Commitment - - - Never give up!!

My father taught me that:

"Integrity is the value you place on your word -
- in other words, when you say you are going to do something,
- when you PROMISE to DO SOMETHING - - - DO IT! - - -"

Anthony Robbins in one of his many interviews describes RESOLVE as:

"a PROMISE to YOURSELF that you will
- - - NEVER GIVE UP!! - - - "

Vince Lombardi describes the quality of a person's life as being in direct proportion:

"... to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavour"

Pat Mesiti describes Commitment as part of FOCUS:

"prioritise what you need to do
make a plan to get it done
be accountable &
commit to your plan!!"

the END in MIND
Stephen Covey, in 7 Habits -- relates the story of the JAR - - - you know the one:

A professor stands before his class and whips out a large JAR and places it on the table in front of him. The he pulls out a bag with rocks in it and begins to fill up the jar. When it is full, he asks his students --

- - "is the jar full???"

They reply - - - "YES!!"

Then he pulls out a bag containing small pebbles and begins to fill the jar up. He shakes the jar as he fills it with pebbles, the pebbles fill up the gaps between the large rocks

Again he asks: - - - "is the jar full?"

The students reply - - - "YES!!!!"

Again, the professor whips out ANOTHER BAG, this time with sand in it. He proceeds to fill the JAR up with the sand, the sand finds its way into the gaps until the jar is FULL

The professor again asks "IS THE JAR FULL???"

This time, the students reply "NO!!!"

The professor smiles and pulls out a bucket of water and proceeds to fill up the JAR!!

Then, he asks his students - - - "Is the JAR FULL???"

They reply - - -Y E S ! ! !

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What's the moral?
If the jar had been filled first with the sand, there would be no room for the rocks or pebbles or even the water - so, the moral of the story??

"FIRST - -do the things that matter most,
there will always be room for everything else!!"

In a nutshell,

• - - - develop faith & trust in your WORD - from the INSIDE- OUT!
• - - - determine what your DESTINATION is - begin with the END in MIND!
  
• - - - figure out what your PRIORITIES are - focus on LARGE ROCKS!!
  
• - - - change your DIRECTION to reflect your destination - take AIM at your TARGET!
  
• - - - map out a PLAN to get you to where you want to be - your BLUE-PRINT!
• - - - COMMIT to your plan - your RESOLVE & your PROMISE!
  

FINALLY

"Dont let the things that matter most,
become subject to the things that matter least"

Mauri ora
- - Hauiti - -

from the INSIDE-OUT

I don't know who said this, but i have been using it ever since i heard it:

"You cant draw water from an empty well"

Change for me has always been about INSIDE-OUT
Change what goes into your mind - in order to change how you view the world, how you react to circumstances, and how you perceive obstacles.

Winston Churchill said:

" to improve is to change,
to be perfect is to change often"

I wanted to change my circumstances; i wanted to find a way to create a PROSPEROUS MINDSET - so i began to change what went into my mind. I read alot - Stephen & Sean Covey, Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins, Denis Waitley, Paul Zane Pilzer, Pat Mesiti, Robert Kiyosaki, W Clement Stone, Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen, Loral Langmeier, Brian Tracy, Vince Lombardi, Jamie MacIntyre and the list is endless!!

These types of books contain endless information and techniques for personal development and changing your mindset BUT, here's the rider:

"The KEY is in the person,
NOT the tools
- change must occur from the INSIDE-OUT!!"

In a nutshell, a person who does well has an inner set of beliefs - something called a mindset that helps them to achieve anything they set their minds to!! It does not matter what tools you give them, they will hone those tools using their mindset!!

So when i discovered that the key to success was INTERNAL rather than external - - - and that it is the person not the tools that determines a person's level of success ---- i began to look forward to change --- i began to look forward to developing a PROSPEROUS MINDSET - - - - A MILLIONAIRE MINDSET!!!

M I N D S E T
Pat Mesiti describes mindset as the capacity for thinking - in his book: The Millioniare Mindset, he quotes William Arthur Ward who says ----

"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking
and nothing expands possibilities like unleashed thinking"

A millionaire mindset is not about the money - it is about increasing the capacity of your thinking

James Arthur Ray talks about M I N D S E T

Henry Ford said:

"Thinking is the hardest work there is to do,
which is why so few people do it"

Charles Handy said:

"new ways of thinking about familiar things
can release new energies and make all manner of things possible"

Charles Simmons said:

“when things aren’t working right on the inside,

when our thinking and our feelings are wrong,

then we make it absolutely impossible for things to work correctly on the outside.”

- - - CHANGE YOUR THINKING! - - -

Try these:

• Read good books that renew & fill your mind up with POSITIVE THOUGHTS
  
• Surround yourself with positive minded people
• Set goals that challenge your mind
• Commit yourself to your goals
  

"Your choice of people to associate with both personally & business-wise
is one of the most important choices you make.
if you associate with turkeys you will never fly with the eagles"
- - -Brian Tracy

Charles Kettering said:

"Believe & act as if it were impossible to fail"

Thats is in a nutshell

Hauiti

Why we set up this BLOG

Mauri Ora!

It was Lily Tomlin who said:

”The trouble with the rat race is that

even when you win you’re still a rat.”

In light of that that, my cousin Johnny & I made a commitment to find a way out of the RAT RACE – so we set up this BLOG to record our journey in the hope that we could maintain our commitment by making our goals & thoughts public – and perhaps someone else might benefit from our journey/journal?

My Story

The question was: how are we going to get off the treadmill and out of the Rat Race?

Well, John Fuhrman said in the prologue of his book The Credit Diet:

“If you continue to do what you’ve always done,

You’ll continue to have what you’ve always had!”

Now I don’t know who said this but it’s as painfully obvious as the above:

“The definition of insanity

is doing the same things

and expecting different results”

So, if nothing changes, nothing changes!!

Well, I made some significant changes to kick my year into gear – top gear!!

In a nutshell – it was a change of mindset, a commitment to make changes in several areas of my life, identifying some BREAK THROUGH goals to focus on for the new year, creating a simple plan that I could follow and generating faith in myself – and it all began in 2007!

"Come to the edge, he said.
They said, we are afraid.
Come to the edge, he said.
They came,
He pushed them
And they flew.”

- Apollinaire

So, I decided to take a leap of faith & jump off the edge & build my wings on the way down!!

That is it in a nutshell – and I will share the details of how I got to the edge in a later post

Hauiti: The Urban Rat