HOW TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

Motivational speakers such as Carrie Wilkerson, Brendon Burchard, Michael Hyatt, and others are quoted saying things such as:

"The more time spent in the planning stage, the more things get done in the execution."

·        Vision – The way you see everything completed

·        Goals – Stepping Stones toward your vision

·        Strategy – Things to do to achieve the goal

·        Tactics – Specific action to achieve the strategy

·        Timeline – Set a completion deadline

Here are my (Sandra's) answers to questions that were ask.

What is holding me back?  My learning disability.  Inability to focus for long periods of time.  Eyesight strain.

What is in my way? Not being patience with myself.  Knowing that whatever I do will take a long time.  Not switching from task to task in a timely manner so my eyes don’t get too tired.  

When there are limitations ask yourself, “What else do these limitations make possible?” 

Understanding of others who do not fit in the box and those who have disabilities. 

By learning how to compensate myself, I can help others reach their potential by mentoring those who need to learn how to compensate.

By learning how to have patience, I will on purpose go slower so I can be more accurate.  Instead of doing everything wrong because of impatience, I can do things right because of patience.

What did writing all this out do for me? Gave me new insight to reaching my goals.  I can actually see what was "holding me back" and what I need to do about it.  

My Something Wonderful Today: Motivational Speakers who pour words of wisdom into our life and define what words of action actually mean. 

 

MAKE MONEY

    

 Where's a starting place when you need to make money at home?  Read books and listen to people like Carrie Wilkerson's THE BAREFOOT EXECUTIVE, Jon Acuff's START, and Dave Ramsey's EntreLeadership.  Make time each day to do something toward a better life.

My Something Wonderful today:  People who share their life with us so we can grow.

Teaching Good Things

 I have always said, "We go to public school for twelve long years and are not taught skills for the most important jobs we will ever have, being a spouse and parent."

Every Wednesday night when my children were little, we traveled 47 minutes to a class so they could be taught life skills.  Not only were the lessons on practical applications but having the right attitude and the right heart.

The teachers: The Brodock Family. 

Jeff and Kathy Brodock have a huge heart for training others about what really matters.

My Something Wonderful for today: The Brodock Family

DONE ALL YOU CAN DO

Ever get to the place you just don't know what else to do?  Certain situations in your life  overwhelming?  Worked and worked on trying to fix something or someone?  I am the type of person who believes in hanging in there.  Don't ever give up! Keep trying there is a solution somewhere, someway. 

There comes a time tho where we really can't do anymore.  Below is a conversation I had with someone when I was going through a tough time.

 Sandra, have you done all you know to do?

Yes.

 Is there anything more you can do about the situation?

No.

Well then,  you have done all you know to do.  You can not do anything else.  So stop worrying about it; there is nothing left to do.

This is not an excuse to be lazy and not try anymore or to keep learning.  I am forever working on solutions but sometimes we just have to realize for the moment we've Done All We Can Do.

My Something Wonderful for Today:  Rest, for I have done all I know to do.
  

"We just looovvveeee you!"

Sometimes you never know when what you say can make a huge difference in someones life.  Several years ago I was teaching piano at a private school and the grandparents of three of my students (all siblings) would come by to pick up their grandchildren due to dentist appointments, etc...  Since this was during school hours, they would see me walking down the hall to get another student for music.

The grandmother continually would say to me, "We just looovvveeee you!"  What she didn't know at the time was that I was very ill and was going to have to stop teaching at the school.  She decided to bring her grandchildren to my home so they could continue to have music lessons.  I continued to get worse so my lovely daughter took over and became the primary piano teacher.  That gave me time to visit with this lovely lady.

Melissa and I have become great friends.  I have since had surgery and am doing better.  I have told her but am not sure just how much she comprehends how her telling me I was loved made such a difference.


My Something Wonderful for today: The words, "We just looovvveee you."

 

REVAMP AGAIN

I am a planner.  Ya just have to set goals and make a plan to reach those goals.  The only thing is,  plans have to be rethought and revamped many times over.  Forgive yourself when you realize  the ideas you had to start with didn't work.  It's o.k. Keep moving. Don't give up!  I will say; however, there are those who only plan, and plan , and plan....... but never do anything to execute those great concepts.  At least do what you have strategized to do.  Then after a good while if it is not working, REVAMP.

My SOMETHING WONDERFUL for today:  FREEDOM TO REVAMP

A little note:

I have learned that even though I have to rethink and revamp because my original plan wasn't working as well as I knew it should, I was still way further down the road than I would have been had I not started anything at all.

IEW

When my daughter was in the fourth grade she was given an assignment to write a paragraph about bees.  In tears, she cried out to me, " I don't know what to write."  A friend of mine had heard about a writing program and invited me to come to her house for an introduction. We purchased this program.  The result: My then little girl comes to me grinning from ear to ear in all excitement asking, " Can I read you what I wrote?"

My sweet little girl is now a grown woman of 21 and is working on her English major.




My Something Wonderful for today: The Institute for Excellence in Writing