Dream! © by Melody Campbell

What will your life be like when you’ve achieved your most deeply held dreams? Let’s take a look at how you can start living your dreams this very day.

Do you have a dream, a vision of the life you wish to live?
How specific is that dream?
How clear is that vision?
How do you intend to reach it?
What obstacles stand in your way?
Are your fears holding you back or are you using them to move you forward?

Your fears can actually lead you to success. Fear is an intense emotion. But that doesn’t mean it has to control you, or even stop you. Fear can prepare you and push you forward just as strongly as it can hold you back. Fear heightens your awareness and increases your physical strength. Fear brings your mind to sharp focus. With all that going for you, does it make sense to just run and hide? Of course not. Fear gets you in shape to take action!

Are you waiting for things to get better before moving ahead? If you’re serious about success; you need to start taking action today. If you’re waiting for things to be perfect, you’ll wait forever and nothing will ever get done. The way to achieve is to bloom where you’re planted, to do what you can, where you are, with what you have. It’s easy to think up excuses for not taking action. “If only I had more hours in the day. If only I had a better job. If only I could meet the right person.” But excuses won’t bring you anything of value. You’ve got to change your “if only” into an “I will.” “I will make better use of my time. I will work on improving my career. I will create and nurture my relationships.” Take a chance. Have faith in yourself. Your circumstances will improve when you make the effort to improve them. Start where you are right now. You have everything it takes to reach for whatever you desire. Stop wishing. Use your time, your energy, your thoughts and efforts to make it happen! You’ll be glad you did!

Les Brown is an explosive motivational speaker, and this performance is one of his best ever! He brings a passion to the platform that is unparalleled by any other motivational speaker, and it is 100% from the heart. In this compelling motivational video, Les Brown shares the importance of living your dreams now, and not waiting for “some day” to go after your biggest aspirations. He will help you to expand your vision of what’s possible, and boost your belief in your goals and vision. Research has shown that most people go to their graves with their music still in them, and the majority of their dreams left unfulfilled. Don’t be a victim of this common destiny that only leads to regrets. From powerful success principles to captivating stories, Les Brown’s energy as a motivational speaker will inspire you to leap towards your new, expanded vision with more enthusiasm than ever before. Discover for yourself why Les Brown is in high demand as a motivational speaker.

As a world-renowned motivational speaker, Les Brown delivers a powerful message which helps people live up to their full potential. He and his twin brother were born in an abandoned building in the Liberty City section of Miami. They were both adopted at the age of six weeks by Mrs. Mamie Brown, a single woman with a low income and little education, but a very big heart. In elementary school, Les Brown was labeled educable mentally retarded. This stigma stayed with him for many years, damaging his self-esteem and his self-image through his entire adolescence. With the help of a mentor, Les shook off this label and began to take charge of his life. Although Les Brown never went to college, his persistence and determination initiated a process of unending self-education, which today, distinguishes him as a top motivational speaker worldwide. His “heart-felt” style and tremendous passion for speaking and training leaves audiences with a larger vision for their lives and the motivation to take immediate action.

Often people will ask me how I get so much done in my life. They wonder at how I am able to accomplish so many things. The answer is found not in what a great person I am, but in an equation I came up with a few years ago and remind myself of on almost a daily basis. And when I live this equation out, it produces big results. What people don’t seem to grasp is that this equation will work for anybody! Anyone can see results in their life if they will live it out!

This little equation, when it is understood, and acted upon, is perhaps the most powerful equation there is in regard to long-term achievement and accomplishment. Yet, this is not a complex equation. In fact, it is rather simple. So what is it?

Your short-term actions multiplied by time equals your long-term accomplishments.

If you want to see change in your life, see big results, the first thing you must do is change your current actions. Otherwise the old saying becomes a reality: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got!” But if we change our actions, we will see different results!

Most people want to accomplish a lot in their lives. Yet very few actually do. Why is this? It is because what they believe will equal their long-term accomplishments are wrong. Here are some of the things that people believe will create great accomplishments for them:
Beliefs
Vision
Big dreams
Ideas
Ideals
Values
Desire
The truth is that while these things are very important, they are not enough in and of themselves. We need to have the above underlying all that we do, but we need to actually do something! And this is where most people stop. We need to take action on our dreams and beliefs every day. Here are some examples of how this works.

Who loses weight? The one who knows all about the benefits of exercise or the one who walks 3 miles a day?

Who retires early? The one who dreams of a house on the beach, or the one who invests $300 a month?

Who writes books? The one who desires to become a best-selling author, or the one who gets up early and writes for half an hour a day?

Who has the best marital relationship? The one who knows how much spending time with their spouse can improve their relationship, or the one who sits down and talks with their spouse every night?

Who makes the most sales? The one who believes they can become a great salesperson, or the one who makes 10 sales calls a day?

I think you get the point. When it all comes down to it, we must act upon our vision, beliefs, and ideals or we won’t see them come to fruition. I see too many people who know what is right, but don’t ever do anything about it. Imagine what a difference we could make in our own lives and the lives of others if we would simply begin to act upon on our beliefs!

When I get to the end of my life, I want to know that I have done all that I can to make this world a better place and to enhance the lives of those around me. I want to know that I gave it my best shot. And I am sure that you do to. I remember reading an interview with an author who has written numerous books that have sold in the tens of millions. They asked him how he did it. His answer was that he got up every morning before anyone else in his family and wrote, long hand, with a pencil, for an hour. Then he quit and went about his day. But his short-term actions piled up. 7 hours a week. 30 hours a month. 365 hours a year. After a while, he had lots of books!

Some questions as we leave:

What long-term accomplishments do you want to see come to pass?

What short-term actions will you need to do over time to see them come to pass?

What will you do today to begin seeing your dreams come true?

What will you do this week to see them come true?

You can have an awesome future, filled with great achievements and results if you begin today to take action and make it a reality!

One more time, so you can plug it in, memorize it, and live it. Your short-term actions multiplied by time equals your long-term accomplishments.

What were you put on earth to do? That’s a mind-blowing question, because most people don’t know the answer. Lots of folks get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, sit in front of the television and go to sleep. That’s their day. That is not anyone’s purpose in life. That’s not a life at all.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not throwing blame or fault. In most cases, they probably don’t know any better. This was how their parents lived each day; this was how they grew up. Maybe they think this is it – this is all life has to offer.

Well, I’m here to sound the wake-up call.

There’s a great scene in the movie “The Matrix” between Morpheus, a mentor, and Neo, his student. Neo has just woken up and discovered that what he thought was reality was just a world ‘that had been pulled over his eyes to shield him from the truth.’ Morpheus wants Neo to let go of what he used to think of as “reality,” his mundane, day-to-day existence, where his true purpose was neither recognized nor realized. I want you to create a new world, a new reality, where you recognize that you have a purpose for being on this planet, and realize that your purpose is waiting for you to figure it out.

If you don’t know your purpose, then your first purpose is to get a purpose.

When you look at the lives of the most successful people who ever lived, you can see that they had a definite purpose and they knew it. Some examples are: Christ – His purpose was spiritual, and stated in John 10:10, which reads: “I am come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly.”

Walt Disney’s purpose: “To make people happy.”

Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller’s purpose: “Humanity’s comprehensive welfare on spaceship earth.”

Henry Ford’s purpose: “To mass produce, mass distribute and have cars mass consumed.”

Andrew Carnegie’s purpose: “To manufacture and market steel.”

Mother Teresa’s purpose: “To care for and comfort the poor, sick and needy all over the world.”

I don’t want you to confuse a purpose with a goal. Goals are great! I teach goal setting, and believe it is crucial to achieving any kind of success. But goals alone, left by themselves, can be indiscriminate and undirected. We can have hundreds of goals (and I hope you do), but we may only have one purpose that we work for our entire life. That purpose should be the underlying core that gives our goals direction and meaning.

Discovering your purpose will put your life into crystal-clear perspective. You won’t see the world you once knew. You will see another world, one in which you are a necessary and intricate spoke in the wheel.

The saddest places on earth are graveyards. Not because people are buried there, but because dreams, talents and purposes that never came to fruition are buried there. Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

You have talents and gifts that no one else can offer. There are things you can do that no one else is capable of doing quite the way YOU can do them. Don’t rob this earth of your purpose by taking it to the grave with you. You see, we all have a purpose, a reason for living, breathing and existing. We all have unique talents and gifts that were created and given to us to be shared. Our task is to understand this and figure out what our purpose is. We owe it to the Universe AND to ourselves!

“You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration.”

Mark Victor Hansen

After about five years of working at Nightingale Conant, I landed on an alarmingly great idea… I was going to do this on my own.

I wanted to do just what my close friend and mentor, Earl Nightingale, was doing, but I wanted to do it under my own name and with the education and knowledge I’d been personally acquiring over all the years. So, I got a tape recorder – you know, one of those old fashioned kinds with the big buttons and the red “RECORD” button. You put the tape in and it click-click-clicks away while you talk into the microphone… that kind of thing. And I sat down and recorded my own thoughts on the subject of personal growth.

I needed someone to give me feedback, so I called up a good friend and told him I had a great idea I wanted to share with him. I took the tape and recorder up to his house, turned it all on and… well, Joel Goldsmith’s phrase “Thunder of Silence” couldn’t have fit the situation better. As the tape played on, the pressure in that room became enormous – it was his embarrassment for me. I eventually turned the tape recorder off, and mumbled, “Well, it was just an idea.”

As I was driving back to my house, it hit me: I was letting him steal my dream! This was my DREAM! I wasn’t going to let him steal my dream! And that’s when it clicked in my mind… I can DO this.

Had I listened to him, I would have fallen off my life’s purpose. I would have kept obtaining goals and building long-term visions in my head, but I would have been going in the absolute wrong direction.

See, if you’re not on purpose, EVERYTHING is off course.

When you have the right purpose, you’ll easily develop the right vision.

When you have the right vision, you’ll quickly recognize the right goal.

Yet there’s a great deal we can do to raise the level of their commitment and inspire them to peak performance. The operative word in the preceding sentence is inspire. You can demand that people who work for you be punctual, or that they perform at a certain level of output, or even that they do things reasonably well. Yet real commitment can only be inspired. And, inspiring people is what great leaders like John F. Kennedy and Lee Iaccoca did best.

How do great leaders such as these inspire others to commit themselves to their goals? It’s not just that they have charismatic personalities, or that they give a lot of high-powered motivational talks. What they do is communicate their vision so forcefully that other people adopt it as their own vision.

For example, in the early sixties, President Kennedy set his sights on putting a man on the moon, and told the American people “We can do it!” He said it with such conviction that masses of people believed it, and committed themselves to making it happen. And, sure enough, in less than a decade, the first human being had walked on the moon.

Lee Iaccoca stepped into the ailing Chrysler Corporation and said “We’re going to turn this company around!” With clear goals, a solid plan of action, and a strong conviction, he was able to inspire enough commitment from the U.S. Congress that he secured the largest loan ever made to a private company. Then he inspired enough commitment in thousands of Chrysler workers to enable the company to pay back the loan ahead of schedule.

That’s the formula for any leader to inspire commitment — clear goals, a solid plan of action, and a strong conviction. If you can communicate that to the people who work with you, you will have the kind of loyalty that makes them go the second mile. And the third and fourth miles if that´s what it takes to get the job done.

Of course, it takes more than inspiration to run a successful sales function. The people who work with you have to consistently perform at very high levels. And, to get that kind of performance, you have to gain their trust. They have to believe that you will always be fair in your dealings with them, and that you are concerned about their best interests.

One of the most helpful insights I ever learned about leading others is that people do things for their reasons, not for your reasons or for mine. So the goals, the plan of action, and the strong conviction have to be communicated in a way that directly answers the question: “What´s in it for me?”

When people honestly believe they will benefit directly from their efforts, and that the more they give the more they will benefit, they will perform at peak levels. So it’s crucial that you show people how they will grow as they work individually and together to make the company grow, and then back up all your promises with solid actions.

People don’t back good causes. They respond to clear opportunities for personal and professional growth. If I may paraphrase the Hallmark slogan, when people care enough, they’ll give their very best!

But how can you move past the empty rhetoric and translate your vision into concrete actions your people can identify with and get excited about? Let me suggest ten proven techniques for building a solid team:

(1) Tie compensation, in every conceivable way, to the income people create. Profit sharing is one way you can do it, but that tends to reward everybody equally, regardless of how much effort they put into making the company profitable. A better way is to structure all or a part of everyone’s pay, from the janitor to the president, around a mutually beneficial incentive plan. That way, the better job they do, the more money they’ll make.

(2) Give constant public recognition for outstanding performance. The fact is that we all like to look good in the presence of our peers. So, if you can document that someone has done a job very well, give him or her a public pat on the back. If it’s really good, throw in a tangible benefit. It will make everybody feel like giving more of themselves to the team effort.

(3) Constantly ask for input and ideas. People are usually much more enthusiastic about supporting decisions and plans they help to make. So it helps a great deal to get ideas and input from any staff person whose job will be affected by any upcoming decision. When your staff members quit talking about the company, and start talking about our company, you know you’ve got a team.

(4) Promote people on the basis of abilities, not just because they’ve performed well or have been around a long time. Make sure that anyone you promote has the skills and knowledge they need to do well in the new position.

(5) Assume that everyone needs to be trained for every new assignment. If you’re lucky, you’ll have one or two people who can plow into almost anything and do well at it. But most people need initial and on-going training.

(6) Constantly play the role of coach and mentor. Encourage people to keep growing and taking on new challenges. Guide their growth in ways that benefit your organization. Deal with mistakes and problems quickly, tactfully and forthrightly.

(7) Practice good human relations. Make people feel valued and important by treating them with dignity and respect.

(8) Provide plenty of opportunities for people to grow, both personally and professionally.

(9) Keep your personnel policies simple, clear and fair — then firmly enforce them. It doesn’t help to have policies that no one understands, and it’s even worse to let people constantly get away with violating them.

(10) Weed out the prima donnas and poor performers before they spoil the whole team.

It takes a lot of patience and effort to build a solid team of people who will share and help you fulfill your vision, but the results will be well worth all you put into it.

Creating a new vision for your life is easier said than done. Many people are held back by a tendency to focus on the past and dwell on what is not working. Top motivational speaker Michael Wickett helps you break through the fog to create a clearer vision for your life in this powerful motivational video. He explains that we have unlimited potential (18 billion available brain cells), but it means nothing unless we use it effectively. This exciting and idea loaded program will help you to achieve greater focus, overcome obstacles, enjoy higher levels of happiness, and create a new vision in alignment with your most important goals. If you’re looking for a simple formula to help you get a clearer vision for your life, and achieve it more rapidly, this program contains the tools to make it happen.

Michael Wickett is one of America’s best kept secrets. He is the author of numerous commercially produced and corporate training programs, and was named the best motivational speaker in America, along with Zig Ziglar, by the vice president of Nightingale-Conant. His credentials are many including a client list that reads like the Who’s Who in American business. Michael Wickett is best known for his enthusiasm, motivational style, and original humor.

Did you get a clear image? Or did you starting thinking things like, “It’s silly to get lost in a fantasy,” or “That’s nice for someone else, but it won’t happen to me,” or even, “Who am I to think I could have that?” Some of us can more easily visualize our dreams than others, and when it comes to being wealthy, your ability to do this is a key factor in your success.

Absolutely Anyone Can Become a Millionaire

Anyone can become a millionaire. Yes, I mean anyone, including you. I don’t care how much debt you’re in, or your line of work. And, not just wealthy, but a millionaire. I know because I’m a wealth coach who specializes in doing just that: making people millionaires.

If you think you can’t become a millionaire, you won’t. But if you want to become wealthy, you’ll have to change your attitude and behavior when it comes to wealthy.

I cover the many aspects of this process in my book, The Millionaire Maker, but for now let’s just focus on the mental aspect. As essential first step in becoming a millionaire is the ability to open up your mind to the very real possibility that you can have whatever it is you dream of.

What would you do differently if you knew that you couldn’t fail?

Every circumstance you have in your life is the result of your thoughts, from which you base your behavior. When you believe you can succeed, you end up doing things differently.

Right now you probably have a lot of beliefs around why you can’t be wealthy. A large part of my work with my clients involves reconditioning their minds so that they can clearly see the abundance and wealth possibilities that constantly surround them.

The next step on the road to millions is creating a vision of wealth. This is where you write out specific financial goals you want in your life. I usually have my clients write out what they want by the end of a year’s time, so that their goals are measurable.

Your vision of wealth may include quitting your full-time job to start a new business, lowering your debt by half, or making $500 extra a month in passive income. It’s really up to you.

When you create this vision, you need to use what I call “unlimited thinking.” However, you also need to set goals that are realistic and do-able. This is where the help of a mentor or wealth coach is key. Such professionals will have a realistic sense of how far you can stretch your mind and still be able to achieve your yearly goals.

Lastly, you need to be patient. Becoming a millionaire does not happen overnight, it takes time. It also requires work and commitment. Millionaires are active creators of their futures, and they always have a plan. And although they ultimately expect to succeed, they don’t let failure (an inevitable challenge on the path to success) hold them back.

Your wealth is your choice. And the question is, would you rather dwell on what you don’t have and why you can’t have it, or spend your time creating what you do want?

Effective goal setting is one of the most important habits you can develop. Goal setting is the core skill for achieving success in your relationships, your health, and your profession. So why is it that many of us never get around to doing it? In this fast-paced, entertaining session, motivational speaker Warren Greshes presents a proven system that takes the guesswork out of goal setting. He will show you how to set your goals correctly, and then actually lead you through the process of creating your five-year goal setting plan. If you know you need to get clear about your future, but haven’t yet clarified your vision, this program will give you the tools and motivation you need to get started now.

Warren Greshes started as a salesman in New York City’s Garment District, and quickly became a National Sales Manager at the age of twenty-four. By twenty-seven, he was running the entire company. In 1984, Warren moved on to become head of Sales & Marketing for a New York City consulting firm, and in two years tripled the company’s sales. In 1986, Warren Greshes began offering his services as a motivational speaker and trainer. Since then has traveled the world, delivering goal setting speeches and sales training seminars to corporations and associations both large and small. Having been inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame, Warren Greshes is one of the most talented seminar leaders and motivational speakers in the world on the subject of goal setting.