Motivation | Success Made Simple

Archive for the ‘motivation’ Category

What to do when you’re feeling blue

Monday, September 15th, 2008

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

By Success Expert Sharmen Lane, Motivational Speaker and Self Help Author.

We all have bad days. So I have written a little poem to pick you up when you are feeling blue. I hope it puts a little spring in your step like it does for me.

Reach for the stars.

Divine, complete, perfect that’s what you are.

You can have what you want, sky is the limit.

Whatever it is, go out and get it.

Strive for the best, you deserve it al.l

Make the choice, rise up high, and stand tall.

You’ve got the world in the palm of your hand.

Make a difference, aim high, take a stand.

Be strong, look in the mirror and love what you see.

When you dream, dream big, be all you can be.

Put the past behind you, forget all the strife.

Now is the time, take control of your life.

Have no fear, be courageous, you can do it, have no doubt..

Today is the day, set your goals, make them count.

What is it that you want to achieve?

Trust me, its all in what you believe.

One thing to remember if you do you’ll go far.

All you must do is reach for the stars.

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: depressed, motivation, personal growth, reach for the stars, self help, self improvement, Sharmen Lane, success
Posted in motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

It’s Not Personal

Monday, September 15th, 2008

by Success Expert Sharmen Lane~ Motivational Speaker and Author

Today we are discussing a whole new way of looking at people, places and things and how to not take them personally. A great resource for this topic is the book titled "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz. As all things good, bad or indifferent have nothing to do with you. In the big scheme of things it’s rarely about us. The good we like to think are personal and that’s ok, but the bad things that don’t feel so good well wouldn’t it be nice if we could just dispose of them as if they never happened? Well, we can’t make them not happen, but we can help you change your perception so they don’t feel as bad!

It's Not Personal [54:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: Don Miguel Ruiz, inspiration, motivation, personal growth, self esteem, self help, Sharmen Lane, success, Success Made Simple, taking things personally, The Four Agreements
Posted in Relationships, motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

Manifest Your Best

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

By Success Expert Sharmen Lane

The topic of todays show is Always do your best, but understand that your best today will be different than your best was yesterday or will be tomorrow. But always do your best. People who are successful always give everything their best effort. There’s no half way. People like Michael Jordan lived by that philosophy. He was known for saying things like "I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."

If you do something with half effort you had better expect half results. You will only get out what you put in. The way to create or manifest what you want it is to give it your best every time.

A great resource to find out more is in the book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz

Manifest Your Best [54:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: Don Miguel Ruiz, manifestation, Michael Jordan, motivation, personal growth, self help, Sharmen Lane, success, Success Made Simple, The 4 agreements
Posted in Business, Money, motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

What You Believe, Is What You’ll Receive

Friday, September 5th, 2008

By Success Expert Sharmen Lane

You have to know what you want in order to get what you want. Do you want to be thinner, have more money, get your degree? Whatever you are aiming for, you can have and you are far more likely to obtain it, or be it or have it, if you can see it! Cut out pictures of what you want. Jim Carey did this with a check. He wrote himself a $20 Million check and just a few months later he was offered the role in “The Cable Guy” for $20 Million which is said to be a big part of the law of attraction. He believed it and he received it. Believing it is easy when you already have a picture of it as if it already exists.

What You Believe is What You'll Receive [55:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: achieving, believe, inspiration, Jim Carey, law of attraction, Michael Baker, Money, motivation, personal growth, self help, self improvement, Sharmen Lane, success
Posted in Business, Money, motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

4 Steps To Go From Now to WOW!

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

by Success Expert Sharmen Lane

Does getting what you want have to be difficult? Maybe. Maybe not. What if there is a way, a process, to help you get what you want?

I call this the power process. It takes you from where you are to where you want to be in four simple steps.

Step One. Define your current reality. Where are you right now? All emotion, logistics, facts and feelings, write them down. Be specific. For example, “I hate my life, everything about it, I hate. I’m broke, I’m tired, I’m cranky, I’m alone and I feel lost, I feel old, I feel ugly. I don’t know what to do I just know that this is not what I want." Write down all the details of your life that you are currently unhappy with.

Step Two. Identify what you do want. Keeping emotion out of it just write down all the things you want to be, do or have. If you could write the book describing your perfect life what would it look like? What things would you have? Where would you go? What would you do? This is your blank slate and you can draw the picture of the life you want.

Step Three. In a one line clear, concise statement describe your life as in step two. Keep it short, clear and to the point. Something like “I am a happy, relaxed and comfortable person earning an income of at least $10K per month, and good things simply flow to me with ease”

Step Four. Say or write “I emotionally accept and willingly allow the reality that (insert your one line description here, as in step 3).

This four step process will identify what you are unhappy with, clarify what you want in its place, make the statement to the universe and allow you to do determine if you are truly willing and ready to accept it.

I have used this process thousands of times in my life and have seen it work miracles in others lives as well. Don’t delay, start today to go from where you are now to WoW!

For more information visit www.sharspeaks.com

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: now, personal growth, self development, self help, self improvement, Sharmen Lane, success, Success Made Simple, wow
Posted in Business, motivation, self improvement | 1 Comment »

Farewell To Fear

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

There are only two fears that exist. Real fears and fake fears. Most of us have fears about things that aren’t even real. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of success, etc. These are not real fears. They are imaginary things we make up in our heads about what would happen if. In this episode you are given the tools to say farewell to fear!

Farewell to Fear [55:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: fear, fearless, inspiration, motivation, personal growth, self help, self improvement, Sharmen Lane, success, Success Made Simple
Posted in Business, motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

Lessin Your Stressin

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

By Success Expert, Sharmen Lane

Stay in the moment. Stress is created by reflection or projection. This moment is the only one that matters. Success is Simple. Use your time wisely by maximizing and utilizing every possible moment to work towards your goal. Now is how to get what you want and live stress free.

Lessin Your Stressin [55:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: inspiration, motivation, personal growth, self development, self help, Sharmen Lane, Stress, stress free, stressless, success, Success Made Simple
Posted in Business, motivation, self improvement, time management | No Comments »

Passion Equals Action

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

by Success Expert Sharmen Lane

Find what you love and the money will follow. When you do what you love every day you will wake up and start the day with passion and enthusiasm. Everyone has something they love and are passionate about. Also when you follow that passion everything will fall right into place. No more forcing the square peg into the round hole. When you find your passion you will take action and will be amazed at how simple it is to have what you want.

Passion Equals Action [55:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: find your passion, inspiration, motivation, passion, self help, self improvement, Sharmen Lane, Success Made Simple
Posted in Business, motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

Know’in Where You’re Go’in

Monday, August 18th, 2008

The most important thing about a goal, is having one. Quotes from famous people, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Robbins, Donald Trump, Michael Jordan, etc. Explain the importance of having a goal using the information in the first chapter of my book The 7 Secrets to Create Your Fate. Successful people don’t just end of successful they first set a goal and then do the work to obtain or achieve it.

Knowin Where your Goin [54:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: Goal setting, inspiration, Kalani Vale, motivation, self improvement, Sharmen Lane, success, Success Made Simple, Tony Robbins
Posted in Business, motivation, self improvement | No Comments »

The 7 Secrets to Success

Monday, August 18th, 2008

by Success Expert, Author and Motivational Speaker Sharmen Lane

I like to keep life simple. There are enough things in life that I can’t control or influence, that are complicated enough so I say keep it simple where you can. That is why I wrote the book titled The 7 Secrets to Create Your Fate. What you are about to read is the cliff notes, if you want the full version you can get the book at your favorite bookstore or online at Borders, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon.com. You can also get it on my website or you can download the audiobook or ebook on my website www.sharspeaks.com.

Step One: Knowin’ Where You’re Goin’ The first step to success is to know what you want. This means if you don’t know where you want to go, you will likely end up somewhere else. Think about the optimal desired end result. When you know where you want to go write it down. And that is all there is to step one.

Step Two: MAP’in. MAP stands for make-a-plan. Just knowing where you want to go won’t get you there. Antoine de Saint-Exupery who was a Writer, Pilot and World War II hero said a goal without a plan is just a wish. Just like driving or going on a trip somewhere. If you don’t have a MAP or a set of directions to get you from here to there, you are likely to have a very long and bumpy ride. If you fly by the seat of your pants, you better expect turbulence. Put together some basic step by step instructions to get you from here to there. That doesn’t mean be rigid and not be willing to change them around here and there, but any successful person will tell you that success is achieved in planning.

Step Three: Passion Equals Action. If you are passionate about what you want then you will take action to get it. If you find yourself not “doing” anything to reach your goal then you likely don’t have a strong desire to obtain it. Perhaps you are doing it to meet the expectations of someone else or you are living someone else’s dream. You don’t have to have passion for what you want but it certainly helps to keep your momentum going and get you through those tough or trying times. Give some thought to the things you are passionate about. Think about the perfect job for you and how could spend your day doing something you love and be excited to get up in the morning and go to work. It’s amazing how work doesn’t so much feel like work when you are doing what you love and have passion for.

Step Four: Lessin’ Your Stressin’. Most people get stressed out when they are giving their time and attention to one of two things, the past or the future. If you take a deep breathe, slow down and get present, you will lessin’ your stressin’. When you get in the moment you are better able to resolve issues because you are dealing with reality. Now is reality, tomorrow is fiction. It’s fiction because it doesn’t exist yet so don’t project into tomorrow. Whatever you are thinking about is not real its just your imagination about what might come next. That makes it fiction not reality. Right now, write down what needs to be done, that’s called a things to do list. Then do the things on the list most important first and least important last. Simply staying in the moment and writing a things to do list will lessin’ your stressin’.

Step Five: Say Farewell to Fear. There are two types of fears in this world. Real fears and fake fears. Real fears are things that could literally cause you physical harm or death. Fake fears are things that only exist in our head. For example, fear of rejection is a fake fear. Rejection is a matter of perception. Fear of Failure is another fake fear. There is no such thing as failure. You likely learned something from the experience, so it was an opportunity to learn, not a failure. One way to know if you are being held back due to a fake fear is ask yourself these two questions. Could “x” cause me physical harm? Could “x” cause me to die? Chances are the answer to both those questions is no and if that is the case you are looking at fake fears. You really have nothing to lose so, take a deep breath and just do it!

Step Six: What You Believe Is What You’ll Receive. If you say you can or you say you cant you’re right! Think about the things you say or the thoughts you have. Are they empowering or destructive? If you believe you can do something then it is far more likely that you will achieve it. However, the same goes for those negative can’t do thoughts as well. To help you believe you CAN have what you want create what I call a visual map. Cut out picture of a house and put a picture of you in the window. I have a check for $1 million from a publisher. I took a real $100 check I’d received and added some zeros by matching the font on my computer and printing it out and pasting it. Then I made a copy and hung it over my bed so it’s the first and last thing I see every day. Now that you can see, you will believe it!

Step Seven: Manifest Your Best. Do your best every single day. Always give 100% of what you are capable of. Something to help you is what I call the 3 C’s to Succcess. They are Commit, Communicate and Create. Get committed to what you want. Think of it as a legal binding agreement. Once you take that approach you will know if you are really in, or not. If not, that’s okay but at least you can move on to something that you really do want. Once you decide that you are 100% committed then you communicate. Tell everyone you know what you are doing. Write it down, read it out loud, tell other people, email them, fax them, etc. The more people you tell about what you are working towards the more accountable you will be. If you keep it quiet and to yourself, you are setting yourself up for failure. Why would you not tell anyone? So that when you don’t reach it, you don’t feel like an oaf. You will work much harder to reach your goal if everyone you know, knows about it.

And those are The 7 Secrets to Create Your Fate. They are fast, simple steps to help you reach your goal and be, do and have everything you ever wanted!

For more information please visit www.sharspeaks.com or email her at shar@sharspeaks.com

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: inspiration, motivation, personal growth, self help, Sharmen Lane, success, Success Made Simple
Posted in Business, motivation, self improvement, time management | No Comments »