Over the past several weeks you have been exposed to Prosperity and Success the Professor Prosperity Way and introduction to the Professor Prosperity Academy. We have not yet set up the academy so you will have to be a little patient with us, but you still can learn. At the bottom of this article will be some important documents for you to download and distribute as you wish.
In case you missed the articles, don’t fear, we have included all of them in a short ebook format for you. There are 6 parts to the ebook so take your time and read them at your leisure. Also are two workbooks to help you organize your ideas, goals, and other things included in the ebook.
The book includes lessons on:
Setting Goals
Your Mind
Act as If
Mantras and Personal Aspirations
Do Something
Never Give Up
It is very introductory and we will be working on interactive and fun lessons for you in the official Professor Prosperity Academy. Until then happy reading and let us know how you do.
Professor Prosperity Academy Introduction
Professor Prosperity Academy Goals Worksheet
Professor Prosperity Academy Aspirations Worksheet
Those are the famous words of Jim Valvano during his last speech at the 1993 ESPY awards. He died just a short month later on April 28, 1993. This speech has been recognized as one of the greatest speeches of all time, not for the fact that he delivered it basically in his deathbed, but for the courage that it has inspired in many people. His last paragraph is as follows:
“I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I want to say it again. Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.
Jim Valvano winning the NCAA Basketball Championship
So why bring this up in a prosperity and success site? Because there are some unbreakable truths in the speech. With any success you have to perceiver and keep going. You have to be brave through tough times and never stop.
Find your passion, then be passionate about it. There are over 6 billion (6,602,224,175) people in the world. They need a voice. Be that voice, communicate to others, be the expert, be the one that people will turn to for inspiration. Once you have the commitment to something, the commitment to your passion never give up on it.
I have heard it said before that you can succeed in anything if you never give up. Some will take longer than others, but as long as you don’t give up you will always win, you will always succeed.
Find mentors. Find inspiration. Be a kid again, and post them on the wall, get their poster, get their picture, find quotes from them and put them up around your office, your room, where you spend a lot of your time. If you cannot meet them personally watch their videos online, read their books, listen to their speeches, find media that works for you.
Match Lance Armstrong's Intensity
Adversity can make a person do two things, quit, or get stronger. Lance Armstrong was a good bike rider before he got cancer. Most said that he had a ton of talent but would never win the great championships due to his attitude and his work ethic. Once he got cancer things changed. He realized that he had to fight, not just for his life, but for everything that he wanted.
People did not believe that he could come back the way he did, but he came back in a very large way. He came back better than anyone had ever came back from an illness. He was so strong that rumors of drug use overshadowed his accomplishments. No matter what anyone says the facts are this, he is the most tested athlete ever in le Tour de France and he never failed a single test ever. He simply worked harder than anyone else everyday. It all culminated with The Look in the 2001 Le Tour de France when he broke away from the best riders in the world and never looked back again.
So what can we take from all of this?
Health
If you goal and your measure of prosperity is good health it will take time. It will get harder before it gets better but as long as you never give up you will someday be in the best health of your life
Wealth
From the bible to the moder philosophers they all state the same thing. Wealth comes to those who have wealth. It will be a long hard climb to your success but keep going because once you get there you it will only lead to more success and prosperity.
Happiness
Success and Prosperity breads confidence and happiness. Keep going through all of the adversity and you will only become more happy with yourself.
Celebrate your victories, be happy, and don’t give up, don’t ever give up.
We have set ourselves up for success this month. We have our goals set, we have our Personal Mantras and Personal Aspirations. Now what to do we do with all this stuff? What leads us to success?
Action! The only way to become successful and prosperous is action. It must be consistent, sustained action in a direction that is toward one of our goals. But what to do? It really does not matter just do something (as Nike says Just Do It). You will make mistakes, and that is OK. You will find people who have done similar things, learn from them. Be flexible, you may be on the wrong path so don’t be afraid to switch.
Making mistakes is part of the learning process. Everyone will make them. Don’t dwell on them. Accept that mistakes will happen, correct them immediately, and move on. You are not a bad person for making them. Mistakes are always fixable and inevitable. Besides, now you just know what not to do. As Edison said about his light bulb.
“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. “
Seek out people who have already done what you want to do. If you want to lose weight everyone knows where to go, the local gym. Seek out a trainer that you like and they can help you. If you want to learn a certain task you go to the local community college. They usually offer classes on things you want to learn like how to play the guitar. But what do you do if you are trying something unique, like us at Professor Prosperity? Seek out people who have done things that are similar. Many times they have already made the mistakes that are inevitable and they can help you avoid them. Afraid to ask? Don’t be, most successful people are willing to help if you ask. So just ask, there is nothing to lose. That is how we got hooked up with Bryan Clark at Site Flip U. We just asked and he has been a great help. Mentors and guides are invaluable in any success project. It is very important that you find someone to help you. Then in turn you can give back by helping others.
Be flexible and willing to change. This is maybe the most important step to action and many times the most overlooked. If you are trying something new you probably don’t know what to do. Most likely as you make your mistakes, and you find your mentors, you will also find that you are doing it wrong. You may be going in the complete opposite direction. That is OK Just do a 180 and start working some more. It may seem a little counter productive but it is not. It is a process of refining your goal. You may find a better idea or goal than your original one. Go with it! You may find that there are many opportunities along the way, be flexible to take advantage of them.
Have fun, make mistakes, met new people. You never know what is on the horizon for you.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ” — Thomas Edison
We have learned that a Personal Aspiration needs to be yours, it needs to be something that is for you, by you, and read aloud often for you. We have learned that it could be a commercial, a mission statement, a set of goals, a list of things that you like about yourself, that you want to change, and objectives of where you want your life to go. I like to keep mine on another 3×5 card and keep that in my pocket along with my goals for the day. It helps me to stay better focused.
So how about some examples?
A personal commercial:
“Tom Staley, meet Tom Staley - an important, a really important person. Tom, you’re a big thinker, so thing big. Think big about Everything. You’ve got plenty of ability to do a first-class job, so do a first-class job.
Tom you believe in Happiness, Progress, and Prosperity.
So: talk only Happiness,
talk only progress,
talk only prosperity.
You have lots of drive, Tom, lots of drive.
So put that drive to work. Nothing can stop you, Tom, nothing.
Tom, you’re enthusiastic. Let you enthusiasm show through.
You look good, Tom, and you feel good. Stay that way.
Tom Staley, you were a great fellow yesterday, and you’re going to be an even greater fellow today. Now go to it, Tom. Go forward.”
A personal mission statement:
“I am a dynamic, energetic, positive leader. I live my life knowing that all good things will come to me as a result of my positive actions and thoughts. Money rains down upon me. Money comes to me effortlessly. I coach, mentor, and teach in a positive and effective manner always. Relationships are the backbone of my life and I welcome them. I keep in touch with old friends, and find new ones all the time. I am positive and magnetic. I am learning, growing and getting better every day in every way.”
A personal list
Aspiration Type
Sample Item
Personal Growth
I will have insight into why I do the things I do.
Affiliation
I will have a committed, intimate relationship.
Community Feeling
I will help the world become a better place.
Financial Success
I will have many expensive possessions.
Image
I will achieve the “look” I’ve been after.
Popularity
I will be admired by many people.
There really is no one way to make a personal aspiration statement. It simply needs to work for you.
So what are the steps? It is pretty simple really and we have included a Worksheet at the end of the article along with the entire Professor Prosperity’s Academy: Your Mind articles in PDF form
Make a list of 5 things you like about yourself. They can be anything, your looks, your intelligence, your leadership, your ability to persuade people, whatever, just make a list
Make a list of 5 things that you would like to change about yourself, or that you want to become. Again it can be anything, feel younger, look more fit, read more, be more caring, be more positive.
Make a list of 5 things that you want for yourself. Be very specific or you wont get them. Don’t worry about being too outlandish, think big, act big, get what you want. You can never get what you want if you don’t tell people exactly what it is.
Make a list of 5 things that you want to do daily. Again be specific, for example 10 minutes of reading, 30 minutes of exercise, 15 minutes of meditation.
Now with this list decide what you want to make. Do you want to make a commercial, a Personal Aspiration Statement, or a Mantra.
If you want a mantra you are almost done. Choose no more than 10 of these ideas and list them in short sentence form.
If you want a Personal Aspiration Statement choose 10 to 15 of the items and make a list. I personally like to mix them up a little bit so that I am not reading them all together. For example choose one statement from the things you like, then one from the things you wan to be. After that choose a thing you want to do daily, and then something you want. It keeps it interesting and gets your brain to jump around a little bit an not concentrate on any one thing.
If you want a commercial you can use anywhere from 10 to all of them. This can be the most fun, and is the best to record.
Chose the one that fits your personality the best. Again have fun and use it to your advantage. This is your statement and only your statement, it is for you and only you. You can share it but don’t worry about what others have to say about it. Like I tell my students, how successful do you want to be? If you want to be successful then you are going to have to do something different to get that success.
There is no better motivator than yourself. So write a note to yourself and give yourself a boost daily, multiple times a day, even hourly if you wish.
Coaches are great. Most of us have played sports at sometime in our lives. Most of us have come in contact with a coach at some point. We probably all have had our share of that overly macho dad who is trying to live his life through his son. Well that is not the coach that I am talking about. I am talking about that coach that is a motivator, a teacher, and a mentor.
The only problem with having a coach is that they are not with you 24 hours a day. So if you have a coach or not, who is there with you when things are difficult? Who is there with you when you need a boost? Who is there with you 24 hours a day? You that’s who. Only you are with you all the time.
So we all want to be successful and prosperous here. We have learned that we need to act like this all the time. We also know that there will be a little self doubt creeping in from time to time. For those really hard days what do we do? When we are struggling what do we do? We have a personal Mantra and/or a Personal Aspiration.
A Personal Aspiration is a statement or a commercial written by you about you to lift you up. It is in the positive and the now just like goals. It is both general and specific about who you want to be, what you want to have, and what you want to become. It is meant to be read out loud with feeling so that you are using as many senses as possible. Mantra’s are basically the same except instead of being in paragraph or commercial form they are in the form of one liners repeated over and over again.
Again do to the complexity of the material and the length of the article this will be in two parts. Part one an introduction will be for today, and part two the ‘how to’ will be tomorrow.
In the Positive and the Now
Personal Aspirations and Mantras are meant to pump you up, and give yourself a boost. It has been said over and over that your mind does not make the distinction between a positive statement and a negative statement, it only focuses on the content of the statement. So make the statement positive so you focus on the positive side of you.
Say what you like about yourself. For many of us it is difficult to talk about ourselves. This is meant for you and only you. So write down what you like about yourself.
Say what you want to become. After writing down a few things you like about yourself now, write down what you want to become with yourself.
Be both General and Specific
Include how you would like to feel. Use the words happy, smile, glad, laugh, leader, positive, and so on. These are feelings and set the general tone for your Aspiration and Mantras.
Include Specific Goals. Include the goals that you are currently working on, include your long term goals, include outlandish and big goals that you could only dream of doing.
Include a Daily Reminder of You. Describe the perfect you. Set up your statements for success and use your Aspiration and Mantra’s to remind yourself of you.
Say it Out Loud
Use the Commercial, Aspiration, Mantra or all three but say them loud and be proud of them. This is one of those times where you can’t worry about what others will say you just have to be comfortable with saying them to yourself. They should be read out loud.
Say it with Feeling. Feeling is what really sets your Aspirations and Mantras in action. Feeling is your body accepting them and internalizing them. We don’t want to be robots here. Say it like a Shakespeare actor. Give your Aspirations and Mantras feeling and they will come true much quicker.
Record it and Play it back to Yourself. Put it on your ipod or MP3 player. Have it in your car. Make yourself a mix CD with songs that compliment your Aspirations and Mantras and mix in between statements about you and how you would like to be. You talking to You about how good You is (nice grammar I know).
Since I am sure that you are acing for an example so I will give you mine. Here is my Personal Aspiration read by me for me and it only matters to me.
“Professor Prosperity is a positive, successful, prosperous, leader. You have a wonderful attitude about life and living and it shows through your work. You give back, you teach, and you do your best to help people make a difference. Professor Prosperity will make a comfortable living doing what he loves. Professor Prosperity will have $100,000 in passive income through coaching, consulting, and online classes. You will lean more everyday and give more everyday. You will be better and better every day in every way.”
Professor on July 21st, 2008
We have set ourselves up for success this month. We have our goals set, we have our Personal Mantras and Personal Aspirations. Now what to do we do with all this stuff? What leads us to success?
We have learned that a Personal Aspiration needs to be yours, it needs to be something that is for you, by you, and read aloud often for you. We have learned that it could be a commercial, a mission statement, a set of goals, a list of things that you like about yourself, that you want to change, and objectives of where you want your life to go. I like to keep mine on another 3×5 card and keep that in my pocket along with my goals for the day. It helps me to stay better focused.
There is no better motivator than yourself. So write a note to yourself and give yourself a boost daily, multiple times a day, even hourly if you wish.
