Motivation/Success - My session Presentation Key Points

-       Everything in life is perception driven by background, conditioning, education, upbringing etc.

-       Don’t let other people’s behavior control yours.

-       You are responsible to people not for them.

-       Failure is necessary for success.

-       Good days – bad days – you define them – don’t let them define you.

-       Adversity is a tool for growth.

-       You don’t need anyone’s approval.

-       Use psychological anchors.

-       Attention equals awareness – awareness equals action.

-       Uncontrolled ego and arrogance are success killers.

-       The Iceberg effect – what’s below and above the surface and its influence on our life’s outcomes.

-       Don’t let your early life conditioning influence you forever.

-       Get out of auto-pilot.

-       Good news, bad news – it’s just news.

-       You don’t own anything in life – you just get to use it for a while.

-       Age is just a number.

-       You are born.  You will die.  Almost everything in between is trivia.

-       Success is moving toward a goal with passion, focus and discipline.

-       Motivation is goal directed action.

-       Every day you are given is a gift.

-       Read more.

-       Surround yourself with the right people.

-       Five years from today you will be the same as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

-       Draw a line in the sand when failure lures on the road ahead.

-       Regrets is life weigh tons. 

-       Your version of truth may not be even close to the truth.

-       Are you an encourager?  Who is your encourager?

-       Detachment is when you feel responsible to people - empathy. Disengagement is when you just don’t care.

-       Ever had a 2 X 4 experience or lesson? If not, it’s coming.

-       Take a quality pause – a three second time between a stimulus and your response where you say to yourself – I have a choice.

-       Self-esteem is a major contributor or detractor to success, motivation and inner peace.

-       What are your motivators?  Demotivators?

-       To get unstuck you need to re-invent, re-charge, adapt, adopt, modify, adjust and re-set some area of your life.

-       Planning is important but things change.

-       Wisdom is a combination of experience, knowledge, information and discernment.

-       If you don’t ask yourself the right questions you will never get the best or right answers to life’s issues.

-       Don’t let other people’s garbage become your destiny.

-       Without faith – little is possible.

-       You can’t manage time – you have to manage yourself.

-       Don’t let technology eliminate the human touch in your life.

-       Who are you?  You are who you are, who you project yourself to be and who other people think you are.  If these are not congruent you will create a variety of dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors.

-       There are two types of people – inside-out and outside in.

-       Beliefs drive attitudes, attitudes determine results.

-       Let go of old baggage (bananas).

-       Life’s transitions.  Declare endings, time in the neutral zone, new beginnings.

-       Change it, accept it or leave.

-       Goals equal direction and direction determines outcomes.

-       Goals without action are meaningless.

-       Motivation is inside-out.

-       Mindsets drive attitudes.  Attitudes determine behavior.  Behavior determines outcomes.

-       Control your thoughts to control your life.

-       Show appreciation.

-       Total life balance is impossible.

-       Lock the back door.

-       Count your blessings and say thank you more often.

-       Hit the re-set button.

-       Conflict is normal.

-       Success is not a function of your personality style but your ability and willingness to temporally adjust to others.

-       All decisions equal consequences.  Want different outcomes – change your decisions and actions.

-       People don’t resist change – they resist losing control.

-       We all have unlimited and untapped creativity.

-       Confidence is a function of skills, self-esteem and beliefs.

-       Get out of cruise control.

-       Manage your expectations.

-       Discernment is the key to inner peace.

-       Persistence is the vital ingredient for sustained success.

-       How about – “This too shall prepare me” vs. “This too shall pass.”

-       Legacy is not created at the end of life but lived every day.

-       Want more, better, less etc. – increase your desire.

-       Enthusiasm is inside-out.

-       Life is an adventure – don’t settle.

-       Excuses are stupid and a waste of time and energy.

-       Want more – work harder.

-       Everyone has faults.  Faults are nothing more than others negative perception or interpretation of your behaviors.

-       Forgiveness is not about letting the other person off the hook but letting yourself off the hook of other’s control over you.

-       Uncontrolled fear is the number one cause of a lack of inner peace, happiness, success and contentment in life.

-       The future is uncertain but can be influenced to some degree by actions in the present.

-       Start a Good-Stuff Jar.

-       Keep growing and learning or stay stuck – it’s a choice.

-       Happiness is not what you have, who you are with, where you are or what you are doing – it is a mindset you bring to each of these.

-       Habits control your life but can be changed.

-       Hope is necessary for a better life but it is not a strategy.

-       Pray, but move your feet – do something and stop waiting for God to do it all.

-       Let go of the hurry syndrome – relax, breath experience the now.

-       There are two types of intention – stated intent and real intent.  If you say you are going to do something and don’t – your real intent was not to do it.

-       Joy is a mindset.  Loneliness is a mindset.

-       To change something use the law of displacement.

-       Limitations are nothing more than internal guidelines that you tell yourself are fixed and permanent.

-       Who are your mentors?  How are they helping you on the life journey?

-       Mistakes can’t be avoided.  Make them, learn from them and move on.

-       The “Hundredth Monkey Concept”.

-       Optimistic and positive people live longer and get sick less than pessimists and negative people.

-       Just because a door in front of you opens – doesn’t mean you should go through it.

-       Purpose is the vital trait for success.

-       A lack of patience is the major contributor to stress.

-       Stress is your inside-out reaction to outside-in people, events or circumstances.

-       Just because someone pushes one of your emotional buttons doesn’t mean you must re-act.

-       Problems in life are normal. Learn from them.

-       Prosperity is not just about money.

-       Success is not power, position, wealth or fame – yes these are nice to have but in the end, none of them will give you inner peace.

-       Want to be better – practice.

-       Pain – emotional or physical is a signal that something needs to change.

-       Procrastination is nothing more than fear of the future or the unknown that it represents.

-       When you fail, this does not mean you are a failure – just that you now have the opportunity to get smarter, wiser or better.

-       Quitting too soon is stupid.

-       Start a daily life journal.

-       Start or join a “Mastermind” group.

-       Without focus and concentration, you will never accomplish your objectives, dreams or desires.

-       Passion can make up for a lack of education, experience and connections.

-       Disappointment is a function of unrealized expectations.

-       Let go of the past and the future.

-       Act like a bird and Pull the tooth.

-       Watch your words.

-       Fun is not what you are doing but a mindset.

-       Laugh more.

-       Everything and everyone in life is a teacher.

-       You attract what you resonate.

-       The past is dead.  Let it go.