| "How much more work would it be to do this | | | | example, to allow yourself to do shoddy work |
| task as well as I can versus as quickly as I can? | | | | once and then again is to create momentum. A |
| What value would it be to me to do it as well as I | | | | third time is like an avalanche... Hard to stop it. The |
| can?" In our back yard, about 15 feet from the | | | | fourth time is virtually guaranteed.When the |
| house is a large, gorgeous maple tree. In the | | | | brownies or chips and soda make it into the |
| summer, it's home to a number of birds. Last | | | | shopping cart every week, that's it. Run past that |
| year, at the end of a long branch, which extends | | | | aisle. Achieve a little success. Get a little |
| to within 7 feet of our upstairs bathroom window, | | | | momentum going the other way. When the |
| some robins built a nest where they lived all | | | | sitcom wins out consistently over the homework |
| summer until the weather got too cold. Both our | | | | or baseball practice in the back yard, then you are |
| cats just lay in the windowsill for hours all summer | | | | creating a rotten habit, which develops a |
| watching the birds come and go less than 7 feet | | | | character. Done long enough, and that becomes |
| from their window perch.Now keep in mind that | | | | who you are...But thank God that with just a little |
| this winter was absolutely brutal. 14 feet of snow. | | | | effort we can change those things by making |
| The wind blew like no winter that I can ever | | | | only slight direction changes. The nest in my back |
| recall. Never as often and as hard as this year, it | | | | yard is now housing a new family of robins who |
| seemed. It was just miserable from mid October | | | | didn't have to do a thing. They just moved in. All |
| until April. Yet this bird's nest, sitting on a long | | | | the work was done already. They just hung a |
| branch wide open to the chilling, hammering winds | | | | few pictures, threw out a "Welcome" mat and |
| and cold that snaps electrical wires like tooth | | | | called it home.And once you change the |
| picks, stayed right there. Every day, I'd look out | | | | momentum of any downward slide you may be |
| at this nest and there it was, gripping that | | | | in, it's deceptively simple to stop the slide, make a |
| branch...And I've got to believe that the robins | | | | few right decisions and your entire destiny can |
| that built the nest were no smarter or more | | | | change. If I was to get in my truck right now and |
| skilled in nest building than any of the robins in my | | | | drive due west for just four days, I'd be in North |
| neighbors' trees. They simply didn't want their | | | | Bend, Oregon. But if I was pointing only about 5 |
| home to fall apart no matter what. So they build | | | | degrees to the south, in the same four days I'd |
| it to withstand the worst possible conditions. No | | | | end up in Los Angeles, California... about 960 miles |
| short cuts. No excuses.Tell me, what if you were | | | | further south.Now hold your thumb and fore |
| to take every little task you do today, and do | | | | finger about an eighth of an inch apart. Go ahead. |
| your absolute best? What if you were to mow | | | | Do it. You see, most of the time the difference |
| the lawn as well as you could today? What if you | | | | between horrible, devastating failure and massive, |
| gave your all to every customer or prospective | | | | glorious success is only that far apart. In the next |
| customer? How much more effort would it take | | | | four days, will you have chosen to stay on |
| to be the best husband, wife or significant other | | | | course?Keep reminding yourself of how important |
| than you normally put in? What would it really | | | | each hour and each decision is. Do that every |
| take to avoid eating beyond being comfortably | | | | hour today, and I guarantee that no matter what |
| full? To finish your homework and then study for | | | | doesn't go right, you won't be too terribly |
| another 30 minutes for good measure?You know, | | | | bothered by it. Isn't THAT the direction you |
| hold your thumb and fore finger about an eighth | | | | wanted to go in today?WINNING BELIEFS:-- I'm |
| of an inch apart. Go ahead. Do it. You see, most | | | | keeping on course today-- Today is my day to |
| of the time the difference between horrible, | | | | succeed-- I'm making all the right decisions now-- I |
| devastating failure and massive, glorious success | | | | enjoy each of my victories no matter how small-- |
| is only that far apart. It's not that much more | | | | I'm doing things right the first time |
| work. Often, it's hardly any real effort at all.Every | | | | todayEMPOWERING QUOTE: |
| single day I get emails from people who have | | | | "All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us |
| given up hope of ever being really happy and | | | | should have an equal opportunity to develop our |
| satisfied in life. "I'm beyond help." "I'm happy that | | | | talents." -John F. KennedyWhat if you had the |
| you're doing this work for other people... Too bad | | | | same minute-by-minute thoughts as the super |
| it can't help me." They read the emails. They may | | | | successful? Mike Brescia has developed the |
| even buy the tapes, and either don't listen to | | | | ultimate mental conditioning programs that can |
| them as prescribed, or when changes do begin | | | | help anyone wipe out intense fears and enjoy |
| either with positive progress or with negative | | | | huge successes in all areas of life.Mike Brescia is |
| tension created by the rapid changes happening, | | | | the creator of the world-renowned Think Right |
| they quit because the change is uncomfortable at | | | | Now! Accelerated Success Conditioning Programs. |
| first."Whoa! That's not me! Who am I kidding? | | | | Mike becomes your own personal success coach - |
| Better slow down." The bottom line is, change is | | | | guiding, motivating, inspiring, teaching and moving |
| always wanted on some level but hardly ever | | | | you in a way that only a best friend would. Mike |
| completely enjoyable at first. If there is one thing | | | | will inspire you to take a hard look at yourself and |
| that you MUST beat into your head every day | | | | be accountable for what you are in life, to be |
| like a mantra, it is that success at anything is | | | | dissatisfied with the "old you" and the bad habits, |
| simple. GOD, it's so simple!It's just a matter of | | | | to take action, ready to happily do whatever it |
| repetition of little thoughts and little actions. For | | | | takes to win the game of life. |