Monday, December 3, 2007

7 Steps to Taking Your Life Back!

1. Identify and eliminate everything you are currently tolerating. This can include minor annoyances all the way up to the behavior of other people.
2. Automate everything that can be automated - paying bills, marketing systems, administration, voice mails etc.3. Eliminate toxic people from your life. Sometimes you just have to let people go. Now is the time.
4. Decide who gets to play in your yard then establish impenetrable boundaries. Think of it like having a fence around your yard. You determine who is in the yard and who stays out. Only you can open and close the gate. You can talk to people over the fence but that doesn't mean you have to let them in. Choose wisely.
5. Decide to only do business and associate with people you like, trust, and respect. If one, two (or all three!) of these are missing, why on earth would you want these people in your life or your business?
6. Workout. Not for anyone else, just for you. Not because you'll look better but because you'll feel, breathe, sleep, think, relax, work, and play better. And, most importantly, because you can't accomplish such lofty goals when you feel awful - you need maximum energy.

7. Refuse to participate in anything negative, including gossip, one-upsmanship, and sarcasm, whose sole purposes are to tear down something or someone else. It also includes tearing yourself down. Replace all talk of the past, which is unproductive, with talk of the ideal future. Moving forward physically means moving forward mentally.

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