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Obama Promised Change. Are You Waiting For Change?
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 19 comments
A few years ago John Mayer performed a song at the Grammy Awards called “Waiting on the World to Change.” I love John Meyer’s music and the way he plays guitar. He says that Stevie Ray Vaughn was a guitar hero of his so that makes John all right in my book.
As much as I like John and his music, this one song he sang at the Grammy’s made me think. It made me think about how so many people just set around waiting on the world to change, when they have the power to make changes themselves.
Decide today to become a change driver and don’t wait for the world to change until you start to live the life you want.
You don’t need people to approve you or agree with you and you don’t have to follow the crowd.
By making the choice to fulfill a goal or a dream you set in motion a chain of events that will lead you to your focused wants. You will have times when you’ll think you don’t have the courage or the strength to move forward.
You’ll have times when things will roll on like clockwork. The hardest times will be when you have a short coming, a short-term failure.
The people who are the most successful in this world are the ones who failed the most, too. So learn to fail faster and get the failures out of the way. Every time you have a failure you are one step closer to your goal.
If you make a mistake, then take what you have learned and change your approach and move forward. Failure is a tool to help us refine our approach on the way to our goals.
Failure is only failure if we don’t learn something from it.
The power is in you, use it now!
1. Except failure as a tool and let it serve you, not defeat you.
2. Learn to fail fast.
3. Learn from your failures
4. You can always change your approach.
5. When life knocks you down you can give up or get up.
6. You have the power of choice
7. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
Dare to be Great!
Lynn Lane
19 responses to “Obama Promised Change. Are You Waiting For Change?”
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I love every single one of your seven points.
I like your style, Lynn. With your posts your readers will be able to coach themselves to success.
JJ Jalopy
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Lynn,
Great points. There are three ways that people can respond to adversity:1) Anger (those *(&*(^@#(* __________ )
2) Hope of Better Days to Come
3) Action to Create Better FutureI happen to have bits of all three, but I try to channel the energy into #3.
Seize the Day,
Rob
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Lynn,
Great words!
Recently, I read this statement:
“Live the Changes You Want To See In Others.”
How great life will be when we follow this principle!
John Ho
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I’m a huge fan of John Mayer also – perhaps the best guitarist in the world, IMO.
I think too many people look at too big a picture and tell themselves change is futile.
Focus on the little things and the big things happen!
Philip
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Change your world by changing how you react to it. Works every time.
Christian
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The worst thing you can do is wait for someone outside ourselves to make our situation better. I you don’t like the way things are the only one who can change your circumstances is you.
Failure is a part of life and a learning experience. Being afraid to fail is a sure formula for inaction.
As the Alarm sang…”I will never give in until the day that I die.” Words to live by.
Steve
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Good points
The DIY Lawyer
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Lynn,
Powerful words! I especially like your seven points about the power in you. Many people talk about change but never put concrete plans into action. I especially liked this paragraph:
By making the choice to fulfill a goal or a dream you set in motion a chain of events that will lead you to your focused wants. You will have times when you’ll think you don’t have the courage or the strength to move forward.
Thanks for giving me something to think about as the last few days have been a bit challenging to say the least. I needed some encouragement to keep my feet on the path!
Thanks!
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Good list
Bob Kaufer
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great advice. so many fail and then stop there and never try again.
SunnyMarie
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Great post Lynn. I agree with all your points though it took me many years to accept them.
All the best,
Yann
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like I’d wait on my President to do for me what I need and want to do myself!Great post
All the best,
April Braswell
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Gotta put those points into action. Yes, John Mayer is fabulous! I hope the power is in me.
Lisa McLellan, Child Care Expert – Babysitters, Nannies, and Au-pairs
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Great Post! I like how you drove the point home that you can’t give up and have to keep going and fight through. It brings up a success formula a friend taught me.
1. Know your outcome.
2. Take Action
3. Have Sensory Acuity to know if it’s working
4. Adjust.Thanks for the great post!
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I sat in on a meeting today during which the compliments flew back and forth as to what progress had been made and deadlines met: pats on the back were everywhere……and they were most concerned with pictures being taken with their awards. By the time that was done, we were out of time, nothing had really been done, and real issues were tabled until next time. Waiting on change? Was I just a short time ago??
Thanks
JC jc
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excellent advice. I like your philosophy on the attitude of failing. Mark
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Duane Cunningham April 4th, 2009 at 04:50
Hey Lynn,
Awesome advice! As we all know the one thing that is constant is ‘change’ and being able to embrace change and create the future as you envision it is an enormous problem for most as the mind is totally opposed to change!! Hates it!! Being able to influence and persuade yourself is the key
Duane
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Lynn,
Great post. Very motivating.
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I like it. Good stuff.
Tim
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JJ Jalopy April 3rd, 2009 at 11:38