20 Steps To Out Of The Box Success Thinking

Today was a day of self reflection and boy, was there a lot to look back on, including the many times I've judged myself harshly for not being further ahead in my online business career.

Sometimes because life challenges overwhelmed me and stopped me right in my tracks. Or situations where information overload, family stress and the pressure to keep fresh blog content led to frustrated action paralysis.

There were too many times spent reacting as the long distance swimmer who has forgotten to keep his or her eyes focused forward. Knowing that to look to the right, or to the left will allow doubt to creep in, and will cause a focus on the competitors rather than the victory ahead.

I decided to share with you some of the things that grew out of that introspection. My hope is that reading about them will prove beneficial to your own "out of the box success thinking." Innovation and not wanting to be spoon fed step-by-step while building my business, but taking good information and mixing it with my own spin adds to my self-value, instead of detracting from it.

 

• Innovation and not wanting to be spoon fed step-by-step while building my business, but taking good information and mixing it with my own spin adds to my self-value, instead of detracting from it.
• Originality, or finding the value in my own voice and sharing my individual uniqueness builds my confidence and reduces my fears.
• The goal is to lead others more than I follow, but not to count it as a weakness when I need to lean on others occasionally for support.
• No matter how much I learn about marketing online, my biggest growth comes when I see things the way my target visitors or customers do.
• A far better strategic plan is over delivering where I can, rather than underachieving everywhere else.
• Experiences which do not kill me, ultimately will make me stronger. I can then use those experiences to enrich the lives of others still involved in the struggle.
• Enhanced living each day will allow me to not only lift myself up, it will help me reach out to lift up others.
• Practicing gratitude rather than grouchiness will always take me further.
• "Having it all," but losing everything else in the process will ultimately be a hollow victory.
• I must decide what a balanced lifestyle is to me. If I have sacrificed my health, my integrity, my relationships or my self worth, then the price has been too high.
• Experience more appreciation for what's been achieved, not despair for what has failed.
• Continue to experiment and learn from my mistakes, not become stagnant and resistant to change.
• Pat myself on the back with self-approval more often than I beat myself up with stress, anxiety and frustration.
• A heightened awareness of limiting beliefs and childhood programmed actions allows me to change them to more productive ones, keeping me out of avoidance thinking.
• Everyone has a different route, time and place for success. Measuring myself against the speed of growth of others is a negative energy drain.
• The challenges I must overcome on my particular path to success, will vary from everyone else. Fairness has nothing to do with it. What is...simply is. I determine if I will let challenges stop me or not.
• Mistakes can become steps to wisdom, or stumbling blocks to growth. I decide which will become which.
• Realize the value of relationship building, yet practice gentleness with myself when life circumstances prevent a focus on social networking.
• The one constant that I can be certain of is that things will change in time.
• Learning to let go of the things which I cannot change, or have no control over is a sign of courage not cowardice.
• The only life limitations that belong to me are the ones I choose to accept.

I'm an internet nomad I suppose, but here's a site I stumbled on that reminded me of the ice sculptures I so love looking at (only these are veggies). Take a look, be amazed, amused and inspired. Visit http://www.mosspink.com/veggies.html to see what I mean. Enjoy

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes... Who Has It Easier As Entrepreneurs, Men Or Women?


A hearty midwestern hello to visitors of my humble little blog. As indicated by my post title, there's a LOT going on! Can you believe it?! We had s.n.o.w. on the first day of Spring! Now the weather keeps changing so the poor robins, geese, rabbits and other critters in the field behind my back yard are totally confused. I think I saw a few of them packing to go back South.

I feel awful about not posting for a few weeks, but life will have its way. Last week I was feeling rather optimistic because finally I was able to complete a book on lead generation, start research on my personal book project, and locate new templates to try on the site since CSS is being very naughty with me right now. I even got a chance to play around with a few software programs that have been sitting impatiently on my hard drive for, probably like forever. Ah, good times...good times.

"Mix it up get it right, go for another try... run it back again;Replay, hit rewind...," ok, ok... it's true I'm also seeking refuge from "High School Musical mania, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgins, Ashley Tinsdale and Corbin Bleu." If those names don't ring a bell for you, you either don't have or live with kids, you've been on a deserted island for the past few years, or you have no television, which is just, well... plain sad. (Just kidding!)

Today I sat down to write to all of you and, "wham!" My computer keyboard shelf fell absolutely in my lap. With nothing but lovely words to my feline-child TK the cat, who had to make sure there was a thorough investigation, I scrounged around looking for the best hiding bolt in the world. So now I'm twisted under the desk trying to screw in this uncooperative bolt and, "Eureka!" It's finally in. Now to put the heavy desk shelf back. A few minutes of tussling revealed the replacement bolt that took me a half hour to locate, had a big round head (not a flat head) that blocked the side rail from fitting in so... I needed another bolt. As my son shouts when frustrated, "Oh, My Goooddness!"

As the drawer finally slides in properly, the doorbell rings. With a longing glance towards my cooling coffee, I enter a discussion on yard maintenance, why I need it, observations on the job our current provider is doing and yadda, yadda, yadda.

Loading the dishwasher on my way back to the PC, it's now almost 2:00 so quick food prep for the kids who descend on me at 3. Still, no coffee. There's practice for 6th grade performance of "McBeth" and tutoring at 5pm, signing up for football practice, telephone interruptions, lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!

So all this activity led me to what I think is a rather awesome question. Who has it easier, male entrepreneurs or females? If we switched roles for the day, who do you think would be able to accomplish more? Hmmm, just a thought.

Something wicked this way came... at least in my Technorati faves! I've been under incredible personal stress as many of you know, so I've been off my game for a bit. I wondered why one of my Stumble friends had an undesirable word underneath as a tag. I corrected that. Then when looking at Technorati--- to say I was speechless would be an understatement. What I found was that many undesired posts showed up under my favs... and they are definitely not on any lists I'm a part of.  How can this be possible? Why are negative sites showing up under my Technorati faves?! Have I been hacked somehow? It would appear so. For now, I'm working on getting this garbage deleted immediately, then I'll post to a few friends and Technorati support to see what's amiss. This really stinks.