Commitments

I’ve just read a blog about how Shakira is making $100 million a year.

It’s all about what she wants to achieve and earn! In business we call this the Vision. How often do we sit down with a piece of paper in front of us to write what we want in life?

Some people just do it once a year normally around New's Year Eve and some people never do it. Most of us are thinking it over every week and seeing if we are where we want to be without taking any commitment and writing it down.

Many Dale Carnegie graduates includingWarren Buffet say that the Dale Carnegie programme changed their lives and this is because we create an environment to think, to create and see something different in terms of how to act, how to behave and how to understand our lives.

I encourage you to read the book “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” and you will see why life is just our thoughts.

"The key to change . . . is to let go of fear."

Jose Bort
Sales Consultant

www.London.dalecarnegie.com

Change

Bleep Bleep Bleep! My alarm clock went off and it was in that moment that I realised I had turned 30. It hit me like a pistol shot and I rolled over and felt sorry for myself. The really uplifting thoughts that went through my head were:

“I’ve reached 30 and I have nothing material to show for my endeavours”.

“I’ve turned 30 in a credit crunch, left a perfectly stable job to pursue ‘life goals...I must be mad’”

If I met this part of myself in a bar, we would definitely not be friends. So why do we do it to ourselves?

Suddenly, a beam of sunlight came through the window and I realised it was a sunny day outside. I forced myself to get out of bed and I took myself to a spinning class.

Spinning is a static bike aerobic class. The session is instructor led and has amazingly loud music blaring out of the speakers. The music is normally quite uplifting and allows you to get into the zone. Personally I think the music is turned up to drown out the groans of suffering as you hit the wall of pain (about 10 minutes in). If I am honest, I am in agony for 45 minutes as the instructor shouts, “turn up the load and pedal faster”. Strangely, there is something that keeps me going back for more.

As I left on a high, embracing 30 and ready for the day ahead, I realised in that 45 minutes I had:

- Committed to do something and achieved it

- Immersed myself in the moment of the class

- Overcome the voice that was begging me to stop and give up during the hill climb

In these times of change, “any action is better than no action”. It’s amazing how quickly we can change our attitude and our luck.

Hayley Kennedy

Dale Carnegie Trainer

http://www.london.dalecarnegie.com/