5 Resolutions Everyone Should Embrace for the New Year

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5 Resolutions Each Pastor Should Embraces as Goals for the New Year

Wilson Leadership Institute
Professional Speaker, Seminar Facilitator, Leadership Consultant, Life & Spiritual Coaching

5 Resolutions Each Pastor Should Embrace as Goals for the New Year.
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr

Each year millions of people make what we call New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s Resolution is a commitment made to a project or a habit. Often New Year’s Resolutions deal with a lifestyle change that is generally interpreted as beneficial. The word resolution is literally the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, or procedure.

As a pastor and leader of others it is vital that you not only have a New Year’s Resolution, but that when ever you see that a change, improvement, or enhancement to your ministry or personal life is needed you are willing to focus and gain the mental state of firmness toward that purpose.

The Declaration Mistake

One mistake that I think many of us have made as it relates to New Year’s Resolutions is that we look at it as simply a declaration that we have to make that will in some magical way fulfill it self. If you’re going to make resolutions that can transform your ministry and life you have to understand that talking about it is not enough!

From Declaring to Goal Setting

Your resolution only has a chance of becoming a reality when you purpose it as a goal. One of the most powerful things you can do to begin the transformation of your life and ministry is Goal setting. When you set goals you then have a means of charting the course of your future which increases your chances of success.

The Golden Key

Even after you have begun the process of making your resolution a goal the golden key that many leave out is writing them down! There is a great quote that says, “The shortest pencil is longer than the greatest mind”. No matter how thought out you may think you have your goals as the old saying goes, “Out of sight out of mind”. It is critically important that you not only write your goals down, but that you make it a daily routine to review them.

Not Wishes

Remember, goals are not a wish list of ideas! Goals should be set with the intent of achieving. So there are a few things you have to have in place to help you with this.

• The Goal must be realistic.


• The Goal must be written out with great detail.


• The Goal must be measurable.


• One Goal at a time.


• The Goal must be inspiring.


• The Goal must have a deadline.

Paper not Stone

Another thing that we need to say is that goals are written on paper not in stone! That means that your goals are subject to change. Many times as you progress you will see that you need to tweak your goals. Please don’t be afraid of the process of rethinking and tweaking your goals if necessary.

So let’s get to the 5 most important resolutions that each pastor should embrace as goals for the New Year.

1. To replenish your desire to win souls.

One of the greatest investments that you can make for your church and personal ministry is the investment into a renewed desire to win souls. It does not matter who in your church has a desire to win the lost, the buck stops with you as the leader. If you don’t get it you’ll become the lid on your own ministry; stopping the influx of souls into the kingdom.

2. To put a strategic soul winning plan in place that involves every age group in your ministry.

As the leader it is imperative that after you have renewed your own desire for souls that you begin to inspire others to do the same. The word inspire literally means in-spirit. When we inspire others we are encouraging them to follow us as we are lead by the Spirit of God. At this point we will begin to see a spirit of agreement and fellowship kindled in our ministry.

3. To implement a leadership development program to mentor develop and train new ministers & leaders.

In ministry, as it is in the business world, our people are our greatest assets. Any one can stand up Sunday after Sunday and preach a sermon. However, it is a whole different ball game when it comes to implementing a leadership development program that can help others to define, clarify and develop their God given talents. Don’t be afraid to get help!

4. To begin to take 100% responsibility for the direction of your ministry.

When I speak of taking 100% responsibility I’m not in anyway insinuating leaving God out. When we look at the book of Genesis it is very easy to see that we have been calling on God to do many of the things that we have been giving dominion over. So when we look at the state of the church, our families, our communities and the world we need to stop blaming the devil and start taking responsibility for that which we have been given charge of!

If you’re the leader, your ministry, no matter what shape it is in is only a reflection of who you are. Nothing will change in your life and ministry until you are willing to take full responsibility for where you are. Stop blaming, complaining and start making changes!
To develop yourself daily.

If you’re not daily developing yourself believe me it will not happen by osmoses! If the only time your reading is on Saturday night to prepare for your next sermon you’re not developing yourself. When I say development I’m not necessarily talking about attending a seminar or college. Development starts with a daily routine to improve, better, and advance your self spiritually, mentally, physically and socially.

Unquestionably, the call to pastor is the greatest calling on earth, weather you are pastoring a church or, as I do, pastoring other pastors. I hope these five resolutions will only be the beginning of the goals that you will set, progress toward and achieve in this upcoming year!

Bishop Wilson is a leadership; life & Spiritual Coach that helps people identify, evaluate the severity of and remove the mental hindrances to their success.

If you need help creating a personal development plan consider allowing Bishop Wilson to coach you to success: http://www.bishopwilson.com/

Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles

Wilson Leadership Institute
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Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr

One of the greatest tools that has been used from the very beginning of time and is still available to all of us is the craft of writing. Before TV, radio, internet and ipods our entertainment and enjoyment was found on pages and pages of great manuscripts.

I know that we are in the computer age, but writing is still one of the greatest means of expressing and expanding our thoughts and ideas so that others can be taught, instructed and enlighten. It doesn’t matter if you prefer pen and paper, blackberries, palm pilots or laptops; writing is the birth canal for ideas that would other wise remain aloof dreams.

I want to give you the “Top 20 Reasons” why I believe that every pastor and minister should consider writing. I’m not asking you to start out by writing a 200 page book; that will come! I just want you to start getting your feet wet by writing 700 to 1000 word articles. I know it may sound hard, but the key is to write about subjects that you are interested in! When you really set your mind to write thoughts expand as you stretch the creative potential of your cognitive thinking.

In giving you my “Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles” I will also give you a tip I have used to write hundreds of articles over the years. It is very simple, just find a subject that you’re interested in and make a list! This list may be 10, 20 or 100 things related to your topic of interest. Believe me; if you’re really interested in a subject you will not have any problem making a list of at least 10 subtopics (could expand into 10 separate small articles). You then use this list like and outline to begin the writing process.

Do I have to be a great speller? Do I have to use $100 words? Do I have to have a perfect understanding of grammar? The answer to any of the questions that people use not to write is NO! I’m not a great speller at all!!!! I still make many mistakes. However, I’m not willing to allow that to be a reason for me to stop doing what I love; writing! The more you write the more you will want to write and the better you will get!

OK, here we go, “The Top 20 Reasons Why Pastors Should Write Articles.”

1. You should write articles because no one can say it like you do!
   
   


2. Article writing helps you to expand your thoughts and ideas from intangible to three-dimensional.
   
   


3. Article writing stimulates new ideas and thoughts for sermons.
   
   


4. Articles uploaded to the internet can allow you to minister to people you will never meet who may not be willing to listen to a ministry audio or DVD.
   
   


5. You should write articles because you can use a collection of related topics to create training manuals or devotionals.
   
   


6. You should write articles because you can use a collection of related topics as the ground work for future books.
   
   


7. You should write articles because everyone is not willing to read entire books.
   
   


8. Article writing can brand you as an expert on particular topics.
   
   


9. Article writing will cause you to be a more prolific speaker.
   
   


10. Article writing has the capacity to give your presentations and sermons more content.
    
    


11. You should write articles because the study and preparation will broaden the area of your expertise on a given subject.
    
    


12. Article writing helps you develop another tool for not only casting but also expanding your ministry vision.
    
    


13. Article writing causes you to be more articulate when it comes to verbally casting your ministry vision.
    
    


14. Article writing causes you to be more likely to act on your own thoughts and ideas that will lead you to success.
    
    


15. Some people are motivated by visional and not audible information.
    
    


16. Articles solidify your thoughts for the next generation.
    
    


17. Articles are easily and inexpensively reproduced and can be given away during your speaking engagements; with information about your ministry and website.
    
    


18. A collection of related articles can be used as a manuscript for a great audio program that can be produced and burned to CD right from your home computer.
    
    


19. Online articles have the potential of taking your teaching to tens of thousands of people.
    
    


20. Online articles are great drawing cards that will influence people to come and return to your ministry website.

So what are you waiting for! Get started!
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Application:

1. Make a list of 5 topics that you’re familiar with.


2. Decide which topic you’re most interested in.


3. Rank your topics from 1 to 5 with 1 being most interested.


4. Over the next few days brainstorm and write 10 subtopics for each main topic.

You now have an outline for at least 30 or more articles.

Bishop Wilson is a leadership; life & Spiritual Coach that helps people identify, evaluate the severity of and remove the mental hindrances to their success.

If you would like to have Bishop Wilson to coach you to success, or having him to assist you with getting your articles online visit us at http://www.bishopwilson.com/

Expanding the Territory of Your Mind

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Expanding the Territory of Your Mind
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr.

One of the most powerful tools that every person has is the human brain. The brain is more powerful and complex than any computer. Though it is readily accessible to all of us, very few are ever challenged to push the envelop of our mental possibility. Even in our institutes of learning, the use of imagination along with academics is not encouraged.

If we are ever to experience our life in the manner that we were created to live we must learn to take the breaks off of our mind and use our imagination. Your imagination is the key to entering the next season of your life.

Imagination is Key

In the same manner that the wrong use of our imaginations and thoughts can take us into a state of crisis, when used correctly it can be a vehicle to bring us out. Weather you know it or not, what you are thinking is either unlocking the door of your past or unlocking the door of your future. The same key, it just depends on which way you want to turn the knobs of your thoughts.

Self-Imposed Limitations.

The main reason that many of us keep seeing the same things appearing in our lives is because we keep using our key incorrectly. This way of thinking becomes what I call a self-imposed limitation. Why Self-imposed? Because the way you think is never forced on you. We all have influences, but the same way that you have dismissed other philosophies from our minds you have the power to dismiss the things that you have excepted as truth that you can now see are limiting you.

Every limitation that we have in our life exists only in our mind and they remain only by our consent. When we allow limitations to remain we develop ‘boxed thinking’. What that means is we begin thinking in predictable patterns.

We all have physical limits, but none of us truly have limitations. Can I physically lift 1000lbs? No. Can I find a way to lift 1000lbs? Yes! Can I buy a million dollar home right at this moment? No. Do we All have the ability and opportunity to make the money? Yes!

Every limitation that we have in our lives is nothing more than a product of our imagination. It is what you believe you can or can not do that makes all the difference in what you will or will not experience in your life. For everything that you believe that you can not accomplish there is someone somewhere that has been through something similar to what you have been through and right now is doing what you’re afraid to dream!

The people around you love it as long as you keep thinking in the realm of your self imposed limitations. You become a thread to their lives of mediocrity when you start to dream and talk about things that they are afraid of failing at. The only reason that anyone is afraid to try anything boils down to fear of failure.

Many people go off to college and earn many outstanding degrees and awards, yet their minds are still in park, condemning them to mediocrity. However, when a person gains and understanding of the power they possess with the human mind they can no longer remain in the realm of mediocrity.

Success starts with removing the self-imposed limitations of your mind. Mr. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company said, “the person that says he can and the one that says he can’t they are both right’. His philosophy here is, your success and failure are a matter of what you believe about yourself!
Barriers

When we speak to people they can be very articulate when it comes to telling us all the reasons why they feel they can not accomplish their dreams. What they fail to understand is that all the barriers that they will encounter in their life are either strengthen or destroyed in the mind. The barriers that we all face will mostly deal with our attitude about the situation. A change in our attitude is one of the first things that has to take place. Your attitude about what you have to face truly makes all the difference!

The barriers you will face have nothing to do with:

• A lack of God’s resources being available to you.


• A lack of talent on your part that keeps you from prospering.


• Nothing to do with what you have done in your past and how people may look at you!

When the difference is you living a live of success verses one of suffering and poverty, who cares what people think! The only thing that can keep us out of the best that life has to offer is our wrong thinking!

Enlarge your Vision

One thing we need to pray and intend to manifest in our life is “eyes that are trained to see possibilities and are not focused on limitations! This is the beginning of the process of enlarging your vision. Before we can enlarge our vision we have to train our eyes to see possibilities and opportunities; finding the good in every situation. This comes with, as I spoke of earlier, a change of attitude. A change of attitude changes the way that you see things. When the way you see things changes the things you see or are attentive to will also change.

An enlarged vision without a change in attitude is useless. You don’t want to enlarge negativity. You don’t want to enlarge a scarcity mentality. You don’t want to enlarge low self-esteem.
From being a born again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and growing up in the church, I had a lot of wrong teaching that I had to overcome to get to this type of thinking. In the church we were taught that no matter what the situation we are just to leave everything in the hands of the Lord. The proper meaning is, trust in God. The misconception is that we don’t have to do anything. However, when we have any understanding of biblical teaching we can quickly see that God did not create us to be the robots that religion has made us out to have to be. We have to be willing to be an active participant in our own deliverance.

If you’re going to enlarge your vision you have to learn to see through the eyes of faith & possibility, no matter what your natural senses are telling you!

• Faith that says I’m healed, when the doctors have given up.


• Faith that says I’m a winner, in the mist of a defeating situation.


• Faith that says I’m a winner, even when the once in your own family see you as a failure.
  

Unless you learn to see through eyes of faith & possibility you will only root yourself deeper in the reality of your current situation or worst you will be subject to repeating your past.

Memory of the Past.

People that are not going anywhere themselves will always try to remind you of where you came from. They do this to us not understanding that we have our own battles that go on in the mind that tries to keep us in that pattern of thinking anyway.

The mind, if left unattended, will hypnotize you into believing the way things were in your past are the way they have to be in your future. When you’re not actively guarding your mind, will and emotions your memories and your imagination become best friends. This is a dangerous combination! The reason being, you don’t want to allow the creative force of your life (imagination) to be anyway influence by your past.

It doesn’t matter if a situation was good or bad you should never waist time reliving your past. When a person has an addiction all they are doing is longing for that first high again. This is the same thing many are doing with their thoughts, trying to relive a past sensation.

The caution about reliving bad situations in our mind is this; any thought that you have that is accompanied by strong emotions has the ability to manifest in your life again. That is why people that have just come out of bad relationships need 6-12 months, some times longer, to get rid of the attachments in their mind. If they start looking for someone else while they still have thoughts and strong emotions about the relationship gone bad, the only kind of person they will attract or that will be attracted to them is someone like the person they were with before.

Understanding Desire

When we speak of expanding the territory of our mind and enlarging our vision it is very important that we explore the subject of desire. One thing that I have learned about desire that I think many over look is that Desire is always created by sight. What you see will create a craving in your conscious mind, more commonly known as a desire.

I’m sure that we have all heard that Faith comes by hearing, but desire comes by seeing. With that understanding you have to be careful of what you set before your eyes. Everything that may look good to us may not be good for us. The more you see anything the more involved you become with that thing on an emotional level. That is why pornography is so addictive. It not only affects you hormonally there becomes an emotional attachment.

Involution

If we are to enlarge our vision we have to be honest with ourselves and have what I call an involution. An involution is a going within the mind with the intent of investigating. During this internal mental investigation we need to ask ourselves what incorrect images of self am I entertaining.

A person is defeated in their mind long before it is apparent to those around them. Heavy Weight Champion Joe Lewis said, “Champions are not made in the ring, the champion in them only shows up there”.

Whatever shows up in you has been cooking for awhile. Winning, being victorious, being prosperous, having joy, being happy all starts in the mind. You have to develop and image in your mind of you doing well, having success in what you desire to do. You will quickly see this change in thinking is very important once you come to understand, you get precisely what you expect out of life.

God’s Desire for You.

God’s desire for all of his creation is increase and prosperity!

Deuteronomy 8:18 KJV But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, …

Our birthright is one of increase and prosperity. You need to know this, but you are the only one that can stretch your faith into accepting this truth. Remember faith comes by hearing and desire comes by seeing. As you expand your desire you automatically begin to stretch your faith. The stretching of your faith comes when you begin to desire something that is beyond your natural ability to accomplish in your own power.

Stinking Thinking

If you are to ever enlarge your thinking you have to rid yourself of all your stinking thinking. You can identify stinking thinking by the way it makes you feel. The emotions that are attached to these thoughts will keep you attracting more thoughts like them for you to think and the result is like situations will keep showing up in your life.

If we could get people to be honest we could see that 90% of the people that find themselves victims of any acts of discrimination had at some time been active in entertaining thoughts of being discriminated against.

You have to STOP!

• Stop thinking failure and start anticipating promotion!


• Stop thinking sickness and start thinking about good health until you find yourself eating better and working out at the gym.


• Stop revisiting and rehearsing your past and start envisioning YOU’RE future.
  

There can be no change in your situation until there is a change in your mind! Nothing moves unless the mind moves it! You have to make room for increase in your mind long before you will see it in your reality.

Enlarging your vision is:

• Stretching your faith.


• Invites God into your situation.


• Awakes the infinite co-creator in you.

New Wine Skins

In days past people would keep their wine in wine skins created from the flesh of animals. New wine skins were soft and pliable, but they would lose there elasticity with age. When new wine was poured into old wine skins the wine would expand and the bags would burst wasting the wine. New wine DEMANDED new skins!

Our mind is just like those wine skins. Think about how you thought just 10 years back compared to now! Time has caused us to not be as flexible in our thinking! If you’re going to enlarge your vision you can’t keep a restricted attitude about your life. Success DEMANDS a new way of thinking!

The way things have been are not the way they have to stay and yesterday is not a reflection of your tomorrow, if you allow your thinking to change! Expand the territory of your Mind!

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The Thine Line

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THE THIN LINE
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr

I’m sure have all heard the statement “There is a thin line between love and hate.”

Another thought along that same concept is this:

There is a very thin line between your Success and your failure.

Between living out your dreams verse living in your worst nightmare.

Between having your desires and having to settle for less that you desire or deserve.

The differences

The difference lies 100 percent in the seemingly insignificant choices that we are making in our thoughts actions and deeds everyday, all day! Think about it, the only thing that separates you from the millionaire next door is the choices that you on a daily bases!

• Not his money
• Not the opportunities that you feel they may have had
• Not the family they were born into.

The truth of the matter is all roads from were you are and your can go any were from were you are!

Not the Big Things

We have been made to think is the big decision that make all the difference.o Marriage is big, but what about how your choice to treat you spouse on a daily bases. That seems like a small thing, but it is what determines if your going to married 5 or 50 years.

The career you choice, that is a big thing, but the choices you make about that job on a daily bases is much more important.

It is the simple and small choice made every day that are shaping your destiny or sealing your demise.

Why?

Why is this such a big problem? It is as easy not to do these things as it is to do them.

Daily Disciplines

We have to develop daily disciplines in our thinking:

• To make Choice that build on our success!
• To stop looking at our decisions as one time events with not future consequences.
  

No Quantum Leaps

When it comes to your success there are no:

• Escalators
• Elevators
• Big breaks
• Or lotteries

Success is defined as the progressive realization of a worth ideal or goal. The key word is progressive, slow and steady movement forward. When it comes reaching your dreams there are no quantum leaps. Even if you see someone that ha seemingly has a quantum leap in there life or career, asking about the process and your find out the real story!

Success consist totally of baby steps that are compound over time to create mile after mile of defined success. Defined success means you didn’t stumble into it you planned it.

One Step in the Right Direction

A better anything starts with one step in the direction of your desire! Allow the steps that you make in your decision making to be your yellow brick road to your land of Oz.
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Bishop Wilson is a leadership, life & Spiritual Coach that helps people identify, evaluate the severity of and remove the mental hindrances to their success. Whether through keynotes, half-day workshops, or multi-day seminars, Bishop M. Christopher Wilson’s thought provoking presentations are lively, positive, and encouraging. You can find more info at: http://www.bishopwilson.com/

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Energy, Time, & Money

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Energy, Time, & Money
Category: Goals, Time Management, Human Potential, Vision, Clarity of Purpose
By M. Christopher Wilson, Sr
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During my study of human potential I have come to learn that each of us is working with 3 Sources of Power-

1. Energy
2. Time
3. Money

We are all allotted a certain amount of energy that is to be used in an allotted amount of time that will, if utilized correctly, bring us substantial amounts of money and business success. Though it may not be apparent to the untrained eye, I have learned that each of these sources of power is always in a state of flux, constantly changing.

If a person is to have any amount of success in business and personal life they must master the art of properly using their time, energy, and money in a manner that not only meets the needs of today but also keeps in mind the need for advancement toward the future.

When we speak of mastering the art of properly using our time, energy and money we are more or less speaking of a person that has come to the understanding that their daily thoughts, emotions and actions are either adding to are taking away from their sources of power. By simply looking at a person’s daily routine you can assess if that person is success oriented. A person’s daily routine will determines how they will spend their time, energy and money, thus giving you a snapshot of their future. We don’t stop to think about it much because it has become, as we said, routine. However, what we are doing or what we neglect to do on a daily basis is either strengthening us are weakening us.

If we are ever to reach the goals and business endeavors that we have envisioned, we have to have what experts in the field of human potential have referred to as our Pathway of Power or Optimized Living. Our Pathway of Power is present when we have taken the time to structure our daily routines so that we are getting the maximum use of our time and energy. For those in business the result is, ultimately, seen in the maximum influx of financial increase.

The reason that some people are successful where others are not can be defined very clearly.
Successful people know what they want and can express it in very vivid terms.

When you talk to people that are successful at what they do you will leave that conversation empowered and willing to buy in, in some way, to what they are doing.

When it comes to setting goals of what you desire to accomplish or manifest in your life and business, remember, there are truly no degrees of difficulty as it relates to the power of the human mind. However, before you can accomplish anything you have to be specific about your desired result. To say I want a car is not good enough. When done correctly you can set a goal and put a plan in place to get a Mercedes Benz just as easily as you can a Saturn. The same is true in your finances. We can manifest a million dollars just as easily as you can twenty dollars. If we are not specific we are more likely to get what is most common.

• You need to know how much money you want to make each year.
  


• You need to know what kind of house you want to live in, what kind of car you want to drive.
  


• You need to know what profits you desire for your business.
  


• You need to have systems of measurement in place.
  

If you’re not clear of where you’re going anywhere will do!

1. The Law of Straight Lines- The shortest path between to points is a straight line.

The second thing that causes people to be successful and others not is they don’t try to make the process more complicated than what it is.

I have seen people time and time again, get so tangled up in the preparation to take action that they are tricked into thinking that they are acting. These are the people that will give you the story about how hard business is, when the thing that is making it hard is they are taking the wilderness route to a destination that has several major interstates. What I mean by that is this; if one person can make a million dollars anyone can make a million dollars. There are two many millionaires, black, white and every other nationality for me to believe that I can’t do it! All we have to do is find a mentor that has done what we are trying to do, see if they are willing to share their knowledge and then follow the Law of the straight line.

2. The Law of Focus Energy- In order to get what you want you have to focus on it until you do.

Now I know that sounds too easy, but by learning this principle we are miles ahead of the person that only has a dream. The number one problem that I have seen is many don’t have a stick-to-it-ness down on the inside that drives them to, as I heard one expert say, hit it until you hit it.

We talked about seeing your goal and learning to keep it in sight. The next thing you have to do is to keep swinging toward your goal until you reach it! This is best seen in the sport of baseball. What if every baseball player that struck out made up in their mind that they would never be able to hit a homerun, so why try? The reason that we have a babe Ruth is because he was not afraid to double his rate of failure. Babe Ruth at his peek had more strike outs than any other player. The only thing that made him the Babe was he got just 1 extra hit per week that the other players missed.

The key to all of this goes back to you never want to be in a place that you are wasting your power by not having clarity. If you are ever going to have a business or company that is operating on a global playing field it is going to take developing unusual clarity and a willingness to expand your dreams and your goals. There is no way that you can utilize the Law of focused Energy until you have clarity of vision.

3. The Law of Vision- Seeing your desired outcome in the now.

For years we have heard of great sports figures using the power of visualization to accomplish great goals, even breaking world records. What these world class athletes are taught to do is to run through their event several times in their minds just before they perform. The Key is for them to focus totally on what they desire to happen. What we have learned about the human mind is that it does not distinguish between what is real and what is only imaginary. So when the time comes for the person to actually perform the mind simply causes the person to more or less reenact in real life what was previously imagined in the mind.

This same principle can be applied in business. In business we’re constantly setting goals that deal with business performance. What if we were to take the time daily to envision the outcomes that we desire? What would happen would be that the mind would begin to reenact the scenarios that we envisioned bringing our goals and dreams to pass much quicker with less effort.

Conclusion

The ultimate goal of business is profit and as we have seen profit only comes when we as individuals harness and apply principles that will help us to utilize our 3 Resources of Power: Energy, Time and Money. Start today, don’t wait! You may not see the results of applying these laws the next day, the next week or even the next month, but compounded over the next 12 to 24 months you will see your life begin to change.

Application: The Identification of problem areas is only the first step. The key to success is not identification alone, but also the removal of problem areas and the replacement of them with new success habits.

1. Name three things in your life and business that are robbing you of your energy?
2. Name three time wasters that you need to eliminate from your life that would cause you to be more productive in business.
3. Add up the energy and time wasted and guestimate how much money it is costing you and your business yearly? Then times that times your employees! As the leader so go the followers!
4. After you have identified each of your energy robbers and time wasters, use the power of contrast to gain clarity and to identify what new habit you need to replace it with.
   
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Bishop Wilson is a leadership, life & Spiritual Coach that helps people identify, evaluate the severity of and remove the mental hindrances to their success. Whether through keynotes, half-day workshops, or multi-day seminars, Bishop M. Christopher Wilson’s thought provoking presentations are lively, positive, and encouraging. You can find more info at: http://www.bishopwilson.com/



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