Do you have the WILL to succeed?
Color Commentary for Monday, October 30, 2017
By E. R. Haas
Is A Matter Of Will.
"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster." ~ William Bridges
All last week we focused on creating the future of your dreams. In short, if you don't learn to EXPECT successcreating your own self-fulfilling prophecy of the life you loveit will forever elude you. Conversely, learn to Expect More and Execute Better, and you will fill your life with abundance beyond the dreams of avarice!
You have been given WINGS. Do you believe you can FLY?
This week, we will be discussing The Will to Succeed... the pure determination necessary to triumph over fear, uncertainty and doubt as you move towards your most cherished dreams and goals.
No question, Will Power beats Can't Power everytime!
In "TQ-Speak", you already have your WINGS... now you must BELIEVE you can fly!
Do you have the WILL to succeed?
Please take a moment to visualize your top three 2016-2017 goals. Where do you want to be exactly 1 year from now?
Now, write down the prime REASON for pursuing these goals, or the big REWARD you expect to get once you attain them. (Remember, the WHY behind your goals is far more important than the WHAT.)
1. ___________________________ Reward _________________
2. ___________________________ Reward _________________
3. ___________________________ Reward _________________
Time Horizon: 12/31/2017
A Prediction...
If the REWARDS/benefits/values within each goal are not greater than your FEAR of moving towards them, you simply don't have the WILL Power necessary to move them off this page and into your life. You will FAIL to achieve these goals.
However, when you are willing to move heaven and earth to attain the benefits inherent within each goal, you WILL.
When your POWER is greater than the SIZE of the goal, you succeed.
Your CAN'T turns to WILL and what a tremendous difference this makes!
In "TQ Speak," this means turning up the intensity of your Act Now Color... by learning to keep your eye on the ROSE, not the THORNS, by taking swift action—INSPITE of your natural reluctance and hesitation to do so.
One of the most important Factors governing the brightness of your Act Now Color is TQ Factor 10d. It asks if you "use fear as a call to action, and act without delay to reduce the threat?"
So, do you?
When you are stopped by fear, you almost always fail. Every type of fear—physical, emotional or social—has the beneficial purpose of protecting you from harm. However, this does not mean you must always stop.
Remember this: Thought directs action.
Confirm the value of your goal and the appropriateness of your actions. Then, consciously choose to focus on more productive thoughts. Master this and you can act in spite of your fear—and continue toward your desired goal.
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"~ Henry Ford
Factor 10D's CONTRIBUTION to your performance...
A high commitment to this Factor of your performance suggests you are a person whose answer to a fearful situation is to take immediate action. Rather than sit and worry, you do whatever you can to resolve or reduce the threat.
You change your focus from what you fear, to what you want and can do.
You gather information, seek expert opinions, change direction, increase performance, sharpen skills and make better plans. You get help when needed, shore up defenses and take any action necessary to improve the situation.
Factor 10D's COST to your success...
A lack of commitment to this Factor suggests you are someone who does more fretting than fixing. Progress stops when you are confronted with a fearful situation.
Lacking the personal strategies to keep going in spite of the fear, you tend to avoid the situation rather than resolve it.
It's easier to skirt the issue, delay the conversation or divert yourself with unrelated tasks. Unfortunately, these strategies never really improve your situation, and you remain a victim to the fear for as long as it exists.
The bottom line?
You gain immediate power over your fears by taking a positive forward action. Otherwise, you are robbed of all personal power until the cause of the fear goes away.
A loss of WILL Power occurs when you permit FEAR to take hold. Fear reduces your Energy level... destroys your Attitude... clouds your Goals... ensnares your Plans... causes a loss of Focus... and stops others dead in their tracks from helping you.
Yes, FEAR is a prime reason why people NEVER achieve their goals.
Yes, Success is in your DNA...
We can actually PROVE it!
When we initially created the huge TQ performance database, one central question guided our extensive research: Why do some people succeed brilliantly — almost effortlessly — while others, with equal talent and intelligence... struggle just to make it through the day... living from paycheck to paycheck with no real progress made towards achieving their dreams and goals?
Ultimately, the question became, ''Why do smart people fail?''
After ten years, and millions of dollars of research, the answer, it turns out, is quite simple...
Smart people fail because they fail to consistently take smart actions! It is no more complicated than that.
With tens of millions of data points, we have learned that there is a direct, almost perfect correlation between the actions you take — day-in, day-out — and your overall level of satisfaction, happiness and success in life.
Over time, we concluded that success is in your DNA:
When you take swift ACTION to optimize the use of your precious time... when you take bold ACTION to overcome uncertainty, fear and doubt... when you take positive ACTION to change your mood when your attitude starts to turn negative... you INSTANTLY transform your performance from mediocre to excellent
Thus, the key to success
Won't you achieve your most heart-felt goals a great deal sooner, if you have greater WILL POWER? What's holding you back?
-- E.R. Haas, CEO
If you have any questions you would like us to answer personally, just send us an email! Click Here Answers@ThinkTQ.com... The only dumb question is the one that's important to you... and you didn't ask! Without question, successful people consistently take SMARTER ACTIONS than those who constantly find themselves in the throws of failure, disappointment and unfulfilled hopes and dreams.
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Running Member Comments...
I WILL submit my PhD proposal
I WILL help my daughter read
I WILL help my son get 90% in Maths...
Yes I WILL....
Sometimes you just have to trust to luck and hope that it works - most of the time I have been soooooooooooo lucky - sometimes it is better to be lucky than good - I never had a need (internal ) to be great - I hope all of you are in the same boat as me - CUZ - It has been great so far - not to say I have not had some rocky (sic) times - Because I have . wow - thanks everybody and I hope this day you will be the person you should be - Just be the best you can be - RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW _ thanks for reading and listening to me - i appreciate that _ John Rhodes
All of your failures center around faking good and depending on luck.
I have a built in obstacle in my head and several fears that surround it. I want to heal, I want to be a better role model to my children, I want and need more income, I want a resolved and healthy relationship with my Ex-wife.
This morning I woke up at 5:30am after about 5 hours of sleep. I have been trying hard to get more "recuperative" sleep the emphasis on recuperative stems from the research that shows that the last two REM cycles of sleep are the most beneficial to our rest and our health, these occuring in the last hours (5th to 8th hour) of sleep. But brainstorming ensued despite my desire to get another REM cycle before rising. The brainstorm to write a book blending my understanding of the spiritual mind body connection.
Here is the rub... and why this question from TQ in my email this morning? Karma? here is why I have bothered to answer...
Can I do this? Yes!
Will I do this? {fear, hesitation, doubt).
At times like this I like to repeat a line from Star Wars, Yoda said: "There is no try... only do!"
I will let you know how it goes...
BUT why ???? damn _ best to you - John R
Saint Paul said, "I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, I finished the course." I urge you to finish. Your life matters to so many people. Your life... matters.
I am finding what was holding me back in my inner self, preventing me from being able to bring my dreams out, and everything that I had done courageously, had helped me, as the TQ System, therapy, readings, family and friends support.
My conclusion is that whenever there are deep lost, fear, anger, or any negative feeling in the soul, healing will bring the serenity, clarity, and strength to overcome those stagnant feelings that diminish the courage we need to envision our Life, then the TQ System will work wonders, like it is working for me.
is going to happen today - something good will happen today=== thanks again & best - John R
I am a full time student working towards a BS (currently a Senior), and ultimately a Masters degree in Environmental Management, my GPA is 4.0, however I need Algebra Functions 151 class before I can move on to the other Math subjects I need for my degree. I have taken this course twice, and failed both times, I am taking it a third time this spring (again, at a community college so as not to upset my 4.0 GPA). I have dropped my normal 21 credit hours to 15 for this semester, perhaps the extra time I have can finally help me to understand the function side of Algebra... I will probably try a tutor as well...
also - has anyone seen Ro Kramer?? her married name is Ro Renn - where have you been Ro ? also what about Rusty Cornwall ? Rusty was seldom seen as a US Marine - BUT - I do know he may be in Sonoita , Arizona - we were in the Marine Corps together and in Vietnam - I hope he made it - If anyone knows of Rusty - Please get a hold of me at rhodes350@comcast.net = thanks
Best - John R
Yes it is the same fear 5 and all years ago
It's the same with goals. Goals are very necessary because without goals we are rootless and we have no map. However, the flip side of that, the "shadow" side of goals, is that being continually focused on goals can lead you into living in your consciousness only in the future and thus you can lose touch with the energies of the present. Sometimes a person can be so focused on a future goal that he/she doesn't see the blessings he/she already has. He/she doesn't feel the richness of the present moment. This balancing act between willpower and flow, and between future goals and being fully in the present, is something I feel is a challenge in my life.
Also, it's sometimes the case that a well-set goal doesn't turn out the way we thought it would or it changes as it evolves, so I do think we need to be open to serendipity and also to be flexible, and to avoid beating ourselves up when a goal changes. I think there needs to be a process of "goals without guilt".
ME - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU KNOW WHAT ? This is a revelation !
BUT it is true - damn - all I have to do is get over being
afraid of - ME - I hold myself back and I do not know why-
I have some ideas and I will get over it - thanks TQ and all of you - my best to you all - John Rhodes
WILL BE the same thoughts you had yesterday
OOOOPPPPPPPPPS - damn - GET OVER IT
start over today - when I was in the Marine Corps - My senior DI used to say - " today is a new day - it is MY day - each day is a little better than the day before- Just a little better - BUT BETTER !!!! Thanks a lot Senior DI - I appreciate that thought
"each day is a little better than the day before" thats all you need - just a little better today than the day before - enuf for me to keep pushing - best to all again - John R
Mental time seems to be multidimensional. I find it amazing how we can be having a five-year-old experience at the same moment we are having a future experience that hasnt actually happened yet at the same moment that we are living our present experience. Its amazing to me that I have physically gotten older as relative time has passed by, but mentally I have stood timeless in so many areas that I have been incomplete with or left unfinished. Like an argument with a family member or friend, a car accident, just random stuff that seems to get stuck in an incomplete timeless mental place. It seems that everywhere I had to be right in the past, I was either holding on to looking good or a fear of loss. Either way when I sit and listen to my thoughts of fear or concern they are always based on past experiences leading to future concern about what might happen. Logical as it may be to protect our ego, it seems like the most useless and adolescent way to use our minds. How can we live in this moment, with out fear, if we keep being logical? Logic is basically a fear-based mindset about analyzing what hasnt worked before. If Knowledge is something we get from Reading of taking Theory Classes, and Wisdom is something we get from Doing.
Someone asked me a few weeks ago& What is the difference between Success and Wisdom? The difference is, Wisdom is what you get every time you do something and do not achieve your goal. In other words& If you are willing fail over and over but never quit you have to eventually succeed, and once you succeed you know the boundaries of failure. Now you are a confident expert. You literally cannot be an expert if you havent effectively failed in every way there is to fail.
I find it puzzling that we teach our young children in school that failure is bad when the truth is that failure is what makes3% of us successful, financially free, and wealthy. While 97% are taught to fear failure and thus we work for less than we are worth in a highly completive market and live a life of lack and scarcity that someone is going to take our job which will eventually happen anyway then retire broke.
To complete the thought, the power of our mental time is truly in getting complete with the past thoughts and experiences that sabotage our clarity in the present moment so that we can stay in the present moment in conversations, planning and doing. Ultimately being inspired and being excited right not all the time.
Failure is the price paid for wisdom.
Success is wisdom in action.
I agree that "you cannot become an expert until you have found every way to fail" -- and then some in my case -- then turn those experiences into excellence.
Brilliant!
Best of all, it is the path we all take naturally. Some of us, however, get discouraged, tired and depressed... so never get the opportunity to breakthrough and break free of the bonds of mediocrity.
Mostly, this inherent "tiredness and discouragement" is because they have found themselves traveling down the wrong path to begin with!
Find the right path for you, and all your failures will make you an enthusiastic, happy and tremendously successful expert in your own field!
Thanks
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Regards
Chauhan
obstacle I have to hurdle is fear of failure.
I have to do it...
DO...
It!
Write as if your very life depends on it...
Because it does!
Let me know when the draft is complete... think of me as your "accountability buddy".
Now, even I'M counting on you!
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In the past three years, I have filled out more than 50 job applications. Although I got some interviews, had trouble because I am in my 50s, and because I was ashamed of how poorly I had performed.
Well, I have the disease under better control now, and I am sending out new applications. Never quit.
We start everyday with these words:
Lord, thankyou for another wonderful day.
We cast out all of our burdens to you today knowing we are in your loving caring hands.
We praise your holy name and thank you for being a loving and giving God.
We thank you for showering us with life's abundance making our Visions a reality.
We are children of faith that continue to grow in your word.
Thank you for your favor of love, health, wealth and happiness that you continually provide us. You are an awesome God.
WE ARE THE TIETZ TEAM, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY.
GOD IS GUIDING AND DIRECTING OUR STEPS.
HIS FAVOR IS SURROUNDING US.
GOODNESS AND MERCY ARE FOLLOWING US.
WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT TODAY!!
Regards
Chauhan
Michele K
This is not the same fear as 5 years ago, but a reality of health and changes in income outlook.
We just had one man that received the best car of
his life yesterday, and feel we will reach more goals
before Thanksgiving. I'm writing a blog now in myministryspace.com
Goldenman
Douglas, Eric, Tiffany, Patrick, Vicki,
and Brett and as it pertains over the company. Anyway, that is what I want to have postive thinkers everywhere. Be around positive people.
y.e.s.
I have learned that the voices in my head of my family and friends that were never supportive, are not helping me to accomplish my goals, but to keep me right there where they are, in misery. I no longer want this kind of life. I have now decided to move on and the voices in my head are now gone. I decide for myself what I want, and only I can make that happen. So I will no longer listen to others who are not supportive and part of my Master Mind Group.
Hope... hope that I can in fact make a difference keeps me going through all the minutia that wears me down each day.
Pure, unadulterated hope.
It's tough to stare failure down and know that only me is the key.
Today is yet another day to fight... to live... to snatch glimmers of victory out of the pool of despair that faces all men who have accomplished great things.
Today -- yes today -- will be a great day.
I WILL win because I have the WILL to win.
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The things that pick me back up are Life, goals, dreams, and the desire to achieve more out of life. Some of the Goals that I have set for myself, such as working towards my Graduate Degree, in Cyber- security. Currently, I am pursuing this goal, plans is to do well in Graduate School, launch a career in Cyber-security, and to continue to be successful in Life.
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Do you truly believe in it?
Great question!
My greatest dream is to provide a $100 million grant to BGSU to fund the school of advanced entrepreneurship.
6 of my top 10 personal values come to life when I think of millions of kids turned on by the fine art of making a buck and doing it right: serving people in revolutionary new ways.
Right now I have faith and belief, but it is a long climb from where I stand.
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Over the years, I have found the secret to making time my money machine.
It's called high TQ performance.
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I would love to start by planning, but it never works out. The minute I enter the door, before I can even get a cup of coffee and open my planner I have employees with issues entering my office.
How do I stop that long enough to plan my day:?
I use evernote and contactually for contacts.
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