Your Dreams are Worthy Of Your Efforts....

The following was written by Frank VanderSloot... Simply awesome....

Life is a challenge! That's what makes it worth living.  It's how we meet life's challenges that will determine whether we fulfill the true measure of our potential or whether we drift aimlessly through life, never fully realizing why we really came to be in the first place. 

At least from my perspective, life seems pretty short.  Time seems to fly by.  The options of how we spend our time, and therefore our lives, seem endless.  Wasting time if wasting time itself, and wasting life must be the biggest potential tragedy of all.  

I feel sad, and I feel a sense of urgency when I see people who are "derailed" - people who are wandering about, unsure of where they want to go or what they want to do or even who they want to be.  They are often good people with great potential who at one time had dreams and goals.  But at some point, those people met opposition and hardship and mistook them for defeat. 

It is a very sad thing when people give up.  Giving up is life's only true disaster.  Until we give up there is always hope.  We always have a chance, and the truth is if we don't give up, there is no question that the opportunity still exists that we will make it somehow, someday, someway.  That is, unless we give up.  

We all have had dreams that have not yet come true.  Just because they have not yet come true does not mean they never will - unless, of course, we give up on them.  Worthy dreams are worth working for, no matter how many times we stumble and even slide backwards, especially when our dreams are unselfish dreams that involve our value system and our loved ones.  It is so important that we do not let them die within us.  

At our company, if we could offer anything to those who have given up on their dreams, we would offer hope.  We would encourage them to rekindle the dreams they had in their youth.  We would breathe life into goals long forgotten.  We would inspire them to keep on trying... regardless of how many time they have tried before.

Some of your dreams may not involve our company.  And although we probably cannot help you with them directly, we would cheer you on to go after those dreams also with all your heart. 

On the other hand, often we need finances to make it possible for us to spend time working on higher goals.  If this is the case with your dreams, we not only cheer you on, but we feel equipped to help.  

We appreciate the opportunity to be in business with you and to be a part of your life.  Whatever your dreams were, or are, we not only hope they come true - we stand ready to assist you in any way that we can.  Your dreams are worthy of your efforts.  Don't ever stop dreaming them, and don't ever give up on them.

Wow, You're So Lucky That You Can Work From Home.....

Oh, how many times I have heard those words... "You are so lucky that you can work from home."

Hold on!  Lucky??

Luck really has nothing to do with being able to work from home.  The beauty is ANYONE can!  It's all in making a decision.  10 years ago I made a decision that I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.  I wanted to be a stay-at-home-mom.  I had a choice.  To continue doing what I was doing - working outside the home and having my son in daycare... or I could change something.

The amazing thing is, is that EVERYONE has the choice.

How many times I've heard, "I wish I could work from home."  Or, "I wish I had the time to do what you do."  Really?  Let me ask this... If you continue to do what you are doing right now for the next 5 years... will you be in a different place?

Really think about that for a moment.  What will change?  The unfortunate truth is likely nothing will change.

The best determination of future behavior, is past behavior... UNLESS something drastic happens.  When my mentor said that to me, it was like a lightening bolt struck me.  WOW!  We all have choices.  The one thing we all have control over is ourselves, our own lives, our destiny.

Yes, I am "lucky" that I work from home... but it was a choice that I made.

Don't live your life thinking you're doing what you "have" to do.  You have options.  There are other paths you can take.  The question is, are you willing to step up to the plate?  Are you willing to put in the work?  Are you motivated enough to make it happen?  Or, would you rather sit on the sidelines, go off to a job where your income can only go so far and envy that mom who is 'lucky to work from home'?

We're all lucky... we all just choose to use that luck in different ways!

My luck started here... http://www.internetceomoms.com/nicolebennett

The World Needs More Dreamers

The World Needs More Dreamers.

Have you ever had a goal, dream or vision that you shared with someone only to be told all the different reasons that it would not be possible.  Your friends and family probably mean well, but we want to encourage you to pursue those things that ignite your soul and spirit.

Today, Adam Advertising Group shares a message from John Maxwell that will shed light on why most dreams never take flight.

Most of us never see our dreams come true.  Instead of soaring through the clouds, our dreams languish like a broken-down airplane confined to its hangar.  Through life, I have come to identify why dreams don't take flight.

1.  We Have Been Discouraged from Dreaming by Others

We have to pilot our own dreams, we cannot entrust them to anyone else.  People who aren't following their own dreams resent us pursuing ours.  Such people feel inadequate when we succeed, so they try to drag us down.

If we listen to external voices, then we allow our dreams to be hijacked.  At some point, other people will place limitations on us by doubting our abilities.  When surrounded by the turbulence of criticism, we have to grasp the controls tightly to keep from being knocked off course.

2. We Are Hindered by Past Disappointments and Hurts

In the movie Top Gun, Tom Cruise plays Maverick, a young, talented, and cocky aviator who dreams of being the premier pilot in the U.S. Navy.  In the film's opening scenes, Maverick showcases his flying ability but also displays a knack for pushing the envelope with regard to safety.  Midway through the movie, Maverick's characteristic aggression spells disaster.  His place crashes, killing his best friend and co-pilot.

Although cleared of wrongdoing, the painful memory of the accident haunts Maverick.  He quits taking risks and loses his edge.  Struggling to regain his poise, he considers giving up on his dream.  Although the incident nearly wrecks Maverick's career, he eventually reaches within to find the strength to return to the sky.

Like Maverick, many of us live with the memory of failure embedded in our psyche.  Perhaps a business we started went broke, or we were fired from a position of leadership.  Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality, and all of us have encountered that gap.  Failure is a necessary and natural part of life, but if we're going to attain our dreams, then, like Maverick, we have to summon the courage to deal with past hurts.

3. We Fall Into The Habit Of Settling For Average

Average is the norm for a reason.  Being exceptional demands extra effort, sustained inspiration, and uncommon discipline.  When we attempt to give flight to our dreams, we have to overcome the weight of opposition.  Like gravity, life's circumstances constantly pull on our dreams, tugging us down to mediocrity.

Most of us don't pay the price to overcome the opposition to our dreams.  We may start our inspired, but through time we fatigue.  Although never intending to abandon our dreams, we begin to make concessions here and there.  Through time, our lives become mundane, and our dreams slip away.

4. We Lack The Confidence Needed To Pursue Our Dreams

Dreams are fragile.  They will be buffeted by assault from all sides.  As such, they must be supplied with the extra strength of self-confidence.

In Amelia Earhart's day, women were not supposed to fly airplanes.  If she had lacked self-assurance, she never would have even attempted to be a pilot.  Instead, Earhart confidently chased after her dream, and she was rewarded with both fulfillment and fame.

5. We Lack The Imagination To Dream

For thousands of years, mankind traveled along the ground by foot, by horse-and-buggy, by locomotive, and eventually by automobile.  Thanks to the dreams of Orville and Wilbur Wright, we now hop across oceans in a matter of hours.  The imaginative brothers overcame ridicule and doubt to pioneer human flight, and the world has never been the same.

Many of us play small because we do not allow ourselves to dream.  We trap ourselves in reality and never dare to go beyond what we can see with our eyes.  Imagination lifts us beyond average by giving us a vision of life that surpasses what we are experiencing currently.

Dreams infuse our spirit with energy and spur us on the greatness.

So, what's YOUR dream?

Have a great week unless you choose otherwise.  ~Drago~  

Start Your Dream Today ~ You Are The Pilot Of Your Life!

It's funny.  I have been working from home for so long that it seems my world completely revolves around my house.  I'm not saying that's a bad thing.... it just makes one think sometimes.

Yesterday I was at my son's hockey practice and had a great conversation with another mom.  It was different thatn what I have become accustomed to.  I have gotten so used to being in the house with my headset on.  Most of the time that headset is attached to my head all day long.  Again, not necessarily a bad thing.

There are far more positives about working from home then negatives.  For example, I am here for my kids.  I don't have to get up, shower, get in the car and commute to some job.  Working from home, my income is unlimited... whereas in a job it would very much be limited.

I have met the most incredible people working from home.  People whom I never would have met otherwise.  They have changed my life.  They had made me grow.  They have made me a better person.

I love that I can sit at home, pick up the phone and have the best people to talk to.  We laugh together, we work together, we cry together... just as though we were sitting in the same room.

My life has changed... but wow... so much for the better.  Being part of a team truly is a blessing.

Law of Attraction

Do you dream about your future?  Do you find yourself saying things like, "Things will get better." "One day we'll have that."  "I want to ________."

What are you doing to get to that place?  When you look at the future, where do you see yourself?  In 2 years?  In 5 years?  in 10 years?  

We need to visualize it.  Make it reality.  Feel it.  See it.  

The Law of Attraction is very powerful.  I didn't believe it for a really long time.  Watch The Secret... watch it again and again.  It's amazing how your thoughts really do become things.

Someone told me once to create a visual board.  To actually cut out pictures of what I want... how I see my life... and glue those pictures on a big sheet of paper.  To look at that board daily.  To feel it.  To live it.


I thought they were insane.  I just couldn't see how a visual board would change my life.  


You know what?  It works!


Do we really have anything to lose?  Sure, we might feel silly doing it... but, as the saying goes, "Continue to do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"


We have nothing to lose!

Thanksgiving Is Coming!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner for us in Canada. A time we can reflect. Think of all the things we are thankful for. At least that's what we teach our kids, right?

But what about us adults? Do we ever really take a moment and live IN THAT MOMENT? Really think about what we are thankful for?

Close your eyes for a moment. Breathe in your surroundings. We all get so caught up in the events of our daily lives. Why is that? How did that happen? When did we start worrying about every little issue? I suppose it was when we became responsible adults...lol!

I am thankful for my kids... they keep me grounded. Thankful for my busienss which has allowed me to not only work from home, but to also meet some pretty fantastic people. I am thankful for my friends... they keep me sane... without them I would have been committed long ago!

Each day, as a family we dream together... but with my business, my team are living our dreams.