed out on? How much more could I have accomplished if I had only changed my self-talk twenty years ago? Has my life been an example or has it been a warning to others? Is that what I want?

STOP!

THE GOOD NEWS IS… You can open your eyes … IT IS STILL THE PRESENT! You haven’t reaped the disastrous rewards of twenty years of negative SELF-TALK.

Its Christmas morning. There is plenty to do. As you commit yourself to a new outcome NOW, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO DETERMINE YOUR OWN DESTINY.

NOW THINK OF ONE YEAR, FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS, TWENTY YEARS OF SAYING TO YOURSELF AND BELIEVING:

“I have a great mind”

“I have excellent powers of retention”

”I enjoy mental challenges and reaping the rewards”

“I am building my brain power and improving my brain potential day by day”

“I am meeting more people, remembering their names and enjoying the experience”

“I am doing all I can to develop my mental strength and to condition my memory and continuously improve in all areas of my life”

As you consider the future, answer these questions for yourself.

How much more will I have gained by living my life with these new beliefs? How much more will I have been able to learn, grow, know and accomplish as a direct result of this new self-talk? What has been the true benefit of these new beliefs to my children as they look at me as a model of excellence? How has that changed our lives? How grateful, happy, proud do I feel about having cared enough to change those useless, old fashioned beliefs into productive, empowering new beliefs and create the DESTINY I so richly deserve.

I want to end this exercise with a great self-talk statement to remind you about this important principle:

“Simply by making the choice to watch what I say when I talk to myself, the beliefs I hold will instantly improve and my future will be dramatically influenced”

GO FOR IT

Your Date with Destiny

Step 7) finally put today’s date on each of your goals and then the date you aim to achieve your goal(s).



The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Write down your goals. Only three percent of people have written goals and only one percent review those written goals daily. Be in that elite one percent. Visualize the attainment of your goals often. Goals are dreams with dates attached. You will only become as great and as happy as the goals you choose.


Let us recap the goal setting steps



Step 1) Write your Goals down in a Journal / Diary.



Step 2) for each one of your goals write a paragraph as to why you want to achieve that goal.



Step 3) Identify the obstacles you need to overcome to reach that goal.



Step 4) Ask what you need to know in order to reach your goal.



Step 5) Identify the people you need to work with in order to achieve your goals.



Step 6) Devise a specific plan of action.



Step 7) finally put today’s date on each of your goals and then the date you aim to achieve your goal(s).



Now focus on the contribution you can make


Ask yourself these three simple questions at the end of each day


1) Did my actions today take me closer to achieving my goal or further away?

2)What was the one positive thing I noticed today?

3)What am I looking forward to tomorrow?


Goal setting techniques are used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. They give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. They focus your acquisition of knowledge and help you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. By setting goals, you will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your ability and competence in achieving the goals that you have set.

If you have followed the goal setting steps may I take this moment to congratulate you and wish you every success in the future.

Devise a specific plan of action.

Quote – “Action speaks louder loader than words.” – Unknown.

Step 6) Devise a specific plan of action.

To create massive outcomes you must take positive action

"Where focus goes energy flows" is a quote used by Tony Robbins in his presentation to highlight why you need to know your outcome and why achieving this is a must.

But many people fail to take the next step. They delay, put off and find many reasons or excuses not to act.

Robbins believes "progress is not automatic" and "action is power". Take action, even if it is the wrong action. He says it is "never a failure if you learn something".

If you have been following this blueprint for success I congratulate you because you already have around 80% of your plan in place, now you just need to make it a little more specific.

This would help if you could step back a little and visualize yourself as if you have already achieved your goals.

What did you see? What could you hear? And how does it feel?

Almost there. The final step is only 24 hours away.

Surround yourself with successful people

Step 5) Identify the people you need to work with in order to achieve your goals.



To be successful you need to surround yourself with successful people!

Many years ago I was told that if you want to be successful at something, find someone who is already successful in that particular area and copy exactly what they do.

Can it really be that simple?

Well look back on your life, what role models or mentors do you admire, everyone who I have known become a success had a plan for it.

There is an old saying, “if you fail to plan – you plan to fail”

The goals procedure is the foundations on your plan, take the time needed to identify to people you need to surround yourself with.

Quote – “The race is not always won by the fastest runner but sometimes by those who just keep running.” – Unknown.

Identify the obstacles you need to overcome to reach that goal.

Quote – “You miss 100% of the shots you never take” – Wayne Gretzky.

Step 3) Identify the obstacles you need to overcome to reach that goal.



Identify any obstacles that may stand in your way, list them, and state how you plan to overcome them. You will have stumbling blocks along the way you need to find them now so you can plan on how to overcome them.

Your Goals can be short-term, mid-term and a couple of them can be long-term however there are three things your goals must be.

I want you to eliminate any goal that does not 100% match the following criteria.

Your Goal has to be – ACHIEVABLE

Your Goal has AGREEBLE

Your Goal has to be – MEASURABLE

Above is the recipe for your success and while I feel I am repeating myself a little here I just can not emphasize enough how important it is for you take as much time as you need to complete step 3.

What we are doing here is breaking down each task into a series of small tasks and start taking action. In the beginning, don’t be too concerned with how you will achieve your goals. With commitment, research and patience, the means will come. Answers materialize when the facts have been collected. Your goals will evolve into a set of action-oriented objectives, which will become a series of to-dos.

No one is choosing you to become successful. You are selecting yourself.

Quote – “The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities” – Vic Braden.


Check back tommorrow for more of your Blueprint 4 Success for 2019.

Commit yourself to quality from day one

Quote – “If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison.

Now that you have taken another good look at your list, I want you to ask you this questions, did you miss anything off the list, if you did now is the time to include it.

Before I get you to take the next step, I want you to know that it is my heartfelt desire that the process contained will help you, inspire you, direct you, and motivate you to rise to heights of achievement beyond anything that you have yet experienced.

These Blueprints for Success are simple, time-tested and practical, they have been responsible for guiding countless thousands of ambitious people towards success – and they will work for you.

Step 2) for each one of your goals write a paragraph as to why you want to achieve that goal.

There is something truly magical about putting pen to paper, for example, if I asked you what 100 x 77 – 75 + 50 then divide that number by 25 add another 21 then times that figure by 7 the chances are high that you would not get even close to the correct answer working it out in your head. But if you wrote the question down on paper, you can work it out far more easily, and the chance of you giving me the correct answer is now very high.

Please don’t skip the writing a paragraph process, just like before I want you to take as much time as you need to complete the section, the list you put together was easy, now we need to ask the all-important question why.

Many people tell me they don’t know how to do certain things, I always ask them why they want to do that anyway, the amazing thing is that the more you can clarify why you want something, the easier it is to understand how to do it.

The lesson here is, if you really know why, you will quickly learn how.

Commit yourself to quality from day one it is better to do nothing than to do something badly.

I will be back soon to deliver step number 3. Get writing those all-important paragraphs, you won't regret doing this for yourself.

From Happy New Year to Happy New You.

What is so inviting about the tried and tested advice within Peak Performance Coaching is that the beneficial results are immediate. You don't have to spend a year in University, two days fasting or an hour chanting. Just stop, take a few deep breaths, read for a moment and think. You can change your life for the better in an instant. You can make an immediate decision to become more aware of how you are living your life and recognize your personal choice to be happy.

Guided by your awareness and focus on Peak Performance, you can act. You can listen more, smile more, be more patient and volunteer more often. You can take the lead and be in control.

You can choose to be a better partner, parent, friend, mother, daughter, employer, employee and citizen.

In short, you have the inner power to choose a life of self-improvement and a commitment to helping yourself and others. And, no one can take this power from you. You can live an active life and be successful, happy and at peace.

The tone of my Peak Performance Coaching is motivational. These coaching tips are for you, a self-reliant take-charge person of action willing to study and work hard for yourself, your family and the larger community.

Peak Performance Coaching is not presented as religious principles but rather as ideas common to all major religions. The coaching advice is not commandments but inspirational guides to reinforce your own value system. The intent is to challenge and stimulate your thinking as you create your own independent success philosophy formalized in your daily action plans, your to-do list.

Give the Peak Performance Coaching the true gift of your attention every morning, commit a few minutes to read and reflect upon each day's focus step. Challenge yourself and challenge others to be their best!

With the habit of reviewing your Peak Performance each day, you will become the beneficiary of both tangible benefits like more money, a better job and improved health and intangible benefits like love, respect, friendship and peace of mind. As you begin to fulfill your own personal and financial goals, you will find that you will have the resources, time and peace of mind to share your good fortune and positive attitude with others. You will have created success to share. Your life will evolve from just making a living to making a difference. Achievement by achievement, better day by better day, with persistence, you will continue to find that your potential is almost unlimited.

No one is choosing you to become successful. You are selecting yourself. Most people will not be able to see the power contained in the simplicity of these words. They will read them with casual interest and move on. You can choose to be different. You can choose to be extraordinary. In this defining moment, you can choose to make Peak Performance your future.


Fasten your seatbelt.

Stephen Drake

P.S.Success and happiness are not accidents that just happen to some people and not others - they are predictable results created by deliberate ways of thinking and acting, let me congratulate you on your recent thinking and action that helped you make a great decision to follow my Peak Performance Coaching Programme.

Make sure to look back in soon, we are about to get started.