“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” ~ Les Brown
Do you wake up to each morning feeling motivated to accomplish meaningful work?
Can you literally write down and number the meaningful personal goals that you’ve accomplished over the past six months?
Would you honestly say that your focus and charge towards meaningful work is consistently unstoppable?
Regardless if you answered “Yes” or “No” to one or all of the above questions, there is one thing that still rings true: You can always Fill Your Life With Value.
All you have to do is Choose, Plan, and Take Action in an UNSTOPPABLE manner. There will always be goals to be set, work to be done, and meaningful tasks to be accomplished.
In order for you to Choose to Fill Your life With Value, you must confirm what brings “VALUE” to your life.
What brings “Value” to your life?
Is it —
1. Doing meaningful work?
2. Enjoying a harmonious family?
3. Increasing your connection to a predetermined Higher Power?
4. Building healthy relationships?
5. Advancing continuously in life?
6. Becoming more self-aware?
7. Becoming financially independent?
8. Getting out and becoming more active?
9. Feeling that you’re empowered enough to help others need?
10. Choosing to finally go after that one most meaningful goal in your life?
Whatever “It is”, you must first Choose “It”, and then Plan “It” so you can stay focused and connected to “It” daily.
It’s been said time and time again, “When you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
There are many people today walking around feeling unfulfilled and that there life has little to no value. Value and fulfillment isn’t something that falls into your being without you planning for it and doing some work.
It’s also been said, “The only place success comes before work, is in the dictionary.”
The best work that you or anyone can do is meaningful work. Meaningful work and accomplishment brings you personal fulfillment. It helps to give your life purpose and value. However, if you want to pour continuous “Value” into your life, then a Written Plan will be needed.
With a Written Plan, you will be able to follow a course of action, research the necessary resources for success, adapt and adjust along the way, and see where you’re headed daily so you can stay connected and working towards that which Fills Your Life With Value.
You do not want to end up like “The Man That Never Lived.” (Author Unknown)
“There was a very cautious man
who never laughed or cried.
He never risked, he never lost,
he never won nor tried.
And when he one day passed away
his (life) insurance was denied,
For since he never really lived,
they claimed he never died.”
When you fail to Choose and to execute your Written Plan daily, you voluntarily put yourself in the same state of being as “The Man That Never Lived.” You have voluntarily chosen to continue through life unfulfilled and with little to no value added.
This is why it is important for you to Take Action in an UNSTOPPABLE manner!
Your “It”… Your “Goals”… Your “Cause”… and Your “Meaningful Work”… must propel you in an UNSTOPPABLE manner, daily, to risk, lose, win and try — emphatically!
A determined, focused and unstoppable person believes and says, “My Dreams, Goals and IT — is NOT for Sale!” And they strive onward and upward by Taking Continuous Action.
I conclude this blog entry by asking you two simple questions:
1) Have you given up on your Dream, Goals or IT?
2) What will you begin doing today to ensure that you will start or continue – continuously – Filling Your Life With Value, daily?
I encourage you to trust your instincts, and to believe in and be yourself. Choose, Plan, and Take Action in an UNSTOPPABLE manner! You are worth IT! And deserve IT!
Fill Your Life With Value!
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About the Author:
Ty Howard is a dynamic international motivational speaker, habits consultant, and best-selling author Untie the Knots™ That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself From Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships. His professional and personal development gift, and business acumen has propelled organizations to seek his counsel and advice, time-and-time again. Ty’s solid business background has made him a trusted source for management and executive development.
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“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity
and ideas get buried.” ~ Ty Howard
Do you know someone who is tied up in spending more time wishing than getting things done? Debating the options than getting things done? Being busy being busy than getting things done? Someone who is so tied up in procrastination that he or she has become the master at making excuses and turning their back on getting things done?
You know what’s even worse… to be someone who is tied up in procrastination and not even know it!
How do I know, I used to be a Master Procrastinator myself.
I once wanted to start a Procrastinator’s Club; however, I put it off and the club never started. I kept saying, I’ll start it tomorrow and that tomorrow never came.
The only way to Untie the Knots™ to YOUR Procrastination is through action. Committed action to the point where you do not stop until your ultimate goal is accomplished. You must move beyond wishing, daydreaming, putting off, doubting, excuse making, debating the options, and never finishing — to making it happen all the way through to completion.
Here is how you can begin today Untying the Knots™ to YOUR Procrastination! This is how I did it… and YES, it is time for you too to break free from the procrastination trap you’re in by teaching you a simple and quick planning process that focuses your energy on what you want most, and the actions that will get you there most quickly.
The Untie the Knots™ to Your Procrastination Process
Step 1: Redefine and refocus on your highest values and most important goals.
Step 2: Prioritize and write down the actions you must take to get your tasks and projects done, without sacrificing the important things you’re already working on.
Step 3: Identify and rid yourself of pointless busywork to clear hours from your schedule each week that will allow you to get the important things done.
Step 4: Set a starting time and date and a completion time and date for each important task or project. Write this information down on the same sheet of paper you wrote your Plan of Action on. This is now also your Personal Reminder Sheet, and you are to work through your projects until completion.
Step 5: When the start day and time comes — START! It’s okay to plan projects in phases; however, when it’s time to work, work. Do not blow any phase or part of your Plan of Action off until tomorrow.
Step 6: Stay true and committed to the activities that will get you the results you want. Minimize the distractions that will pull you off of your path towards completion. Your ultimate goal is completion and the enjoyment of stepping up to your Personal Reminder Sheet and “FINALLY” scratching or checking off your completed task or project.
Step 7: Reward yourself. You should always stop and personally reward yourself in the end. You’ve worked for it and you’re earned it. So, create a list of five to ten ways you would reward yourself for finishing a project and NOT succumbing to procrastination. Choose and enjoy one or two personal rewards, depending on the importance and size of the task, after completion.
Step 8: Journal. Here’s where you take five to fifteen minutes to journal about your experiences with working this particular project through to completion. What went smoothly? What were your challenges? Who help you? What resources did you call upon or learn about? Did you start on time? Did you finish on time? Where, if at all, did you find yourself procrastinating? If you did this project again, what things would you do differently?
Step 9: Move onto your next task or project.
I now personally plan six (6) MAJOR and IMPORTANT things that I must get done each year — and they are non-negotiable. I cannot talk or bluff my way out of completing them. I often accomplish a hundred or more small or medium sized tasks each year; however, my SIX MAJOR and IMPORTANT things are a must.
When I began executing my Untie the Knots™ to YOUR Procrastination Process twelve years ago, it was liberating. Imagine, being able to look back over a period of twelve years knowing that you have accomplished 72 MAJOR and IMPORTANT things in your life. A few things like: getting rid of all my credit cards and credit card debt; purchasing a new home; writing and publishing a book; creating and maintaining 19 business web sites; incorporating my business; getting better control of my health; and making sure my daughter arrived at college on time.
This moment right now is loaded with great value. You can choose to take action, and make that value your own, or you can choose to do nothing and forever remain tied up in your own never-ending knot of procrastination.
I assure you that it will be definitely refreshing and liberating when you too look back five, ten and twelve years from now to take stock of the countless MAJOR and IMPORTANT things you have accomplished in your life. All because you decided that today was THE Day that you will begin Untying the KnotsTM to YOUR Procrastination.
Decide to accept the tremendous opportunity that is already available to you. Let go of the excuses, and make this the moment THE moment you break free into real, effective, purposeful, and meaningful action.
Remember —
The knots of life may test you,
Leaving your will feeling battered and fried.
Don’t STOP!
Don’t QUIT!
NEVER GIVE UP!
You’re only been delayed,
But you’re RARELY denied!
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7 Necessary Steps to Success as a Professional Motivational Speaker
Whether you are just getting started as a professional motivational speaker or are already speaking professionally, from experience, I’ve found there are seven necessary steps to motivational speaking success. Let’s go over them:
Step #1: Create & Road-Test Your Signature Message: Every successful professional motivational speaker has a signature keynote message. Zig Ziglar - “Over The Top,” Les Brown - “The Courage to Live Your Dreams,” and Ty Howard - “Untie the Knots That Tie Up Your Life.” Professional motivational speakers create and present a signature message until they feel the entire world has heard it, at least twenty times over. What’s your signature message?
Step #2: Write Your Book: Successful speakers all have a book. You need to write one or have one written for you by a ghost writer.
Step #3: Niche Yourself: Trying to speak to everyone, everywhere, on every motivational topic known to man, is a losing proposition. Pick your niche (ideal target market) or niches and customize your message and materials to your target market.
Step #4: Create Products for Each of Your Niche Markets: If you sincerely believe in and are passionate about what you have to say and offer to an audience, then it’s your responsibility to give them an opportunity to take a part of your home with them. My system will explain to and guide you on how easy it is for you to create and sell product. It’s will be fun… and extremely profitable too.
Step #5: Create & Implement a Marketing & Sales Plan: The professional motivational speaker who knows how he/she is going to market and sell their services and products throughout the year, will be one of the most successful and happy motivational speakers by the end of the year.
A very few highly successful motivational speakers out there are maximizing their profit potential without an identified and written marketing and sales plan guiding them. You need to know who you’re marketing to and how you’re going to sell your services and products every step of the way.
Or you will put yourself with the rest of the motivational speakers who choose to use the “sink or swim” approach.
Step #6: Create & Implement a Reliable, Constant Follow-up & Follow-through System: You do not have to become the best motivational speaker on the planet to become very successful and wealthy in the business. However, if you make it your top priority to become a professional motivational speaker known for being reliable because of your constant follow-up and follow-through system. Meeting planners, clients, bureaus and your supporters will love to bring you more business and profits.
Step #7: Promote Your Own Seminars and Workshops: Many motivational speakers have to sit around and wait for the phone to ring. Either from a speakers bureau or from a client. In many cases, this turns into a very long wait, and often, emotional periods of gloom and discouragement.
Doing your own seminars and workshops puts YOU in control. No waiting for clients or bureaus to call. No downtime unless you decide there will be. You decide when you want to make money. What could be easier?
Author: Ty Howard is one of America’s TOP and in—demand dynamic motivational speakers on the circuit today. Ty’s marketing ingenuity and business acumen has propelled organizations to seek his counsel and advice, time-and-time again. His admirable communication skills have advanced him to one of America’s top professional speakers on the circuit today. His solid business background has made him a trusted source for management and executive development. Ty presents, worldwide, over 150 dynamic presentations each year to: corporations, government agencies, associations, sales teams, insurance groups, pharmaceutical groups, realty groups, college students, high school students, middle school students, teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, youth, young adults, churches and everyday people. Ty Howard helps people and organizations to turn their obstacles into opportunities, their frustrations into empowered-motivations, and their setbacks into constant victories.
Make the Choice Today to Go To and Take Hold of Your Dream
“Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
I have one simple question for you… right here and right now:
Are you currently working towards or working in your dream?
Today we celebrate the National Holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), a dominant force in the civil rights movement during its decade of greatest achievement, from 1957 to 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr. made a choice to move forward in life to Go To and Take Hold of a Dream. His dream was a dream of equality and fairness for everyone, and it all started with a choice.
We all have the power to choose, so let’s all make use of that power. Let’s all “Make the Choice Today to Go To and Take Hold of Our Personal Dream.”
What is your personal dream?
Do you want to improve some aspect of society? Do you want to improve yourself?
Do you want to help and improve others? Do you want to further your level of education? Do you want to change the job you’re currently working in to finally go to the career position you’re most passionate about? Do you want start and run your own successful business? Do you want to write and publish your first book?
What is your personal dream?
If you’re not working towards or working inside your dream today, you’re moving through life playing either small or scared. That’s not living life to the fullest, and you know it!
It was Martin Luther King Jr. who said, “You do not have to see the entire staircase to take the first step.”
When you are willing to make the choice to boldly take the first few necessary steps towards your dream, your life moves in a direction that is empowering to you. Choices make achievement and fulfillment possible, along with confidence and responsibility.
There is no better day than today for you to summon forth the self-confidence and responsibility for you to Make the Choice to Go To and Take Hold of Your Dream.
Your choices are what make your intentions real. Your choices are what make your life either a mediocre and unfulfilling or empowering and immersed in fulfilling happiness. Intentionally directed choices combined with focused efforts can connect and put you on a path working towards and in your dream.
I conclude this I-Booster borrowing and using a few words in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. (From his famous “I Have A Dream” Speech.)
“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
My I-Booster Friends, today we are created equal and all should have a dream. We also should hold ourselves accountable and responsible to “Making the Choice to Go To and Take Hold of Our Dream.”
With that said, I, Ty Howard, encourage and empower you to say, “Yes, I have a dream!”
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Now — Make the Choice Today to Go to and Take Hold of Your Dream!!!
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These T.I.P.S. (Techniques, Ideas, Principles and Strategies)are for everyone-especially those who want to achieve better results in the Year 2008 then they received in the Year 2007. Internalize and apply the concepts and you can make yourself more self-aware, powerful, peaceful, healthy, successful, tenacious, significant, and prosperous than you ever imagined.
From my heart to yours. Let’s move forward and closer to significance and greatness in the Year 2008.
Here are my 10 Infusers that will put you on a reliable path for self-empowerment and prosperity this year. Infusers that will help you free yourself from toxic habits, choices, people, and relationships.
Infuser #1: Reinstate A Positive Attitude
If you are serious about breaking free from these knots, you must adopt a positive mental attitude. You must be committed to developing and working constantly with a positive attitude, regardless of your past experiences or current situations or circumstances. Attitude is a choice. And the choice that you make from this point forward may mean you stay tied-up (STUCK) or you set yourself free.
Infuser #2: Refocus
How will you change the direction of your life if you’re not aware of what direction you’re currently in? Today, mark where you currently are, update yourself on where you truly want to be, then set new written goals so you can chart and execute your revised Personal Life Plan.
Infuser #3: Choose
Decide true freedom and life is what you want, and then go where you can produce those results. When you commit to “doing you” 100% of the time, regardless of what the world may throw your way, great and powerful things will begin to happen through and for you.
Infuser #4: Identify
To successfully break away from anything that has delayed or derailed your life in the past, you must summon the bold confidence to now identify it as a toxic habit, choice, person, or relationship.
Infuser #5: Simplify
Remove clutter, confusion, stress, and distractions from your life daily, and watch new, desired opportunities appear.
Infuser #6: Believe
It takes your strong will and unshakable faith to believe that it’s possible to make anything worth doing.
Infuser #7: Move
Don’t just stand there knowing: Do it! Quit procrastinating and making excuses. Create an updated personal life plan, boldly face your fears, and move forward daily in executing your new Personal Life Plan.
Infuser #8: Bring Your “A” Game
The winners in life don’t just show up; they bring their BEST preparation, plan, and effort to the world every day!
Infuser #9: Persist
How bad do you want what you now see? No more excuses…no more procrastination…no more bad and unproductive days! Stay the course! Make it your business to prevent self-sabotage and outside-sabotage from tying you up by monitoring and maintaining your personal radar for potential daily hazards.
Infuser #10: Leave A Mark of Significance
It’s one thing to have lived and simply come and gone. It’s another thing to have purposely decided to create and live a life of significance: a life that will enable you to leave behind a lasting legacy that will contribute to your family’s heritage and also allow the many others who come after you to learn and grow from your efforts. If you connect what you’re doing and striving for to the improvement of your family, community, and the world around you, you will increase the probability that you will leave a lasting mark of significance…a lasting legacy…for friends, family, community, and the world. Those you love and care for will benefit from your significance for many years. All because you decided to create and live a life of significance versus a life of “It’s All About Me!”
When you begin to think and act with a more positive attitude, then you can begin to improve and move your life in the direction of consistently fulfilling your goals, dreams, and aspirations. You can only do this when toxic habits, choices, people, and relationships don’t tie up his or her life.
Remember, this is an investment in you. The light is green: The time is now. You’re more than worthy. You may have been delayed, but you’re rarely denied. Never quit! Never stop! Don’t EVER give up! And, once will never be enough. Let’s learn this process, apply it, and do it again-and-again!
You’re on the verge of identifying and untying your knots in 2008, and empowering yourself towards desired prosperity. I wish you a knot breaking, and green and growing journey in this New Year. Let’s get started…now, GO!
( Extracted directly from Ty’s best-selling book Untie the Knots™ That Tie Up Your Life: A Practical Guide to Freeing Yourself From Toxic Habits, Choices, People, and Relationships. Knots Free Publishing. Baltimore, Maryland. March 2007. ISBN 978-0-9724040-0-6. Available everywhere: in bookstores, online, and on www.tyhoward.com )
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Foreword by: Keith Harrell, Author of Attitude Is Everything
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