When considering a path to follow, heed these words…

Do not follow because your friends follow…
Do not follow because the masses follow…
You have your own path to follow…
Follow only if the path rings true in your heart and soul…

~Kelli Jacobson

If you are miserable right now, it’s because you choose to be.  If your today isn’t shaping up like you want it to, you and you alone have the power to change your tomorrow.

Quite literally, you are miserable right now because of the thoughts you are thinking.  If you don’t like the way something is, change your perceptions, change your thought patterns.  Choose to be happy.  When you choose a new outlook on life, it can change how you feel and how you respond to events.  Most importantly, you need to quit blaming outside uncontrollable forces for your problems and challenges in life.  Through your thoughts you have made decisions and those decisions have led you on the path you are on.  The path of life has many forks and branches.  Will you continue on the same path or will you ignite the power in you right now and choose a new, better, and brighter path?  Your future is up to you.  It is what you make it.

It all comes down to the power of your thoughts and decisions.  You can stay miserable by continuing to think the way you do, or you can choose to think different thoughts, happier thoughts, more productive thoughts, and therefore alter the decisions that you make based on those thoughts, and become a happier, more enjoyable person.  Change isn’t always easy.  Your mind is going to want to resist it.  But your mind is not in control, you are.  There is a saying by Albert Einstein “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  If you want to see a change, the change has to begin with you.  Choose better thoughts.  Make better decisions.

I would like to ask everyone to help me with a challenge of mine.  I struggle with receiving compliments and recognition.  I always just brush it off as nothing, and I need to stop doing that and be open to receiving.  I give so much of myself, asking little if anything in return.

When I worked and got awards, I would just shrug them off as it was part of my job and just something I did because it was the right thing to do or was good for the company.  I never took and understood the full weight of the compliments and recognition.

In one way, I like compliments and recognition, and in another, I don’t.  It’s just something I do, something that is a part of me.  It was strange at work, I would see other employees who were so slow and did next to nothing and it always irked me.  I always put in 110% and couldn’t understand why others didn’t.  I think that’s why they liked me so much.  I was always producing more and always asking for more responsibility always taking the initiative to create something better.  Like I said, it’s just a part of me, something I have always done.  I’m a better giver than receiver.

So, I want your help with my challenge of receiving.  If you know me, whether by an online association or you have met me in real life, I want you to leave a comment with a compliment or recognition so that I can learn to accept them more and easier.

Thanks!  As John Jackson always says, you all inspire me.  Thank you for being a part of my life.  I am truly blessed.

To lead a successful life, you have choices and decisions to make every day. Every hour, every minute, every second of your day you have choices and decisions to make about how you are going to experience your life. How do you want your life to be? Are you going to sit idly by and let life pass you by or are you going to grab the bull by the horns and take charge of your life?

Many people, when faced with choices and decisions, passively say “I don’t know”. When asked what you want for lunch, what do you say? For many, they say “I don’t know, what do you want?” and pass that decision to someone else. In doing that, you are giving away your power to someone else. Is that really what you want?

I know at work, the ladies, me included, would start planning lunch at around 9 O’clock in the morning because it would take us that long to decide what we want because we would go the rounds of the “I don’t know, what do you want?” merry-go-round. There were some that were brave and would throw out some suggestions. Those, folks, were the leaders. They knew what they wanted and they asked for it. That’s what leaders do.

It’s as simple as that. Figure out what it is that you want and ask for it. Make that choice. Make that decision. It’s not going to hurt you. It’s going to enrich your life experience because it will be YOUR life experience, not someone else’s. Take the power into your hands and ask for what you want. This is your life you are dealing with. Do you want to live by someone else’s rules, or your own? I choose to live my life by my terms. I hope you do to!

Now, how can you do this? Well, when someone asks you what you want, instead of saying “I don’t know, what do you want?” take a moment to think about what it is that you want. Stop and ask yourself, if you had a choice and you could have anything that you wanted, what would you want? Do you want Chinese for lunch instead of Mexican? Do you want that scarf in red instead of black? Do you want to go to the club with your friends for a night out instead of staying home again? Give yourself the power to think about what you want and then ask for what you want.

The only way you are going to live your life successfully is if you take the power to make your own decisions. Make your own decisions about what you want, not what you think others want. You are here on this earth to live YOUR life, not someone else’s. So why are you letting someone else make your decisions for you?

Start now by asking yourself what you want and answer yourself with what you really truly desire. Empower yourself to make that choice, to make that decision. Enrich your life by living it the way YOU want to.

To your success!

Kelli Jacobson
Internet Marketing Entrepreneur
Live Abundantly Successful
Inspiring Others to Live the Life they Truly Desire

Have you stopped to think about you? About what YOU want? Not what you think others want, but what YOU truly want? Well, start now. No one is going to think about what YOU want, except for YOU.

A lot of people don’t think of what they want. They think about what other people want. They may think that they are thinking about what they want, but they would be wrong.

Too many times when thinking about what we want, we let other’s opinions factor in on what we think we are wanting for ourselves. Too many times we are thinking about what we think we are supposed to be thinking about. It’s time to stop that nonsense and start truly focusing in on ourselves and what we really want.

What do you want out of life? What kind of life do you want to have? And like I said, stop taking into consideration what you think others expect out of you. What do YOU expect out of you?

If you like stamp collecting, but you think that others will think you are lame or whatever for that. Stop thinking of them. Think of YOU. Do YOU enjoy it? Then DO it! Do what YOU enjoy.

Life is precious and we should be doing the things that make us happy and give us fulfillment. If we don’t then we have spent our lifetime wasted. Stop wasting your life and make decisions for yourself based on YOURSELF.