I noticed this morning that there seemed to be a few more people than normal in the gym and I wondered why. Some people I recognized but there was about 5 to 10 people that I never seen before. They seemed pretty familiar with the gym so I’m sure that they have been members for a while. But I started to wonder why they were there today of all days, all on the same day.

And I came to the conclusion that they must have the go to the gym in the beginning of September after Labor day pattern. Summer is over, vacation time is over, kid’s are going back to school… time to get back to the gym again. Or maybe they have been going all along but they have to go earlier because the kids are going back to school.

Who knows for sure… I will find out in a few weeks as I notice who will be there and who won’t as their pattern plays out for them.

We all have patterns in our life. And these patterns determine our level of success and failure.

These patterns are habitual in our life and some of these patterns help us continue to succeed while some of these patterns hold us back and have us in failure mode.

These patterns are all based on our habitual way of thinking and acting. These thought patterns are followed by actions that create the results in our lives both good and bad.

When a bad pattern keeps happening in our lives, it is important to make sure to start to pay attention to the habitual thoughts that are going on in our heads when it comes to this pattern.

It will generally be proceeded by good things happening in that area. You will feel good about how things are going in that area but then something will happen that will frustrate us or that will set us back in that area.

The one thing that will change before these bad things that happen is a habitual thought that you have about this area which will lead to a different habitual action that will cause the back slide in this area.

It is a frustrating phenomenon but one that can be over come if you are paying attention to the habitual thoughts that you have concerning this area of your life that continues to frustrate you.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System and you are finding some areas of frustration this may be they key to help you get over that hump. Check it out!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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The ones that hold us back are quite insidious. They work on us underneath the surface and hold us back from what we have set in our mind that we consciously want for ourselves.

Most of the time, these habits are given to us via well meaning people in our lives trying to SAVE us from ourselves and some of these habitual thoughts continue in our lives for a long time until we develop a system to expose these thoughts and replace them with habitual thoughts and actions that serve us instead of hold us back.

Here are a few thoughts about habits to consider:

1. We have habitual thoughts and actions that take place in our lives everyday – These habits either serve us or the hinder us. We need to look at our lives in the areas that we think are important and find the habitual thoughts that are holding us back and then replace them with thoughts that will serve us.

2. When we start to change the thinking habits and follow that by congruent habitual actions our life will change profoundly – When we start to change the thoughts that are going around in our head and get the actions to change with them, we will start to see different results in our lives. This is key to making our lives better.

3. Make sure to pay attention to reoccurring issues that happen in your life – If you have things that seem to be happening over and over in your life this is a definite habitual thought and action pattern that is working in your life.

Here is how this happens:

1. You make a decision to make a positive change in your life. You are pumped up and ready to go and you start to take action.

2. You start to get results and you are quite pleased with your efforts. You have gotten to this point before and then something starts to change inside of you.

3. You start to be slipping back into old thinking and action habits.

4. Next thing you know you are back into the same shape that you were before starting off on this improvement change you were looking to do.

When you start to back slide, this is habitual thinking and habitual actions that you have going on behind the scenes that start to work on you that causes the back slide.

It is vitally important to uncover those hidden habitual thoughts and actions and change them. Once you change them, the up and down pattern will stop and you will make permanent positive change in your life.

The habit changing system that has worked the best for me is Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System. This system has helped me in many areas in my life and I find it to be a complete system for habit change. If you are challenged in this area make sure to check it out.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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The picture that we have of ourselves is often shaped by what the opinion of others has been about us. We have had opinions leveled about us from the minute we took our first breaths. Some of them have been good, some of them have been bad. Some of them have been bad but weren’t intended to be good.

Your no good…

Your lazy…

Your fat…

Your too skinny… (This one got me for many years. I’ll explain later in the post.)

Your a bad girl…

Your a bad boy…

Your no good for nothing…

You eat too much…

Do any of these sound familiar?

Until we take personal responsibility for how we feel about ourselves, we will continue to live by the limiting thoughts that others have labeled us with.

The best way to combat the negative image we have about ourselves is to become very conscious of the thoughts that are rolling around in our heads. Let me give you an example.

For most of my adult life, I have fluctuated from 180 to 240 pounds for about the last 25 years. I have gone on diets got down to the weight that I liked but not too long from there I would end up back to being heavy and out of shape again. People always found this very fascinating and I found it very frustrating.

Recently after both of my parents experienced some medical issues at the age of 65, I knew it was time for me to get back on the road to health again. After all I don’t want to have those experiences when I get older.

So I started out again and I found myself getting good results. One morning I was looking in the mirror and I was impressed by the results that I have accomplished to this point and this voice came into my head and said, “Be careful, you don’t want to get to skinny.”

I was fortunate enough to catch that little comment in my head. I started to think to myself, why would that thought even enter into my head.

And then I remembered back to when I was a kid and my grandmother and aunts used to tease me about being skinny. This used to aggravate the crap out of me.

This all happened when I was between 8 to 10 years old. And I didn’t let them down for most of my adult life.

I actually let their thoughts of me define me. I let an opinion of theirs turn into a habitual thought that has been in my head cautioning me not to “get too skinny”.

What is even more amazing about this is that, this thought came to me exactly at the weight that I would always lose steam and start to gain the weight back.

It was a yo-yo weight loss cycle that I had developed based on the opinions of others but if I had not been conscious of the thoughts that were going on in my head I would have been set to repeat the cycle.

I learned this technique of consciously listening to my subconscious thoughts in Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System.

I know now that I will not be going back to that unhealthy weight after discovering that and other thoughts that I discovered using the techniques in Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System.

I am grateful for that!

So how do you feel about yourself?

What thoughts or opinions of others have you let control any part of your life?

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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When you actually see your goal coming into reality everyday, it helps to keep you motivated to continue forward progress the next day. The key here is to make sure you are making forward progress everyday towards your goals.

If you are not making forward progress, you are actually going backwards because the time that has passed is gone forever and will never come back for you to use again.

And this is true for every goal you have.

It is important for you to have a well balanced list of goals. We wear many hats through out the day and it is important that we focus our efforts towards each goal in the proportion of their importance to us.

For example, my fitness goals are best worked on in the early morning between 4 AM and 6 AM. This is the time that I have set aside to work on my weight resistance and cardio workouts. As the day moves forward I am working on my career and financial goals by working on providing the best possible service to the customers I have.

While the day moves on I am still working on my fitness goals by eating a well balanced diet in between business calls. And my relationship goals with my family is open to whenever they need me during the day but with more of an emphasis in the morning when I return from the gym and in the evening after I make my business calls.

As far as my spiritual goals go, I am constantly in gratitude for the abilities that God has given me and I try to leverage those strengths to help as many people as I can everyday.

In the morning, I review my goals and I set up a list of specific things that I would like to accomplish everyday in every area of my life and work hard to reach those daily goals everyday.

This is a habit… a habit that if mastered will help anyone that applies it reach whatever goal they desire if they never give up!

Pay close attention to your habitual way of thinking and your habitual way of acting. These are the key to any future change that you are looking to accomplish.

I am thankful to Lee Milteer. She develop a system called The Habit Busting System.

With the use of this system, I have been able to lose 40 pounds over the last couple of months and not only that but I have found thinking habits that I have had from as early as 10 years old that created issues for me that kept me on yo-yo weight loss and weight gain for the better part of my adult life.

It is truly amazing.

If you struggle in any area of your life, it is because of habitual thinking that is working in your head. There are techniques in this program that can help you discover and replace those limiting thinking habits. Make sure to check it out today! Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Some of you may be saying, “John, What is my God given responsibility?”

Well here is my definition of what I feel our God given responsibility is in a couple of parts:

1. We are responsible to discover our unique skill and strengths – This is an area where we have a natural talent ability. A strength that when we are involved doing it, time slips away from us and we are engrossed.

2. We are responsible to use our strengths and skills to serve others profitably – This is where we find a way to use our strengths and unique skills to serve others in a manner that we make money to satisfy our need for food, shelter, clothing and what ever else we desire.

3. We are responsible to help those who CAN NOT help themselves – There is a very important distinction here. To help those who CAN NOT help themselves. Not to make slaves of those who think that they can not help themselves. When we enable those who are mentally and physically able to help themselves to become slaves to a system of welfare, we end up destroying their dignity.

My mentor, Jim Rohn, would always remind us of what the flight attendants would tell us before the plane took off and that would be “to put your mask on first. And then to help those around you.”

He also mentioned a great saying that a colleague of his would say and that was “I’ll take care of me for you, if you take care of you for me.”

It is our responsibility to make sure that we keep our skills up to date, to make sure that we have marketable skills that others will find valuable. And then find a way to make money to cover our basic needs and the needs of our family and then to help others.

When we do this as individuals, we make our whole society better.

What are you waiting for? Start NOW!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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In some states in the US, the kids are already back to school. I remember when I was a kid, it was always this time of the year that I would start to get a little anxious to get back to school. I mean the summer was great but I always seemed to be very bored towards the end of the summer.

I talk to my kids and ask them if they are looking forward to going back to school and the answer comes back a resounding… “YES!!!”

Then I started to think about that, “Why are the kids so thrilled about going back to school?”

The conclusion that I came to was that… when they go back to school, they will have more structure back in their lives. They will have new goals and objectives put forth by the new classes they will be taking.

Now don’t get me wrong, it won’t be long before they are looking forward to summer again but until then I am happy that they are looking forward to going back to school.

This is no different for us as adults…

When we have structure in our lives, we tend to be a little more motivated. When we are going for goals that we have set for ourselves, we tend to be a little more focused and feel a little better about ourselves.

September has always been a month of getting new things started for me but this year has been a little different for me.

Earlier this year, I set some pretty aggressive goals for myself in a time that I don’t normally set goals for myself. It was a real shock to my system.

But I realized this year that there is no good time to set goals.

The best time to set a goal is when that goal jumps into your mind. While the idea is hot in your mind.

When you set that goal and take action on it immediately, you increase your chances of making that goal a reality. And you build an unstoppable momentum.

Another thing that I realized is that working with your habits is huge when it comes to reaching your goals. If you don’t seriously look at and adjust your habitual nature the chances of your reaching your goals, go down in a dramatic fashion.

The habitual thoughts and actions that you have now, HAVE to change in order for you to reach these goals. In order for you become someone you have not been before requires you to become someone you have never been before.

The program that I have been using to make this happen for me is Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System. This program has done wonders for me and I haven’t slowed down one bit in this last session of goal setting.

The only change that I have made this time around is paying close attention to the habits that I have created in my life that have held me back from reaching these goals that I have set for myself and then changing my thinking and actions to become congruent with the goals that I desire.

So I am well on my way to reaching these goals and I have back up goals ready to go when I make these goals a reality and I am already working to change the habitual thinking and actions that I am going to need to have to reach the next set of goals.

I will keep you posted on the progress.

I hope you have found this post useful!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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You will have to deal with customers, co-workers, suppliers, trainers, educators and the list goes on and on.

At some point if you end up running your own business, you may be coordinating the efforts of all these people in a manner to move your business forward in a harmonious manner.

This will require that you develop a level of influence.

Merriam Webster dictionary defines influence as “to effect the actions of humans”.

Influence is the ability to get others to take action.

This can be a positive thing but also a very negative thing depending  on what type of influence you exert.

We are going to concentrate on the positives of influence, the ability to influence others in a manner that benefits everyone involved.

Here are a few ideas to consider when working your influence:

1. People will be influenced more by people who practice what they are trying influence – Let’s say for example you sell cars and you are selling Ford’s. Your customer will be far more likely to believe that you believe in your product if you yourself are driving a Ford. Doesn’t that make sense.

If you are going to buy a car, ask the car sales person what kind of car they are driving. If they are not driving the product they sell, find a sales person who is.

2. Unless you are dealing with a child, do not try to force someone to your way of thinking because you know that it is GOOD for them unless it is a matter of life or death – When you try to bend someones will to your way of thinking, this is the use of the will that should only be left to God.

Read this chapter of The Science of Getting Rich, it explains this very clearly http://the-science-of-getting-rich-blog.com/chapter-9-how-to-use-the-will

“A person convinced against their will is of the same opinion still.”

3. The best way to influence anyone is “walk the walk” – If you are trying to convince someone that they need to straighten out their lives financially and you are living pay check to pay check, you message will fall on deaf ears.

If you are trying to influence someone to get into better shape but your 50 pounds over weight, it is going to be a tough sell.

Being a person of influence is important in the success of everyone, you ability to influence others to take positive action will be paramount in your search for success.

Speaking of Influence, make sure to check out this site on influence, http://fcinf.com/v/cwwx and then sign up and see how influential you are. This is a very interesting project!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Note: This is a lot easier said then done but the people who are capable of bending themselves into applying the success principles described below can achieve great things with their lives.

1. Desire – This is the starting point of any successful endeavor. Your desire for something outside of your current position is where all success starts. This is a normal and natural thing. If we are capable of desiring something, we have the power within ourselves to coordinate our activities in a way that will bring about the thing we desire.

2. Price to be paid for the desire – Contrary to the current media culture that would like you to believe that there is a way of getting “Something for nothing”, there is a price to be paid for everything that you truly desire to get.

This is point where the plan has to be made for what you are going to do in return for what you desire.

Personal example: I have a desire to live my life in a healthy way and lose the unhealthy weight that I have put on over the last 20 years or so. It would have been very easy for me to look at the TV and find a way that I could lose weight with little effort but I know better then that.

My plan was to change the way I eat and increase my physical activity on a daily basis.

I bought an ebook called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and I set up a healthy diet plan and a work out plan.

3. Take Action on the Plan – There will never be a perfect time to start taking action on your desire and it is important to get going immediately on the actions that will move you towards your desire.

Back to my example: It took me about two weeks to pour over the information from the eBook that I bought but I knew that I had to get going on the plan as soon as possible.

So I started to go the gym and started doing cardio exercise for an hour everyday. I went to the store and started to buy whole grain foods, fish and chicken for protein and fruits and vegetables. And that is what I started to eat.

I did not have the perfect plan before I got started.

4. Seek advise from those who have done this before you – This is extremely important. There are people who have knowledge that will help us reach any possible desire we may have.

I chose two experts in the areas that I needed help with to help start moving towards my desire.

Tom Venuto wrote the the great eBook, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, and I know that it has helped many people reach their fitness goals.

The other thing I knew was that I needed to work on some the habitual ways of thinking and acting that has caused to be on a yo-yo diet cycle for the last 20 years, so I went to Lee Milteer and her Habit Busting System to help me with some of the thinking habits that had caused me to go up and down with weight.

I thank God that I did because when I got down to a weight that I had achieved before, I found a thought pattern that had been rattling around in my head that I am certain had caused me go up and down with the weight in the past.

Thanks to the Habit Busting System, I was able to become conscious of this thought and take action to change this limiting thought. It was such a great moment for me.

5. Adjust to the feedback – When you start to take action, you will start to get some feedback. This could come from a lot of different areas. Your thoughts, the  thoughts of others. Your reluctance to get out of your comfort zone. People reluctant to your change. People want you to stay just the same so THEY don’t have to change.

If you are not moving towards your desire, you will have to take different action.

If you are moving towards your desire, keep going and continue to find ways to accelerate the progress.

This process can help with any area in your life that you desire change. But make sure that you only apply this to changes that you desire for yourself. When you try to apply this to others, it doesn’t work and ends up having a decreasing effect.

I hope you find this useful!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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When we truly take a look at these “excuses”, all it comes down to is a habitual way of thinking that we have embedded in our lives over a long period of time. A thought pattern that constantly repeats itself over and over in our heads.

Sometimes we consciously know that these thoughts are there and what is even more dangerous are the thoughts that we have in our heads that we are not consciously aware of. These are the thoughts that hold us back without us knowing about them. These are the thoughts that keep us repeating cycles of failure over and over again.

You can see results from these thoughts in people who:

1. Constantly have relationship problems – The relationship starts off great but always ends up the same way, all with different partners and always the same problem at the end of the relationship.

2. Move from job to job – It always ends with a dismissal or quitting because THEY just don’t get it.

3. Yo – Yo diet – These people will go on a diet but when they get to a certain weight, the weight seems to go back on. (I was in this group, not anymore after uncovering the limiting habitual thoughts that were keeping me in this cycle.)

4. Always get bad service, no matter WHERE they go – These are the people that things are just never right for them. They go to eat at a restaurant and their food is always late or it is never hot enough.

Everything that happens in our life is a result of our habitual thinking and the daily actions that we take. Even if things happen that are out of our control, for example an accident that we did not cause, death of a loved one, company closing, or a slew of others things that can happen, we have a habitual way of reacting or responding to these events that we can control.

The key here is be able to recognize undesirable patterns that are happening in our lives and then finding the thought patterns that are helping to create them and then changing these limiting thoughts with “new” empowering thoughts followed by “new” empowering actions.

When we do that we will start to see changes in that area of our life. It is simply using the cause and effect law of success.

The best program that I have come across that addresses habit change is Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System, it is a step by step process that can help you make the changes in your life that you are looking for.

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Unless we are looking to accomplish something that has never been done in human history, there is probably someone who has done what we are looking to accomplish.

In the areas of fitness, money, relationships, business or spiritual, chances are someone is where we want to be in these areas and in order for us to enjoy the results they are, all we need to do is follow the same steps that they have and through the success law of cause and effect we will reach those same results.

The key here is to make sure that we seek out and implement the suggestions of those who have done what we are looking to achieve.

For me personally, over the last couple of months, I have set some pretty aggressive goals for myself in the area of health and fitness but I knew that I was not going to be able to achieve these goals with my present knowledge of the subject so I sought the advise from someone that I have come to trust in this area. His name is Tom Venuto and the information that I am using to accomplish this goal is at Burn The Fat.

By implementing the ideas from his program I have been able to shed 40 pounds while adding muscle mass.

Along with using the information from that program, I have also had to adjust some of the thinking and action habits that have been embedded into me for a lot of years.

I have been using Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System to help me in that area. Again another person whose expertise has been able to help me accomplish this aggressive goal.

So for this particular goal, I have been using expert knowledge from two sources while applying the cause and effect law of success and I am getting the results that I am looking for.

Here are a few action ideas that might help you bridge the gap:

1. Get clear about what you want in the areas of your life including health and fitness, business and career, relationships, financial and spiritual.

2. Find someone who has accomplished what it is you are looking to accomplish.

3. Implement the thoughts and actions that these people have and allow the law of cause and effect work.

4. Continue to work on uncovering the thoughts and actions that have been holding you back and create “new” thoughts and actions that will help you keep the improvements you have made, make sure to check out Lee Milteer’s Habit Busting System , this is a great program for habit change.

I hope you find this useful!

As Always, Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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