Tude Tips Blog

"The Time is NOW! The Place is HERE! Just Do It!" – Unknown

I am sure you have come across so many articles addressing why people procrastinate and offering tips on how to STOP procrastinating.

However, 'Tude-stars ask more compelling questions such as: "How can I stay consistently committed to attaining my big dreams?"

You may be surprised at how the answer to this question is shockingly simple but it works!

• Write at least 5 reasons why your dream is so important to you and read it out loud on a daily basis
• Take consistent steps towards achieving your goal (big or small) and make sure you reward yourself generously after successfully completing important milestones
• Read  success stories and keep reminding yourself: "If they can do it, I can do it!"
• Now I am saving the best for last! Positive 'Tudes are contagious. Surround yourself with ambitious and success-driven 'Tude-stars. They will empower you to stay focused and never lose sight of your worthy goals. 

Introducing Choose The 'Tude's Hot Product Pick!

One of our goals is to spread the 'Tude to as many people as possible, and one way to do that is to offer exceptional deals on 'Tude products.

So we've decided to have random 'Tude Hot Product Pick sales where you can pick up a 'Tude bargain for you or a friend for up to 70% off!  Great idea for Christmas!

You'll need to be in quick as the deals are available for 48 hours or while stocks last.  The prices are sizzling hot so they won't last!

This weeks 'Tude Hot Product Pick is 'Ready Set Go! Ladies Tees'

Be social...

Join us on Facebook page, like our page, participate in the 30-Day 'Tude Challenge or just share some inspiration for a chance to win a great prize from our monthly 'Tude surprise. To your success!

Post a comment, thought, suggestion or question on our Facebook page and you'll go in the monthly draw to win a surprise gift.

"Goals are dreams with Deadlines" - Robyn Simpson

Are you a "Goal Getter"?

Goal getters give their deeply cherished dreams top priority and create a supportive and active environment to ensure they reach them. 

First and foremost, I can't stress enough on the importance of writing down your goals in vivid detail, making sure to give your goal a specific time frame.  I'm sure you've heard of the SMARTER format for writing goals, if not check out yesterday's Facebook post for more info.

Once you commit to accomplishing your goal on paper, take instant action (big or small) towards its realisation. This action may be making a phone call, researching your business idea, asking for assistance, posting it on our page on Facebook...  If you want to take quantum leaps in the right direction, you need to leverage social accountability. 

 I invite you to share your dreams loud and clear on our Facebook page for a chance to win awesome 'Tude prizes. Plus mingling with like-minded 'Tude-stars will empower you to stay on the right track. It's easier to achieve a goal with the support of others than on your own.

"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory" - George S. Patton

What does the word 'challenge' mean to you?  To some people, it means difficult, hard work or maybe even impossible; while others see it is an opportunity to push through their boundaries and expand their abilities!  At Choose the 'Tude we believe that a challenge is an opportunity to learn something new, try something you haven't tried before and look at the situation from different perspectives to solve the puzzle.

When Thomas Edison failed to invent the electric lamp the few first hundred times, he made this 'challenge' a driving force to make it happen.  Challenging the challenge became his motivation.

If you want to cultivate a positive and helpful 'Tude towards challenges, ask yourself one simple question:How will i feel once I've achieved my challenge?

Here are some tips for challenging your challenge:

• If you can feel how it will be and that feeling is positive, this is a powerful motivator to keep trying new things to until you manage to get the goal.  
• Put a little time pressure on yourself to push yourself to be creative and think outside the square and find different ways to meet the challenge.
• Choose a positive 'Tude towards the challenge and look for all the good things about achieving it.
• Look for evidence that other people have achieved something similar... then try some of their tactics - they just may work!

Here's the deal: Challenges are part of life. They are unavoidable! Since you have to deal with them anyway, why not do it with a great 'Tude and make them a positive experience?

We invite you to share something you are challenged by on our Facebook page and we will be happy to help you find a way to 'challenge your challenge' and achieve your desired result!  After all, a community of positive 'Tude-stars helping is better than trying to deal with it yourself.  PLUS all posts go in the draw for our monthly 'Tude surprise. 

To your success!

"I am open and receptive to all good. The Universe loves me and supports me." – Louise Hay 

No matter how many setbacks life throws your way, you can choose to smile at them and turn them into opportunities. 

Ask and you shall receive, embrace obstacles, open yourself up to the possibility of mind-blowing surprises coming your way and they will!

Do you think this is easier said than done? Let me help you out with some proven strategies:

"Success is reaching your goals while enjoying every step of the way." – Susan Jeffers

Are you the "I will be happy when…" person?

Do you feel that you must buy the house of your dreams or make your first million and then you'll be happy?

Don’t put your happiness on hold until you reach a major goal!  Instead, I invite you to allow happiness to be part of the process of achieving you goals.

Dream big, pursue your dreams, and while at it take some to celebrate each small success along the way.  Afterall, a big goal is made up of many mini goals.  Celebrating those small achievements, whether they be daily or weekly (or whenever they happen) will help keep your motivated to do what it takes to reach your big goal.

You owe it to yourself to enjoy every step you take along the ladder of success. I couldn't think of a better company you can take along this exciting journey than a positive ‘Tude and a list of rewards to help you celebrate your progress and make your goal getting fun and rewarding.

You deserve to treat yourself... make a list of 10 ways you can reward yourself for mini goals while achieving your big goal, then get to it!  We'd love to hear your thoughts for mini rewards on our Facebook page.  Each month we're going to reward one of our 'Tude fans with a surprise gift, simply for sharing a thought, a 'Tude, a suggestion or goal on our page.  Join us n spreading the inspiration.

There are many ways to simplify your life such as prioritising what is important to you, decluttering your space or spending time with loved ones, kids or the elderly.  Take a moment to smell the roses and relax, even if it's just 5 minutes.  Treat yourself to a cup of coffee with a book or magazine for a quick 10 minute escape from the chaos.  Better still make a list of 10 things you can do to simplify and enjoy life so next time you want to take a 'Tude break' the ideas are already there for you.  Simple...

You deserve to enjoy your life so make sure you really make the most of it by taking notice and appreciating the small things that make a big difference.

For me it is singing or writing.  I can spend hours doing either of these two things.  I am passionate about both of them and neither feels like work. Taking time out to sing or write changes my state and starts checmical reactions in my body and brian that make me feel good - Endorphins!  Get addicted to endorphins!

Well it is February already and how are you going with your New Year's goals? If you didn't set any at the beginning of the year there is no reason why you can't start setting some new goals today. 

Keeping on track with your goals can be challenging. I have found the following things work well.  Even though some of them you do at the beginning of your goal setting process - its helps to review them periodically. 

1. Get really clear on your goal - it needs to be clear enough for you to be able to explain it to someone else so they understand what you are going to achieve.

2. Work systematically - yes attaining goals requires constant attention and every little bit counts. 

3. Notice what is holding you back - identify limiting beliefs, behaviours and patterns and change them to more empowering ones.

4. Learn new information and skills - identify what else you need to learn to reach your goals, then research where to find that information. 

5. Have a sounding board for your ideas - choose a friend or your partner to bounce your ideas off. They may have a useful perspective you haven't though about. They may also be able to give you feedback to help you unblock areas where you might be stuck.

6. Acknowledge your success - there's no need to wait until you have achieved the big goal - notice what you are achieving daily to help you reach it and stay motivated. 

7. Be accountable and honest about how dedicated you are to your goal and taking the actions daily - if you are not completely inspired by the idea, write down what inspires you about it - list at least 10 big things that really excite you. 

8. Take regular action - small steps regularly are easier then large leaps infrequently. 

100% personal responsibility, 100% of the time Wow! Big call–yes, yet such a simple concept.  The beauty is almost all humans have the ability to take 100% responsibility for themselves 100% of the time.  

Whether you are a pauper on the streets or a wealthy aristocrat, or anyone in between you have the power to choose 100% responsibility for yourself and have some influence on how your life happens.  No person has more of an advantage than another person.

What is 100% responsibility?
What I am referring to here is your ability, in fact your choice, to take responsibility for how you think about things and the attitudes you choose.

Imagine how free you can feel when you take 100% responsibility for all of your choices and decisions.  This is the key to personal freedom.  When you know in your heart you are responsible for yourself on all levels, you can tap into a feeling of internal freedom that no one can take from you.  When you commit to 100% responsibility 100% of the time you will experience a much less stressful life.  From this place, you can manifest what you want in life more easily.  Life becomes more in flow, easy, fluid.

I remember why I started my first business, many years ago.  At the time I was working for a large corporate.  I had worked for several companies and different bosses, and didn’t enjoy the rigid structures I had to work within.  I felt that most of my results were out of my control because of the boundaries I had to work within.  Unfortunately I had the experience of working for a boss who enjoyed taking credit for what others did well and chastising them for anything that didn’t.  I decided that I wanted to take personal responsibility for my results – good or otherwise.  I started a marketing consultancy company and never looked back.  Today I can’t imagine working for someone else.  I love the freedom of being able to take 100% responsibility for my results no matter what they are.

The same applies in our personal lives.  When you decide to take 100% responsibility for who you are, where you want to go and your actions you experience a beautiful sense of personal freedom.  There is no blame, because you have chosen a particular thought, action or decision.  The people who experience life the most are those who take responsibility and learn the lessons as they walk through life, versus the people who choose to blame external influences for the hand they are dealt.  The latter group miss the lessons and miss out on some of the gems in life.

Nobody else can make this choice for you
Thoughts and attitudes are internal processes therefore you are the only person who can choose them.  Alternatively, you can choose to allow others to influence you.  Again, that is your choice.

It is futile to waste time and energy on blaming others for your situation and results.  You are where you are in life because of all of the choices you have made up to this moment.

As discussed in Chapter 3 of the book 'Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude—Choose your 'Tude!' you cannot not make a choice.  Choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.  Choosing to live life at the peril of external forces, blaming your situation on other things or people outside yourself is a choice.

Some people appear to have a charmed life where everything happens as they intend it.  Some call this lucky.  However it is in fact their choice.  They have chosen positive intentions, thoughts and actions, which result in creating what they want.  These people are not attached to a rigid outcome because they know they will create a positive result.  If their result is not 100% exactly as they imagined it to be, it will be close and therefore they can relax and enjoy the outcome.

Whether you are aware of it or not, you ultimately take 100% responsibility for your choices 100% of the time because your results are determined by your choices, subconsciously or consciously.  You are the product of your choices.  As such you have to live with your self as you have created it through the choices you have made.

Affirmations:
I am grateful for the strength, courage and openness to live my desired life
I receive everything I deserve graciously and easily
I take 100% responsibility for my thoughts, beliefs, words and actions
I am open to my full potential on all levels

Can you think of some of your own?

Our minds also need a spring clean from time to time.  Especially after a long winter, a good spring clean of the mind can do wonders to get you motivated to pick up a gear and sprint to the end of the year achieving all those goals you intended to achieve at the beginning of the year.

I'm no expert in decluttering, but here are some quick tips that can help to spring clean your mind:

1.  Meditate:  Take a moment to allow your mind to rest.  Clear the clutter in your mind, and you will be amazed at how the rest of the noise and clutter around you simply disappears.  It's easy when you give yourself permission to do it.  If you'd like some assistance, try meditating to our Guided Meditations.

2.  Spring clean your environment:  Clean up your office and desk, organise the third draw down in the kitchen, rearrange the furniture in the lounge, tidy up the garden.  All of these things require your attention, so while you're concentrating on that you're giving your mind a rest and achieving a satisfying result at the same time.

3.  Hanging around...  Its time to hit that wardrobe and clear out the things lurking in the wardrobe taking up space—if you haven't worn it in 12 months, its time to let it go.  How you look affects how you feel and how you perform, so get a friend or a personal stylist to help you decide what works and what doesn't. 

4.  Recycle pre-loved belongings:  Don't throw things out... recycle them by either selling them on your website, Face Book, Trade Me or EBay, or gifting them to a charitable organisation.  Christmas is just around the corner, so think about packaging up a few pre-loved things and donating them to a worthy cause.

5.  Have a makeover and/or a massage:  After all your cleaning you'll need to rest and relax, rejuvenate your mind ready for the next adventure.

Remember your mind can be as cluttered as your environment.  Spring cleaning your mind can have a cleansing affect on your environment and vice versa.  Let go of the old and make way for the new.  Any inspiring tips you have to help us spring clean mind, body and environment, we'd love to hear them.