I was just sitting around thinking, What is holding me back? Is it the everyday struggles that we all face? Then I thought, maybe it’s just me getting comfortable, being mediocre. I am sick and tired of getting up in the morning trying to just make enough to pay the bills day after day.

How many more years of life will I waste looking in the mirror seeing just an average person? I see old dreams and aspirations in this same old body with the same old excuses that played in my brain like an old record,”I don’t have the time”,”I can’t afford to”,or “maybe when I get ahead”.

As a I looked at a once young man I realized I am not getting any younger my body doesn’t even look or feel the same. I have to do something different now! It came to me,I have to get up and go to the next level.

This was a place I had never been before.This is a place of complete focus and dedication.
This was a level of thinking that made the big giants in life seem like stepping-stones to my destination. A level where you refuse to make excuses, your always programmed to think positive, when opposition comes you know you’ll overcome it, and finally you see things as they can be, not as they are.

All of these changed thoughts have changed my life. I’ve learned how to think myself to the places I want to go. Up on this level your faith grows greater than a  grain of mustard seed. It’s the type of faith that can move the world and not just mountains.

There is a point in everyone’s life where they look in that mirror and think the same things I did. However, many people will stay in mediocrity. There will be those who will be stuck in between serving two masters(Failure and Success) trying to decide who to follow. Don’t worry though, I have good news: You can make a wise decision today!

Here is my question to you, Will you join me on this next level? Life sure is great up here!

10 ways to start taking control

1. Take Good Care of Yourself
It’s much easier to be positive when you are eating well, exercising, and getting enough rest.

2. Remind Yourself of the Things You Are Grateful For
Stresses and challenges don’t seem as bad when you are constantly reminding yourself of the things that are right in life. Taking just 60 seconds a day to stop and appreciate the good things will make a huge difference.

3. Look for the Proof Instead of Making Assumptions
A fear of not being liked or accepted sometimes leads us to assume that we know what others are thinking, but our fears are usually not reality. If you have a fear that a friend or family member’s bad mood is due to something you did, or that your co-workers are secretly gossiping about you when you turn your back, speak up and ask them. Don’t waste time worrying that you did something wrong unless you have proof that there is something to worry about.

4. Refrain from Using Absolutes
Have you ever told a partner “You’re ALWAYS late!” or complained to a friend “You NEVER call me!”? Thinking and speaking in absolutes like ‘always’ and ‘never’ makes the situation seem worse than it is, and programs your brain into believing that certain people are incapable of delivering.

5. Detach From Negative Thoughts
Your thoughts can’t hold any power over you if you don’t judge them. If you notice yourself having a negative thought, detach from it, witness it, and don’t follow it.

6. Squash the “ANTs”
In his book “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life,” Dr. Daniel Amen talks about “ANTs” – Automatic Negative Thoughts. These are the bad thoughts that are usually reactionary, like “Those people are laughing, they must be talking about me,” or “The boss wants to see me? It must be bad!” When you notice these thoughts, realize that they are nothing more than ANTs and squash them!

7. Practice Lovin’, Touchin’ & Squeezin’ (Your Friends and Family)
You don’t have to be an expert to know the benefits of a good hug. Positive physical contact with friends, loved ones, and even pets, is an instant pick-me-up. One research study on this subject had a waitress touch some of her customers on the arm as she handed them their checks. She received higher tips from these customers than from the ones she didn’t touch!

8. Increase Your Social Activity
By increasing social activity, you decrease loneliness. Surround yourself with healthy, happy people, and their positive energy will affect you in a positive way!

9. Volunteer for an Organization, or Help another Person
Everyone feels good after helping. You can volunteer your time, your money, or your resources. The more positive energy you put out into the world, the more you will receive in return.

10. Use Pattern Interrupts to Combat Rumination
If you find yourself ruminating, a great way to stop it is to interrupt the pattern and force yourself to do something completely different. Rumination is like hyper-focus on something negative. It’s never productive, because it’s not rational or solution-oriented, it’s just excessive worry. Try changing your physical environment – go for a walk or sit outside. You could also call a friend, pick up a book, or turn on some music.

When it comes to the corporate world, protocol is pretty much the religion. To know the things needed to do are the basics of productivity, but interaction and having a steady mind makes up the entire thing to true productivity. There are those who seem to work well even under pressure, but they’re uncommon ones and we are human and imperfect. To get these little things like stress under our skins won’t solve our problems. Sometimes it takes a bit of courage to admit that we’re turning to be workaholics than tell ourselves that we’re not doing our best.

Prosperity is believed to be one of the greatest accomplishments, but there is a misconception of the word. Prosperity is not only a money focused objective. Prosperity covers a multitude of things, such as health, family, money, mind, and soul.

Our human nature has a hunger for prosperity, however prosperity in any area of your life will face some obstacles. Since you face these obstacles you have to motivate and uplift yourself daily. The press begins when you mentally have conflicts about whether or not you will have total prosperity in your life.

Remember that without an opposition, there is no victory. Here is a list of things to do in the press:

1. Stay away from negative people!
2. Shut up and speak only what you want the outcome to be.
3. Talk to Yourself. (Sounds crazy, but I’ll explain later.)
4. Don’t look at whats going on around you. Stay Focused.
5. Step it up. Work harder.

When you do the things listed above it allows you to subconsciously see beyond your situations current state, fear, and doubt. Talking to your self may sound crazy but I believe that whatever you say out of your mouth will become a reality in your life. So in essence, if you have some sort of opposition, then you have to constantly tell yourself that you have overcome all things that are contrary to your success. There are times you have to go look in the mirror and say to yourself ,”I will succeed and have prosperity, nothing and no one will have me lose focus of that”. Once you do this, watch the results. This is a method I still use just to motivate myself.

This is all part of the press for prosperity. Understand that gaining complete prosperity isn’t a walk in the park. It’s an everyday discipline you must have to do this. In closing, stay in complete focus of prosperity without being distracted by obstacles that must come for your good and press like you never have before.

This is one of the most important parts of your body that it is so vital that you could not live without it. The subconscious mind is what allows our bodies to function. You could not perform the hundreds of functions your body does every minute if you had to consciously do them.

The subconscious is what bring thoughts to life. If you put good in, good will return. If you put back in bad will return. The scriptures say’s, A man and/or woman reaps what he sows. Simply put if a farmer plants a field of roses he should not expect to get an apple tree.

The subconscious mind operates the same , if you tell yourself you will be wealthy continually the conscious mind soon will begin to believe it and faith will have the thought to  form the thing your hoping for. However it works both ways, if you believe you will always be mediocre then that is what you will be.

Think about this, a man has cancer for five years never knowing. One day he goes to the doctor and gets the bad news. Two months later he dies. What happened if he was perfectly healthy the previous 5 years with the same disease? His mind killed him.

Begin to feed your subconscious mind positive and you will soar beyond your wildest dreams.

You must first understand what negativity is before you understand how it kills dreams.

Negativity- the conscious and/or subconscious act of knowingly or unknowingly planting seeds of failure, depression, and poverty into the minds and environments of others.

It’s just that simple. Negativity is all around us, it constantly plants seeds of fear and doubt in our minds. It is one of the most ruthless diseases that your dream will come into contact with. Negativity will tell you every reason you can’t or why your plan of action will not work properly.

Negativity operates like a leech on the subconscious mind, sucking all its creative ideas, goals, and aspiration out until it dries out all hope, faith, and perseverance. This disease hates the prosperous, goal oriented, and self-disciplined.

People everywhere are walking around with it. As soon as you share your dreams with them the negative starts its plan of attack.

However there is a anti-virus for negativity. It took me a while to figure this one out; Nevertheless I learned I have to do 4 simple things to avoid this dream killer.

1. Walk away immediately and mute out the noise.

2. Fill your mind with positive thoughts about your dream.

3. Work even harder and get more focused.

4. Go  succeed.

Remember,  you can control what you allow to enter your mind. The authority is yours to make your dreams come. Protect your mind and environment. Wealth and abundance will chase you down as you press toward your goal with absolute focus and determination. Do not let negativity kill off your dreams.