| Taking Control or Drifting? | | | | he prepared to cocoon in a room in his house, totally |
| Time is swiftly slipping by. You are closer to your | | | | insulated against all that he was afraid of out there in |
| future today than you were yesterday. In fact, | | | | the world. In his book You Don't Have to be Blind to |
| yesterday's future is here today. Were you prepared | | | | See, Jim confesses that he was scared to go out his |
| for it? You are either taking control of your future or | | | | front door. "I was more scared than I had ever been in |
| you are drifting aimlessly through life - one or the other. | | | | my life," he confessed. However, one day it hit him! He |
| If you remain in the drifting mode you are at the mercy | | | | asked himself this life-changing question: "Would I rather |
| of all of the turmoil, confusion, and adverse | | | | sit here until I die or die in trying to do something other |
| circumstances of life. If you have no plan and are | | | | than sit here?" Today this Emmy-award winner has |
| moving in no certain direction, any obstacle can knock | | | | touched millions of lives for the better. And one of his |
| you totally out of the game. | | | | favorite sayings is: "You change your life when you |
| On the other hand, if you have a plan for your future, if | | | | change your mind." Begin Today! What will it take for |
| you are working out that plan, then no matter what | | | | you to change your mind in order to change your |
| obstacle stands in your way, you will be determined to | | | | future? This very day, determine to do at least one |
| climb over, go around, tunnel through, or explode it into | | | | thing to get you to where you want to go. Take one |
| a million pieces to carry on with your plan. People who | | | | step. Read one book. Listen to one teaching CD. |
| have a vision, a clear direction, become unstoppable. | | | | Research one online business. Then tomorrow, take |
| So how, you may ask, can you take your future into | | | | the second step. The next day, take the third step. |
| your own hands? You do it by taking each day into | | | | Soon momentum will begin to build, and build. Fear and |
| your own hands. And throughout the course of each | | | | doubt will become dim memories of your past life. |
| day, you take each decision into your own hands. You | | | | Self-discipline is a trait that can be developed. You can |
| are the one who decides how you will act, how you | | | | train yourself to become accountable to |
| will react, how you will think, how you will plan, and | | | | 1) create your own dreams and vision, |
| what decisive actions you will take. | | | | 2) write out the goals that will be the steps to get you |
| "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is | | | | there, and 3) take action! When you believe in and |
| shaped." | | | | trust yourself and have enough desire, self-discipline |
| ~Anthony Robbins | | | | comes more easily. Soon, the control of your future will |
| Change Your Mind | | | | be firmly in your hands! |
| What you are on the inside - what you think; what you | | | | "You control your future, your destiny. What you think |
| believe; your core values - is what affects all that you | | | | about comes about. |
| become on the outside. If your life is full of fear, self | | | | By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set |
| doubt, trepidation, or even apathy and a lack of | | | | in motion the process of becoming the person you |
| motivation, don't despair! You can change! When Jim | | | | most want to be. |
| Stovall (author of The Ultimate Gift; founder of | | | | Put your future in good hands - your own. |
| Narrative Television Network) totally lost his eyesight, | | | | |