Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #30 "Foundation” – Male & Female versions)

(If this is your first time on this site, you may want to begin with "Are You Prepared For Success?" [Introduction]) (Please keep in mind that, although this poem can stand alone, it is meant to be part of a progression of poems that are part of an entire process.)

Foundation

Your foundation is near completion now.
Your attitude's in place.
Your confidence is growing strong,
As you increase your power-base.

Your past is just a memory;
A name without a face.
Never again will you ever run
In a rigged and futile race.

As you leave an era of your life,
You do so without disgrace.
Your future is awaiting you.
Your obstacles you will erase.

As you move towards your destiny,
With opportunities as vast as space,
You'll soar and swoop and live your dreams;
Your life, you'll now embrace.

(An Original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

• What is your destiny? (Keep it positive!)
• What was your destiny?

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If you are a male reader, please go to Section II, #31m

If you are a female reader, please go to Section II, #31f

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Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #28 "Crossroads” – Male & Female versions)

(If this is your first time on this site, you may want to begin with "Are You Prepared For Success?" [Introduction])

Crossroads

Two crossroads lay ahead and you must choose
Which one of these roads to take.
These roads, they weave and turn and whose
To say which one is best, for they bare few clues;
As you hope upon hope not to make a mistake.

You can only imagine where these roads lead;
As they both end far beyond your view.
Each road would fulfill a different need:
Of comfort and risk; both opposites, indeed.
The comfortable one seems old and the riskier one seems new.

Each road beckons you differently, it seems.
The comfortable one is closer with a familiar view;
The riskier, more distant, like the road in your dreams;
The road of passions and hopes and schemes.
The closer one looks traveled by many, the more distant by few.

Down the familiar you would follow, down the other you would lead.
With you're confidence high, you're prepared to win,
And believing that you will always succeed,
And trusting yourself, are all that you need.
So, you choose the road where few have been.

You shall gladly tell generations, of a future day,
With a grateful sigh and a knowing nod, this story;
Of when two roads beckoned you in a different way,
And you took the one of dreams and schemes, only to say
That you soared and swooped and found your glory.

(An Original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

• What are your crossroads (be specific)?
• Which road would you like to travel, and why?

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Male Reader - Please go to #29m
Female Reader - Please go to #29f

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How To Create Your 'Magical' Vision Board - And Make Your Dreams Come True!

Here is another very simple but useful concept in attaining your dreams. I use a form of this concept myself.
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How To Create Your 'Magical' Vision Board - And Make Your Dreams Come True!

By: Tiat Leong Ang

We all have dreams. Rosy dreams, big dreams, happy dreams. Far too often, that's all they remain, as we stumble through life struggling with our every day realities, as time flies by. And suddenly, it's too late - and you're looking back at your past, wondering what might have been.

Don't let that happen to you. Create your own magical vision board - and help create the reality you've always dreamed of... starting today.

But... What Is a 'Vision Board'?

Even though the name seems forbidding to the uninitiated, it is really a simple thing.

Your vision board is a collection of your dreams - in the form of pictures, photographs, magazine clippings, bank statements and more - all of which are pictorial representations of your ambitious dreams and long-term goals. Arrange this rich collection on a board to create a collage, a 'Vision' of what you want to attract into your life.

But what is your vision board really for? What is its purpose?

It's deep, simple and powerfully effective. Do you remember how, as children, you collected posters of your favorite stars and heroes, pictures of beautiful homes, animals and baseball cards, many other things that you found fascinating, loved or wished to have. You probably put them up on walls, wardrobes and lockers where you could see them every day.

As children we intuitively knew more about a vision board than we do as adults. These symbols helped us visualize what we wanted to attract into our lives. But we were blissfully unaware of their power. If somebody had told us that we were using the "Vision board" to entrain the "Law of Attraction", we would have laughed.

Yet, you surrounded yourself with these images. And it's startling just how often you see people ending up having many of these things in their reality years later. The imagery conditioned your sub-consciously to work towards attracting them into your life.

Your vision board acts a visual representation of what you want in your life or what you want to become in the future. The concept is so simple yet so powerful.

But many of us forget. Until we are reminded of it. Sometimes it happens by accident. Or maybe its a story someone tells us about the 'Law of Attraction. Or maybe it's a book like "The Secret" that helps us realize what we have forgotten about the vision board.

Everyone needs to see a video of "The Secret". It is an awesome representation of the power of the Vision Board in action. It will help you move from just dreaming to taking action. It's that powerful.

So, are you ready to get started on creating your own Vision Board today?

It can be lot of fun.

Find a board. Anything will do - white board, cardboard, or cork. If you big dreams, get big boards!

Pick up a bunch of magazines, newspapers, old books, old photographs. Hunt out the clippings that you have collected from your childhood, those pictures that you have put away in your shoe box.

Before starting out on your vision board, write in great detail about your dreams or goals, the ones you want to achieve in your life. Every detail is important, so don't miss out anything. For example if you want to buy your dream home - write down all about it, like the location you'd prefer most, the number of rooms, bedrooms, bath, jacuzzi, bathtubs, marble floors, driveways, swimming pool - every little detail about the home of your dreams. Imagine the colors on the walls, the type of doors and windows, the curtains, the kitchen, everything.

Visualize every detail about living in your home. Experience it all, the smell, the textures, the feel. Yes, you need to dream in the greatest detail to get the greatest impact from your vision board.

Find the pictures that closely match your dreams or goals from your magazine stack. Cut them out. Snip away the unwanted details. Just retain the portion you are interested in.

Find pictures that emotionally charge you up. Your pictures should stimulate you visually, mentally, maybe even spiritually.

Organize your pictures so they form meaningful images and represent your goals or dreams. Don't put too many, or you'll clutter it up. You can have as many vision boards as you like. You could begin with a main vision board with the major details in it. Have a note book where you can paste all the minor details.

Next, get some glue or board pins. Fix your pictures on the board

Place your vision board where you can frequently look at it and recharge yourself mentally, emotionally and psychologically.

It's important for you look at your vision board many times daily, so that you fix the images in your brain and attract them in your life.


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Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #12 "Risk” - Male and Female versions)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success?" [Introduction])

Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing un-cool.
You risk getting involved when, to another you reach out.
When expressing your feelings you risk self-doubt.

You risk their loss, when your ideas, you state.
And, when expressing your dreams, you risk the same fate.
To hope is to risk total despair.
To try is to risk that there's failure out there.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.
But, without risk you can' t change, you can't live, you can't learn.
Not to risk you may avoid any suffering, but know
To risk is to live and to feel and to grow.

The greatest hazard in life, and the biggest risk, too
Is to risk nothing then nothing is you.
Without risk you can't love you can't live, you can't be.
Only a person who risks can truly be free.

(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

• What would you really like to do, but haven't because of the risks?
• What would you have really risked?

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The following article portrays a very nice visual analogy and an interesting way of looking at attaining your dreams.

Climb Out of That Bucket and Live the Life of Your Dreams

By: Joe Farcht

From birth to adulthood we learn to become good citizens and well-adjusted adults in the world of work and life. Many people make this transformation relatively successfully and lead somewhat normal, happy lives.

Some people make it to adulthood grumbling and blaming the world for all the "bad things" it brings their way including the job they hate. Others can't make the adjustment at all and wind up in prison or dead.

What I'll call the "normal" group - the one that achieves a somewhat happy existence - learns to live by a set of rules, norms, and expectations that often limit their growth, potential, and true greatness.

A few members of this "normal" group discover something special about themselves, make a choice to excel, and take action to create the life of their dreams. They do it without the support of the normal group.

You see, the normal group wants its members to be just normal. By the way, work groups and some families act in the same way. They discourage their members from getting ahead (of the other normal group members).

The Normal Group is Crabby

If you've ever been crabbing, you've seen the "normal" group in action!

You catch crabs by attaching some meat (often a chicken neck) to a long piece of cord and lowering it to the bottom of the bay. Crabs attach themselves to the meat and begin eating. You raise the meat and catch the crabs in a net. Then you throw the crabs into a bucket to keep them from running around the boat and pinching people.

Watch the crabs and you will see that as soon as one crab tries to escape the bucket by climbing out, the other crabs will pull it back down into the bucket. There's no escape from the bucket.

Life is often like that. A person wants to get ahead and knows that there is more to work and life than what they are presently experiencing.

Get Out of the Bucket!

It takes personal leadership to become aware that escaping the normal is possible. It takes personal leadership to choose and commit to creating a better life. It takes personal leadership to take the actions necessary to propel yourself and create the new future you imagine and want.

You can do it. . . All things are possible. Many others in our great land have done it.

Don't let the other crabs in your life prevent you from developing your unique potential and discovering your greatness.

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Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #9 "Desire” - Male and Female versions)

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Desire

You're never too young and your never too old;

You're never too meek and your never too bold.

Set your sights, fix your mind on what you want to be.

If your desire is strong enough, then you will see

What you need and what it takes to make your dreams come true.

The seeds of greatness are there within you.

The power of faith and desire is strong.

With your belief in that power you just can't go wrong.

Nothing will happen if you sit home and hide.

Your future is waiting for you to decide

What direction you'll take and how determined you are;

To see what can be and know you'll go far.

Can you feel it? Can you see it? It's out there for you.

Know that nothing can stop you from seeing it too.

How bad do you want it, how strong is your will?

You're greatest wish is waiting for you to fulfill.

Say it loud, say it often, say it each and every day

"Your desire is power and you will find the way."

(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

• Make a list of what you most desire (within the bounds of physics, decency, morality and the law.)

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Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #7 "It Brings Down The Great" - Male and Female versions)

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Ominous and powerful, it brings down the great.

No ones immune, it doesn't discriminate.

It can't be held and it can't be seen.

But it leaves devastation wherever it's been.

Oh, the accolades you could have had

For all those accomplishments you wanted so bad.

But you let it in and you gave it life,

And it cut you down as if using a knife.

You knew what you wanted. You knew what to do.

Nothing could stop you, nothing, thought you.

Then you planted the seed and it grew so tall.

Nothing could stop it, nothing at all.

It grew stronger and stronger each and every day.

It destroyed everything that got in its way.

You cursed the day you gave it a name.

You tried to fight back, but in it came.

It consumed all it touched, even your dreams.

It left nothing behind, not even your screams.

And now that you know, you just want to shout,

"Don't ever give in to those first strands of doubt."

(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

• What doubts do you have about yourself or your abilities?
• What could you have accomplished if you had no doubts?

By Mel Kaye
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Go to Section II (Installment #8)

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