How to believe that you can succeed!

Do you believe that you can succeed?

That is probably the most important question that you can ask yourself, because if you don’t believe in your own abilities, you are always going to struggle to reach your goals. Your success in life starts with your belief that you can succeed.

So where does that belief come from? How can you hold the belief that you can succeed… even when you never have before?

The problem is that doing something new, reaching out towards a new goal, can be scary. All sorts of thoughts and emotions can come up and distract you from reaching your goal. You begin to experience doubt, worry, and confusion. You wonder if you are really capable of reaching this goal. This starts a downward spiral that keeps you from ever having the belief in yourself that you need.

But you can change that!

Start by looking at your goal and answering these questions:

1. Has anyone else ever done this before?

Chances are that someone, somewhere in this big world, has achieved something quite similar to what you want to achieve, right? So that means that your goal is doable! You are capable of achieving the same things as most of the people on this planet.

2. Have you ever done something similar?

If so, great! You have already proven to yourself that you can learn new things! If not, you have probably already accomplished some amazing things. Did you learn to ride a bicycle? Drive a car? Balance a checkbook? Use a computer? All of those are amazing skills! Now you simply ‘learn’ the new skills that you need to reach your goal. Reviewing your past successes is often a great way to build up your belief in yourself.

3. Why do you want it?

This is a big question, but if you want to know how to believe that you can succeed, you have to be able to answer it. If you have a strong reason why you want something, your belief that you can succeed is strengthened. And the stronger your belief in yourself, the more you will be willing to do in order to realize your goal.

Believe in yourself and your ‘self’ will never let you down! Know that there will be ups and downs in the road toward your dreams, but also know that as long as you keep moving forward you will eventually get there!

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God never gives us more than we can handle!

I’m sure you’ve heard this expression before. God never gives us more than we can handle. It’s a comforting thought, and one that popped into my mind last night sitting in the emergency room with my daughter after one of her seizures.

I was feeling pretty overwhelmed by the challenges that God keeps throwing my way. My Mom was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, and she is struggling through chemotherapy in the hopes of adding a few extra months to her life. My daughter, 19, developed Epilepsy in her senior year of high school, and we’re trying to get a handle on that, working with her neurologist to get her seizures under control.

This on top of some health problems that my wife and I are going through… not to mention some financial problems, car problems, challenges with our neighbors…

Whew!

I know, you have your own list of problems and yours may be bigger and worse than mine!

But I wanted to share with you my experiences, because what I’ve learned may help you.

I speak and write about dealing with these types of challenges all the time, and going through them has opened my eyes to what really goes on inside of us as we grow and experience life’s many challenges. You see, I know on an intellectual level that my perception colors my reality, but being in the middle of things it is easy to get caught up in your emotions and forget that you have any control at all. It takes a conscious effort, a decision, to step back and see things as they really are.

It is easy to feel like things are out of control, to feel like you are a victim, I have been there. In fact, I don’t mind admitting that I still find myself in that place from time to time. I end up there each time I forget that I can choose a better reaction to the situation around me.

God never gives us more than we can handle.

I believe that.

I believe it because every situation always has a choice attached to it. That choice is how we are going to react. We can allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by life’s problems, or we can choose to face them head on and seek the path that empowers us.

Yes, my Mom’s coming death will be a hard thing for me and for our entire family, and I’ve run the gamut of emotional responses myself. But the one thing that I keep coming back to is this thought that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle.

The late Jim Rohn said something similar. He said, “Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills.”

Life is full of things that we call problems. It is how we face them and how we live our lives in spite of them that defines us and empowers us.

You can handle whatever situation you may find yourself in right now. There is always a way out. There is always a way to lessen the pain.

It starts with your belief.

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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How to apply the law of attraction in 3 steps!

There really is no secret when it comes to learning how to apply the law of attraction (LOA) in your life. You can begin making changes in ANY area of your life as soon as you want. There is nothing holding you back! You don’t have to wait until you are an expert. Start transforming your life by following the three steps outlined below and you will have the power to manifest anything you desire.

It is important to be sure that you have a good grasp of each step of this LOA process before moving onto the next. More often than not, anytime you are feeling stuck it is because you need to go back and adjust something, you need to make some change to either your thoughts or actions around a particular point. Just follow your heart and you will be okay.

Step 1 – Know what you want. This requires you to make a decision. It may require you to make several decisions. The better you are at deciding, the better your chances of mastering this first step of the manifesting process.

Deciding what you want goes beyond simply writing your wishes down on paper. Choosing which desires to go after means that you must know how your desire fits into your whole life. You have to think about how achieving this new dream is going to impact other areas of your life.

Moving in a new direction in one area will always affect each and every other area of your life. Knowing this ahead of time, and taking them into account, can prevent many needless struggles in your journey.

Step 2 – Be Responsible For Yourself – This means owning your results in life. Not making excuses or looking for places to lay the blame. Being responsible for yourself is all about taking responsibility for the results of your thoughts and actions.

Nothing will throw you off course faster than not getting this step 100% right. It is true that there are lots of things out there that are out of your control. But only you are responsible for your thoughts and actions. When you start playing the blame game, you stop moving toward your dream.

The bottom line is that you have to honest with yourself. Sure, it can be uncomfortable, but all you have to do is to decide to be truthful with the one person that has the power to make your dreams come true – yourself!

Step 3 – Claim Your Desire – This is where you turn your dream into your reality. The final piece of the manifesting process is where you take action, where you get out in the world and move toward your dream.

The quickest way to see positive changes in your life is to start taking steps toward that change. It sounds obvious, but unless you are really taking action you cannot really expect super results. Waiting for opportunity to knock on your door is a waste of time and energy, time and energy that you could be using more productively.

Learning and living these three important steps of the law of attraction is the only sure-fire way to change your life. Lasting change comes from mastering the steps and living them on a daily basis. If you do this, you will find that the changes you desire will come quickly and easily. In no time at all, you will have transformed your life the way you want it.

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Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach

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How to set goals to attract success and manifest abundance.

Here we go! Another year, another wonderful series of opportunities for you to reach out and claim your dreams!  Yes, it’s goal setting time!

No matter what happened in your life last year, no matter what challenges you faced, or what your results were, you CAN make this year a fantastic year!

You can make this the year that you attract the success you desire, the year that you manifest the abundance you crave!

The key is in your mindset!

Master your mindset and you will no longer be wondering HOW to create your best year ever… you will be LIVING your best year ever!

The truth is that much of your ability to attract success or manifest abundance in your life begins and ends with your mental attitude. Which means that if you are struggling with success or abundance or anything else you are trying to create in your life, the solution to your challenge lies in your mindset as well.

Here are 4 tips from the Inner Circle Success Library to help you set goals that will empower you to attract success and abundance:

1. Define Your Dream – Every goal you set, every dream you pursue should be crystal clear in your mind. The more defined and detailed your dream, the more powerful your manifesting ability becomes. You should know every last detail of your dream or goal.
2. Write It Down – Do you remember the last 5 great ideas that you had? You would if you had written them down! Get in the habit of writing down everything – your goals and dreams, your to-do lists, your brilliant ideas, your silly ideas… Get them down before they disappear.
3. Take Action Every Day – There is something you can do everyday to move you closer to your dreams. Remember, even small actions can produce tremendous results! Especially on those days when you ‘don’t feel like it’!! Do something every day!
4. Be Bold – Go after your biggest dream. Doing anything less weakens you and lessens your power to focus. If you are not going after your biggest dream it will hang over your head dragging you down… whatever excuses you create to justify not pursuing that dream will weigh on you and influence all of your decisions and actions. Either move towards your big dream, or set it aside and free up the energy and attention you devote to it.

Start today, right now, and you can begin creating a life of success and abundance. Learning how to set goals doesn’t have to be a scary process. The most important thing is to get those dreams down on paper so you can work with them and begin planning to attract success!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Success Coach, Speaker
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Are you distracted from success?

Are you attracting success? Or are you distracted from success?

I know, you don’t think that you are distracted from the success you seek, but your results in life might tell a different story if you are honest with yourself.

You see, a few moments of concentrated effort toward your dreams can’t possibly make up for the hour after hour of confusion, worry, doubt, and second guessing that form your average day.

Start adding those days together and guess what? You find you are not getting

This is a common problem, not just with the law of attraction, but with almost all forms of attempted self growth. The problem is perpetuated by teachers who, in an effort to help you avoid struggle, advise that small consistent action, taken everyday, will be enough to transform your life.

This sounds great on paper, after all if you can improve your life just 1% each day, you will soon see amazing growth, right?

Wrong!

9 times out of 10 you will still find yourself struggling to achieve your goals.

Why is this?

Distraction!

The primary reason for your continued struggle is that even by taking tiny steps it is still far too easy to become distracted from your goals and dreams. Far too easy to think that you’ve done enough for today. Far too easy to wonder if maybe you haven’t done enough today!

In your effort to make that 1% improvement each day you begin looking around your life for little 1% changes that you can make, and at first that works out fine. But sooner or later you reach a point where you have to make a big change. Bigger than 1%. But big changes are scary, so you put it off and go in search of another change that you can make to satisfy your 1% quota.

Bang – your are distracted from your dream.

But don’t get the wrong idea – it’s not about the size of your actions.

What determines your success at creating meaningful changes in your life is your commitment to…

…making those changes.

You see at the end of the day, or the end of the week, or the end of the month, and especially at the end of your life, it’s not going to be the small bursts of effort that make your life what it is.

Because even the sum of all those little daily efforts won’t equal the sum of all your daily non-effort.

“But Bob, I have to work full-time, so there goes 8 hours (or more) of time right out the window, plus I have family and other obligations that take up my time. Are you telling me that I have to focus on my dream more than all those other things in order to manifest it?”

No. It’s not about the time you spend on your dreams either. (Although at first, time is a good indicator of where you are spending your energy.) It is easy to fall into this trap, wondering if you are spending enough time on your dreams.

Bang – another distraction.

(Tip: If you find yourself wondering whether you should work on your dream or do something else… work on your dream!)

The opposite problem is this idea that, just as you might need to schedule time to work on your dream, you also need to schedule time to relax and unwind. After all, you need to relax and unwind, right?

That’s true… if you are really relaxing and really unwinding. Unfortunately, this is usually just an excuse to plop in front of the television and turn your mind off.

Ask around. You will find that the more successful a woman or man becomes, the less they allow themselves to be distracted by things like that. They just don’t fit into their overall plan for their life.

Here’s the bottom line. Regardless of the time you spend, or the size of the changes you make, or anything else, what matters most is your commitment to making a change.

You know in your heart that this is true, yet there are times when you talk yourself out of taking action, perhaps because you believe that you’ve done enough today, or that you’ve worked hard enough today, or that there is always tomorrow.

Bang – you are distracted from your dream.

You have to ask yourself, “A year from now, will I be proud of the effort i made today?” “Ten years from now will my life be better or worse because of the actions I am taking today?”

Of course, only you can decide which dreams are important to you and which ones you really want to manifest into your life. And only you can decide which distractions are more important than your dreams.

Here’s a little secret that can help you avoid some of the troubles and distractions that are part of the process of growth.

Ready?

Simply choose your dream.

That’s it!

You see, all your distractions occur because you haven’t yet decided to make that dream a reality. Sure, you’ve decided to work towards it. You’ve decided to think about it. You might even have decided to take some action on it. But until you decide that making that dream a reality is a priority in your life you will find it easy to distract yourself from making it real.

Yes, you have a job, you have time commitments, you have obligations… but guess what? You are always going to have something to blame for your failure to manifest your desires. Always.

It’s not about what you are doing in this moment. It is about what you are thinking and feeling in this moment. Because even while you are working, even while you are spending time with your spouse or children or friends, your mind is working… worrying… planning… thinking… manifesting… based upon your dominant thoughts and feelings.

Your dominant thoughts tend to be about the things that you have decided are a priority in your life.

That could be your big dream… or it could be your bills, or your bad health, or your relationship problems.

Whatever it is, those dominant thoughts have a way of permeating every aspect of your life. That’s why those pesky problems keep popping up. You’ve decided that they are important. (But you haven’t decided to resolve them.)

Now, imagine if your biggest dream was also your number one priority. That would be a switch! Thoughts about your dream would constantly be distracting you from worrying about your bills, or about your health, or about any of your other problems.

Distraction is a part of life. You will always be distracted by those things that are important to you.

The trick to manifesting your desires is to be certain that your desires are really, truly important to you.

There is no excuse for not living a full, complete life of your choosing.

All you have to do choose!

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Peace,

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