The Best Years of Your Life… Now!

What if success had little to do with how old you are, the amount of education you have or the degree of experience you possess?

After all, these are the three biggest excuses most people use for not succeeding.

The truth is that there is one primary reason why people fail to accomplish what they want to in life:

The lack of consistency.

When all is said and done, it always comes down to “dropping the ball”, getting distracted or just plain giving up, before the goals are reached. Most people abandon their goals and dreams. They stop applying themselves consistently toward the accomplishment of what they tell themselves they desire.

Consistency is the most powerful guarantee of success.

The reason is, it creates momentum in your life. Movement in both mental and physical action which is focused on a specific outcome. Break the momentum and you have to exert the energy necessary to overcome inertia. It always requires more energy to move a body at rest than it does to maintain the momentum of a body that is already motion. It’s a basic law of physics.

Many failures are the direct result of several starts and stops. Each re-start becomes more difficult because it requires more and more energy. One day, there is simply no more energy or desire left.

What is consistency?

Being focused and taking action toward a specific goal or dream everyday. The biggest payoff of consistency is that it is both leveraged and cumulative. A little bit of focus and action builds from day to day. Over time you will find the the small but consistent focus and actions you take always result in a much larger reaction than the time you spent any given day. It’s like laying one brick each day.

Over time, your consistency will result in your creating and building a wall that would have been impossible to erect. with only the time and energy you had invested in a given day…

Consistency also minimizes starts and stops. Consistency is the most efficient use of both your time and energy.

-Bob Baran

Have you ever wondered why family members or old friends don’t take you seriously? Especially, if you are in the process of making positive life changes?

The reason is they still have a view of you that doesn’t reflect who you are now. They may still see you as a teenager or a child. Or perhaps they were strongly influenced by some actions you took when you were going through some tough times.

Whatever the cause, they don’t see the changes you’ve made over the years and therefore they can’t see where the changes, you are currently going through, are going to take you.

They have the “habit” of seeing for not yourself, but who you were. It is difficult for them to take you seriously if they are seeing you as a child or as an individual who’s got troubles.

When you are in the process of making life changes, if you have a family or friends that have outdated views or opinions of who you are, it is best to avoid telling them about what is going on in your life. They will not be supportive and may even try to sabotage your progress. Usually unconsciously, as they are just protecting their current reality and your place in it… in their mind.

No matter how many changes you have made, family members or friends may not be able to recognize or acknowledge them. This is not a problem in you. It is their problem and you can’t fix them and will only frustrate yourself if you try.

Keep up with your positive growth and life changes and you will find new friends to share the new you with. Your family… maybe they will come around someday from your example of the way you think and live, but don’t count on it. Just love and accept them for who they are and don’t let their opinions, attitudes and beliefs disturb you.

Be yourself… live your dreams,

- Gwen Baran

When is the last time you volunteered to do some good in your community? If it’s been awhile, it is time to seek out an organization that could use your help.

If you do have a cause you like to donate to… good for you! Do you donate money or do you volunteer your time and talents? Sending a check may make you feel good for a moment, but imagine what it would feel like to actually donate some of your time. Yes, your precious time!

In our community we have a nonprofit foundation that was put together by local musicians. Once or twice a year they put together a musical benefit with a bunch of bands for someone in the community that has a medical concern.

I gladly volunteer my time as an emcee. Seeing the looks on the faces of the benefit’s recipients is so much more rewarding than the impersonal act of just writing out a check. And it’s FUN!

What I’m trying to share with you is, that if you can find an organization in your area that would benefit from any of your skills… Volunteer!

You get some time out of your usual routine and you will have the warm and fuzzy feelings that come with doing good for someone who really needs your help.

There are many nonprofit organizations that have events at various times of the year that directly benefit people in your local community.

Do a Google search and find out who in your community would benefit from your time and talents.

There is no better way to share your prosperity… Share your time and talents to help someone in your area sometime soon.

Happy Sharing,

- Gwen Baran

I just read an amazing story about a French man who invented a audio recording device 20 years before Edison invented the phonograph.

What’s amazing to me is that the French inventor, Edward-Leon Scott de Martinville, called his invention the phonautograph, a device that would record sound… but he had not even conceived of the possibility of playing the recorded sound back! A recording he made in 1860 has recently been “played back” with the help of modern digital technology…

It took about twenty more years for Edison to imagine that recording sound and playing it back was possible...

If you recall your history, Edison was determined to make a “dictaphone” type recording device to be used in offices for dictating letters. The fact that it was immediately used to record music was not something he envisioned.

How many times have we seen discoveries and inventions sidelined and forgotten because the full potential was unknown. It seems strange that someone would bother to invent a process for recording sound and not even imagine playing the recording back… but that’s exactly what happened.

How does this apply to your day-to-day reality?

I absolutely guarantee that you already have and will continue to do things in your life that your limitations will blind you to…regarding the full potential. It’s called standing in your own way.

The astonishing thing about the French inventor was the years he spent perfecting the recording process without any proof it would work… cause he didn’t put any attention on playing the recording back. He was only concerned with capturing a “picture” of the sound waves. Which he apparently did.

Is it possible that we can become so focused on a single aspect of our lives that we miss the full potential of what our lives can be?

It happens all the time.

-Bob Baran

What is missing? The truth is the relationship you are able to have with your genuine self is “the something” that is missing in your life!

I would like to continue where Bob left off on yesterday’s post. He stated, “Seems ironic but what’s missing is the connection with their inner self.”

We all have the ability to look within and find that amazing part of us that is our soul.

What? You thought that only spiritual leaders, gurus and God have that ability! The truth is we all do. You can not only look inside to find your genuine self, which is your soul, you can have a relationship, a connection with this part of yourself.

• Imagine never being lonely again!
• Imagine that emptiness that is constantly nagging you, just gone…

This is what happens when you connect with your genuine self… when you develop a relationship and recognition of your soul as a part of you not some nebulous “thing” floating around around or above you.

How do you do this… create a relationship with yourself? I know it sounds strange and I thought so too until I experienced it.

The first step is to just be grateful for everything around you. Be grateful for everything in your life. All of it… the good, bad and ugly. Then focus on the good in your life and be grateful for the ability to see the good.

The second step: take a moment and just be with yourself. Turn off all outside distractions and be grateful for who you are. Be thankful for the body you are in. Be aware of how it feels to just breathe in and out. Let go of all the judgments you have of yourself, for this moment, and just be happy to be you. Be quiet inside your mind, if only for a moment or two.

As you take this time to be with yourself, you will, if you let yourself, feel more complete than you have felt in a long time. This is you connecting to your soul. It is this simple!

• be grateful
• be quiet
• breathe

So if you, like so many others feel that emptiness, that something is missing in your life, take the time to connect to your genuine self and begin your journey back to being whole.

For information regarding how The Intentional Prosperity™ System can help you reconnect to your inner self go to: www.intentionalprosperity.com

Be well and whole as you live your dreams,

- Gwen Baran