Think For Success

Over the years I’ve read some amazing books by some very amazing people. I look at my life at times and take notice of the habits I’ve picked up because of the positive influence they had on me.

I implemented a habit years ago when I was young but I didn’t know the power of it until I read Brian Tracy and later John Maxwell.

The habit is to find some down time to think. I’ve always done this from the time I was a kid. When I was very young I would go to the woods and wonder around and stand in the stillness. But the thinking wasn’t organized the way it is today. Well….most of the time.

Your place to think never has to be ordinary.

Some successful people I know get comfortable in a dark room and just think and wait for an answer to a question they are thinking about.

You can also find other very successful people that do their best thinking in a small crowd of people like a coffee shop or restaurant. J. K. Rowling,, author of the “Harry Potter” books did some of her best work in a cafe’ and coffee shop. Some people need to have that little distraction to stimulate the thinking process.

It may not be  important where your thinking place is as long as you get to really think.

Thanks.

Lynn Lane

Make This Moment Count!

Create Your Greatness

Breaking the Cycle.

From early childhood to adulthood we are trained and conditioned to think, act and believe certain things about life and the way we should live it.

We may not be complete conditioned response creatures…..(Pavlov’s Dogs), but we do tend to fall back on the conditioned response from the past for example, Learned Helplessness.

So many people never become aware that this has happened. The moment you are aware is the moment you begin to create your true self.

Look around and you will see many people that are living the same broken existence of past generations because they have been conditioned to do so.

A life without:

*Education

*Goals

*Career

*Responsibility

*Accountability

*Discipline

*Direction

*Respect

“The tragedy of the War on Poverty is not that its measures have been too small to reduce the proportion of the population living under the poverty level today to anything less than it was in 1968.

 The tragedy is the multitude of able people who became welfare recipients every year when they would have found their way out of the poverty trap in the absence of these programs.

Social programs may supply some important benefits to the genuinely helpless. But the inevitable irony of government transfers to the poor is that they induce other people to qualify for them — people who could work for a decent living, but choose idleness and a welfare check instead.

More tragic still are the children of welfare families whose role models are parents who can’t or won’t hold a job or who have given up trying. Not only do these children fail to learn the importance of work and self-reliance, but the value of education — already hard for a child to appreciate — becomes incomprehensible to them.

Not surprisingly, this results in poorer attendance, more frequent classroom disruptions, higher dropout rates, lower literacy and overall competence levels, and higher juvenile crime rates.

Many children of school age in our inner cities now are third-generation welfare recipients. “

*Note that statement was written by David Beer a doctoral student in economics at George Mason University in 1989.  Full Article.

Once you become aware of the people and things around you that condition you, now you have the key to unlock those shackles and free yourself to discover your greatness.

Learn to embrace the challenge of change and the challenge to create greatness in your life by conditioning your own mind and body with your own choices and decisions.

Be the first in your family to finish college, start and build a million dollar company, become a leader in your community or influence others yet unborn to follow your example of greatness.

Leave that legacy behind for others to follow.

Gratitude-

I am so thankful for the positive friends, family and mentors that showed up in my life at age 24-25 and for all the ones that continue to show up today because I seek them out.

Lane Resources Inc.

Lynn Lane

Embrace the Challenge!

A Ship In The Harbor Is Safe.

A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd

Hoist your anchor and sail today.

Like a ship you are created to set sail and leave the harbor behind.

A Ship that stays in the harbor over time will start to deteriorate quickly because it’s not being used for what it was intended.

A ships purpose it to sail the wide open seas.

A ship will at times go through stormy seas only to sail  to even better seas.

Ships that sail on the open sea last longer than the ones that are just setting in the harbor.

Ships come into the harbor for repairs and maintenance and prepare to sail again.

We need down time too. We need to build ourselves back up with new inspiration, motivation and get re-fired to sail again.

Never fear the open sea of life…..sail on!

I plan to sail until I have no more seas to sail.

Lynn Lane

Lane Resources Inc.

Obama Promised Change. Are You Waiting For Change?

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

www.Warriorofsuccess.com