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ISSUE #2 Inspirational Quote of the Week Feature Article - Managing the Gap Part 1: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Your eBreak from Breakthrough Coaching Book Review - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Business Resources Marketplace MotivAction! the eZine for The Fine Art of Business and Make Time 2 Make Money. Subscribe to MotivAction! CLICK HERE Quote of the Week What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. Henry David Thoreau Feature Article Closing the Gap Part I - How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by bernie schmidt From where you stand in your life right now, it's possible that your dream might seem to be a tiny light perched on the edge of a very tall dark cliff, with no means of climbing the rock face - the gap between where you are and where you want to be can seem very large and intimidating. Many look at the gap and turn away. There are others (like you!) who look at the gap and say, "There must be a way". Now it becomes an exercise of "how" instead of "can't". Closing the Gap becomes your personal journey. Closing the Gap boils down to how you manage your habits. Habits fall into two, interconnected, main categories, internal and external: Internal Dialogue - the thoughts you think, over and over again External Behaviour - what you do on a daily basis. Listen to your inner voice for a moment - you talk to yourself all day long. What are you telling yourself, over and over and over? Thoughts are like threads - think the same one enough times and it becomes a rope. Continuous repetition will turn it into a chain. In fact, studies have shown our minds are so busy we think 50,000 thoughts a day and 95% of them are the same thoughts we had yesterday and all previous days! If you think negative thoughts about yourself ("I don't deserve this" or "Others get what they want, but not me") and keep doing what you do, how can things change for the better? They can't, and they won't. There's a saying that every journey begins with a single step. Sometimes the first step is a journey in itself! And for many of us, the first step is examining how we think of ourselves and how our thinking might be holding us back. Exercise- Take a piece of paper and draw a line down the middle. On the left hand side, make a list of negative attitudes and images you have of yourself. On the right side, recast each one into a more positive sentence. Example: Old Thoughts I'm too busy to start anything new. I don't know how to start a business. New Thoughts I can learn to make time for what's important to me I can learn how to start a business.   Next Issue: Closing the Gap Part II - Habits around time and money. Your eBreak- courtesy of Ellen Samiec at Breakthrough Coaching Decide what you no longer want to do, then stop it! Some of your habits no longer serve you and may be counterproductive. Book Review Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey First published in 1990, it continues to be a business best seller with more than 10 million copies sold. As an internationally respected leadership authority, Covey writes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness. In "Seven Habits" Covey takes you step by step through a "personal principles" based model that can make a real difference on how you make decisions around your goals and improving your relationships with those around you. Each of the seven habits is presented in a logical progression, starting with Habit One "Begin with the End in Mind" which is all about how you want to be able to look back on your life. Heavy??? Well, guess what? 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