Don't Lose Sight of Your Personal Dreams and Goals

I’ve worked for someone else for over 30 years of my life in a full-time capacity. That’s a long time to invest in something other than the dreams and goals I have for myself. However, working for a company or someone else's business is not an uncommon thing. Being able to provide for yourself and your family is absolutely necessary and its great when you can do that while working in a nice, comfortable and drama free environment. If you are happy and satisfied with what you are doing to earn a living, that’s wonderful!

In my experience, most people are not satisfied with their day jobs and we become comfortable with helping someone else achieve their career goals, while we allow them to give us just enough money and benefits to keep helping them to succeed. Therefore, we can get so preoccupied with working a day job that it distracts us from pursuing our personal dreams and goals.

One thing you must realize and stay constantly aware of is that you have the potential within to be successful and live the life of your dreams.

Here are 3 tips to help you get started with accomplishing your dreams and goals while working a day job.

1. Purchase a Journal. Writing down your dreams and goals is a great first step to make toward achievement. It helps you to see what it is you intend to accomplish. When you review your dreams and goals daily it provides a certain level of focus and motivation for you to keep moving forward.


2. Utilize Social Media. This is another wonderful action step to take towards your dreams and goals. Being on Social Media, gives you an opportunity to learn everything you need to in your desired interest. You are also able to connect with like-minded individuals to learn from or to acquire potential clients. Conducting your business online can be done in the comfort of your own home or anywhere you can connect.


3. Hire a Success Coach. Being a coach myself, I can say that this is the most important tip to getting your dreams and goals accomplished. I, personally, accomplish so much more when I am working together with my coach. I love the support, new ideas and strategies that I did not know that help me expand my thinking. It helps me through obstacles that may block my accomplishment at the time.

We all have different responsibilities and circumstances and some are more challenging than others. If you have a deep desire and belief that there is something more you must do in life, know that it is possible. There is truth to the old saying, "Where there is a will, there is a way."

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JoAnn Youngblood King, CTA Certified Success Coach, Author, Speaker and Owner of Live Your Potential is a member of Coach Training Alliance, and The International Association of Coaches. She specializes in working with mom entrepreneurs to find the time needed to start their business or take their existing business to the next level. To reach your immediate goals get strategic steps by subscribing to her newsletter to the right. For ways of achieving goals with your faith, JoAnn's new book is released, Live Your Potential and Let Your Faith Lead You to Success available on Amazon.

Beyond the Comfort Zone

Are you living life the way that you want to? Do you wake up every morning excited and happy to start your day?  Or, do you force yourself to get up, tackle your daily routine and grin and bear it? I have definitely been there, done that. The number one thing that has helped me to change my attitude everyday is being aware of the potential I have inside to create the type of life I want for myself and my family.

Many of us say that we are sick and tired of the way our life is going.  However, how tired are we really? If you have been trying to accomplish something more for your life, and you’re not seeing results, you may have gotten accustomed to just complaining about it.  Although we may not like complaining or listening to the complaints of others, they are familiar and comfortable to us like an old habit.  Knowing that is wonderful, because we have the power inside to change our habits, the power to acquire skills and the power to choose our attitude, our happiness and our success! 

Stop complaining about what hasn’t happened and what you want to happen or who is keeping you from making it happen. Get up, get moving and make it happen!  You can accomplish whatever it is you set out to do! You are capable of more than you realize! You must challenge yourself!  

Challenging yourself a little everyday will help you to see the potential that exists within your life. 

Several years ago, Jazz musician, Herbie Hancock mentioned on a television program, “… as soon as people latch on to something where people will say hey that’s really good, then they want to stay there because that’s security, that’s acceptance and they feel comfortable…they don’t want to move outside of their comfort zone, but the hip stuff is outside of the comfort zone.”

The successful life of your dreams, the “hip stuff” is right outside of your comfort zone.  Now is the time to get rid of the complaints, Challenge yourself, live your potential and create the successful life you desire!

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining.  You make progress by implementing ideas. – Shirley Chisholm

“It’s important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you’re not familiar or accustomed to.  That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.” – J. R. Martinez

“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that is where the fruit is.” – Will Rogers

Live Your Potential and Be the Next Top Success Story!

3 simple action steps to get started living the life of your dreams!

 

Knowing that you have the potential to accomplish your goals and dreams and not taking action to achieve them is the same as working at your job for a whole week and not getting paid for it.  The potential is there for you to receive a paycheck because you did the work. You did the work and expect to be compensated.  Not getting paid for your work is not acceptable.  In order to have a successful life you must tap into your potential for success.  We all have the potential for great success.  Not using that potential to have a successful life should also be non-negotiable.  Once you make the decision to Live Your Potential, here are 3 very simple action steps that are required to get you started. 

1. Be Determined. Once you realize your potential for success and make the choice to succeed, you have to have a very strong determination to see it through. The strength of your determination is what will move you to your intended result, regardless of time and money. There are many stories of successful people who started out with very little time and money. However, because of their strong determination, they didn’t let anything stop them from accomplishing their goals.
2. Be Grateful. To attract the success you would like into your life, you need to appreciate and be grateful for the success you already possess. You may easily spend time thinking of things you want and things you don’t have. At those times, you should remember to give thanks and be grateful for what you have already. The more grateful you are for the things you have in your life, the more things you will have to be grateful for.
   
3. Have Faith. I’m sure there are times when you may not realize or may often forget how powerful you are. A lot of us go through our daily lives hoping, wishing, and praying for things to be better than they are. The fact is that they can be better than they are. It’s all up to you! You are the one who has to make the decision about how you want things to go. When you pray and ask for guidance and wisdom, you must have strong faith and know that the answer will come. It’s up to you to remain open to receiving the answer.

To accomplish your goals and dreams and have the successful life you desire, you must start within.  It’s important to create the energy of what you want within yourself before you can manifest it.  You have the potential to be the next top success story!

As your success coach, I will support you in staying on track with your dreams and goals and will be committed to your success and happiness.  My goal is to help you make this a great life, and expand your consciousness so that you may grow and flourish in pursuit of your dreams.

The more goals you accomplish, the greater your success story! By accomplishing at least one of your goals in just 6 weeks, you will realize how taking simple steps and making some necessary changes will put you in line with your desired level of success.  Live Your Potential offers an email program called “Be The Next Top Success Story” which is designed to teach you how to tap into the successful person you are already and lead you to the next level of your success!  For details and to get started on the road to being the next top success story contact Live Your Potential at info@liveyourpotential.com.