by Margaret Briem | Jul 20, 2011 | Success
If you are like many, your life has become about sacrifice. You feel like you are doing without because of your circumstances. You are hoping things will get better and hiding from the bill collectors. You hope and pray that one day soon something will change to help you improve your current lifestyle. What great unforseen opportunity will rescue you? The good news is that you only have to change one thing to make your life better, and that one thing is completely in your control. It is YOU! You have to change before your life will improve. You need to practice daily and sometimes, right now self dicipline. Self discipline means making the right choices right now. No fudging, no enabling excuses, no thoughts of ‘I deserve it’, it is being completely honest with yourself and training yourself to make the right choice. It means being frugal in all aspects of your life in order to be able to take advantage of the right opportunities for you. How does it work? It means not going shopping unless it is in your budget to do so, or not buying unless you planned to buy and put it into your budget. It means having a plan for the health and wellbeing of your body, and making the right choices when eating and exercising. It means simply choosing to exercise and making a plan for it. It means keeping your home well orgainzed and clutter free, and not buying stuff because you think it is cute, to stuff it in a closet or under a piece of furnature when you get...
by Margaret Briem | Jul 13, 2011 | Success, Uncategorized
How well do you know yourself? Your likes, style, preferences, colors, and more. Is what you like and prefer the things that make your soul dance or the things you were told you should like when you were growing up? Is that ice cream really that wonderful and delicious or do you eat it thinking it is since that was what you were told? Everything you think you love about life maybe what others told you to love, which could be why you are not as happy and satisfied with your life as you could be. It is all about taking the time to really get to know Y-O-U! How well do you take care of yourself? I am not talking about your waist line, your hair or your nails. I am talking about the whole you. This would include all that has been mentioned, your physical self based on appearance, but it would also include many things you have not considered. Is your source of income something that energizes you, brings you a sense of pride and accomplishment, or is it a daily grind? Are you waiting for an entitlement check? Are you going through the motions until the day you can retire? It could be that you need to really take a hard look at your source of income and change careers, choices, or your income producing lifestyle, to be more authentic to who you are. If anything in your life does not feel right for any reason, or for reasons unknown, you may just not know who you really are, or maybe your life isn’t as...
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