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You Have A Built In Success System

Attitude is where all change and all success begins!  And the good news is that YOU can choose the attitude that you want to have that will ultimately lead to the desired life you want to live.  So why then are so many people struggling with their life, their jobs?  It seems like few people have found what they are truly passionate about and most people are struggling with finding their purpose in life.

Your attitude decides “who” and “what” you are, and whether you respond to events under control or out of control.  Your attitude is controlled by your thoughts at the conscious level.  Your subconscious must always respond to what the conscious mind feeds it.  The subconscious mind cannot reject an idea. It must do what the conscious mind tells it to do. Therefore, always guard your conscious thoughts as they make up your belief system.  And it is your belief system that plays a vital role in your success.

So your success system is key to your destination in life.  Your success system is key to your purpose in life.  When your beliefs about the world you see are in line with God’s design for you, you reach your final destination with a sense of fulfillment and purpose.

People have a habit of taking their assets for granted and focusing only on their limitations and faults.  In this way they are giving more power to what they believe they cannot do rather than to what they can do.  Such behavior is inherently defeatist.  It holds you back, eliminates any initiative, and essentially cripples any prospect for success.

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How To Find Your Purpose In Life (part 3)

In the first two parts of finding your purpose in life, we discussed the importance of having vision and passion and knowing how each of those contributes to your purpose.  The third ingredient in finding your purpose in life is your giftedness.  In spiritual terms, your giftedness is given to you divinely  and is used to help the body of Christ.

Sometimes there is confusion between talents and gifts.  What is important to realize is that you can use both talents and gifts to find your purpose in life.  Or sometimes God is transforming one of your talents into a gift to be used to advance the kingdom, but you can also use your talents and gifts together for business.  For example, you may be in the field of sales in your business and  you may be talented in your ability to persuade.  But you may also have the spiritual gift to discernment.  This is a great combination in business because you can read people much better than someone just having the talent to persuade.

You know you are working “OnPurpose” when you are impacting others around you in a positive manner and they are growing and gaining energy from you. You know you are working towards your purpose when you find fulfillment and energy from what you do.  Even though your occupation can be stressful, you will be surrounded with a sense of  peace and accomplishment throughout the day knowing that God is using you and using your situation, talents and gifts to help others succeed.

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How To Find Your Purpose In Life-(part 2)

5 keys

In business, we often call successful executives great leaders if they build large public and private companies. Entrepreneurs that start a company from scratch are often called “visionaries”.  People who have the ability to see the invisible connections and make them a reality are highly sought after.  In strategic planning, one of the first elements of the plan is a “vision” and “mission”, because without a clear “vision”, it is difficult to motivate the team.  But where does this “vision” come from?

The “vision” that God gives you is a mental picture formed in your imagination of what your purpose and destiny is.  As God reveals your vision to you, the best thing you can do is act on that vision.  So finding your purpose in life requires taking daily steps towards what God reveals to you.  Taking daily steps requires you to act on what God has shown you. And we do this by faith.  That is why we are told to “walk by faith and not by sight”(2 Corinthians 5:7).  Only when we rely on that vision that God has given us, we walk into it (by faith) and we don’t rely on what we currently see as the next step in the physical.  So, faith is also essential to realizing our destiny.  Without faith, it is impossible to please God because “faith” is the mechanism God uses to take us into our destiny and purpose.  And God is pleased when He sees using faith because that brings the supernatural into the natural.

Therefor, passion and vision, are the first two ingredients that God gives us to realize our purpose and destiny in life. These are gifts from God himself to strengthen, motivate and lead us into our purpose and destiny.  If your passion and vision are leading your away from God, it isn’t God’s vision for you, but your own.

And finally, God’s vision for you is always on His timetable and not yours. This is one of the hardest realities to accept in life.  God is working behind the scenes for you and connecting opportunities and creating links for you to walk into your purpose. God has already placed your destiny within you.  It is your job to discover and find your unique calling and then to take steps , by faith, each day to realizing your purpose..

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The Key to Your Success

Why are some people more successful than others?

In its simplest form, the answer is this: The key to success lies in your particular manner of thinking.  When you change how you view a situation and change how you think about yourself, your relationships, what happens to you, your goals, and your world, your life will change. If you want to change your life, you must change the quality of your thinking.

Time after time, I listen to folks complain about their life, their job, their friends.  It just seems to be part of our culture today.  It seems that fewer and fewer people have  optimistic goals for their life and they are looking for someone else to help them out of the situation they are in.

The only way to get yourself in a different, more productive place is to change yourself first.  Changing rituals, changing thinking and responding differently.  One must learn how to RENEW YOUR MIND DAILY..

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How To Find Your Purpose In Life

"5 Keys"

As I develop my brands in the marketplace, I decided on three areas that I am very interested in and uniquely qualified to write, speak, blog, coach, lead, and podcast about!  I am passionate about business, passionate about finding significance in life and passionate about personal development.  I have spent a career at finding purpose in all that I do for a living and that has led me down some pretty amazing experiences.  Of course, both good and bad, productive and unproductive, expensive and cheap, and dead ends as well.  I have had too many business cards to talk about, and funny enough, I think I am going to make a collage of the all so my kids will have a good laugh someday!

I am working now on building another business around those three areas that I am passionate about and I want to help all of those who want to come along with me in this journey.  There are many platforms today available for those that have expert advise, vision, coaching skills and more.  The challenge becomes how to synthesize and formula products from what we know how to do.  Therefore, I am developing 3 Brands that will help folks do just that.

My first brand is The Corporate Growth Academy.  This is for all of you wanting to learn how to build a business around what you do, what you love or what you have been gifted to do.  My second brand is OnPurpose.  This is the spiritual, intentional,destiny area of  life that helps folks grow into what God has designed them to do and to achieve.  And finally, personal development.  This is the area where almost everyone starts first in their life. This is the area where we develop at school, university, family, social capital and through training and self help courses.  The brand I am developing here is The Berea Leadership  Academy.  Here we are dedicated to helping students and adults achieve High Performance.  It focuses on Best Practices for personal development and the steps to get you there.

Each of these brands are actually integrated product suites.  Today, I would like to start with the Ingredients of finding your purpose, your destiny in life. There are 5 main ingredients and perhaps more, but we will concentrate on the 5 to keep things simple.  Passion, is the first main ingredient that leads you to your purpose/destiny in life.  Wherever your passion lies, is a good indication of how God has equipped you for success.  Now here is a simple trick for gaining clarity about what you are passionate about.  Go look in your personal library of books that you read, music you listen too, shows you watch and what you look forward to in your life.  This is an indication of how God has “wired” you and what you might want to do for a living.

On my next post, I will give you ingredient number two in finding your purpose and destiny!

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“WE should’t be completely satisfied with worldly success because it can never bring us true significance. Fulfilling your destiny answers the question of your significance”.

Destiny (Dr. Tony Evans)
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7 Secrets to Finding Your Destiny In Life

Something unique to Americans is often asked when you meet someone new.  One of the first questions asked when you meet someone new at a party, or on the airplane is: “What Do You Do?”  What is very interesting is that this is a question that most Europeans NEVER ask you when you first meet.  Even after meeting several times, it is a question rarely asked.  Well, unfortunately, what you do for a living is often times “attached” to your sense of identity. But after I sold my business, I found myself not being able to answer that question.  I used to tell people that “I Don’t Know” what I do for a living!

So if you are one of those people who doesn’t know what you want to do when you grow up, here are 7 secrets to finding a life of success and significance:

  1. Listen To Hear God’s Voice– The only way to find your calling in life and to live with a sense of purpose, is to be talking and listening to the guy who made you.  You need to understand what you were designed to do in life and then get on with it.  We spend nearly 1/3 of our lives at work!  A 2013 Gallup study revealed that 30% of people are “excited” about their jobs, about 50% are “disengaged” and the remaining 20% actively try to harm their organizations!  With statistics like these, just imagine working in what you were designed to do!
  2. Determine what is in your BOX- When your middle aged like me, you have the unique chance to stop and reflect back on your first 50 years!  Look for the common threads between what God has whispered in your ears for the last 50 years and what you are passionate about.  See if you can connect the dots and see a pathway to your purpose!  I call this living OnPurpose and its all about living intentionally.  When you understand what passions and skills are in your BOX, work to prioritize them down to the most important one and then develop a plan to direct y our life towards that end.
  3. Let Go of The Past-What ever has happened to you in the past, make sure to leave it in the past.  Don’t Nurse it,  Don’t Curse it. Just go about reversing it by keeping your hand on the plow moving forward.  Let go of any un-forgiveness or bitterness so that you can remove the yoke of bondage that it holds over you. It is important to let the past go not because of what someone did or said was right, but so that you can free yourself from them.
  4. Endure-Finding your purpose and destiny in life requires you learn how to endure through the valley of development.  One thing that God requires is for you to attend his bootcamp training. This is mandatory training for anyone seeking there destiny and purpose. The reason you need to attend the training is so that you learn to rely on his word and not your own.
  5. Recharge-Essential to finding your purpose and destiny requires time to recharge. Take time to go back to what you enjoy in life and make sure to experience these times with a sense of gratitude. For example, I still go to Cedar Point to ride the coasters.  I buy a season pass and often go by myself. It is like a mini vacation every summer just walking the cause way and riding the coasters. It makes me think I am a “kid” again and that brings back fond memories!
  6. Dream-After you have recharged yourself, take time to dream again.  Remember that God gives you vision and this vision is a road map to your destiny and purpose.  God gives you a vision and always equips that vision with the provisions to make it happen. But you have to accept it by faith and bring it into the present.
  7. Align-Now that you have a vision for your purpose and destiny, you must develop a game plan.  That requires that you put your vision into goals and action steps.  I develop yearly goals and action plans that I write down and review weekly.  This helps me focus on the important things throughout the year and keeps me on tract with achieving my dreams and goals.  Act on those goals and move from success to significance in your life.

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