Like most people, I struggle with becoming more productive and impacting more people in the remaining years I have left! I want to share my experiences and what I have learned to make someone else’s life easier. I always feel better at the end of the day when I feel like I accomplished something worth while towards my goals. So becoming more productive is essential. I can remember a time in my life when I felt fully alive and very productive, and I can also remember a time in my life when I felt hopeless, unclear and non productive. Please believe me when I tell you that it takes far more energy to feel unproductive and unclear! So that is the entire reason for my blog. I am hoping to help those who feel unclear and want to improve their results. I call this Helping You Succeed, Life and Work! If you want to have more influence and impact on others, here is the one thing you must understand very clearly:

You must Discover Your Value that you have to share with the marketplace. You need to understand what you have that you can share with the world and that sets you apart from someone else! I call this your Value Proposition Statement! Here are questions to help you understand and create your message:

1. What keeps you up at night and fascinates you?
2. What books do you like to read?
3. What issues do the people around you struggles with that you find yourself always helping?
4. What is the one thing that you feel you want to share with them to help them grow?
5. What do people come to you for as far as advice, counseling, teaching or any other help regularly?
6. What is the one thing that you can see could help others around you if they knew about it and would transform their results?
7. If you don’t help these people, what is at stake for you? How will this impact your own life results?

When I think about conversations today, it reminds me that is so difficult today to be your own person because people, society, politics and money all try to pull us into a place where we are always longing for something or someone else. It is easy to fall into the trap of wanting more! More money, different job, better job, bigger house, better vacations and on and on it goes. but what effect does this have on us? It pulls us away from living each day in our own show and trying to be someone else and not concentrating on our own life and what we currently have today. So here are some simple steps to living your life and not wishing you were someone else:

1. BE THANKFUL! Focus on what you have and try to express gratitude daily for what God has given you. Like your health, your family, your ability to live in this great country.
2. BE PURPOSEFUL! Try to make at least one person happy each day. Go the extra mile to add value to the people around you. That takes the focus off of you and puts it on someone else.
3. BE POSITIVE! Positive people tend to be happier people and happier people tend to be living their life as the main event and not a side show!
4. BE GENEROUS! When you are FREE from things and stuff, you tend to be more generous and giving. This is where true meaning and happiness exists.
5. BE HOPEFUL! Don’t be a Debbie Downer, be hopeful and encourage others to dream big! Don’t envy others. Develop a plan and execute that plan to achieve more.