You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. – Steven D. Woodhull

Believing that you can’t change your circumstances is one sure way to feel powerless. You can spend all the time in the world bemoaning your job, your relationships, your finances, your lack of opportunities, or your streak of “bad luck” . . . but doing so only keeps you locked into an illusion of permanency. The truth is you always have choices. You may not like the choices available, but they are still yours. You can choose to act, or not act; you can choose to be optimistic about the possibilities that exist for your life, or you can accept limitations at every turn. Deciding which choice is best is the tricky part.

Fear can also disguise itself as a condition of powerlessness. You may know on some level that you have choices but refuse to acknowledge them because you fear the unknown. You know you can leave a dissatisfying job, but then what will you do? Will you find another job to replace it, and if so will it be a job you enjoy, or be worse than the one you just left? You know you can dissolve an unhealthy relationship, but is being alone really any better? At least now you have someone there, even if it’s not the person you’d prefer be there. Rather than face uncertain outcomes, you avoid making choices at all.

Whether you really believe you have a shortage of options or you are simply making excuses because you’re afraid to move forward, know that it’s ALL within your control. Just like every other person on the planet, you always have the most basic opportunity before you now: resign yourself to staying where you are, or roll up your sleeves and make something happen. If you worry about making the wrong choice, know that you can always make another choice. You can keep making choices as often as you’d like until you find something that works for you. To avoid making choices altogether doesn’t serve you, because in the end even not making choices is a decision all its own.
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How To Change With The Times And Come Out Stronger Than Ever Before!
by Dani Johnson

Times are different. They are difficult. They are causing many to worry and be afraid. In fact, fear is floating in the air and people are being crippled by it.

If you’ve been around as long as I have or even longer, you’ve discovered these facts about life: there is no guarantee of any good thing lasting forever; there are good times and bad times; challenging times and easier, peaceful times; times of struggle and times of strengthening. Life will throw you a few curve balls, at times. But I can assure you that you can succeed regardless of the circumstances.

In my twenty years of business, I’ve found that it’s never the circumstances that determine success. It’s what you do with it!

Right now, one of two forces are either pulling or pushing you. One force leads to destruction. It starts in a mediocre path with habits, mindsets, and beliefs that dig their claws deeply into your very being. It starts with being comfortable and having no goals or vision for a better future, just existing every day. The only goal becomes to merely exist throughout the day. But this mindset will ultimately lead to terror—the terror of losing what you’ve managed to keep in these uncertain times.

We hear this everyday. “My God, I’ve already lost 50% of my retirement!”

No you didn’t. You never had it. Anything you have that’s in an ambiguous place under the control of other people means you never had it in the first place.

There was actually a time in American history when people actually kept their retirement cash under their mattress. Since that time, our society has undergone major changes in our habits, mindsets, and beliefs. The entire pitch became about comfort and convenience. This is why we began putting our money into savings and into no-risk stock. Little did we realize that putting our hope and trust in other people would cause the problems that our economy is currently suffering from. Right now, people are terrified about losing the rest of what they have managed to keep, whether it’s their house, their investments, or stocks.

If you’ve fallen into the zone of least resistance, I want to alert you to another force that also exists today. Believe it or not, it is calling you by name. This force will lead to the deepest yearnings inside of you, which most people choose to ignore because it is not comfortable.

What is this force that 2% of the population has discovered? It’s the force that leads to life—true living! It’s the ability to live your wildest dreams; the liberty to take the risks that will lead to you moving, growing, and investing in your own personal development. It ain’t easy, but it’s very rewarding. It’s living life out of the Lazy-Boy chair!

This force requires personal change and decision. It requires risk. It requires a changed attitude. It requires a change in work ethics. It requires a change in mindsets, habits and beliefs. It has many benefits, including putting more control of your life into your own hands and removing it from others. It fights fear and activates faith.

This force happens to lie dormant within 98% of the population. They have stifled, ignored and repressed the voice of the free, the voice of the risk-taker, and the voice of the faith-walker that they were born with. Instead of true life, they are living in self-defeat.

With the changing times, business as usual has to change! It starts with not allowing the circumstances of life or this economy to determine our success. It starts with us taking control of our own lives, minds, habits, attitudes, and belief systems. It starts with a decision to change.

Dani Johnson is a relationship marketing expert, author, speaker, trainer and founder of Call to Freedom Int’l. She went from living out of her car with $2.03 to her name to earning her first million in two short years by the age of 23. Dani regularly consults, mentors, and coaches successful home business owners and entrepreneurs on marketing and lead generation solutions, prospecting, closing, business building strategies, leadership development and personal achievement, insider profit strategies, organizational and team development and more.

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