A sport requires more effort than non-athletes realize. The difference in that person that gets up at 4 am to go to the gym before practice is the difference that it takes to make it in any area of life be it a football player on a highschool team, colllege team or a pro team, or a successful business person. That difference of doing what it takes is what it takes. Period.
Mediocre people choose lives of mediocrity. The keyword here is choose, for it truly is a choice. It is not that they are not smart enough..or lucky enough…or attractive enough.
People who live lives of excellence make better choices (I’m not saying they don’t experience setbacks – I’m saying they approach their life differently). They do not choose to get drunk when they know they have a game, in fact they do not choose to even have one beer, because they know it will affect their performance.
Excellence comes from thinking all choices through and having a code in which to live by. Things you will and will not do, to get where you want to go.
Imagine with me for a moment: what if there was a way to ignite the Success Forces within you? Would you practice it?
If we knew something about the difference between those who live in mediocrity and those who live, move and breathe in excellence, do you think that could help us to have more success in our lives?
Absolutely!
So, then: How Do We Ignite the Success from Within Us?
The answer may seem somewhat hidden, but I assure you: it is not hidden to men and women of success and achievement.
If you want to have real success in your life, then you absolutely MUST move from moment to moment with a SENSE OF URGENCY and Belief.
Belief that all things are possible with attention, persistency and ignition from within.
Have you ever seen a boxer accidentally bump heads with his opponent and get a cut over his eye?
I have. And let me tell you: once he gets that over his eye, he starts moving with a sense of urgency…big time.
Why? Because he knows the referee can now stop the fight at any moment.
Just like the boxer, you need to start attacking each hour and minute of the day with the same sense of urgency. Realize that your everyday efforts are what make up a lifetime of achievements and those achievements create a paradigm of success.
You have known people who never make time for personal vision or never follow through on goals to get in shape and lose weight or follow through on anything meaningful to them and you have wondered why?
It’s Fire. Passion. Intensity. Craziness.
If someone came along one day, put a gun to their head, and said they would pull the trigger if they didn’t get things accomplished in the next 4 hours, do know that it would make a difference right?
Some of you may say no it would not…but I am guessing most people would agree that they would move with a greater sense of urgency.
It is this type of self-motivation that will move you further and faster than you ever did before in your life.
Approach your day in this way and in no time you will begin to see a new person staring back at you in the mirror.
Living in a state of urgency tells the mind that you are going to be relentless until you meet with success.
Urgency provides immediate focus to the tasks that must be done. Before you know it, momentum builds and carries you towards achievement.
Waking up at 4:00 am each morning to some would be unimaginable; to me it is my way of preparing to be an effective mentor and business owner.
With urgency, you perform at a higher level of accomplishment.
It becomes unacceptable for you not to.
Urgency creates a reality that anything is possible or attainable and this is where your creative imagination will uncover a way to make it happen.
Approach your day, your business and yourself as though
your life depended on it.
Because it does!
Only you can decide what you would be willing to do.
Decide today and then act on it with urgency. Success will follow.
Make it your goal to decide to be excellence
Roman Lopez
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