Envision if you will, spending the day with a beautiful woman (or handsome man) having a wonderful dinner, going to one of the happening nightclubs in the city and dancing the night away. Drinking a little and laughing a lot. Then returning home after a night’s worth of partying, opening the front door to you home only to find it ransacked, even worse, realizing upon closer inspection that your home was not ransacked by thieves, but rather by the local police.
This is where my rollercoaster of a life had taken me. The choices I made; choices in friends, choices in lifestyle and even the choices in the person I had choose as a mate were coming to an ugly head. I was about to lose everything. And I do mean everything, even my first child. Have you ever been faced with that moment in your life when you were about to lose something or someone that meant the world to you? If you have ever been faced with loosing anything or everything you have built, loved or cherished then you will know what I mean when I say – it was time to make new choices and time to set some new goals and most importantly time to make a change.
At that very moment I set a mental goal, to change my life, clean up my act as well as my body. I was determined to not to fall any farther into the bottomless pit that the current roller coaster ride I was on, was diving me into. I was time to make new choices, to begin searching for a better way and to make changes. Battered but not broken, I set a goal to pull myself out of that pit, and sail to new heights. Thanks to the help of my parents (RIP Daddy & love you Mom!) as well as some very close friends (Thank you Robbie!) I begin a new life, one that has set me upon a path of new choices, discovery, goal setting and self-improvement.
Over the course of the next couple years, I scratched and clawed my way back to reality. I worked temporary jobs and in a warehouse at a major department store to pay the bills and re-build my self-esteem. Then I set another mental goal to land a job that would pay enough to enable me to move back out on my own and raise my beautiful daughter in a healthy, happy and stable home – free of unwanted rollercoasters.
Tough choices had to be made for such a change. Did I want to keep the seemingly fun and thrills of the easier dark side? Or did I want to become truly successful, happy and fulfilled buy getting all those things that money CAN NOT buy? I had to make changes. Changes like breaking away from the places, habits and even the people that had aided in, and in some ways even urged on, my downfall.
Once again, goals were set, choices were made and changes put in place and I succeeded. I began working for a Fortune 5 company and climbed the ranks in that organization. In addition I found someone special to share my life with. Within about six years I was managing a team of people and millions of dollars in marketing materials that serviced all of North America. The only way I was able to accomplish this, is through an on-going process of goal setting, wiser choices/change and consistent self-improvement.
I don’t tell you this story to impress you, I tell you in the hopes that you will see that you are not alone in having gone through tough times (or going through them), that I have been there and done that and made it back from the dark side (so can you). My dark side was worse than I would wish upon anyone and I still made it. So can you. That is part of the journey we will be going through here. Sharing with you the tips, techniques and tools I used to make it from the streets (or should I say gutters) of Southern California, to a beautiful office in a Fortune5 company and beyond.
Are you ready to set the goals, make the choices and changes that will take your life to the next level? What about the level after that? What about to a level that you haven’t even dreamed is possible? I am betting you are ready and that is why you are still reading now.
In my next post we will discuss what can motivate you whether you are 9 or 90. Until then….
Think Successfully & Take Action
Tracy Brinkmann
One of Today’s TOP Motivated Coaches & Author of Success Atlas Programs
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