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Set your intention for the day:

Find some time for yourself to relax and refuel your greatness.

I believe the purpose of your life is to find and do the purpose of your life – your truest passions. For me, it’s writing self-help books and creating inspiring posters. For others, it’s creating new technology, designing various products, learning medicine — and at least one person was put on this planet to invent that little plastic doohickey which holds up the pizza box.

I recognize there are many challenges on your path to greatness, and you can offen grow discouraged. But far too often it’s not outside circumstances which stop you – but your internal beliefs. Far too many people get in their own way of greatness – by telling themselves what I call “Blame Excuses” and “Mythtaken Thinking.”

For example, right now you might be telling yourself you’re too old, too broke, too inexperienced to snag your passions. If so, let me tell you about a guy named Colonel Harland Sanders.

When the Colonel first tried to sell his chicken recipe he was 65 years old — with only a small pension — a tiny bit of money in the bank — and an old Caddie roadster. His first plan was to sell his chicken recipe to restaurant owners, who’d give him a residual for every chicken piece sold — a nickle per chicken.

He knocked on the first restaurateur’s door, and was greeted by a NOPE. Second door: NOPE. Third door: NOPE. In fact his first 1008 sales calls all served up a NOPE. Still, the Colonel continued to call on owners as he traveled across the USA, sleeping in his Caddie to save money.

It wasn’t until prospect number 1,009 that the Colonel received his first YES. Then, after two years of making daily sales, he had only signed up a total of five restaurants. Still the Colonel kept knocking on doors, staying passionately focused in the belief that his golden fried chicken would create a big pile of gold.

Finally by 1963 the Colonel procured 600 restaurants across the country to sell his Kentucky Fried Chicken! In 1964 he was bought out by a multi-millionaire — who made The Colonel a multi-millionaire himself.

I love this story – because it’s an “against all odds” tale. The Colonel was a senior citizen, with no money, entering a new field – and yet he succeeded! How? He knew how to fuel his greatness instead of fueling his fears, insecurity and excuses. Robert Louis Stevenson said it well when he said: “To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

Here is one helpful soul-energizing, FUEL YOUR GREATNESS tip to consider:

WRITE MAKES MIGHT: I’m a big believer in the power of writing lists, writing in a journal, writing in a schedule book. Writing helps to clarify and organize your scattered thoughts and dreams. If you never write down your thoughts and dreams, they remain wishy washy vague ideas. And wishy washy vague ideas become wishy washy vague plans which bring wishy washy lousy results. Plus taking time to write down your thoughts and dreams refuels your excitement to go out there and snag ‘em! So while you’ve got your pen out, also make a list of all your best qualities and your happiest successes – so you remember why you have it in you to get everything you want in your life! It also helps to put your motivational lists and crystallized goals in places where you might see them often — and thereby not fall off the Greatness Bandwagon.

I’d love to hear from you – some of your ideas for how you will relax and refuel your greatness today. Perhaps it’s to stop and smell the hot cocoa. Maybe it’s to call an old friend. Or you could take a lunch time manicure. Or take some time to mediate, go to the gym, stretch yourself into your favorite yoga pose. You tell me! The important thing is that you promise yourself if at some point today you begin to feel stressed or  discouraged, you will do something to pump back up your confidence and energy!

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