Happy New Year to all..Some tips for 2014

I saw on a posting that my friend did on Facebook...

"Friends, I notice a lot of you posting "Ah! 2014 will be a good year!". Sorry to break the news but ALL years are the same: they all have 12 months, 52 year and 365 days (366 if it's a leap year). The one that needs to do and be good is YOU..."---Aaron Alarcon Bowen...

It made me think hard last night..that 2014 will be the same 365 days that every other year has but It is how we use the time to our benefit that matters..What are you going to do that will make 2014 a great year? I am a student of personal development and soak in the knowledge that I read and listen to...So here are some tips for making 2014 a great year...

1. What intake are you commit to in 2014? ...what books, what audio programs, what are you going to learn in 2014?

2. What associations with people are you going to try to make or deepen? You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with (Jim Rohn Quote)...you have to ask the question...are these people building me up or tearing me down? 

3. What is going to be your self talk for 2014? Do you see yourself as a winner or do you tear yourself down...

4. Do you have Handwritten Goals and a action plan in place? Do you make a conscious effort to do at least 5 things each day to help reach those goals...

5. Do you have a Crystal Clear Vision of what you want 2014 to look like? When your feet hit the floor in the morning...do you see the Vision?


There are many other tips for a Successful and Happy New Year...but these are mine that I am going to follow to help me have the Best New Year!

Happy New Year to all!

Jeffrey R. Carlson
RE/MAX Masters

What I Learned in 2013...Lessons from the whirlwind...

Well, since is my last blog post of 2013...I thought I Blog about what I learned this year...

1. Be Specific... I learned what when asking for something in regards to a Goal...BE SPECIFIC...You can't just say, I want to make more money, or I want to save more money, or I want to lose weight ... You have to be as Specific as possible down the smallest detail....or ...you the vision of what your want will be diluted.

2. Always focus on the positive...Period...No matter what is going on in your life...there is always something to be grateful for. Focus on it..like a Laser Beam..Do not get stuck on the P.L.O.M...The poof little old me attitude...Get stuck on How Wonderful Life is...Have a Clear Positive Vision for the day...

3. Trust your Gut! If your Gut is saying no...Follow it....Have a deep belief in yourself and trust what your inner voice is saying...

4. The First Person you should impact is yourself...make sure that when you are trying to impact others lives, make sure you do not trample yourself.....Make sure that you always listen to what your needs and wants are..be able to express what you want...

5. A Goal without an Action Plan is a recipe to a disaster...You should when you set a Written Goal..Map out an action plan to getting to the Goal...Things you can do on a Daily Basis and put into your daily plans...

6.  Everyone is Worthy of Success...God did not build a Staircase of Success leading to nowhere...all of us deserve Success and I do not care if you are 5 years old or 100, Success is always there for each person to pursue...I heard it said...that "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal" Earl Nightingale...We define success then pursue it... 

7. One last thing I learned is that when you get to the end of your rope, it is alright to ask for help..I know it is natural to want to isolate and try to solve all the problems yourself. Most people Isolate and Build a moat around themselves and smile and say they are fine. It does not make you weak to ask for help, it only helps you to make you to be stronger...I know I am a giver by nature, but when you don't ask for help, you deny other givers to help you...

Well this is all that I learned ...in 2013...What lessons and Successes will I have in 2014? Stay Tuned....

Tell me what you learned this year...

Jeffrey R. Carlson
RE/MAX Masters

Failure is an Event...Not a Person...

"Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life." ---Anonymous

This Holiday weekend, I have had some time to think and to do some reading...I just finished "Over the Top" by Zig Ziglar, which I highly recommend people read. Now he says in the book, that Failure is an Event, not a person, and yesterday truly did end last night. I think we have to be extremely careful about this, due to the fact their are going to be times, that people will judge us and tell us we are a failure or we are going to fail. I had this happen this year and I listened.  I started to think, in my mind, that I was a failure. But then I remembered, that a wise man named Brian Buffini said that winners and losers are only defined at the end of life and I have not left this earth yet.

Now, I know all us us have fallen and failed at something in life, but you only fail if you stay down and do not get up. I am getting set to set some 2014 goals in all my circles. I will have a crystal clear vision of what I want to accomplish in 2014. Have you started to think of what you want to achieve? Have you written down your goals? One thing, I want to impress on you, is that you must have a crystal clear vision of what you want to accomplish in 2014. You must see it as it already happened. If you fall, just get up and start down the path to you goals again..... One thing...I will say...be very careful on who you allow to tell you that you can't do something or that you are a failure. Surround yourself with people who say you can and will help you up when you fall...

Jeffrey R. Carlson
RE/MAX Masters