52 Steps: Step 5 - TAKING CONTROL

Step 5: TAKING CONTROL


“If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?”
– Hillel

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WOW! As you read this and prepare for the week, you’re close to finishing a month of stepping closer to your Performance Edge! How do you feel? Have you been able to reach closer to your goal? Have you been able to see the picture more clearly of what you can have? If you can, you are on the path to achieving more than you ever realized. If the view is a little fuzzy, it’s time to step up and take control!

I want to ask you a simple question. If you were told you only had today left on this earth, what would you do with your last day?

I know some of you are saying, I wouldn’t be on a diet, I wouldn’t be at work, I wouldn’t be this and I wouldn’t do that. WHAT WOULD YOU DO! The reason I ask is that I had that exact question asked of myself recently, and my mind raced! At first I thought I’d get a plane ticket and go see and spend time with my family and have my best friends and that amazing person in my life come and be together. Then I thought, no that would take up most of my day with travel. Have them fly here. I’d get on the phone and contact as many friends as I could and tell them how much I love them, appreciate them and thank them for being part of my life. I would take that person that you hold near and dear to your heart and let them know how special they are and the impact they had made on my life! I would gather as many of those that were close to me as possible and we would have a party like you wouldn’t believe! I’d really LIVE THAT DAY! That was my thought.

What’s wrong with the above scenario? What’s wrong with the answer you came up with? WE DON’T KNOW WHEN OUR LAST DAY WILL ARRIVE! We don’t have control over our life span, just our performance plan! I for one, do not want to have my last day come around with me saying, I SHOULD HAVE!

We can’t wait for the right moments, the best time, or the next season to do what we know we need to do and should do today. The bible says if you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything (Ecclesiastes 11:4) and Napoleon Hill said to “Never wait. The time will never be just right!”

I ask you, whatever your last day plan was, act on it today, do it immediately, do it with excitement. William James, the great writer and philosopher said, “To change one’s life start immediately – do it flamboyantly – no exceptions!” WHAT A CHALLENGE!

Someone once told me you cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a whole lot about its width and depth. We don’t know the exact length of our life, but we certainly know how to add to the width and depth. So this isn’t about me telling you to just sit and do nothing! I’m telling you to take control of your performance plan. Isn’t that why you are reading the 52 Steps? Isn’t that why you made a decision to step closer to your PERFORMANCE EDGE and change something in your life? At some point over the past month, you made a choice to change your life. What a challenge for the last month it’s been. I know it has. Has part of your life span improved because of the challenge you set for yourself in your performance plan? Or has your performance plan this past month been marked with “white out” and “eraser scratching”.

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1. This week the DO IT is easy! TODAY act on your one day plan, do those important things you thought of TODAY. Don’t wait until tomorrow – we never know the future. After that, review your performance plan that you set for yourself, reset those goals and priorities if you need to and know that you will change your life! Don’t change it quietly and privately, do it with a bit of flair. Add a bit of flamboyance to your life now!

2. When you do your one day plan, grab someone else and get them involved in your dream. Let them in on your vision. Let them know that even though we never know what tomorrow can bring, that today you’ll make the most out of what you can do, and want them to go along for the exciting ride. Let them know that you’re in control of your life while you’re here and plan to make the most of every day! Make today amazing and find that amazing person to take along on the journey.

52 STEPS: Step 4: HAVING FAITH IN A RESOLUTION

Step 4: HAVING FAITH IN A RESOLUTION

“Some things have to be believed to be seen” – Ralph Hodgson

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Have you made out your New Year’s resolutions? Wait a minute – if you’re reading this now, it isn’t even January, we're past that, right? Well then you’ve already set those resolutions, are on track to accomplish those goals and move on to new ones. Or did you reach those goals? Are you still working on those goals? Have some of those goals went along with wayside? Do you need to have a New Year to set your sights on what is available?

The reason so many people set their resolutions on January 1 is that it’s a new year, a new beginning and new fresh start! We look to take that time and wash way the old and faulty. Most of us are in the habit of setting a resolution at the beginning of a new year. Most of us never stick to these resolutions!?

It is usually the practice when setting a resolution to give up something, to rid ourselves of those things we enjoy in over-abundance. We rely on our ability to deny! Webster’s dictionary gives us the definition of a resolution as the act or process of reducing to simpler form. I really like this idea! How simple to simply simplify. Take what ever task we have laid out in front of us, analyze that complex notion and break-it into simpler tasks. A good friend of mine was just telling me the other day she is working hard to work smarter, not just harder. She is finding ways to make things easier. The point to remember here is, as we take the path to find new ways to make things simply, we might have a little extra work and effort at the beginning while we try new things, implement new ideas or train others that can help us down the road.

How far away 365 days can be. I know there are some with the 52 Step Process that have read it, but already set it down and gone on to other things. They lost sight, desire, determination, dedication to follow through on 52 simple steps that would have made a huge impact on how they live their life. How simple it is to follow an assignment, task, goal that you set for yourself for one day. Take that one day, follow it with the next, add another day and another until you have put together your year. Sounds easy?

We know on paper it is, sitting in your comfy chair it’s a cake walk, in reality it’s a little harder. So what’s the secret? Pure and simple – FAITH! Faith, making an allegiance to duty. In the Texas Rangers Baseball locker room at the Ball Park in Arlington, Texas there is (or was) a sign that says, “Faith – Being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see!” With faith, you can set your sights on your destination, and know the goal you have set you will be able to obtain. See yourself there, grabbing the gold ring and making your vision become a reality.

There is a story of a little boy that goes to church with his family and on that day, the sermon was on sin. The pastor, in his sermon talks about leading a life of no sin. On the way home, in the car, the young lad proclaims to his family, “I’m never gonna sin!”. The family smiles and the father tells the son, “That is a great idea, but pretty hard to accomplish – Jesus was the only one that went his whole life without sinning”. After hearing this, the little boy sits back, and being a pretty smart young man, comes up with a new plan and explains, “Well then, I’m not gonna sin for a year!”. Everyone smiles and again, the father says to the son how hard that challenge can be. So the little boy, things for another few minutes and says, “Then I’m not gonna sin for a month!”. Again, the father says that is a great goal – but may be hard to accomplish. The little boy asks his dad if he things he could go a week without sinning. The father says he might, but that is still a long time to go with being “perfect”. The little boy then says he will go a day without sinning. Again, the father says what a great goal that is, and they hope he can be able to achieve that lofty goal. Finally, in disappointment, frustration and a little bit of angry, the little boy asks, “DAD, DO YOU THINK I CAN GO ONE MINUTE WITHOUT SINNING?!” With this, the father says, with a big smile, “Yes, I’m sure you can go one minute without sinning!” With that, the little boy sits back in his seat and has his own grin on his face and exclaims, “THEN I’M GONNA LIFE MY LIFE MINUTE BY MINUTE”!! Out of the mouth of babes!!

As the year progresses, you will encounter road blocks, stop signs, detours and other “traffic” that may slow you down or even get you to the point that you want to stop your journey., just like the detours the little boy encountered. When you find yourself up against one of these hazards, stop, step back and find your faith. Find whatever it is in you that made you give that allegiance to your task in the first place. Rekindle the fire and KEEP AFTER YOUR DESTINATION – KEEP THE FAITH. No one ever got anywhere standing still or stopping their journey.

DO IT

Take out the goal you’ve set for yourself. This is the goal you laid out when you went to see your mentor. Examine the goal and, on another sheet of paper, make two columns. In one column, put down the obstacles that could come up during the process of reaching that goal. Maybe you’re looking at losing weight. You might put down holidays, family gatherings, vacations, or even moods or events that seem to trigger emotions that get you off track. With putting in time with the community group, you might put down work commitments, travel, family events or other activities that might take you away from your ability to donate your time and effort to what you want to do.

Now take that list and along the second column write out how you will deal with the ituation that comes up. Make a disaster plan before the problem arises. In Rudolph Giuliani’s book, “Leadership”, he writes a whole chapter on the topic “Prepare Relentlessly”. He states that preparation was the single most important key to success, no matter what field! He believes it was planning and preparation done long before 9/11 that allowed New York to handle the disaster like they did. Problems will come up – that you can bet on. The way you handle those events will determine your success. Plan now. Your on your diet and know you’re having a party. On your list you’ve written down to get in extra exercise the days leading up to the party, really get strict with what you’re eating a few days before, and at the party you’ll limit yourself to the AMOUNT of what you eat and drink – but not WHAT you eat and drink. By having a plan in place and working the plan, you’ll develop the faith in yourself that you can reach your destination and that you had the resolve to stick to your resolution!

Step 3: SUCCESS UNEXPECTED IN COMMON HOURS

52 STEPS; Step 3: SUCCESS UNEXPECTED IN COMMON HOURS

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with success unexpected in common hours” –

Henry David Thoreau

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Success seems to be a constant struggle in every endeavor we take up. I was with a friend the other day who, in frustration said “Why is it that I have to work so hard just to stay even, it seems like I can never get ahead!” I’ve asked myself that question often, “why can’t things be easy – just once”. We sometimes get the feeling that the more effort we put into an important task, the rougher and tougher it is.

We often look at others who have had great success, and it seems so easy for them. In Step 1, you set up an appointment, (I KNOW YOU DID THIS – RIGHT!), to meet with such a person. After the meeting I hope you walked away and realized that those people that are doing what you want to do, or are in a position or place in life that you want to be at, had trials and tribulation just like you have experienced. The difference is they kept working through the hard times until the effort led them to success. Maybe they found a better way to do something, a more efficient way to get a task done, were able to delegate to others those things they didn’t do well or give tasks to others that were willing to help and could do them at a high level, allowing them to focus hard on what they excelled at.

Michelangelo, the great Italian painter and sculptor, said if people knew how hard he had to work to gain his mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all. Experts say to become a “master” at something, to be the elite in your field, you need to put in 10,000 hours of time in that endeavor. How fast and the length of effort it takes you to put in those hours is up to you – you might put in an hour a week for 10,000 weeks (in which you would need to live to be over 177 years old to become a master!). Even putting in 40 hours a week, 52 weeks every year, never taking a day off for vacation or because of sickness, it would take close to 5 years to be one of the top experts in your field!!

These numbers frighten a few of us. We find it hard to imagine working 5 years straight with no time off, no holidays, no time for “other things”. It would be hard. My question to you is, how much time would you be willing to give to yourself to accomplish that dream, that goal you set for yourself in Step 1? 1 hour a week, 5hours a week, 10 hours a week, maybe more! Even if you put in just a extra 1 hour a week (that’s less than 10 minutes a day!), where would you be a year from now?

We need to "take time to make time" to gain and master that which we desire. We might be surprised at the Performance Edge we’ve obtained in what we thought were everyday, common moments. We might even meet with success unexpected in those common hours!

DO IT

This week, start to add to your area of Performance Improvement. Sit down and write out your weekly calendar. Put down everything; sleep, eating, time with the kids, work, watching TV, doing nothing. Maybe you even have on your schedule time to deal with your area of Performance Improvement; what I want you to do is put down EXTRA time that you can spend in your area. For instance, with the physical component, maybe it’s not more time at the gym, but reading information on diet or programs that will help you out when you get to the gym. In the social organization, it might not be going to another meeting, but finding out if donating a few minutes a week to make a few calls to others would help out, helping with organizing an upcoming activity in the future would benefit the group. Find your extra time and use that time to better yourself in your Performance Improvement area.

It might also be getting rid of some of the items on your calendar that frees you up to focus on your main area that you want to excel at. Just today, I had lunch with the most amazing woman in the world! The lunch turned into a few hours of talking and sharing ideas and dreams. One of the things that she mentioned was that she needed to take a commitment off her plate that would allow her to achieve her goals in the area that was most important at this time. It didn't mean that the other area wasn't something she didn't want to be involved with or part of. But what makes her remarkable is that she is able to realize that to be successful in her key area, for now she would need to not commit so much time and energy to that other activity.

Mark the time on your calendar and/or schedule and follow through during this next week. At the end of the week, go back and review your week. Did something not get done that you normally do? In one of those other areas, was your performance hindered or your effort less than what you normally did? My guess is that it wasn’t. You were able to use this “found time”, get more accomplished in the area you WANT to work in and still met the challenges of in the areas you NEEDED to work at! Keep this up for the rest of the year (you might even find more time to do those WANT TO’s) and you’ll be amazed at the level of success you achieved!

IT’S THE BASE THAT’S IMPORTANT

Step 1: IT’S THE BASE THAT’S IMPORTANT

Somewhere here is a map of how it can be done – Ben Stein

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I grew up in a small town in SouthDakota. When I say small, it’s a place that when I did something wrong at 10:00 pm – my folks knew about it before I got home at 10:15 pm! It was known as the “Hay Capital of the World”. To this day it still is. We even have a “Hay Day’s” to celebrate the distinguished title. In a town of 400 folks, we didn’t have a McDonalds or Burger King to get summer jobs or part time work after school. To make money in our town, you did what you did if you were a young man growing up in the “Hay Capital of the World” – you piled hay.

I don’t know if you are familiar with piling hay or stacking hay. We would pile, stack, or load hay on trucks, in barns, in fields, on trailers, in enclosed furniture semi-trucks…you name it
and we put hay on it, in it, under it, and on top of it! The hay we handled and loaded were small
bales, called square bales; even though they weren’t square and at 80-100 pounds per bale, at times they didn’t seem small! The name locals fondly labeled those wire bundles were “Idiot Blocks”. (Years later, my brothers and cousins wondered, if they were called idiot blocks, what
did the people in town call the folks that carried them around??)

No matter where we stacked the bales, the early lesson taught was that the most important thing to stacking bales was to make sure the base was right. My dad use to say “It’s the bottom tier (base or bales at the bottom) that’s important. If that’s off, when you get to the top you’ll have problems.” He was right. If we took the time and effort to make sure the bales were started
correctly, the whole process was easier and we had fewer problems as we worked. If we hurried, and we just set the bales down and didn’t make a good base – as the stack went up, it would be a struggle to make the bales fit in place, and at times, even have the stack stay up.

Performance is a lot like stacking hay! It’s the base that’s important. If you start off on the right foot, get some help and have an understanding of your program, what you’re doing, why you’re doing what you’re doing and how doing it will benefit you – you’ll have greater success as you “stack things up” and add more to the program. Just as it took time to build the base and then put tier after tier and tier to build the hay stack, with performance it’s about taking small steps, seeing small gains until you’ve constructed the components that make up a better you! You can’t rush the process and be in a hurry, or the whole thing my tumble. Just like a hay stack, the different parts of your performance are under construction and the bigger and more stable the base, the more stable the structure will be and the higher the peak you’ll achieve! It takes time, dedication and some work, as it did putting up those bales, but what we found was the more hay we stacked, the easier it became. We learned how to handle the bales, how to use our bodies to move around the stack and how to do things the best and quickest way possible. You can do the
same with your performance program – if you stick with it over the long haul.

DO IT

This week, start to learn to build a base on your area of Performance Improvement.

1. Pick an area you want to make a change in, get better at, or work on. Maybe it’s in the
physical realm and you want to start to workout or get back to working out. Maybe you need to change up your workout. In the social realm, maybe you’ve wanted to join a certain group or get more involved with an organization. You might be looking to develop from the emotional standpoint and want to find someone to share your ideas with.

2. Find an expert in the area you are looking to make a change or work toward improving. Look
for a mentor that has taken the steps before you and can show you how to build the bottom tier of your success stack.

Contact them and set up a meeting THIS WEEK. Maybe it’s a personal trainer, maybe it’s the
president of a club, maybe it’s a councilor who can give insight on your situation and will give true and correct feedback. Make an appointment and get with them NOW.

3. At the meeting, tell them exactly what you want to do, what you want to accomplish. Lay out
what you want – know and see your future vision. This may take some time, but you taking some
time now will mean a lot to the person that is taking their time to help you out – and it will help during your other 51 Steps! Plan for the meeting and put your dream on paper – they will help you build the first tier to your base of success. ALSO – MAKE A VIDEO OF YOURSELF (get a video camera or find a friend that has one!) SAYING YOUR GOALS!

Wishing you the best of success and taking one step closer to reaching your PEAK PERFORMANCE.

Rock n Rout -

Mark "Rozy" Roozen

PS - for the worksheet with Step 1 - don't forget to email and request it at rozyroozen@gmail.com

52 Steps to Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life

52 Steps to Reaching Your
Performance Edge in Life

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

I wish I could tell you that making a change is easy. It isn’t.

UNLESS! There is always a catch isn’t there! Unless you decide to can make a change and you keep your eye on the reward and not on the rough road to get there. The change won’t be easy – but the final destination will be sweet! Take working out. Ever NOT want to go to the gym to
workout. You have to “prime the pump”, give yourself a pep talk, just to get up and get going to do something that is good for you – AND YOU KNOW IT! When you finally do get the energy to go workout, put yourself through the paces, at the end of the session, you are glad you did your workout for the day. It wasn’t easy, it maybe wasn’t convenient, but you have a sense of joy and accomplishment that you took a step to make yourself better!

I wish I could tell you that making a change takes 21 days. It doesn’t.

You can work hard and make a huge effort do things different over the next 21 days than what you did in the past, but if the habit that has you, and has been part of you for 10, 15 or 20 years,
doing something different and out of your norm for three weeks might not be long enough to make a lasting change. You might have to work longer and harder to knock that monkey, which is now a full size gorilla, off your back.

I’m an eater! Come from a family of eaters. We would determine how the success of an event was, if it was a good or great vacation, and if a family get-together ended on a positive note by how good the food was. Sometimes the food didn’t even have to be great if there was a lot of it. More meant better in my book. To this day, I have to fight the “Volume Monster” when I eat.
I’ve gone 21 days eating right, I’ve gone months eating right, and when I see a buffet, get the kids back, make sure there are no limbs hanging over the buffet table and please observe the 15 foot safety barrier, because it’s on baby!! The use a small plate, eat small portions, eat slowly are out the window. Using a small plate and eating small portions only means I need to go back more times (maybe the extra walking back and forth to the buffet line helps burn calories – guess not!). My point is, even after weeks and weeks of making positive changes, when I’m back
in old surroundings I revert back to old ways.

Change for me is a lifetime event – but that’s ok with me, because I plan to live my whole life, and not be dead before they bury me (but that’s a different topic for another blog or a whole book!).

I wish I could tell you that once you make a change it will last forever. It won’t.

The saying “Old habits die hard” is really true. There are reasons we do what we do, how we do them, when we do them, where we do them. It makes up our inner self, what we are and who we are. Changing that make-up is continually a work in progress. If once people made a change and it stuck – there would be a whole lot of people out of work! Just take dieting. The numbers are amazing of the people that lose weight, put it back on and lose it again. Just think how the world would be if once we lost the weight it would stay off and the change was permanent. When we worked out, long and hard for months and months, the physique we had worked to develop stayed in place! WOW – wouldn’t that be heaven! Sad to say it doesn’t work that way.

Progress begins by taking one step and then following with another. Working toward your Performance Edge isn’t a jump, it’s taking small steps to the ledge and seeing what is in front of you – and then gaining the knowledge, the courage and the determination to take one more step!

Our success in every endeavor; spiritual, physical, emotional, social and mental, lies in us doing something day by day. In the book “The Best of Success” by Wynn Davis, he says that “Good work done little by little becomes a great work. The house of success is built brick by brick.”

In this blog, over this year, 52 Steps to Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life, Mark Roozen’s Performance Edge Training Systems looks to give you little bits and pieces to help you become a great work. We’re giving you bricks – what you do with the bricks is up to you. Our hope is that you take each “brick” and put it down as your base to help you on your path to achieving more in your life than you ever thought possible. A new step will be sent out each Sunday night with this blog for you to follow.

The blog is set up to read “One Step” at a time each week over the next 52 weeks. With each step, there will be an idea and thought section (READ IT) and then an action section (DO IT)
with a task to accomplish for the week.

They say an idea with no action is a dream. At Mark Roozen’s Performance Edge Training
Systems, we are dreamers – but we also are, and believe, in DOING! Some of you might just sit and read the weekly thoughts, which is ok. Our goal is that the thought moves you to action, the action will lead to progress and progress help you reach new roads, new adventures and a new you that is inside of you and ready to get out.

We look forward to being part of the 52 Steps to Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life! I would love to hear from you. I also have a "Work Sheet" that I'll be glad to send you for FREE - each week that matches the weekly action plan. A easy to follow sheet that gives you step by step plans of how to make your action easy to accomplish. Just email me at rozyroozen@gmail.com and I'll make sure to send you the work sheet each week. I also look forward to your feedback and comments along the way. Look forward to taking the journey with you!

Taking you to the Edge and a Step Beyond!

Happy New Year!

Mark "Rozy" Rozy

Never Save Anything for the Swim Back!

If you never have seen the movie “GATTICA” with Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, it’s a good one to watch. In the movie, children are conceived with genetic aid selection. Ethan Hawke’s character is born through natural birth without the genetic aid – different than his brother. His younger brother surpasses “Vincent” (Ethan Hawke’s character) in many aspects, including a game they call chicken – where both swim out to sea, and the first to give up and swim back to shore is the loser. Anton always wins due to his superior physical stamina. Vincent dreams of a career in space, but is constantly reminded of his genetic inferiority. Vincent challenges Anton with a game of chicken when they are both older. This time, Vincent swims farther out than his brother, while Anton runs into trouble and begins to drown. Vincent saves him, then leaves home shortly thereafter.
Toward the end of the movie, when Anton and Vincent meet again – they challenge each other to a game of chicken so Vincent can prove that he is worthy for a space mission he has been selected for and not have his brother, who is now a detective, turn him in for fraud – acting as a genetic selected individual. As they swim out to see, once again Vincent saves his brother – who in amazement asks how he has done the remarkable. Vincent simply states to his brother, “I never saved anything for the swim back!” In everything he did, Vincent gave everything he had.
How often do we hold things back? How often do we wait to see what others are doing before we jump in with both feet? Do you lead the pack or wait to see the direction everyone is heading and then work your way to the front of the line?
It takes a lot of strength and courage to “never save anything for the swim back”! I spoke to a Navy Seal who said one of the hardest things about going through the program was that many times you were given a task to do - but didn’t know the parameters. “Get your gear on, we’re going for a run”. If you were given these orders or instructions, what would be some questions you would ask? “How far are we running”. “How fast are we running each mile.” The list and questions could be long. What if you didn’t know the time, the distance, the path you would run? What if your life depended on your effort? Could you give it all you have on each step? Could you keep giving it everything you had after the 1000th step, the 10,000th step? That is the challenge.
Success is like that. We push, pull, struggle, battle and “give it our all” – and many times give up when the going gets tough. After all, we have gone through a lot! My question is, what if you would have gone another step, worked another day, put in 1% more of effort would the outcome be different?
Tomorrow, when you get out of bed, have our mindset be to “hold nothing back for the swim back!”. See if having that approach for the day makes an impact on how your day goes and the opportunities that come your way. Live your life like there is no tomorrow!
To your success!
Coach Rozy

Happy 4th of July

Are you ready for the 4th!! Have the grill ready, stocked up on drinks, brats, burgers, bottle rockets and fireworks? Invitations have been mailed, e-blasted, texted, messaged or posted on facebook?! We plan to put together a great weekend - and with the holiday on a Monday, it gives us 3 days to rock, roll and rout!! It really is amazing how we spend so much time getting ready for the next three days!

Now my question of the month for you! What plans have you put in place to prepare, prime and position yourself for success the last half of the year! 1/2 of 2011 is gone! Today is the half way point - only 6 months to accomplish all the dreams, goals and expectations that you set at the New Year.

I heard a speaker say once that most of us prepare more for a family vacation than we do fo life!!! How sad - but how true. Found myself in that "rut" the last few weeks...getting up, going to work, working out, going home to go to bed to do it all over again. I had lost my faith, focus and dropped the effort I was used to putting into LIFE!!

For me, I had to take a weekend and sit back, do some soul searching and "re-boot" my system. Just like computer gets jammed up and can't function, and you need to shut it down, turn it off and restart it, you might need to do the same for you!

What I'd like you to do today, or over the next few days is to take some time to reflect on the last six months, and then set down what you plan to do over the last half of the year. It's not to late to make 2011 the best year ever. That's what I did, and when I did, not only did my energy level change - my life changed! Opportunities opened up, new people entered into my life, I was able to move forward with the energy and passion that I normally have. What was funny is, my attitude needed to change before my situation did. Once my focus changed, I approached each day with the faith that great things would happen and I put in the positive energy that we should all have on a daily basis - the energy around me changed.

Make this 4th explode with a new vision of what you can do the rest of this year....you might just find that the fireworks and celebration can last for months instead of days!!

Wishing you the best 4th and the best in life.

Over and Rout until next time.

Rozy

PS - will be sending more blogs over the next week with more information and details on the changes and path my life is taking! Never a dull moment! Which makes life ROCK!!