Establishing priorities shows respect for yourself and prevents others from taking advantage of your time.

Today's TQ Challenge: Focus ONLY on What's MOST Important Each Day.

1. Choose to be FULFILLED! If you don't consider your next task important, how did it get on your schedule?

2. Choose to be SELF-DIRECTED! When you're walking with purpose, do people stop and give you directions?

3. Choose to be PURPOSEFUL! Who needs more information today about your personal priorities?

When you prioritize your life, you determine where your time will produce the most rewarding and satisfying results. Base these priorities on your personal list of values, goals and commitments. Urgency is a quality given to something requiring immediate attention -- regardless of its relative value. You can spend years chasing down one urgency after another. Or, you can focus on top priorities and ensure that what's most important to you actually shows up in your life. By choosing priorities over urgencies, you stop reacting to circumstances and start creating a life of power, passion and purpose.

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." ~ Harriet Braiker

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Contribute in whatever way you can. Start with the next person you see.

Today's TQ Challenge: Establish the Role You will Play to Achieve Your Dreams.

1. Choose to be RESPONSIBLE! In what way have you already contributed to your world today?

2. Choose to be ACCOUNTABLE! Who else has benefitted from your actions this week?

3. Choose to be DEPENDABLE! What's one activity you'll do today to ensure a successful tomorrow?

Every role -- every part you play -- deserves its own dedicated mission. Define what's most important to you in each role and make that your mission for the role. Nothing is more powerful than clearly identifying the contribution you will make to guarantee that each of your visions will come true. When you promise yourself, "This is what I will do," you define the roles that will make the biggest difference in your life.

"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs." ~ Gloria Steinem

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Isolate each fear. See it for what it is. Then take a specific action that will reduce the fear and improve your situation.

Today's TQ Challenge: Use FEAR as a Call to Immediate ACTION... Conquer that Fear by Expanding Your Comfort Zone.

1. Choose to be COURAGEOUS! What's one thing you've been putting off because you've been afraid to start?

2. Choose to be UNDAUNTED! Can you identify the exact source of your greatest fear right now?

3. Choose to be BOLD! Which step forward can you take to reduce your fear and get on with your task?

When you are stopped by fear, you almost always fail. Every type of fear -- physical, emotional or social -- has the beneficial purpose of protecting you from harm. However, this does not mean you must always stop. Remember this: thought directs action. Confirm the value of your goal and the appropriateness of your actions. Then, consciously choose to focus on more productive thoughts. Master this and you can act in spite of your fear -- and continue toward your desired goal.

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!" ~ Henry Ford

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Nothing kills like boredom. If your current goals don't inspire you, make some that do!

Today's TQ Challenge: Clearly Define the MOST Desired Outcome Possible.

1. Choose to be FULFILLED! Which of your goals lights the biggest fire under you?

2. Choose to be PURPOSEFUL! What goal brings out your passion just by talking about it?

3. Choose to be WELL-ROUNDED! Are any of your friends or associates displaying aimlessness and boredom?

Creating an ideal life, where all of your roles are completely fulfilled, starts with setting clear goals. If you never define what you expect, you will only get what life gives you -- and that may be a whole lot less than what you want. Why leave things to chance? Every major interest and role in your life deserves its own series of goals. Clearly defined goals for each of your roles provides a rewarding direction -- and an ever-present purpose for each area of your life.

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." ~ Greg Anderson

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Value every precious minute in your day today.

Today's TQ Challenge: Put a Value on Time Invested.

1. Choose to be VIGILANT! How much time have you spent off task so far today?

2. Choose to be ACCOUNTABLE! Is there something else more useful that you could spend your time on right now? Why aren't you?

3. Choose to be WATCHFUL! Is today's schedule clear and complete, and are you sticking to it?

Time is the most precious gift of all. Ask anyone facing a serious accident or illness, or an important deadline. Ask any parent watching their little girl all grown up and graduating from high school. You must learn how to become accountable for every minute in your day, because each day spent, is a day gone forever. Concentrate your time on only those things that produce the greatest reward and satisfaction to you.

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If your attendance is required at the next meeting, contribute all you can, and then leave as soon as your presence is no longer needed.

Today's TQ Challenge: Get Fully Engaged Quickly -- Or Get Out Gracefully.

1. Choose to be PREPARED! Could your time be better spent elsewhere than at your next meeting?

2. Choose to be RESPONSIBLE! Could your next meeting conclude just as well without you?

3. Choose to be INVOLVED! How could you politely phrase your request to be excused from your next meeting?

A meeting can either be valuable and highly productive or a complete waste of time. It all depends on the attitude and the preparation of everyone in the meeting. The key to a successful meeting is a highly focused agenda, advanced preparation, a skilled moderator and follow up on items requested and promises made.

"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again." ~ Ovid

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I thought it interesting, indeed appropriate, to start this week of Passion, Purpose and Mission with an "early take" on the idea of success, spirituality and power.

Allen teaches two essential truths: today we are where our thoughts have taken us; and we are the architects—for better or worse—of our futures.

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What does WINNING mean?

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This week, we are going to tackle PROCRASTINATION—a word that causes most of us a tremendous amount of grief—and keeps us from consistently doing things at the Right Time... if at all.

According to American Heritage, PROCRASTINATION is...

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