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The mind that is full of positive emotions creates an incubator for developing belief and faith. In the same way, a mind full of negative emotions and attitudes is a toxic environment that destroys belief and faith.

Create a “goal statement” describing in detail what you want to achieve and what you are going to give in return for it. Read your statement aloud twice daily, once in the morning and once in the evening while you visualize and imagine the goal you want to achieve. This exercise is a very powerful way to build belief and confidence and will help you achieve your most important goals.

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

How many emails are in your inbox right now? Yes, it’s probably 80% spam, but that leaves 20% that’s not. How many missed opportunities are in there? How many irate people are waiting for your reply?

Every day you wait it gets worse. If you have 400 email messages, do the math – if you spend only one minute reading / answering each email, that would take almost 7 hours! And when you add in the fact that you probably already read some of them but didn’t respond/address it then, you’re doubling your email time. The trick is to deal with emails regularly and completely and immediately.

When faced with a dilemma you just cannot seem to figure out or decide on, step out of yourself. Pretend it’s a friend or co-worker struggling. What would you tell them? What words or guidance would you offer? What suggestions would have have for them? When you remove your own emotions, things can appear clearer. Solutions are obvious.

Nice little sheet you can print out and keep in your wallet to keep your goals with you at all times. http://www.isetmygoals.com/goal-setting.html

PS – I just folded it in half longways and then accordion with no cuts. Never could get his folding instructions to work right.

Warning: planning creates problems challenges. And when you look for problems, you will find them. And when you find them you will make them bigger.

Before you start looking for problems, remember….

• What we focus on becomes our reality.
• Search for solutions that already exist
• Build on what is working.
• Every moment we spend focused on a problem is a moment not spent on moving forward.

Vision is, by definition, currently impossible.  Otherwise you’d be doing it not just dreaming and talking about it.  You accomplish your vision by solving all of the things that make it currently impossible. It’s called reality. – 60 minute strategic plan

Success Planning
for Musicians and Bands

“Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice.
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where . . . ,” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
Lewis Carol – Alice in Wonderland

Planning is for

• Dreamers who decide it’s time to start doing.

• People who are feeling their lives are out of control

• People whose to do lists are several pages long.