We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Denis Waitley
(1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert)
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Bruce Lee undoubtedly has realized amazing success. Was he simply born with all of his talents and were his opportunities handed to him on a silver platter? Of course not! Life Coaches Blog reveals six things we never knew about Bruce Lee’s success. My favorite on the list is number 3: His greatest achievement came from a less than perfect victory.
As a bonus, the post includes a video containing rare Bruce Lee footage (albeit with horrendouse music…just turn the volume off).
What You Didn’t Know About Bruce Lee’s Kick-Ass Success [Life Coaches Blog]
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Elizabeth Brokamp over at the Motley Fool offers a list of ways to help you save. She categorizes these tips into Money Matters, Household, Medicine, General Shopping, Groceries, Lifestyle, and Automotive. If you’ve been looking for ways to save more, here’s a list to get you started.
50 Simple Tips for Big Savings [Fool.com]
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Here I am, just a week after posting New Year’s Resolutions in which one resolution was to write in my blog at least once a week, and already I’ve almost let a week pass without writing a post. Any website, particularly weblogs, can be considered dead sites if not updated regularly.
Just why is it that so soon after making a written public commitment to something I have almost failed to follow through on that commitment? Quite simply, I have tended to be a perfectionist. In striving to find a perfect topic to post about or create something absolutely awe-inspiring, the inevitable result is that this search for perfection caused a hindrance of action.
You don’t have to be a perfectionist to empathize with my tendencies. Why do so many people fail to keep their yearly resolutions? That one cigarette leads to a return to the habit. One skipped workout leads to an unused gym membership. The frustration at perfectly following the resolution paralyzes progress in fulfilling the overall goal.
Many of my proudest accomplishments came about when I dropped the need to be perfect, stopped fearing failure, and moved forward. I’m no Edgar Allan Poe. Every word in my blog post need not be as significant as each word in one of Poe’s works of art. So, forgive yourself if you slip in that one smoke or sneak in an extra slice of cake. Accept that mistakes do happen and then move on. Don’t abandon your goals if you encounter a setback. Just remember to get back on track once you forgive yourself.
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Another year has come and gone. One more new year. One more set of resolutions. For some time, I had been pretty good about both creating and keeping my list of goals for the year. But I can’t even remember if I made resolutions last year. Perhaps that’s why I’m not sad to see 2006 pass on by. At times it felt like I was lost in the jungle without a map. Well, the beginning of another year offers a perfect time to create that map (not to mention a perfect time to write a first post).
So many advice articles and goal-setting tips recommend to create measurable and realistic goals which can be accomplished in one year. I will go into detail about each goal in future posts and revisit these resolutions throughout the year to track my progress. Yes, the measurable aspect of each goal may not exactly be too lofty, but that only means that I have no excuse not to carry these out.
Here are my 2007 New Year’s Resolutions:
- First and foremost, I will keep family and friends as my number one priority.
- I will finish reorganizing my finances.
- I will exercise at least twice a week.
- I will write in my blog at least once a week.
- I will finish the initial development of my personal site.
- A secondary source of income with positive cash flow will be established.
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