How To Have Your Best Year Ever: Make PROSPERITY your goal for 2008!
This is the time of the year when we all sit down to reflect on last year and set some new goals for next year. What kind of year was 2007 for you? I can’t do much about last year, but only hope that you could say that it was a great year for you. Or are you like the comedian Dave Barry who said, “But most important of all, it was a year that, thank God, had only 12 months, because that was frankly all we could take.”
So, what will be your goal(s) for 2008? Why not make Prosperity your goal for ’08? The great thing about Prosperity is that it covers many aspects of life. If at the end of ’08 you could say that you had the most prosperous year ever – then chances are you have had accomplished a whole lot of other things on your list as well. The condition of economic well-being is only one aspect of Prosperity. There are many, many other things that come under the auspices of ‘Prosperity.’ There is time, love, success, balance, joy, comfort, beauty, good health, wisdom, money, etc.
Are you prosperous with your time? Or do you always feel rushed and pressured? Do you always feel that there’s not enough time to do the things you want to do? Then you have poverty with respect to time. Wall Street Journal wrote that leisure time, not money, will be the status symbol of prosperity in the coming years. Similarly, you can ask yourself whether you are prosperous with love, success, health, wisdom, etc.
Now, how do you prepare yourself for prosperity?
Prosperity begins with feeling good about Yourself.
Are you happy being Yourself? Do you like what you see in the mirror? Feeling good about yourself is also tied to your self-esteem. Instead of getting things, this year change it to “allowing yourself to receive it.” This is a whole new concept. Instead of “pursuing” after, change that to “attracting” whatever that you’re after. Use the “Law of Attraction” and let it come to you. Don’t force it to happen, let it happen (usually, you’ll find that force negates). Now prepare yourself to be worthy of receiving all the good that life has to offer. As Jim Rohn says, “Work harder on yourself, than you do on your job/profession.”
As you move through the New Year, life will present you with your set of problems, challenges and obstacles. Before you tackle them, have the right attitude and mindset about what problems really are and you will find yourself embracing them instead of avoiding them, as they are your building blocks of growth and character-building. Get a proper perspective of what a real problem is. If you can solve a problem with money, it’s really not a problem; it is an inconvenience or perhaps a challenge. Iraq today is a problem, a serious problem. We’ve thrown billions of dollars already and it’s getting worse. Put your ‘problems’ in proper perspective and you’ll not be so overwhelmed with them.
Most of us are pretty good at giving, but I find that a lot of people are not very good at receiving. Receiving is as necessary as giving. Remember there is no giving without receiving. Sometimes if you give someone a compliment, “you’re looking terrific” and instead of saying “thank you” they’ll say something like, “Oh, my hair is terrible or I didn’t even put on make up” – they don’t know how to receive and ruins the giving part.
“To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.”
This is the time of the year we typically ask for more for the coming year, whether we want more money, more love, more health, etc. So, let me end by giving you the secret of getting more in your life. Are you ready for the secret? Well, ready or not, here it is:
“The secret for getting more in your life is to be grateful for what you have now. Everyday - Live your life with an Attitude of Gratitude!”
So, if you have not done already, here is your 1st assignment – write down your gratitude list, i.e. count your blessings. You are such a driven person that sometimes you need to remind yourself how fortunate you already are to be alive and well!
To your health and prosperity, Wajed (Roger) Salam Mentor@HomelandGroup.com 813-637-9797 x11 www.RogerSalam.com