YOUR LIFE A-Z: ULTIMATE

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ULTIMATE

What is the ULTIMATE for you?  What is your utmost goal?  What would have to change or need in your life right now to say, “Yes, today was an ULTIMATE day?”  A couple of weeks ago we talked about the word “Finish.”  What is the ultimate conclusion, finish, desire that you want to accomplish?  An ULTIMATE Marathon finish can be winning in your age bracket, winning the entire Marathon as number one, or beating your last time.  You get to decide what is ULTIMATE to you and what is not.  But you will never reach ULTIMATE if you don’t define what it is for yourself.  

Definitions allow us to actualize our goals.  Without definition we do not know where we are, so we might say, this was the ULTIMATE experience, but still feel disappointed inside because we had no clear definition as what it was we wanted to accomplish.  Definition allows us to make ULTIMATE more than a once in a lifetime event.  Break the word down into small micro-bites.  What was your ULTIMATE experience of this day?  Choose one.  What was the ULTIMATE part of your vacation?  What is the ULTIMATE class at school?   How is it that just tweaking your focus to the word ULTIMATE can helps you enjoy more of your day today?  How is it that by dreaming big and defining clearly you can ULTIMATELY have more of what you desire?  ULTIMATE is yours for the taking.

YOUR LIFE A-Z YES

YES! Opens Possibilities and Options 

YES

Say yes to life today.  Stop putting off all of those things you have wanted to do but never got the courage to do or thought you did not have the money, or whatever excuse you kept feeding yourself.  Today is the day to say YES.  Decide to really get into the stream of life and stop sitting on the side-lines wishing and wanting with your would have -could have-should haves.  Say yes. 

Name the first three things that come to mind when you think about what you have always or (even recently) wanted to do but just could not make a plan to do it.  Out of those three things on your list, choose one that you are going to set your mind to go and do.  It doesn't have to meet someone else's criteria, it does not have to be practical.  It only has to be something you have wanted to do or to have. 

Now ask yourself the three questions: 

What do I need to do to make this into a YES?

How do I do those things?

What is the first step? 

Start there. Once you start acting on your YES, you will be surprised at how much energy will begin to flow into your being to make it happen.  Yes, there will be obstacles, perhaps lots of obstacles, but obstacles are also overcome one step at a time.  So when you hit your first obstacle, remember your YES and use the three questions to get around, through or over your obstacle and back into your YES.

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