Being The Best You Can Be

One of the most unique and powerful gifts we all have is the ability to better ourselves every day, in every way.

• Who we are * How we act * How we react
• How we attract

• Make one better decision about what you eat. Drop the sugar or salt you usually add to your food. Enjoy one less beer, or one more helping of fiber or greens. Move away from white flour. Stop buying the things at the grocery store that do not support your health. If they are not in the kitchen, you are not as likely to eat them. Rethink how you look at food: from a source of pleasure, to a source of necessary fuel. Food is fuel. Bad fuel causes engine failure. Good fuel wins races.
• Drink more water. Put a gallon of water in the refrigerator and make it your goal to consume it every day.
• Add one more physical activity. Walk the stairs instead of taking the elevator. Walk to the mailbox. Hire a personal trainer. Stretch. Do something fun and physical every day.
• Take time to relax... even 20 minutes a day can make a difference. Give yourself permission to lie in the hammock or take a quiet bath.

When we act with excellence, speak with excellence, listen with excellence, and behave as excellent as we can in the moment, we are valued, we are attractive, we are trusted and we are loved.

• Make a commitment to say something kind every day... then increase it to every hour.
• Make the same commitment to do something kind every day. “Pay it forward.”
• Make the same commitment to listen to someone... really listen to what they are saying, what they are not saying, what they really want to say, and how they feel. Listen to someone at a therapeutic level once a day.
• Audit your conversations. Develop the habit of asking yourself after each statement, “What was my motive in saying what I said and how I said it? Was it to contribute to the person, or to make myself look good?” Then ask yourself how you feel about someone who speaks to make themselves look good, more important than you, or more “right” than you.
• Make a bold request every day that will improve a relationship, business productivity, or will improve another person. For example, make a bold request that a friend or loved one stop speaking negatively about him or herself – battering their own poor self esteem. Or make a request that your spouse do something that you know will improve your love and relationship. When bold requests are made out of the context of support and improvement, they are often the tipping point that leads a person to act with excellence.

We can develop new “reactions” by developing new interpretations and habits.

There is a path, proven a billion times, which will bring any of us the luck in life we so richly deserve. It is a simple path of vision and self motivation.

What are your authentic core values? You will want to list them, keep them visually present, and refer to them as often as possible.

Learn your imposed values, write them down and create a life plan to move away from them. This is not easy, nor will it usually happen quickly. And, it must happen for the real power you possess in your life to show up for you.

Once you know who you are (authentic values and gifts) you are ready to imagine what you want to do with your life, what you want to have in your life and, most importantly, who you want to be.

We can have the same imprinting process on ourselves, by imagining and affirming our own story. When you have done this so often that you are starting to believe your imagined story, you will have created a vision.

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