Upgrade Your Life and Change

Daily Success Motivation

Phew! The past two weeks and the past 3 weekends I was busy building and rebuilding my home pc workstation...again. I'm going to just get an all new system. With that said, over the past couple of weeks or more I lost data and recovered it, had hard drives fail and motherboards lose power, along with operating systems that would not work properly because of all of the other issues.

My patiences was sorely tested and the frustrations continued to mount. Primarily because I just didn't have the time to give myself fully to resolving the problem which probably contributed more to the challenge than anything else.

I depend on my pc quite a bit for most of my activities and my pc contributes quite a bit to my daily productivity and personal success motivation. I read, write and listen to inspired messages with my pc and quite frankly without my pc I'm sort of like a fish out of water.

As I reflect back on these continuing technology related challenges I couldn't help but see some life lessons as I forged on for a solution.

If It Ain't Broke...
I'm sure most of us have heard the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Could there be a more mediocre message to adopt as a standard of wisdom? Basically with bit of wisdom is telling us to play it safe, don't rock the boat, keep with the status quo, resist or avoid change.

I've learned that more often than not that even if it ain't broke, you are going to need an upgrade as some point. Take my pc experience over the past few weeks for instance. I've determined that the time has come to upgrade the entire pc to accomodate the increase in usage and the need for a greater capacit to process my tasks much more quickly and reliably.

The point is that waiting for something to break is expensive on time and resources because it takes more of both in most case to get it going than it does to keep it going. It is far better to do routine maintenance and set goals to increase capacity based on some plan of growth.

And so it goes with our lives. We must have a plan of growth that challenges us to design and capacity plan. A plan the defines those areas must grow and expand in order to reap the rewards of success that we seek.

Your success is not in your ability to obtain material substance. Your success is rooted in your ability to expand your capacity to become a person of substance that commands the success and resources you desire.

Success Turned Inside Out
Be careful about which messages of success you listen and adopt as a standard of value for your life. I submit to you today that true success is under seige in popular media.

There is a great emphasis on quick success and most if not all costs. From the movies we watch to the commercials or sitcoms we see, there doesn't seem to be an emphasis on the "character" of success. The very thought of slow success repels most. Get rich quick will never die. The path of character development and strong values will always be the road lessed traveled.

We must grow outselves from the inside out. We must tap into the true riches of value for self and for our fellow man. We must tap into the riches of love, generosity and integrity. We must tap into the riches of courage, guts and discipline and boldness. We must plug inward in order to have a true forward view of our lives and the possibilities for lasting reward and satisfaction.

Treasures Tried and You
Here's and secret for you...success isn't always quick and easy! Sure we can and will experience seasons of excellerated success and when your in the zone and operating in your strengths, success will seem easy. Yet we must handle ourselves with due diligence and not take our talents, gifts and abilities lightly.

Must challenge ourselves and meet the challenges of life with and bold attitude of positive expectation of progress, victory and achievement.

You are your greatest treasure and you will not fully live until you've been tried and you will never win until you eventually give life a try!

What I'm saying here is that life trials are opportunities and lessons the help us understand who we are as must as who we are not. Courage under fire as the saying goes...we can never experience our greater selves unless we choose to rise to life occasions in order to become bigger and better than who we were yesterday. It is then...when we've given it a try, given it a shot...that we become winners.

Winners don't always get it right, but they do get it going! Mike Litman shared that piece of advice with me and it changed my life. Let me say that again, " You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!".

Try and then try again. Sure your plans can be frustrated as mine were by my pc woes. I learned that I need upgrades so that my computer can halndle the increased workload required for my success. Life is like that to. We must upgrade our minds and upgrade our lives constantly so that we can handle the new opportunities for success and increase that we desire.

What we really must do is become someone different than who we are today. That's how dreams come true. Change your thinking and you change your life! Who you can become is much significantly magnificent than the person you've ever been to this day. Do you believe that? I do. I believe that for you.

© 2005 T. L. Pakii Pierce - Upgrade Your Mind
The Mindset Motivator
"Think Well & Finish Strong!"
Daily Success Motivation and Positive Thinking for Powerful Life Change

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Your Comments

Enjoyed reading the article! I have been pursuing financial success for some time and have had some success, but mostly I have not achieved my goals. I have however, continued to grow spiritually and have achieved great success in marrying the woman of my dreams and being a man of integrity. I have also continued to learn and understand why I have not achieved this goal of monetary wealth, and now understand the formula- never quit! I am embarking on a project and will be listing my goals and documenting my progress. Any help would be appreciated. To Success!

Posted by: R.Leal at Nov 14, 2005 7:16:30 AM

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I agree that the true definition of success is being skewed, misinterpreted and morphed. I think that it is interesting that we allow outside sources to define success (i.e. media, school etc.) when we can only truly be happy when we achieve the success that we defined ourselves. Otherwise, we are left to search for a success that never was intended to be for me as an individual.

Posted by: Brent at Nov 15, 2005 11:41:44 PM

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When it comes to being more than we are today, I am all in favor of doing just that. For those who may think that change is impossible, they need to remember that they themselves are most definitely not who they used to be in the past.

It is up to us to determine who we are, who we want to be and make that our mission in life. And if we find it difficult, then we need to act as if we are that person... then we shall become that person.

Posted by: David at Nov 22, 2005 8:46:33 PM

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Good article. Keep the good work up!

Posted by: Mr. Silent PC at Apr 14, 2008 1:57:43 PM

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Nice article. Keep the good work up!

Posted by: Mr. Silent PC at Apr 14, 2008 1:59:36 PM

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