Do you want to know how to become a winner? Do you want to live the life of a champion? A great book XELR8 President Doug Ridley shared with us is, "Quiet Strength" by former NFL coach and player Tony Dungy. This book is not only inspirational, but also a philosophy on life which helps you better understand exactly what it takes to live like a winner and become a true champion on the field of LIFE.
Tony Dungy played professional football and coached in the NFL. He was the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bowl when he led his Indianapolis Colts to victory over the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007. Think about what it takes to win the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is a zero sum game, there is only one team that will come out victorious and with highly coveted Super Bowl rings. The other team walks away with a defeat and the experience. They can then choose to learn from the defeat and strive harder for success, or dwell in it. The great thing about Network Marketing is that it's not a zero sum game, everyone has the opportunity to be victorious.
Here are a few key passages from this inspiring book:
"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;
Perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not destroyed.
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake,
so that His life may be revealed in our mortal body."
2 Corinthians 4:8-11
Do you carry around with you the understanding that hope and eternal life are within you? Do you know that incredible strength is within you? If you understand this, then you already have the heart of a champion.
So what does it take to win? It starts with a vision:
"The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life."
Tony Dungy, "Quiet Strength" pgs. 124-125
What is YOUR vision? What do you want to create? You can choose to make a difference today. 2009 is YOUR year. You don't have to go down the same road everyone else is going down, you don’t have to get sucked into Constant Negative News, you can choose your own road, and blaze an exciting new trail -- a path guided by hope, lit by faith and leading toward a bright future!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
TeamInspirit.com
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Life doesn't come with rollover minutes
Do you want to know how to make your goals work for you? Goals are meant to give you confidence, passion and energy. However, sometimes, when we initially set goals for ourselves, we create them out of our current circumstances: "What is possible for me to create, given my current situation? With the money I currently have? With the resources I currently have?" Understand if you want your goals to work for you, you must create goals outside of your current circumstances.
Every day you should have a "5-Minute Life Fantasy Session." During those 5 minutes think to yourself, what is it I want to create? What is it that will ignite the fire within? Imagine you had unlimited time, unlimited resources and unlimited money. What would the passionate, self-directed, powerful life you were leading look like? What kind of house would you live in? What charities would you give to? Where would you and your family vacation? Visualize and tap into this for 5 minutes every morning, and it will motivate you and give you fuel every single day to do the things that make your dreams become reality.
When we first make goals we sometimes make "getting our head above water" goals. Ask yourself: what is it that will give you the energy to launch your whole body out of the water? When you take that first step, you may not know the people you will complete that journey with. You may not possess all the knowledge you need right now. You may not have all the resources you need right now. That is okay. You will have the energy, excitement and dream to help you to leap from that first step to the second, and that's all you need right now! Putting yourself out there with purpose, with intention, with energy, people will begin to sense the optimism and feel the power within you. You will begin attracting people into your life that help you. Start today. Start now. You can't get yesterday back. Life doesn't come with rollover minutes. This isn't your cellular plan. This is your life. You also start inspiring those around you. You not only help yourself by living your life like this, but other people as well. Look within your heart, not your circumstances to create your vision. Decide what it is you really want and know that you have the power to create it!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
TeamInspirit.com
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Every day you should have a "5-Minute Life Fantasy Session." During those 5 minutes think to yourself, what is it I want to create? What is it that will ignite the fire within? Imagine you had unlimited time, unlimited resources and unlimited money. What would the passionate, self-directed, powerful life you were leading look like? What kind of house would you live in? What charities would you give to? Where would you and your family vacation? Visualize and tap into this for 5 minutes every morning, and it will motivate you and give you fuel every single day to do the things that make your dreams become reality.
When we first make goals we sometimes make "getting our head above water" goals. Ask yourself: what is it that will give you the energy to launch your whole body out of the water? When you take that first step, you may not know the people you will complete that journey with. You may not possess all the knowledge you need right now. You may not have all the resources you need right now. That is okay. You will have the energy, excitement and dream to help you to leap from that first step to the second, and that's all you need right now! Putting yourself out there with purpose, with intention, with energy, people will begin to sense the optimism and feel the power within you. You will begin attracting people into your life that help you. Start today. Start now. You can't get yesterday back. Life doesn't come with rollover minutes. This isn't your cellular plan. This is your life. You also start inspiring those around you. You not only help yourself by living your life like this, but other people as well. Look within your heart, not your circumstances to create your vision. Decide what it is you really want and know that you have the power to create it!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
TeamInspirit.com
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed today?
Want to know what will help you build a better life and be more successful? It starts with understanding that the way we feel inside is what shows up on the outside. Many things in our environment are out of our control. The weather. The economic situation. The traffic we might experience today. What is in our control is the meaning we choose to assign to these things. Will you be in a bad mood because it’s a rainy day? If someone cuts you off in traffic, will you let it get to you?
Children can move easily from one emotional state to another. A small child may bump his head on the corner of a table and cry in pain, but if you pick him up, hug him, and then point out something of interest outside the window, he will soon smile and move on to other things. He doesn’t dwell on that bump any longer.
However, as adults we sometimes get locked into a negative emotion, and find it hard to get un-locked from it. Maybe you didn’t bump your head, but you got stuck in traffic and missed an important appointment, and you start asking yourself dis-empowering questions: “Will anything go right today? Oh, why do things like this always happen to ME?” Thought patterns like this add to and prolong the “bad mood.” Although we do not really think the world is out to get us, there are times we find ourselves lingering in a negative emotional limbo.
As adults, we are in control of how we respond to our environment. Every one of us can make a conscious choice to change our emotional state from a “bad mood” into one that serves us, and one that is fun and pleasant for others to be around. We can stop ourselves from being controlled by whatever happens in our environment that day. We can even choose our own “positive distraction” so we can consciously change our emotional state from being in a bad mood or negative spiral, back into being happy, productive, upbeat and enjoying great energy.
You may wonder, why is this important? Three reasons:
1. This is a business of attraction. If you are in a state of confusion, weakness and frustration, how attractive is that to be around?
2. If you remain in a negative loop, what kind of people will you attract? That’s right, birds of a feather will flock together, and suddenly other negative people are coming into your life. People who have given up control. People who enjoy complaining. Unhappy people. People who have chosen to let their lives be dictated by circumstances. (For a happier life and a better business, you want to surround yourself with people who are generally confident, optimistic and want to succeed—regardless of their environment.)
3. The third and final reason is, you are not just creating a day. You are creating a LIFE. How do you want the rest of your life to be? How do you want the rest of your life to FEEL? Happy? Exciting? Do you want to feel motivated, inspired? At ease and at peace? Filled with gratitude?
You get to decide. You get to set the tone. All of us are destined for greatness, starting with today. YOU choose what kind of day today will be. YOU choose to empower yourself, to be in control of your life. No matter what today brings, you are in control of how you respond to it, you get to choose happiness, you can start creating the life you want TODAY.
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Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
www.TeamInspirit.com
Children can move easily from one emotional state to another. A small child may bump his head on the corner of a table and cry in pain, but if you pick him up, hug him, and then point out something of interest outside the window, he will soon smile and move on to other things. He doesn’t dwell on that bump any longer.
However, as adults we sometimes get locked into a negative emotion, and find it hard to get un-locked from it. Maybe you didn’t bump your head, but you got stuck in traffic and missed an important appointment, and you start asking yourself dis-empowering questions: “Will anything go right today? Oh, why do things like this always happen to ME?” Thought patterns like this add to and prolong the “bad mood.” Although we do not really think the world is out to get us, there are times we find ourselves lingering in a negative emotional limbo.
As adults, we are in control of how we respond to our environment. Every one of us can make a conscious choice to change our emotional state from a “bad mood” into one that serves us, and one that is fun and pleasant for others to be around. We can stop ourselves from being controlled by whatever happens in our environment that day. We can even choose our own “positive distraction” so we can consciously change our emotional state from being in a bad mood or negative spiral, back into being happy, productive, upbeat and enjoying great energy.
You may wonder, why is this important? Three reasons:
1. This is a business of attraction. If you are in a state of confusion, weakness and frustration, how attractive is that to be around?
2. If you remain in a negative loop, what kind of people will you attract? That’s right, birds of a feather will flock together, and suddenly other negative people are coming into your life. People who have given up control. People who enjoy complaining. Unhappy people. People who have chosen to let their lives be dictated by circumstances. (For a happier life and a better business, you want to surround yourself with people who are generally confident, optimistic and want to succeed—regardless of their environment.)
3. The third and final reason is, you are not just creating a day. You are creating a LIFE. How do you want the rest of your life to be? How do you want the rest of your life to FEEL? Happy? Exciting? Do you want to feel motivated, inspired? At ease and at peace? Filled with gratitude?
You get to decide. You get to set the tone. All of us are destined for greatness, starting with today. YOU choose what kind of day today will be. YOU choose to empower yourself, to be in control of your life. No matter what today brings, you are in control of how you respond to it, you get to choose happiness, you can start creating the life you want TODAY.
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Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
www.TeamInspirit.com
Thursday, January 22, 2009
"Are you going to make a million dollars this year?"
When it comes to your belief in yourself, where do you feel you're at?
Here's a powerful question to ask yourself:
"Are you going to make a million dollars this year?"
If you answered "no," then why not?
Fill in the blanks:
__________ __________ __________ __________
What did you write above? These are your self-limiting beliefs.
But, you may say, these things are real. I don’t feel that I really have enough credibility, enough time, good enough communication skills, __________...
So where do you feel you're at in these areas? How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10?
What you can measure, you can move and improve. As Jim Rohn says, "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
If your answer is, "I'd rate my communication skills as a 4," then how do we move and improve that number? Find out how to do this in any area of your life.
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Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
www.TeamInspirit.com
Here's a powerful question to ask yourself:
"Are you going to make a million dollars this year?"
If you answered "no," then why not?
Fill in the blanks:
__________ __________ __________ __________
What did you write above? These are your self-limiting beliefs.
But, you may say, these things are real. I don’t feel that I really have enough credibility, enough time, good enough communication skills, __________...
So where do you feel you're at in these areas? How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10?
What you can measure, you can move and improve. As Jim Rohn says, "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
If your answer is, "I'd rate my communication skills as a 4," then how do we move and improve that number? Find out how to do this in any area of your life.
Listen to Garrett & Sylvia's Daily Motivational & Inspirational Call (12 Minutes)
Listen to today's call...
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
www.TeamInspirit.com
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Knowing the power of perception will help you create the life you deserve
Do you know how Executives have Personal Assistants? The role of the Assistant is to let some calls in and others out, as well as letting some people in while filtering out others, so the Executive can work effectively. Whether you realize it or not, you have you very own Personal Assistant too! We have amazing brains that are capable of “running” a multiple “programs” at a time. Our brains are constantly, assigning meaning even deleting, distorting and generalizing reality.
Right now, you are reading these words, but are you aware of your breathing? The chair you’re sitting on? The feel of the clothes you are wearing? Look around. Notice the color green in the room. How come you never noticed these things a few minutes ago? You weren’t thinking about them because your brain’s Personal Assistant was filtering out all this random stuff for you.
So how does your “Assistant” (called Reticular Activating System) know what to let in and what to shut out? It’s based on two things: your goals and your beliefs. How does knowing this help you? The great new is, you have the power to change your results. You are in control. You get to choose the meaning. You choose your goals and what you want to create (but if you have no goals, how does your Assistant know what to do?). You actually choose your beliefs, too. Many studies have shown the impacts you beliefs have on the outcomes you create. Most times, you have to believe it before you see it. Having beliefs that serve you and serve what you want to create actually changed you results. You will go from just hoping you can, to knowing you can.
Change your perception. Change your reality, and you can and will start leading the life you want and deserve to have!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
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Right now, you are reading these words, but are you aware of your breathing? The chair you’re sitting on? The feel of the clothes you are wearing? Look around. Notice the color green in the room. How come you never noticed these things a few minutes ago? You weren’t thinking about them because your brain’s Personal Assistant was filtering out all this random stuff for you.
So how does your “Assistant” (called Reticular Activating System) know what to let in and what to shut out? It’s based on two things: your goals and your beliefs. How does knowing this help you? The great new is, you have the power to change your results. You are in control. You get to choose the meaning. You choose your goals and what you want to create (but if you have no goals, how does your Assistant know what to do?). You actually choose your beliefs, too. Many studies have shown the impacts you beliefs have on the outcomes you create. Most times, you have to believe it before you see it. Having beliefs that serve you and serve what you want to create actually changed you results. You will go from just hoping you can, to knowing you can.
Change your perception. Change your reality, and you can and will start leading the life you want and deserve to have!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
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Lead a self-determined life starting today!
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”
As our new President gets sworn in, he solemnly swears to “preserve, protect and defend” our nation. Could you take an oath like that for your goals? For your future? For your life? What are you willing to do for your dreams? Today are you ready to live your life on your own terms? You can make today a historic day for you and your family. You can make a choice to stop letting the life you lead today, get in the way of the life you want to lead tomorrow.
Are you ready to start leading a self determined life today? This is not just a time for the President; it is not just a time for our country; it is your time. Why don’t you also make history -- not just watch it. The best way to predict the future is to create it. God bless America and God bless your family! Have a great day and create a historic life -- you deserve it!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
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As our new President gets sworn in, he solemnly swears to “preserve, protect and defend” our nation. Could you take an oath like that for your goals? For your future? For your life? What are you willing to do for your dreams? Today are you ready to live your life on your own terms? You can make today a historic day for you and your family. You can make a choice to stop letting the life you lead today, get in the way of the life you want to lead tomorrow.
Are you ready to start leading a self determined life today? This is not just a time for the President; it is not just a time for our country; it is your time. Why don’t you also make history -- not just watch it. The best way to predict the future is to create it. God bless America and God bless your family! Have a great day and create a historic life -- you deserve it!
Cheers,
Garrett & Sylvia McGrath
XELR8 / Bazi First 250K Diamonds
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
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