Pursuing Your Destiny

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Pursuing Your Destiny
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The First StepGoal/Going After Something

• Others will make your mind up for you
• Easily persuaded

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Dr. Benjamin E. Mays

• The tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching
  your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to
  reach. It isnt a calamity to die with dreams
  unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
  It is not a disgrace to reach for the stars, but
  it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
  Not failure, but low aim is sin.

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Goal Setting Process

• Specific
• Paying the price
• Why
• Plan
• Goals with deadlines

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What does it take to reach your goal?

• Made up mind
• Commitment
• Focus

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The Second Step

• Being A Good Steward Of Your Time

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Carl Sandburg

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only
  coin you have, and only you can determine how it
  will be spent. Be careful lest you let other
  people spend it for you.

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Herb Gardner

• You have got to own your days and live them, each
  one of them, every one of them, or else the years
  go right by and none of them belong to you.

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What Are You Doing With Your Time?

• Thinking
• Speaking
• Action
• Results

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The Third Step

• Having The Ability To Handle A Setback

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How To Make A Comeback From A Setback?

• Realize this is not the end of your dreams
• Understanding the process
• Put things in the proper prospective

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The Fourth Step

• Put Your Past Behind You

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Tied To The Past

• Dwelling
• Desire to get even
• Self Pity

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Stop Beating Yourself Up

• They allow their condition to define them
• They allow others to define them based upon their
  condition

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Keep Fighting

• Become solution driven
• Change your thinking
• Change your speaking
• Plant seeds daily

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Why People Are Not Solution Driven?

• Worry
• So focused and pre-occupied on the problem
• Dont want to deal with the reality of what they
  are facing

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Moving On

• Willingness
• Practice forgiveness
• Focus on the experiences that you gained as a
  result of the loss
• Focus on where you are going

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The Fifth Step

• Having The Ability To Leave Your Comfort Zone

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Brian Tracey

• The comfort zone is the greatest enemy to human
  kind

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Fear

• Paralyzes the gift of imagination
• Destroys self reliance
• Destroys enthusiasm

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Leaving Your Comfort Zone

• Begin listing the things that are keeping you
  tied to your comfort zone
• Look at your condition
• Make a decision to act
• Stand on your decision
• Understand the process of leaving your comfort
  zone

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Step Six

• Having The Right Team For Your Dream

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Exercise

• Identify your current team members

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You Must Have The Right Team Assembled

• Choose people who can handle your past
• Choose people who can handle your past
• Choose people who can handle where you are going
• Choose people who can make you stretch