Maps tell you where you are and how to get to where you're going. Few people have the ability to sense their direction in life and take all the right turns. These people know who they are and where they're going. They are usually the ones who become the CEO's and wealthy entrepreneurs we read about in Forbes magazine. The truth is, you don't have to be a wealthy CEO or entrepreneur in order to be happy, but you do need a road map of where you're at and where you want to go in order to build your prosperity in any area of your life. The vision statement is our road map.

In order to write a dynamic vision statement, you must first look at the areas of your life you would like to change or create. These areas could fall into the categories of your finances, career, relationships, spirituality, health, or recreation. Here is a short list of questions you can ask yourself. Make sure to write down your answers as this gives your thoughts added power and helps to begin the creation process.

1. What areas of my life would I like to change (relationships, career, etc.), and in these areas, how would they be different? (Be specific)

2. What would I like to attract in to my life? (Be specific)

3. What are my values? (Things that I consider to be worthwhile, my driving forces) Examples: motivated, empowered, compassion, nurturing, friendly, ambitious, driven, etc.

3. If I had all the time and money available to do whatever I wanted, what would I do?

4. What actions am I willing to take in order to make this happen?

These are very basic questions, but the idea is, to ask yourself questions that stir your imagination and your emotions. The more you truly feel and believe your vision, the faster it will come to fruition.

Once you know where you are now, and what your destination is, writing a vision statement you can read 3 times a day, is a reminder of what you're aiming to build. The vision statement helps to reprogram the subconscious mind and assists you in mapping a plan of action towards your goals. Your vision can be the beginning of a new way of life if you dare to honor your feelings and commit to do the work.

Writing a vision statement can seem like a daunting task for some people, but if you take your time and don't get bogged down in over thinking, you are sure to come up with a solid written vision of your desired outcome. The following steps will assist you in writing an effective vision statement.

1. Know what you want to achieve, and write your future destination so that the end result is crystal clear.

2. If you're writing your own vision statement, write it in first person. If someone else is writing your vision statement, they may use second person writing style. Some people respond better when they feel someone else believes in their vision, and feel supported by another person.

3. Your vision should be written in present tense and it should read like your living it now.

4. Use positive words and phrases, such as transform, amazing, excellence, awesome, powerful, awe-inspiring, I'm now experiencing, I have reached, I have implemented, etc.

5. Using the word because at the beginning of a sentence can help you write a well written affirmative statement.

There are many good web sites on the internet that have well written examples of vision statements you can print out for more ideas, or if you don't like writing, you can hire someone to write one for you. You can try a vision statement writing service, or you can ask a life coach to write one for you for a small fee.

Everybody on this planet wants to be successful, because the desire to succeed and be one of the best is keyed into human beings. Even in prehistoric times, men would try to outdo each other because the best man would lead the tribes or clans. In the modern world, success is usually measured on the basis of money, and a great man is evaluated in terms of how much money he has. If you have a desire to be rich, then you should not feel guilty about it because you just desire to be the best. People who want to be rich but are unable to achieve their dreams often wonder why lady luck passed them by and made their friends or their neighbors rich. There is no answer to this question, because the question is flawed in itself. The reason why people end up achieving their dreams and desires is not that lady luck thinks they deserve it. Instead, it is the fact that these people feel the desire so strongly that they take hard decisions in their lives with respect to their growth while others choose to procrastinate or dither.

In simpler words, the true secret to becoming rich is not the fact that some freak incident driven by chance gives the person an opportunity, but instead is the ability of this person to take hard decisions. The reasoning behind this is fairly elementary in that a person cannot achieve what he wants to achieve if he is not willing to make sacrifices for it. Nothing in this world comes for free, which is why having a burning desire is very important for a person.

Owing to this burning desire, the person feels driven away from procrastination and towards strong decisions. In fact, if you go through history and try to analyze various interviews of all the successful people, one thing that you will find to be the same in all of them is a resolve to achieve what they want. This resolve is a direct result of the burning desire. Furthermore, this resolve drives the person towards making decisions that he may not be able to make without the focus or the determination.

Strong decision making skills are often also a sign of a person of a strong will, and a strong will can only be a result of determination. A prime example of this strong will and strong decision making skills would be Henry Ford, who was regarded by many as obstinate. However, it is his determination that resulted in the creation of the model T which is regarded as one of the most important steps for the automobile industry.

Effectively, if you are looking to become rich then you should set a certain amount in your sights, make an organized plan for achieving it and then leave no stone unturned or decision untaken to achieve it.

Planning comes naturally to some folks, and not so naturally to others. I am one of those that it does NOT come to naturally. Throughout my life I have had to learn the art and science of planning, goal-setting, and using a structured way to move toward my life purpose. I tend to go with the flow, take it as it comes, see what happens. This serves me well for some tasks (such as creative brainstorming or being flexible), but has worked against me when it comes time to take that great idea and make it happen.

There are many inspiring quotes about planning, but one of my favorites is something about if you set out on the ocean to sail, but don't know where you are sailing to - you will get there (you'll drift aimlessly). I can't remember who said it or exactly how it was said, but it gives such a clear picture of why we must plan where we want to head in our life, our relationships, and our work.

We don't need to complicate life any further, but taking some time out each week to reassess your plans is a great habit. It will actually simplify life and make life flow more smoothly if you have an idea of what you are going to do with your precious and valuable time each week.

Planning for success is really quite simple (though not easy) and can be summed up in the following three steps:

1. Get alone and get quiet and ask the questions - what is my life purpose? Based on my life purpose - how do I want to treat all the people in my life? Get clear about what you want to create in your life, your relationships, and your work. When you base your relationships and your work upon your life purpose - everything has more meaning.

2. Guided by your life purpose - begin to write out each of the main steps you will need to take in each of the three categories of life: life, love, and work. Write about steps needed to improve a friendship (e.g. call them more often, tell them I appreciate them... ). Write out steps needed to improve work. Want to start a business of your own? Write the steps you must take to decide how to start it.

3. Break down the main steps to achieve your goals into even smaller steps. What steps can you take daily to get you a little bit closer to that change in career? What steps can you take daily to find your perfect mate (if you're single and looking). Then COMMIT! Commit to action each and every day.

Have fun along the way. Build spontaneity into each day, but have a plan and a vision for where you are headed. Your loved ones, friends, family, colleagues and children will love you for it. You will feel absolutely fantastic as you take strategic steps toward your work goals (maybe you'll open your own business or change careers to something more exciting and more fitting). Your life will love you for it - the Creator put you here on earth with all your unique personality traits, strengths, gifts, and passions. Get in touch with those things and experience joy on the way to success.

Sherry Collier is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Small Business Strategist who specializes in coaching entrepreneurs about starting and/or expanding their business. As a therapist, Sherry understands the importance of shifting your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to overcome mental blocks, out-dated patterns, and other obstacles that stand in the way of success. Don't stay blocked, grow yourself and grow your business.

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Imagination has been described by many wise men as the biggest strength of human beings. It has even been said to be the sole difference between humans and all other animals on the planet. Such statements, although being simple, carry a lot of significance and weight. For example, they mean that the reason for the rise of human civilization is nothing but the fact that humans can imagine how they want the future to be for them. While in the earlier stages, these imaginations were more about basic stone tools and safety, in the modern world they have converted into being rich and successful. Resultantly, by the same logic, it stands to reason that imagination and creativity are very important for a person to become rich and successful.

Conversely, man's only limitation is also his imagination. This means that any limitation that you think you have is a result of your own limited imagination. Therefore, if you think you are not smart enough to achieve something or suffer from an inferiority complex, you should realize that you are holding yourself back from achieving great things. Similarly, lack of confidence is also something that is self imposed rather than an inherent thing. In terms of the practical aspect of imagination, there are primarily two imaginative faculty functions. Consider the following:

1. Synthetic imagination: Synthetic imagination can be best described as the ability of a person to use already learnt information to create something new. In different words, the establishment of a corollary or new combination with the help of already established concepts, methods, idea or plans can be defined as synthetic imagination. For example, if you set up a new company by taking the best practices of other companies then you would be practicing synthetic imagination.

2. Creative imagination: Creative imagination, as opposed to synthetic imagination, is a process through which you actually create something new. This is why, in most cases, creative imagination comes through due to inspirations and hunches. Therefore, with the help of creative imagination you would be coming up with the raw material for synthetic imagination.

For you to be successful in life, you have to use either or both forms of imaginative faculties. While being rich is easily possible within the realms of synthetic imagination, being a legend may only be possible with the help of creative imagination. At the same time, while the latter will require more effort and sacrifices, the former will come a little easier. Ideally, you should be using both the creative and synthetic imagination to become successful and rich. It is also worth noting that if you have not used either properly before, then it may be a little difficult in the beginning. However, with practice it actually becomes easier to apply both the concepts and come up with new ideas.

It's obvious where success resides, usually it's with people who worked hard to get it, and dared to take risks! You could say it's with people who take matters in their own hand. While this is nice to know, you yourself might still be looking for success...

Success has to start somewhere and it would be nice to know where it begins.
I can tell you, it starts very close to you!

Success starts right between your ears...

But success can't start if it hasn't settled down in that unique place, success has to feel comfortable up there. You will have to prepare yourself for success. If you start building your path to success, you will need a goal. Otherwise doubt and uncertainty will come and cause you to drift, and failure will be imminent.

It doesn't matter for what you need 'success', success works for anything you do. Success can happen if you want to lose weight, start a business or start to exercise.
Just make sure that success is fastened safely between your ears and have a daily positive mindset.

There is one law: if you're in doubt you'll never have success!

Having low self-esteem will also hinder success.

But positive as I am, I have news for you! Even if you're in doubt or have low self-esteem, you can be successful. You'll have to understand that it only happens in one place, namely between your ears. No coach, course or study can help you if you don't help yourself. You and only you can make some room for success in your mind. You have to really want it, because success doesn't come easy and it's hard to keep hold on.

If you want to learn to be successful in everything you do, you will have to take action, because there is no ordinary school or training to teach you! There is no Success Mindset School to program your mind for success. The only thing you'll learn in school are facts, and you'll forget most.

There are a lot of people who are educated like a professor, with a lot of diplomas and certified for almost anything you can imagine, but all that knowledge didn't make them happier.

Why? Because they never created a career-plan. They live the life that someone else designed for them. They live a life that just goes with the flow. I know, there is no remote control to zap to the Success Channel.

It is a process where you'll have to consciously work at. You can train yourself, but if you ask me it is a mindset that you'll have to acquire! A process that already started in your mind or maybe starts by reading this article.

Sometimes it seems, when the road was tough, at the end the resulting success is bigger than you imagined. Everyone who passed all tests on the way to success, will have a taste of success. The one who quits, fails!

Looking from the person in doubt's view, it can look like successful people are blind for risks. It's like risks just don't exist for them.

Maybe it's like that... People who have a success mindset are busy chasing opportunities, not worrying about risks and fear. A person in doubt doesn't see chances, only fear and uncertainty. They only act when all the risks are taken out of the picture, preferably by other people.

Well it doesn't work like that, there will always be risk!

When the quality of your life is concerned, isn't it about time to straighten your back and take heroic control of your life?

I use the word heroic because everyone who takes control of their own life is a hero. A hero that took risks, and even though their family, friends and even the government said they would fail!

It takes a lot of courage to take life's matters in your own hand. Almost no one dares. Who do you know that got exactly the job they went to school for? Not because their family wanted them to or not because they want the security of a steady paycheck.

Reality is that most people get a paid job and end up working with an employer by coincidence. Almost 60% of working-class people aren't satisfied about their job;function or employer. That says enough, don't you think? This implies that almost 60% of the employees are to chicken to take responsibility of their own life. They don't dare to take matters in their own hand, because they are scared of... Loosing their steady income, their status, fear of losing their pension and so on.

Nobody put a gun to your head to force you to keep working for that annoying boss.

Why do so many people let it happen to them? Why do so many let their lives be deprived of happiness by this. The answer is simply fear! The fear of leaving your comfort zone. I told you earlier that wherever there is fear, there can be no success!

If you want to prepare for success, read a book about it! Tony Robbins has a some nice books, and if you go to Amazon you'll find plenty books about success!

Not the reading type? They have audio books too, listen to them in the car or while working out. You'll notice a change in mindset when you've read them.

Now I'm not saying that you should quit your job, but I'm telling you to prepare for success. Even if you like your job, you can be more successful at it, but not for people who didn't prepare!

I wish you the best!

Ever notice what happens when you gather a group to complete a task? With a challenge and a common goal people become energized and mobilized, it brings out their best.

I am watching my son and a group of people working on his gym. Moving and assembling equipment, designing and laying flooring to improve the space he and his two partners opened just a few months ago. It struck me while watching them the fascinating dynamics that occur when people come together and are bonded by a purpose and mission. You have no doubt seen it countless times: often it is a group moving or building something, putting their heads together to design a plan and working tirelessly together to make it happen. Or planning and organizing an event, designing and implementing everything to the smallest detail. Pulling together as a team, each eager to contribute to the clear task and goal. On a larger scale think of the bonding and teamwork after a crisis or traumatic event. In these times when there is something bigger than the individual at stake or there is a clear problem or challenge that requires action we often see the very best in people. Most people want to be involved, crave being useful and helpful and truly excel given a goal to work for that they can believe in. They are happy to answer the call to pitch in. Purpose. Mission. Meaning.

How is this also true in our individual personal lives? Do you find yourself to be more focused and successful when you have a clearly defined task or goal? Maybe you are at your best when the stakes are high or you are facing a deadline? Most people function best when they have a clear goal, an understanding of what they are to do and why as well as the feeling that what they do matters and contributes. When we find that elusive but magical combination: mission, purpose and meaning we will inevitably also find deep satisfaction and real lasting happiness.

So, what drives your life? For many this is a difficult question. But what might we accomplish and how might we feel if we had the answer and the energy and direction that comes with it? Knowing what is most important to you, having clear goals to strive for and are meaningful to you will bring out your best as well as set the foundation for a richly satisfying life.

For those that are uncertain or still looking for their mission and purpose start by making that your mission: to discover it. Take some time for self-reflection. Think about the times you felt at your best and the activities you most enjoy. Reevaluate your values and priorities and start to find the threads of meaning as well as the strengths and talents that are individually yours. These things will begin to take shape and can then be built upon to define your mission and purpose which is the foundation for setting meaningful goals.

What brings out our best as a group; a desire to achieve a common goal, to contribute, accomplish and make a difference also brings out the best in our own lives. All you have to do is ask: you are eager to answer the call, to be energized, mobilized and be your best.

Julia Skeesick, CPC. ELI -MP
Certified Personal Development Coach and owner of LifeScape partners with clients to discover their mission and purpose, set and achieve goals to design a life they love. She offers private and group coaching as well as workshops to facilitate self discovery and growth in all aspects of life.
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The most successful individuals, those that have contributed most to their organizations, their communities, and to society as a whole, have not aimed for or sought success. Rather, they have a dream, which they have nurtured into a vision, and strove to reach a goal or goals that they have set, to help achieve and/ or reach that vision. While success has often been the result, those that strive simply for success often neglect the essential process, and thus become inflexible and do not adapt to changing circumstances, nor do those people handle failure or adversity particularly well. Thomas Edison famously credited his thousands of failed experiments (failures) as leading to his successful and important inventions. Albert Einstein may have put it best when he wrote, "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

Some believe that if one does not strive for success that he sets himself up for failure. However, I feel that in most cases the opposite is often closer to the truth, that is, that adversity is part of the "growth" experience, and if one learns from his failures, and uses the knowledge productively, that he will be a more valuable individual in the long run. Often, those who merely strive for success don't get there because they are often seeking the credit without doing the work, nor taking the necessary steps. Seeking success, as the goal, is often more an egocentric approach than conversely planning thoroughly based on a dream that becomes a vision, and then working diligently to create and implement an action plan. This action plan must focus on its goal, which must be the value it provides in the particular circumstance.

1. Take for example someone in a leadership position in an organization. When they state as their goal, being successful or having a successful administration, this rarely has any true and worthwhile meaning. In order for this leader to have a meaningful and/ or important goal, it must be one that advances things for others, providing a value or importance for the individual or the organization as a whole. Unfortunately, far few leaders seem to possess this way of thinking.

2. President John Kennedy famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for country?" He later asked people to consider what together we could all do to advance the cause of freedom. Clearly, President Kennedy understood the difference between a value- based goal, and just aiming for success.

Surely, most people would prefer being successful to failing. However, it is quite important to understands and to realize that the success will come as a result of the value and importance of the goal and the mission, and not merely as the primary goal. Leaders must focus on their vision, and assure that it creates value to their organization.

Richard Brody has over 30 years consultative sales, marketing, training, managerial, and operations experience. He has trained sales and marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared as a company spokesperson on over 200 radio and television programs, and regularly blogs on real estate, politics, economics, management, leadership, negotiations, conferences and conventions, etc. Richard has negotiated, arranged and/ or organized hundreds of conferences and conventions. Richard is a Senior Consultant with RGB Consultation Services, an Ecobroker, a Licensed Buyers Agent (LBA) and Licensed Salesperson in NYS, in real estate. Richard Brody has owned businesses, been a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Development, as well as a consultant. Richard has a Consulting Website ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbcons ); a blog ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbstake ); and can be followed on Twitter.

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Being persistent hardwires your brain. Having the same thoughts, saying the same words all the time, and doing the same things often creates a sort of fixed hardwired electrical channel, like an electrical cord that your energy will constantly flow along. Energy always seeks the path of least resistance. To know and understand that is very important because this is how your habits are created.

So, it is very helpful to understand how energy flows, and how it works for you, or against you. Energy never really works against you, but unchecked it can take you to a place that you did not expect to be in. Like a bad habit and a good example would be smoking!

Being persistent can be both creative and destructive. An analysis of your habits will help you understand that being persistent about the things in your life that you care most about is part of what you value most.

Our habits govern our unconscious behaviour. By that I mean, if you are not aware of what you are thinking and why, and you have little control over your thoughts, then it is your habits that will persist to govern your outcomes.

Practice establishing new habits as it is easier to do this than delete old habits that don't serve you. Use the habits that serve us and ignore the habits that take us away from our clear vision of where you desire to be in the future. A good example of a bad habit that takes away our time opportunity might be regular smoking breaks, or too many regular coffee breaks.

Not having good self discipline will always play a significant part in keeping our goals elusive from us achieving them.

Here is three tips to being more persistent.

Tip 1 - Analyse your habits first. If you are doing something that is not in alignment with your intention to achieve something, then you are blocking the necessary smooth energy flow that helps you. Your thoughts are out of alignment, hence your actions that follow are also out of alignment.

Tip 2 - Ensure that you have clear reasons why you are persisting towards this thing that you are wanting. It is the reasons that support your beliefs in what you are trying to do.

Tip 3 - Be able to persist regularly at the same time each day to create a routine that you enjoy.

Bonus Tip You will need to do this for at least 60 days before it becomes a habit. If you can't do that then you are not serious about enjoying the life that you think you do in your vision.

If you are in doubt, it is better go back to the drawing board and start by asking questions about what it is that you are wanting. Choose the things that you like most.

By the way, do you want to learn more about achieiving the things you want?

If so, download my new ebook summary Rich Life Poor Life You Choose here: http://www.richlifepoorlifeyouchoose.com/landingpage

Anthony is the estrategist. He uses the world's best success strategies to help clients solve their problems. He has been doing it off-line for many years, including many years as a Lawyer, and has just launched on-line coaching programs to help clients get better skilled learning in their own time. The foundation of his coaching programs is teaching the world's best success principles, and how anyone can use them to achieve better solutions.

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"You must have confidence. You must believe in yourself if you expect others to believe in you."
-John Wooden

Confidence is the result of preparation. Don't believe me? Go into a meeting with your boss without knowing what the topic will be and see how you feel. I'll bet you'd feel a lot less than confident. But if you know the topic ahead of time and you're able to get some info together so that you can speak intelligently...then you'll feel confident. So we agree...preparation is key. But how do we prepare our athletes? I think confidence has got to be on three different planes: they've got to be confident in themselves, in their teammates, and in their team goals. If one of those three is missing, then success may be just out of your reach. Read on to see how you can properly prepare your athletes to be confident.

3 reasons why confidence is essential for your athletes

In themselves. As Wooden says in that opening quotation, you've got to believe in you...because if you don't, why should I? The beauty of confidence is in the preparation. Your athlete feels confident at the free throw line when the game is on the line because you've put her in that situation a million times in practice. Even when she makes a mistake in the game, that athlete understands that she will have more successes than failures during any given competition, so she's not too high when things are flowing and she's not too low when nothing is working right. She's confident that things will work out for her because she's done everything within her power to be prepared.

In their teammates. According to dictionary.com, confidence in your teammates would look like "belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person." That sounds like preparation to me! Your passers have confidence that they will each do their jobs, because they've done it time and time again. In practice, in games, in stressful situations...they've watched their teammates be tested and be successful. Therefore, they have confidence that they'll be successful in the future.

In their vision. If your team isn't confident in their goals and vision for the future, then it likely won't come to pass. Why? Because sometimes your team will not play well, sometimes they'll lose, sometimes they won't live up to their own hype. But quality preparation for their goals will help them to stay focused. Coaches can talk to their teams about the pressure of being picked to win it all, or the pressure of winning back to back, or the pressure of "must win" games. Coaches should talk about how athletes can manage their emotions, their classwork, and their expectations through it all. All of that qualifies as preparation.

As the Boy Scouts motto says: Be prepared. I firmly believe that proper preparation leads to successful performances. If we invest in our athletes through preparation, our teams will benefit in the form of winning teams.

Dawn Redd is the Head Volleyball Coach at Beloit College. Come visit Coach Dawn's community of coaching nerds and team leaders over at her blog, http://www.coachdawnwrites.com/, where she teaches how to become an excellent coach, motivate individuals, and build successful teams.

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Someone once asked me how do you know when your successful if you are constantly working to achieve success. I told him that success leaves clues, and even while you are on course, there are guides to keep you on the path. Did YOU know that success leaves clues? And if you don't know have to recognize the clues, and get in the "draft" so it won't be as difficult for you to achieve.

Junior Johnson was one of the founding first of NASCAR racing to invent drafting. He noticed that whenever he got right behind another car, he was able to go faster. He suspected the front car lowered wind resistance for the back car by "creating a draft." His technique helped him win the 1960 Daytona 500, even though his car was significant slower than some other stock cars on the track. When interviewed about his driving, he told them about his technique.

Soon other drivers began imitating Johnson's technique, and drafting was born. NASCAR racing went from a combination of luck and horsepower to an intensely technological, strategic sport.

What actually happens in drafting?

Basically the front car creates a low-pressure area -- a draft -- that essentially acts like a vacuum and pulls the back car forward. The combination of the pair of cars can go as much as 5mph faster than either car driving alone. Add more cars to the line and the effects are doubled even tripled.

To draft, you have to know and trust your car's handling. And if you want to change your position in the line of cars, you have to be strategic. Scientists have proven that when you draft, you exert 30 percent less effort than the person you are tailing.

The same is true in being successful.

If what you are striving to achieve has never been done before, you will suffer the pain, fear, and struggle to accomplish your goal. Just imagine the person that made the first cell phone, or the first television.

But if you know you are following behind someone else who is blazing the trail and creating the draft for you, it will be much easier. And if you wish to become better, you have to know and trust yourself, first, and with this knowing you are able to make sound and strategic decisions that will not only affect you, but others you make connect with.

How to find your Success Draft

For anything you do or wish to achieve, simply find two people that are very successful in what you are doing or would like to do, then devote yourself to learning as much as you can about them and how they got to where they are. Just get in their draft, and that alone will exert 30 percent less emotional efforts and struggles in reaching your goals.

Of course we all strive to be trendsetters and love to be out in forefront leading the way, and you will have every opportunity to do just in your journey by mentoring someone, or hiring an intern. When you teach someone else, it's an amazing way to boost your learning curve and reignite your passion and purpose in life.

By the time you achieve your goal, you would not only be successful, but you would have helped others that followed in your draft.

Today NASCAR has redefined the shape of the cars to make them aerodynamic and to reduce the accidents that occurs on the racetrack, but drafting still remains. Find those clues that success leaves behind and get into that draft, that alone will take the stress and worry out of how it can be done because the trail has been blazed before you.

Remember success leaves clues - seek the draft that others left behind to give you, inspiration, courage, and strength for you to accomplish your goals. In fact, seeing what others have done gives you positive anticipation in what you will achieve.

This is your life - make the most of it - begin working with the power of drafting by never giving up, being consistent and finishing strong. You'll be glad you did.

I look forward to connecting with you soon

When I was young and I tried to visualise or dream about my future, like where I might be in 10 years time, not too much happened. It was like scrambled eggs. I was all over the place. I often wished someone would just jump in and do it all for me. Yeah right, and that's going to happen. Actually each time I met someone, I thought that maybe this new person in my life could help, but it was not to be the type of help that I was looking for.

What type of help was I looking for? I did not know the answer to that either. Was I lost? No, not really. Was I interested in finding something meaningful? Definitely yes, to that question. So, what did I do about this on going saga, my life. I read. I haven't stopped either. I read everything that I could possibly get my hands on that moved me towards a clear vision of what I wanted (which I still didn't know).

Let's define a vision. For me, a vision is like painting a picture. You draw it step by step only adding things to your picture, your future vision of your life, as you desire. As I am not a great artist, I will use anything including "cut-outs" from a magazine and even stick those cut out pictures onto my visionary canvass of my life. It is similar to making a picture book for yourself.

Here is three tips to get started..

Tip 1- Choose to start. Decide to just go and get yourself a big piece of paper. Maybe one of those large art pages you can buy from a paper shop.I think the bigger the page the better.

Tip 2- Get a pen and write three things at the top of the page that are important to you. At the bottom, write three things that are holding you back from having them right now.

Tip 3- Find a quiet and still place and take 15 minutes to quiet your mind. In this time, allow yourself the opportunity to let your mind wonder, stopping to jot down any thoughts that "pop into your mind".

Bonus Tip- Just do the first thing that you can do right now. This is how you can start to create your master piece.

After you have completed these preliminary steps, you can begin to dream about what your life will look like. How do you do that? Ask yourself questions. Maybe questions like, "What do I enjoy doing?" Where do you prefer to live? What are the top three most important things that I value in my life? Do I want to be close to those things each day, or just each month?

Asking questions is a great start to trigger the direction of your thoughts because it is your thinking that will help create your vision. If you want some guidance, I can help you.

By the way, do you want to learn more about achieving the things you want?

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Anthony is the estrategist. He uses the world's best success strategies to help clients solve their problems. He has been doing it off-line for many years, including many years as a Lawyer, and has just launched on-line coaching programs to help clients get better skilled learning in their own time. The foundation of his coaching programs is teaching the world's best success principles, and how anyone can use them to achieve better solutions.

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Zoe Routh is a Magnetic Leadership coach and expert with over 20 years experience in leadership and personal development, maximising the potential of kids and ...

My clients are achieving amazing results and milestones in their personal and business lives. I am perpetually awe-struck by them and consider it a huge privilege to be part of their experience.

"George" (real name changed to protect his privacy - he likes to keep me as his 'secret weapon') - was named as one of Australia's top legal minds, as voted by his peers, in the Australian Financial Review. This is one big gong I can assure you! Out of thousands and thousands of lawyers in Australia, he's at the top.

Barb Grey - her real name! is a finalist in the National Rural Women of the Year Awards (winners announced next week - go Barb!). She has already won the Queensland state award. She is a cotton farmer and industry representative and a passion for developing the potential of rural and regional women.

RoseAnna Shick - also her real name - is a Co-Creators of Awesomeness member and has just won the YM-YWCA Women of Distinction award. Rosey runs her own communications business, event promotions, and is an accomplished writer. She is also an avid rower and looks hot in little gym shorts (had to share Rosey!)

What these amazing folks have in common:
Even if they did not fully believe they could do it at first, they had a go.They each have a fierce desire to grow and learn.They have a commitment to a diverse lifestyle and a dedication to health. George runs many foot and cycle races, Barb rides mountain bikes, and Rosey is a committed rower and ice hockey player.They seek to understand - themselves, others, and their engagement and impact on the world.They have a great sense of humour and the ability to laugh at their own foibles.They recognise their own success and achievements, and acknowledge effort as well as accolades.They invest in themselves - in their physical well-being, and in their personal growth, through reading, membership groups like Co-Creators of Awesomeness, and coaching.

There's more, but those are the key ones.

Success and development does not happen in a vacuum. People like George, Barb, and Rosey know that to grow and evolve is an inside-out process. Introspection and reflection allows expansion. Other view points, from colleagues, family, mentors, coaches, provides a spectrum of truths from which to grow. Others can show you your blind spots, offer new perspectives, and challenge old ways of thinking.

This take courage - courage to hear where you are out of alignment with your values, where you might be letting yourself down, and where you are shying away from your potential. Courage to grow, risk, learn. And yet, in the frank light of honesty and encouragement, all things flourish.

And the prize isn't a trophy; the prize is who you become as you dare to be yourself.

Coach's Challenge: Are you trying to go it alone? Who can you turn to for inspiration? Feedback? Sounding board? Are you investing in yourself? Isn't it time you made YOU a priority?

In my post, "Ten Secrets to Attaining Success," the first secret is circumventing obstacles. No one is ever guaranteed instant success. It usually comes as the result of persistence, talent, and hard work. Truthfully, most major projects are accomplished by working around challenges. Bill Gates used to spend countless hours in a computer lab after his high school classes.

When Thomas Edison was asked if he was frustrated by his one thousand attempts at creating the light bulb, he said "I just learned one thousand ways not to do it." He adamantly pursued his dream until the light bulb was created. He didn't think of having failed, he just learned from the experience. The same can be said for his many other inventions and accomplishments.

Lawrence Welk was told by the members of his first band, "The California Fruit Band" that he would never make it as a musician. He couldn't play the accordion, lead an orchestra, or speak fluently. He decided to do short announcements on his television program because his accent was so thick; he hired other musicians to lead his orchestra, and he played the accordion only occasionally on his program. In other words, he figured out ways to work around his obstacles. His family did not back his ambitions out of fear that he may succumb to worldly ways and lose his Catholic faith. Instead, he steadfastly pursued his dream while remaining a faithful practicing Catholic for his entire life.

When Hollywood refused to give Patch Adams the proceeds from the movie "Patch Adams" he and his staff created alternate ways to fund the Gesundheit Institute. They broke ground this year, twelve years after being rejected by Hollywood. A strong sense of creativity, a love of learning, a vibrant humor, and integrate work among staff members have all made his dream a reality.

Helen Keller was blinded and became deaf when she contracted a disease at the age of two. Her whole life was centered around developing her innate strengths and overcoming her handicaps. She didn't do it alone. Her family supported her, she had a wonderful teacher in Anne Sullivan, her training at Ratcliffe was invaluable, and her strong faith in God and in the Swedinborgen movement kept her going.

When I was released from my music therapy internship in Larned, Kansas, I chose to see it as a chance for improvement, not as a failure.

With diligence, work, and a prayerful attitude, obstacles can be overcome. They can then be seen as opportunities.

I'm Barbara altman
Raised in an alcoholic home, I became depressed and riddled with anxiety at an early age. In an effort to build a good life, I turned to my love of classical music for comfort, financial resources, and a place in the community. Over the years, I have dealt with depression in a variety of ways, from counseling to alternative and traditional healing modalities. One of the purposes in my life is to convey hope to those who have suffered from depression and I hope to do this in my writings and in speaking engagements.

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To achieve consistent success in cosmic ordering, thinking is important and also not important. It depends on what you think and how you think. The most important thing about thinking and the conscious mind for successful cosmic ordering is to train and manage your conscious mind. And on the other hand, embrace and build rapport with your subconscious mind.

Is thinking a good thing? While I told my friend recently that I'm healing my past from the conditioning of my childhood, those that were related particularly to my father, the response I got back from her is 'You think too much...The past is the past, just let it go..." She is partly right...on the letting go part...

Can thinking and the conscious mind ruin cosmic ordering? Thinking is the job of the conscious mind. It's task is to think, analyze, in logical and rational ways, to protect you and help you survive. Depending on how you're being conditioned when you're young, the conscious mind can support you or ruin you in your cosmic ordering. Why?

Because over-protection creates fearful energy that is bad for cosmic ordering. In the attempt of protecting you, the conscious mind is always thinking of what's not safe for you, which means inducing fear. And if the adults around you when you're young tend to 'input' safety precautions or rules to you to protect you from being harmed, then your conscious mind would most probably be trained in that way since young ~ fearful, in unconscious ways to you.

Over-protection by the adults when young, and then growing up feeding too much fear constantly throughout your life, unconsciously by the television, newspapers, radio, society, teachers, neighbours, friends, relatives, governments, culture and so on, can really, really, really be detrimental to your cosmic ordering now, in your adult life, unless you consciously work on removing them.

Cosmic ordering success means that you train your conscious mind to support you and empower you. Of course for daily life to function properly, you still need to think, but you think in a trained and programmed way.

You use positive words in your thoughts, conversations with yourself and with others. You use affirmations formed with positive words, expressed in positive ways. And you use visualizations about positive results you want in your life. For example, if your sister is traveling for vacation, visualize her as having a happy, joyful time playing at the different tourist attractions instead of fearfully thinking that her plane might crash, or she might be caught in an earthquake...

So, are you thinking too much in a good way or thinking too much just because of habit? For me, if I don't think, to ponder and contemplate about my current behavior, attitudes and results in life, and find a way to release the unhealthy links that created them in my past, I would not be able to become aware, raise my consciousness, and stop the repeating patterns of events and results that happened to me, and this is what is meant by letting life happen to me, which is unfortunately what happens to most people in the world. And this is definitely not what cosmic ordering success is about...

When thinking is just for the sake of thinking, it's not great. When thinking is a contemplation of your life, stopping that which doesn't bring freedom of soul, and then moving on to creating your life that frees your body, mind, spirit, then thinking is most essential, crucial and fundamental, for cosmic ordering success to occur in your life.

It is precisely that each one of us came to Mother Earth to walk our own unique path that we've to start contemplating from the soul level with the help of the subconscious mind that's doing such remarkable memory job that allows us to find solutions in the present to heal our past for our magnificent future.

Instead of thinking on the physical level of how you could make more money in these forms: which job can bring me more money, which career lets me retire early, or which business venture enables me to become a millionaire in 1 year? None of these thinking help in any way, shape or form in your life to fulfil what you want because basically, your subconscious mind is still running the underlying conditioning program that was created during your childhood, automatically.

Nothing you do now will bring you the highest level of success that you always wanted in your soul level if work is not done to release the past and reprogram for the future.

And to reprogram for the future is to use cosmic ordering. To start training your conscious mind is the preliminary of cosmic ordering success.

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How do you go about finding happiness in your life? This is one of THE big question, right? Meanwhile, people are trying to find the keys to success in life at the same time. Are they connected? They most certainly are.

Many people strive for success at the expense of finding happiness in life. Pursuing their career, making more money, etc. Others seek happiness in life first, often at the expense of success in their career, business or finances. It becomes a very difficult paradox; one that few actually learn how to solve.

Just how do you go about solving this problem? The answer is to focus on living with integrity. You can actually find the keys to success AND happiness in life. But there are many different views on how to live this way wouldn't you agree?

Some say the main idea is truth-telling. Others argue that you need to be true to your word. Another might say that to live with integrity requires balance between personal values and principles. And yet another will say that a person should never cheat anyone in life. Which one would you choose?

Well...I would say: All of these, actually. Clearly, a broad understanding of living with integrity should be developed. I have examined all aspects of life relating to living with integrity - being in integrity with oneself (self-awareness and self-knowledge), in your life relationships and your with your environment. Which covers almost everything, right? That's the idea, of course.

To begin, suppose you've decided you like this idea. Living with integrity in your daily life is the key. Where to begin? Let me give you a bit of caution: Just as there is no "get rich quick" miracle, there is no "quick fix in life" either - doing the job will take time, effort and commitment, but you can do it! What can you do right now? Get daily input on how to live this way, then practice baby steps. Soon you'll be a whole new person of integrity.

Susan recently said, "I have become more goal oriented and am trying to do more to try to find my "calling.'" These are both very involved pursuits, wouldn't you agree? There is a LOT to cover, so take it step by step.

To get a bead on what Susan is saying - have you thought about your "calling?". Or, as some call it, your "personal mission?"

Henri Schauffler has been coaching, mentoring and teaching individuals and business owners to live more effective and productive lives for over 30 years. His personal mission statement is, "Adding value to everyone in my life."

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Delegating is so incredibly important because the more successful you become and want to be, the more responsibility there is. However, you are not supposed to be doing it all on your own! In fact, any good leader knows that the way to accomplish all that you want to accomplish is by enlisting others to help you out.

By asking for support on your projects, soul-centered goals, and in your life, not only do you achieve what you want to achieve more quickly and easily, but you also avoid exhaustion and overwhelm. And here's the added bonus: when you enlist others to help you out, you are empowering those support individuals by putting responsibility and power in their hands.

What I've found is that, for the most successful results on any project or goal, it's important that you understand the different types of support that you need and enlist those different types of support from various individuals aligned for the job or task. I call this your 3-Tiered Soulful Support System:

Tier 1: Basic Task Support

Now, the first tier of your Soulful Support System includes those people you can delegate tedious, everyday tasks to. These tasks are the one that annoy you, distract you, or take up too much of your precious time. Examples of basic tasks to delegate are: cleaning your home, scheduling your clients, doing your accounting, doing the laundry, writing press releases and sending them out, doing research on just about anything, sending invoices, setting up your newsletter, etc.

Now, keep in mind that you don't need a ton of people in this tier. However, you do need some. The types of people in the delegation tier can be anyone from an assistant to a professional cleaning person, local dry cleaner, or a graphic designer.

Take a moment now and make a list of all of your everyday, menial tasks. Then make a list of people who could potentially fill those roles. Next: make those calls in order to get the help you need - trust me, you will feel a huge load off your shoulders!

Tier 2: Intellectual/Creative Support

The second tier in your Soulful Support System is a group of people who can help you brainstorm or provide you with new ideas or resources. These are your colleagues, mentors, Board of Directors, coaches, and teachers.

Coming up with fresh ideas or solutions to issues on your own in your career, business, creative work, relationship issue, or personal project can sometimes be a huge task. There are always more juicy and powerful opportunities to learn, stretch, move forward, problem solve and create when you have other people whom you judge as creative and smart to bounce ideas off of.

Take a moment now and make a list of people you respect who you believe could help you with the intellectual and creative aspects of your project. You will greatly enjoy hearing these choice peoples' words of advice and wisdom, and they might even be flattered at having been chosen to share them!

Tier 3: Emotional and Spiritual Support

The third tier in your Soulful Support System is an often overlooked group, however they are the true backbone to your success and your sense of connection and joy in the world. This group is your own emotional and spiritual support.

ALisa Starkweather once said, "Every woman needs her court of women." What ALisa meant by this is that each one of us needs our own court of supporters, our own group of trusted and beloved people whom we know will hold us up and keep us going and believe in us even in those moments when we don't believe in ourselves. Because those moments happen. People in this group can include: husbands, wives, sisters, parents, childhood friends, clergy members, coaches, and therapists.

So, first take a moment now and write down the three top fears, doubts or concerns that you know outside support and confirmation could really help you with. Next, write down your top two to five people that you believe could (or already do) support you in these areas. Remember, one person does not have to encompass everything, each person could be helping you with another area of emotional support.

With these three areas of support in your life and dream project covered, you are setting yourself up for maximum success!

Joanna Lindenbaum, M.A., has 12 years of teaching and coaching experience. Her coaching invites women to think bigger, to embrace their power, to create more compelling and exciting goals for themselves, to become leaders, to connect to their intuition, to open their hearts, and to make it a practice of remembering how special and important they are. Her coaching philosophy centers on a deep respect for the inner wisdom that each woman holds inside of herself. By activating this inner wisdom, Joanna helps her clients achieve extraordinary success in business, career, and life. Sign up for Joanna's complimentary "How to Overcome the 5 Most Common Obstacles to Success" at http://soulfulcoach.com/ecourse.php.

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The question is often asked: "What does it mean to be a success?"

The answer to this question is often problematic because it attempts to generalize success as something that should be the same for everyone. In trying to find the answer, attention is diverted to the obvious success stories of general wealth and fame. This kind of success in itself if is not bad, but it deprives many people of the opportunity to succeed in their own right.

The question should be: "What does success mean to me as a person?"

This question implies that success is not the same for everyone and that it is determined for each person individually. The process of determining personal success makes use of two of the most unique human abilities we posses. They are self-analysis and imagination.

The results of the expedition to define personal success, is to determine the personal legacy you want to leave after your time on this earth is over. It is during this process that the human endowments of imagination and self analysis come into play. Start off with self analysing your needs, expectations, strengths and weaknesses. Write them down to give you a visual representation of your analysis results. Now imagine how you use your strengths and abilities to fulfill your needs and meet your expectations. Also imagine how you see your weaknesses diminish. Imagine how your ideal life looks like.

Lastly write down again your flight of fancy. This will become your success formula and the blueprint for achieving your goals and making your dream a reality. Keep this document where you can often review it and to see how you make progress in growing closer to your dream.

Creating Balance in Success

In determining the success of your image that you dreamed up about yourself, it is essential to create balance. It is essential find ways to maintain a balance between the various elements that make up your success formula.

It is not inherently bad to make lots of money; I think this will form part of 90% of people's success formulas. However, it must be balanced with providing a loving home for your children or being a faithful spouse. Creating balance in personal success creates a framework within which you will leave your personal legacy. Success in one area of your life, at the expense of other areas, is not living a successful life.

Through creating balance in success, you create an active feedback mechanism to provide continuous feedback on how you are progressing in making your success image a reality. Balance allows you to continually assess your success or lack thereof. Through focussing on creating balance in success, you can measure your progress objectively and not succumb to the often present feeling of a lack of success. By consistently applying your unique ability to analyse and imagine your ideal future with a sense of creating balance your preferred picture of how you want your life to be can become a reality.

We are entering a New Economy and people need, no they must, be aware of this major paradigm shift or they will be swallowed up by it.

We need to seriously consider 3 things:

1. We must learn to spend less and save more,
2. We must look inward, discover our passion in life and build on that,
3. We must begin a business using our passion to develop a secondary income. This may just turn into a full-time business if you have the right scaffolding.

Learning to spend less will be hard for most of us in the western world because we have been conditioned through advertising to buy - buy - buy. It will be a hard habit to break.

However, to succeed in the New Economy, we must learn to consume less. Look around your home and take inventory of all that you own. Then sit down and ask yourself some very hard questions. "Do I really need all of this?"

One thing I have been working on doing is to wait at least one day before I buy that item I am presently longing for. 99% of the time, when tomorrow comes I face the hard cold fact that I really did not need that item and in fact most of the time I don't even want it that much anymore.

My craving to own something is almost always triggered by something in my subconscious that says "You must have this. You deserve this. This will make your life better, easier, more enjoyable, etc." Luckily, I soon come to my senses and realize that I was lied to. I can live without that item and live quite well, because now I can use that money for things that truly make me happy.

If you spend any time on the Internet you will have come across the concept of living your passion. Or how to know what you are passionate about. Or how to monetize your passion.

People are making a lot of money helping others to enjoy life more by doing what they love doing and getting paid to do it. People who learn how to make a good living working in their passion are enjoying getting up each day to share their passion with others. Isn't that what we are meant to do/be. The best part is, with the right scaffolding, we can all learn to monetize our passion and enjoy living more.

After all it's not the things we buy that make us happy. It's what we share with others that makes us happy.

I will talk more about this in a future article.

About Author:

Mr. Gile is now retired from state service and works out of his home helping people start their own internet business working in areas that they love doing, things they are passionate about. Only when you do work that you love doing and then share your expertise or interest with others will you find both Happiness & Success

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You've heard the saying, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Well that doesn't just apply to moral issues; it can also be applied to success as well. Many times if you ask people who are unsuccessful in life what their goals are, they will reply, "I don't know." When it comes to success, you can't afford not to know what you want.

Don't be afraid to be an overachiever. For some reason when people are ambitious and have goals, others try and talk them out of succeeding. And oddly enough, the term "overachiever" has many negative connotations. Well, the fact is that when unsupportive people see that you refuse to sit on the sidelines and do nothing, they will do everything in their power to keep you from moving forward. The best thing you can do when these types of people try to squash your dreams is ignore them. People usually act like this when they are afraid that you are going to have a better life than them. Fear can either be a great motivator or a great inhibitor. When people are afraid of failure, they can either let that consume and cause them to be unproductive, or they can make their fear their main motivator.

Stick to your success shopping list. It has been said that shoppers who use and stick to a shopping list save on their grocery bills because they are not tempted make impulse buys and purchase things they don't need. Well, the same can be said for knowing what you want in life. While it can be acceptable to change your plan for your life, try to avoid "impulse buys" when it comes to success. If you are constantly changing your mind about what you want in life, you will be sabotaging your success. If you never see something through to the end, then you could realize that it's been 10 years, and you're still going in circles. By keeping a clear vision of what you want, you will be able to self correct when you veer from your path. However, when you don't know what you want, it is impossible to know what you are staying from your ideal life.

Visualization is the key. Have you ever had a big presentation at work, and to help yourself prepare, you imagined yourself giving in the conference room giving a successful presentation? Well, this is because when we tell our mind to see something, our brain actually works to make what we see become a reality. When we positively visualize things for our future, we can improve our chances of success. By the same token, if you are constantly seeing yourself as a failure, chances are, you will always fail.

Know what to order. If you've ever gone to a restaurant with someone who has no idea what they want to order, you know how frustrating it can be. Everything sounds good to them, and it takes them 30 minutes to finally order. However, the people who have at least an idea of what to order, such as a burger, pasta or a salad have an easier time. When you have a general idea of what you want, success is much easier to obtain. As you determine what you want to life, try to narrow down your options so you won't get discouraged and give up.

What does it take for anyone to be the best at anything? And does being labelled the best success coach in the UK take different traits to being the best runner in the Olympics, the best artist of the Turner Prize, the best actress at the Oscars or the best leader in your organisation?

The word 'best' is often used to compare one person, talent or event to another. In this sense, I would steer clear of using it unless it's in a context of comparing me with myself. Wayne Dyer once said that 'true nobility is not about being better than anyone else, it's about being better than I used to be'. With that in mind, here's some of what I think it takes to bring out the best in who you're striving to become:

A Compelling Vision: when it's cold and wet and you have to get up for training, when you fingers are blistered from strumming those guitar chords a thousand times over, when you've got to dig deep to spend another day of business waiting for the breakthrough, a compelling vision will re-ignite passion and motivation to underpin the drive to keep going.

My vision is defined in writing, on a vision board and in a series of mind movies - so that however I'm reminded, it's inspiring.

Personal Responsibility: no one became the best in their field by looking outside of themselves for the answers, by comparing themselves to another or for finding someone to blame. Each person has a definition of success that's as unique to them as is their fingerprint and a route to achieving that success that navigates through unchartered territory.

I regularly shake off the echos of 'if you could write like her...'; 'if you had money like him...'; 'if you were as smart as...'. I'm 100% responsible for the thoughts I think, the choices i make and for how big I choose to show up in the world.

Increasing Self Awareness: What other's can observe about you will only ever be a tiny piece of the jigsaw. When you develop the skill of tuning in to the physical signs, the intellectual promptings, the emotional resonances, and the spiritual meaning of the vision you're choosing, then you can fully expand into the truth about your purpose. Only then can you stretch for the heights you secretly dream about. No limits remember?

For me, self awareness and self development are two circles with a Venn-diagram-like cross over point. My personal aim is to expand that central part to a point where awareness and development are entirely overlapping and function with synchronicity at all times... a work in progress.

I've worked with clients whose compelling vision, once defined clearly and courageously, has been enough to change their thoughts, their feelings, and their ability to take inspired action. Subsequently results begin to appear, sometimes so significantly and speedily that you wonder where they could have been hiding for all this time.

So, is it possible for you to be the best at whatever it is you expect for yourself? With vision, responsibility and awareness I say 'yes'. The most important thing as I always say, is to go inside for your answers - to take some quiet time, shut your eyes, focus your mind towards your heart and let the best you step forward!