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Let Average GO
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What is Average?
· Average is the top of the bottom and the bottom of the top. It’s the best of the worst and the worst of the best. Average people do not get noticed.
· Average is like a painkiller that lulls you to sleep while it slowly numbs your senses.
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7 Keys to Let Average Go
· Adopt A Positive Attitude
· Value Your Time
· Enlist the Help of a Mentor
· Read Daily
· Anticipate Opposition
· Guard Your Goals
· Empower Your Belief System
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Adopt A Positive
Attitude
How to Adopt a Positive Attitude:
· Recognize the need for a positive attitude.
· Your attitude is the first thing people notice about you.
· You may look great on paper but your attitude reveals how average you really are.
· Your great attitude will convince people to do things for you.
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Adopt A Positive
Attitude
· Decide each day to have a positive attitude.
· Attitudes are cultivated on a regular basis.
· Monitor your attitude daily.
· Your attitude is seen before you open your mouth.
· Understand that your attitude is 100% of your success or failure in life.
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Value Your Time
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you
have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful less you let others spend it for you!”
-Carl Sandburg
· Four Keys to Value My Time: Take control of it.
Invest it wisely.
Move opposite of the crowd.
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Value Your Time
· Key #1 – Take Control of Your Time
– Committed Hours
– Flexible Hours
Stop allowing others with stronger personalities to take control of your time.
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Key #2 – Invest Your Time Wisely
· Time is a commodity you will never get back.
· Something to Think About:
– We would never allow anyone to steal our
money; however, we allow to steal our time.
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Key #3 – Move opposite of the crowd
· Average people follow crowds.
· Moving opposite of the crowd is simply a matter of planning.
Key #4 – Enjoy your down time
· Stop for a moment and give yourself permission to have some fun.
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Enlist The Help a
Mentor
Socrates, a Classic Mentor, described himself as a midwife
assisting the labor of the mind in bringing knowledge and
wisdom to birth.
Five Character Traits of a Mentor
1. Mentors convey knowledge
– A mentor’s knowledge and wisdom can save you a lot of
time and sweat.
2. Mentors teach principles for life
– A Mentor will ensure that your past does not follow your
future.
-A Mentor will offer principles not gimmicks.
Enlist The Help of a
Mentor
Five Character Traits of a Mentor
· 3. Mentors have the Courage to Confront
– A mentor will confront your weaknesses and failures.
– Many people stay average because they have
never been confronted with a higher standard.
· 4. Mentors make Themselves Available
– Mentors make time for you with phone call, emails and
lunch, etc.
– Mentors will make their life available to you. You must be transparent with your mentor.
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Enlist The Help a
Mentor
Five Character Traits of a Mentor 5. Mentors help us Develop our Talents
Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I am great, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of great men”.
– A good Mentor will stretch you, not shrink you.
– A mentor will stretch your thinking, goals and your outlook on life.
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Read Daily
“Reading gave me the courage to believe that I could be whatever I wanted in life.”
-Joseph Washington
“When books are opened, we discover that we have wings.”
-Helen Hayes
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Read Daily
1. Reading activates the mind
– Reading activates the Mind.
– Reading awaken your Mind the same way food
awakens your body. (It’s Food for Thought.)
– An inactive mind invites the spirit of average in everything you do.
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2. Reading exercises the mind
– If you do not exercise your mind, it will get out of shape.
– You can expand your mind with hard work.
– Renew your commitment to daily reading.
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3. Reading pushes us to use our Imagination.
– Excite your imagination by reading book that inspire you to live out your purpose.
– The mental discipline it take to Break The Spirit of Average is something that is uniquely activated, exercised and inspired when we read.
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Anticipate Opposition
“Great men who are in pursuit of their purpose have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”.
-Albert Einstein
“Often the test of opposition, when it comes, is not to die but to live”.
-Author Unknown
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Anticipate Opposition
What is Opposition?
Opposition is Opportunity in Hiding. Opposition is like an exercise that forces us to
strengthen our character.
· Opposition exposes weakness we are not aware of and allows us to address them.
· Opposition actually help your self-development.
· Average people do not encounter great opposition.
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Anticipate Opposition
How do I defeat Opposition?
· Don’t Run stand your ground.
· Engage with both ears open.
· Focus on the facts not fairy tales.
· Exit the situation as soon as possible.
· Accept responsibility for your actions.
· Take time to reflect and learn.
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Guard Your Goals
Goals are dreams with a deadline!
4 Reasons Why People Do Not Set Goals:
1. They don’t understand the importance of setting goals.
2. They don’t know how to set goals.
3. They don’t want to feel rejection.
4. They don’t want to experience failure.
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Guard Your Goals
Five Techniques of Setting Goals:
1. Write down clearly what you want out of
life.
2. Outline your plan of achieving your major goals.
3. Set a timetable for achieving your goals.
4. Memorize your goals and repeat them daily to yourself.
5. Give legs to your goals and take action
Empower Your Belief
System
“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he!”
-Proverbs
“Your success is not determine by the size of
your brain but by the size of your thinking.”
-David Schwartz
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Empower Your Belief
System
How to Empower your Belief System?
Break away from the company of unenthusiastic people!
ELiminate the words (I Can’t) from your vocabulary!
Live on the edge and take chances!
Invest in reading material that empowers your thinking!
Embrace your greatness and stop playing yourself small!
Find ways not to quit on your dreams!
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Closing Remarks
There was a very average man who never laughed or played, He never risked, he never tried; He never sang or prayed.
And when he one day passed away His insurance was denied.
For since he never lived, They claimed he never died.
-Anonymous
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