mid-week butt kickin’

There’s Diamonds and Gold All Around! Your Mid-Week Butt Kickin’ – Volume 2

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One of the things I always wondered when I read people who blogged or did motivational speaking was, WHERE DO THEY GET ALL THEIR MATERIAL?!

Let me step back for a moment. I was listening to a speaker once and he told a story about when people drive to work. On their way to work if a person cuts them off they may get mad and consumed for hours over it. Basically while they drive they are AVOIDING the bad. But what they fail to do is notice or enjoy any beauty around them; a sunset, mountains or flowers. I know, I know kinda corny, but the point of the story is, they weren’t LOOKING.

What I’m trying to say is that the things I am sharing with you in these blogs are all around you if you are looking for it. Why I am sharing this with you? A few reasons. First, most of the material I am sharing I have learned or picked up from someone else. I’d like you to think I was smart enough to come up with it on my own, but the truth is I found it and I found it because now I am looking for it. I will try to give credit when I can. It is not my intent to plagiarize anyone’s material. But in many cases there is no exact source. The other reason is to get you to start looking for these diamonds around you. To starting forging the gold that exists. I know you won’t find it if you don’t have an open eye for it.

I’ll give some examples of where some of my material may come from in the coming months. The first one is from my business partner Dr. Bean and the church he attends. It’s called the “Word of the Day” and has a paragraph that you read each day and there is some great material. I read it every morning. Now it does have a tie in to the Bible which for some is no problem. But if you refused to pick it up because it does this, you would be missing out on a FREE gold mine. And to be quite honest the Bible references are to stories that relate to the lesson of the day. The next thing I may use from time to time is a book we use for our office word of the week. “The Daily Book of Positive Quotations” By Linda Picone………..$13.95. The affirmations you follow on Twitter, “The Winners Journal” by John and Pam Carls……….$15.95 Are you getting my point? The Tools you need for success are all around you at a price of free to around 15 bucks. (My book $17.95, a shameless plug). I know one thing though; you can’t mine for diamonds or gold if you aren’t willing to dig a bit.

This is your Mid-Week Butt Kickn. Go kick butt and start with your butt!

Your Mid-Week Butt-Kickin’ – Volume 1 – September 7, 2011

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So when I sat down to start writing my Wednesday lunch post (which is late for its first Wednesday) I wasn’t really sure what to write. Now to be quite honest I have saved pages and pages in a blog file which is full of pages of things I have read or stories I have heard. So there won’t be any shortage of new material to come up with for Wednesdays. I guess my main concern was, WHY WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO WHAT I HAD TO SAY ABOUT MOTIVATION OR SELF IMPROVEMENT? I mean the fear I guess I have is people finding out I’m not an expert. What if they find out I’m not perfect and I fail on almost a daily basis (which is a good thing, actually). Then I figured out why I am qualified to do this: INTENT.

In my office as a Chiropractor, I have built a successful office on mainly one premise, my intent is always honest and in the best interest of the patient. I have spoken to many patients that have been patients for years and the comments have always been the same. They never felt I was selling them something (a course of care) that they didn’t believe I truly believed they needed. They understood my intent was pure. This is when I felt good about writing to you today. The Wednesday lunch blog is named “The Mid-Week Butt Kickin’” It’s to help you kick butt by starting with your butt.

On this hump day whether your week is going great or a disaster, I want you to take a look at the intent with which you are doing things. Is your work simply to sell as much as possible or put a person in the best possible product. We are still living the disaster of that breed of brokers that put people in the best product for their own pockets and not for the best fit for the client. The mortgage brokers that did it right are still in business, the others are looking for that new pet rock. When you are doing things with you spouse or significant other is it only to gain favor or is it truly to benefit that person and make their day a little easier? Do you donate to see your name on a list, or because it is to help the cause. You know how you feel when you deliver with the right intent, but here’s the secret; the receiver feels your intent as well. And in a weird “Rules of the Universe” thing, those that deliver with the right intent are ultimately rewarded. Have a great finish to the week and I’ll have your next “Tool” on Monday.