Experts tell us that 2/3 of all deaths in the nation are premature. Don’t let that be you! Make health your top priority! Health is more than just the absence of disease. It’s a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. You must have total good health to generate the energy you need to succeed. There are no shortcuts! It’s up to each individual to become master of his/her health.

The miracle machine of your body needs proper care to serve you well. Establish a health program that’s right for you and as you do, make the most of the four basic components of health: oxygen, water, food and exercise. Assure that your body gets enough oxygen. Adequate oxygen is necessary to sustain all vital life processes. Practice focused-breathing at least three times a day. Keep your body properly hydrated. Drink and adequate amount of water each day. Study nutrition; decide what is and what isn’t good for you. Investigate for yourself what diet is right for you. And most important, only consume the food you need for proper nutrition.

Reserve your energy to achieve your goals, not just to process and digest surplus food. Establish a daily exercise program. Include a variety of activities you find enjoyable. Include breathing and stretching exercises, aerobic exercises such as jogging, bicycling or swimming and muscle toning exercises such as weight lifting or the equivalent. Beyond a regular exercise regimen, increase your general level of activity as much as possible: move more, walk more, engage in recreational sports.

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Keep in mind, healthy discontent is a useful spurt of progress, but before jumping to greener pastures, make sure you first mind the riches of your mind to capitalize on your existing situation. Give yourself daily think time for new perspectives; try putting yourself in your boss’s shoes. Find a need, or a want, and fill it. Don’t ignore the importance of developing your problem solving skills. You can run, but you can’t run from problems and the only path to increasing your service involves perseverance in solving the problems.

Don’t start a day until you have it finished! Use the simple 3 step process for managing your time that we discussed:

•  1 Prepare a list of tasks to be completed.
•  2 Prioritize the list in order of importance.
• 3 Take action on the tasks one at a time.

 Use a time-log to identify unproductive activities. Keep the log very accurately for at least two weeks and longer if you wish. This is one of the simplest and most powerful techniques for taking control of your time.

 Recognize procrastination as a thief of time. Planning in advance and commitment to priorities will help defeat procrastination, but it’s equally important to identify the fear of failure from which procrastination derives. Be aware that you must eagerly accept the risk of failure in order to enjoy the possibility of ultimate success!

 Expand time by enlisting others in your cause. Delegate when possible, otherwise lead by the strength of your purpose and by your enthusiasm, and don’t be reluctant to give others credit! Learn when to say “no”, it’s one of the most effective tools for managing time you will ever find. You have all the time you need if you manage it wisely!

Fear prevents people from dealing with problems and getting what they want out of life. Fear is real and will immobilize you if you let it. Overcome fear by analysis and action. Convert the negative emotions into the positive energy of action! Every problem holds the potential reward of gifts of opportunity to learn and move ahead, to grow and to build you character. Problems are life’s way of testing us for the next level of achievement and dealing with problems is bodybuilding for our character.

Commitment and persistence are the twin forces that will allow you to overcome any problem or challenge. Commitment means using all of your abilities to the fullest. Persistence means never giving up on the important goals in your life.

Don’t complain! Use problems to help you grow and expand!

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The secret to increasing your knowledge is to continue expanding your education. We are all equipped to keep on learning for the rest of our lives, all it takes to keep learning is your commitment. Learning will change your life. Expanded knowledge will open opportunities never seen before. The power of your new knowledge will attract success. Explore all of the learning tools available to you including books, audio-programs, videos, computer software and the Internet. Build your own library in conjunction with your interest and goals. Build a personal library that’s a meaningful adjunct to your life.

 Remember that a life worth living is a life worth documenting. So record your life and share it with others. Keep a journal as your own textbook for life and learn from it. Develop your capacity for curiosity; seek answers to your questions. Every question has an answer; use your curiosity to find it!

 In order to earn more money, improve your marketable skills in an area of demand. Focus on personal development to increase your value in the market by becoming better in what you do or by doing something that’s in more demand. Look for opportunities to do what you love most in a way that provides service to others on a massive scale. Pay yourself part of everything you earn, saving leads to wealth.

 Learn to invest your money wisely. It’s true that a fool and his money are soon parted, but a wise person and his money will enjoy constantly increasing levels of abundance. Get expert help in your investments, but make your own decisions. Focus on achieving the levels of wealth in their order of importance: first comes protection, followed by independence. If your investment income covers your essential needs without having to work, you’re already financially independent. If not, make this your first major objective, after you have a protection fund in place. And once you achieve financial independence, you open the door to ultimate freedom. Whatever you want can be yours.

Achieving more wealth will empower you to expand your service to others and in the process, become more than you get. Keep money in perspective. It’s only a means to an end, not an end in itself. Don’t let money control your life. Be the master of your money, not it’s servant. Be grateful for what you have, wherever you are. Gratitude will open the doors to abundance for you. Share what you have! Nothing builds character more than helping others! Whatever you do to help other will be returned to you tenfold and more!

Nothing will have more influence on your potential for success than the power of discipline. Discipline is the force behind forming good habits, and good habits determine what we become. Be aware that every commitment to constructive habit, every commitment to practice and every good intention will be challenged by the seductive appeal of procrastination. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Resolve to make personal development a life-long commitment. There’s no facet of human conduct that can’t be improved by a disciplined program of personal development. You can improve the world by improving yourself. Your happiness is related to your growth as a person.

 Begin your personal development program with a focus on 4 important areas. You’ll find in each of these areas an unlimited potential for personal growth:

1. Develop your people skills. Getting along with others involves changing yourself, making others feel important and recognizing the fact that being able to interact well with others is essential to your success.

2. Work on your personal communication skills. There’s much to learn and much to gain in developing effective speaking and writing skills.

3. Learn how to adapt to change. Make change your friend and ally and make your ability to adapt to change one of your secret strengths in achieving your goals.

4. Take an interest in the world around you. Make your concerns felt by becoming active in societal and environmental issues. We only enrich ourselves by enriching others! Be a responsible citizen who cares and contributes. You can make a difference!

 The critical secret for improving your life and expanding your world lies in discovering your gifts and developing them to the fullest. Your future may be found in what you love to do most and doing it in a way that helps others.
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 2.  It’s easier to win in life then it is to lose. Either we challenge ourselves to grow and expand or life will do it for us. It’s always better to choose for ourselves.

 3.  Before starting the goal-setting process remind yourself of all the things in your life that you’re thankful for. The best way to approach life is to remain happy with what you have, while you pursue what you want.

 4.  Setting goals is a simple 5 step process:

• 1. Make a list of everything you want. Make the list with the assumption that there are no limitations  on what you can achieve.
• 2. Write down a detailed explanation of why you want each of your goals and what achieving them will mean to you. The quality of the journey will affect the quality of the goal.
• 3. Build a plan for accomplishing your goals. It doesn’t have to be elaborate. You just need to give serious thought to each goal with realistic steps for accomplishing them.
• 4. Prioritize your list based on how long you think each goal will take to achieve and the relative importance of the why’s you’ve assigned to it.
• 5. Take action!

At the same time, keep in mind that you must periodically review the list on a regular basis and make occasional mid-course corrections. It’s vital that you spend time thinking about and visualizing each goal as an already accomplished fact.  Set a clear picture of your completed goal in your subconscious mind.

Next, remember how your philosophy directly affects your wealth, your health, even your happiness. The greatest influence on a successful life is a positive personal philosophy. And to develop this philosophy it’s important to choose between beliefs that either help you or hurt you. Beliefs that help you are positive, allowing you to grow and expand; beliefs that hurt you are negative, grounded in fear and defeatism and inevitably hold you back. You’ll also want to be sure that your new belief system supports your long term goals and objectives.

And finally, remember that your attitude toward life is also determined by your philosophy. Develop a great philosophy and you’ll just naturally show the world a great attitude. And nothing attracts success like a great attitude!