Are You Ready to S-T-R-E-T-C-H?

One of the premiere benefits of being a Stay Strong member is the ever-expansive number of tools, strategies, and programs offered to premiere members.

In seven days, I'm launching something entirely new... But you've got to be willing to STRETCH.

You know what it means to stretch, whether it's stretching time, resources, patience, faith, or money. When extraordinary success is what you're after, stretching takes on a whole new meaning. Your life is now about more than getting by, building up or making it big. It's about leaving your mark on the world, finding your place, and expanding it continuously in ways no one (not even you) can imagine.

Are you ready for what's coming in 7 days?

Is it time you got out of your comfort zone and made room for your unlimited zone?

If you said "YES!", then it's time to STRETCH!

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Success is a Habit

Success is not a destination; it's a journey.  

One success leads to another.  The methods used to achieve one success builds your confidence for trying new things and building even greater success later.  Success is a process that is consistently and continually reproduced based upon the daily thought and action habits you develop.  

I wake up everyday and here's what I do:

* Gratitude

* Prayer

* Meditation

* I ask myself "How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"

* I take action

* Pray more if I need it; meditate more when feeling stressed

* Rest and sleep as I need it

* Workout

* End the day in gratitude, prayer and meditation 

This is my routine, my daily habit.  Some days it's easier to do than others.  No matter what, I get up and I do it.  Why? 

Because success is a habit formed long before you experience the tangible "big" dreams you're desiring to achieve through it.  

Take heed to the words of Aristotle:

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.  We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.  We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Don't be Special...

Did you know that there's a HUGE difference between being special and being unique?  

Yup.

So many parents are used to telling their children "You're special" in an attempt to build up self-esteem and self-confidence.  What these parents do not realize is that "special" implies separateness.  If I'm special (i.e. set apart, different, possibly superior), what does that make everyone else?  Less than.

More than this, if my 'specialness' is based on everyone else being ordinary (i.e. not special like me), what happens when I grow up and meet someone who, to me and everyone else, has a new kind of special I don't have?

Special implies separation.  Built within it is the feeling of competition.  If you're special than it has to be in contrast to other people which means others have got to be ordinary.  There's no feeling good all the time with special because, in one way or another, you're always keenly aware that someone could show up and be more special than you, thus eroding self-esteem and self-confidence.

The truth is that you and I are no more special than anyone else.  What each person is is unique.

The definition of unique is as follows:

"radically distinctive and without equal."

By definition, there is no comparing one unique person to another.  There is no equal to your uniqueness.  There is no other you and there will never be another you.  In this sense, your self-esteem and confidence are eternal because what you offer cannot be measured against or compared to someone else... and neither can theirs.

Within each of us are the seeds of greatness.  No one is excluded which means no one is special and every single person is unique.  

The bottom line?

Stop trying to be special and totally embrace the fact that you're unique.  Pass this on to your children so they grow up knowing that it's good to be "radically distinctive and without equal."