Your Daily Quote - Formula for Success

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” 
― Herbert Bayard Swope

Raise Your Standards, Take Action

Whatever areas of your life you want to improve, if you want anything to change, you have to raise your standards right now!

So take a moment, make a decision and prepare your lists on:

1.       Things you will no longer tolerate in your life

2.       What you expect of yourself and what you will do instead (instead of No.1).

Make a list of ten items, and start acting on them. In two weeks increase to 20, and start implementing the changes.

Because the small steps you take today, the humble, or more brave, degrees you start raising your standards by, will multiply the results month by month, year by year. Think of the amazing outcomes you will have achieved in 10 years! All starting with a small list of ten items – ten things you will no longer tolerate, and TEN that you aspire to.

Elena Long

Your Coach to Success

Your Daily Quote - Your Choice

Quite often we choose not to change, to stay in our “comfort zone”, because we are afraid – of the unknown, of the pain. The truth is, pain is part of life. Suffering, on the other hand, is optional.

It’s your choice.

Do you choose to lift your game?

Contact me today for a free discovery coaching session!

Elena Long

Your coach to success

Your Daily Quote - Success

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Estee Lauder

30 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR KID INSTEAD OF “HOW WAS YOUR DAY?”

by Sara Goldstein

When I picked my son up from his first day of 4th grade, my usual (enthusiastically delivered) question of “how was your day?” was met with his usual (indifferently delivered) “fine.”

Come on! It’s the first day, for crying out loud! Give me something to work with, would you, kid?

The second day, my same question was answered, “well, no one was a jerk.”

That’s good…I guess.

I suppose the problem is my own. That question actually sucks. Far from a conversation starter, it’s uninspired, overwhelmingly open ended, and frankly, completely boring. So as an alternative, I’ve compiled a list of questions that my kid will answer with more than a single word or grunt. In fact, he debated his response to question 8 for at least half an hour over the weekend. The jury’s out until he can organize a foot race.

Questions a kid will answer at the end of a long school day:

1. What did you eat for lunch?
2. Did you catch anyone picking their nose?
3. What games did you play at recess?
4. What was the funniest thing that happened today?
5. Did anyone do anything super nice for you?
6. What was the nicest thing you did for someone else?
7. Who made you smile today?
8. Which one of your teachers would survive a zombie apocalypse? Why?
9. What new fact did you learn today?
10. Who brought the best food in their lunch today? What was it?
11. What challenged you today?
12. If school were a ride at the fair, which ride would it be? Why?
13. What would you rate your day on a scale of 1 to 10? Why?
14. If one of your classmates could be the teacher for the day who would you want it to be? Why?
15. If you had the chance to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you teach the class?
16. Did anyone push your buttons today?
17. Who do you want to make friends with but haven’t yet? Why not?
18. What is your teacher’s most important rule?
19. What is the most popular thing to do at recess?
20. Does your teacher remind you of anyone else you know? How?
21. Tell me something you learned about a friend today.
22. If aliens came to school and beamed up 3 kids, who do you wish they would take? Why?
23. What is one thing you did today that was helpful?
24. When did you feel most proud of yourself today?
25. What rule was the hardest to follow today?
26. What is one thing you hope to learn before the school year is over?
27. Which person in your class is your exact opposite?
28. Which area of your school is the most fun?
29. Which playground skill do you plan to master this year?
30. Does anyone in your class have a hard time following the rules?

Source: 

http://parent.co/30-questions-to-ask-your-kid-instead-of-how-was-your-day/

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra

No. 7 The Law of “Dharma”, or Purpose in Life

Everyone has a purpose in life. A unique gift, a special talent to give to others. And when we blend them with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Apply this law in your life by committing to the following steps:

-       Today I will lovingly nurture the god/goddess embryo that lies deep within my soul. I will awaken myself to the deep stillness in my heart

-       I will make a list of my unique talents. Then I will list the things that I love to do while expressing my unique talents. When I use my talents in the service of humanity, I create abundance – in my life, and the lives of others

-       I will ask myself daily: “How can I serve?”, “How can I help?” The answers will allow me to help and serve others with love.

Your Daily Quote - Your Choice

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra

No.6 The Law of Detachment

In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty. In it lies the freedom from the past, from the known, which is the prison of conditioning.

When we step into the unknown, into the field of all possibilities, we surrender to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Apply this law in your life by committing to these actions:

-       I will allow myself and those around me to be as they are. I will not rigidly impose my idea on how things should be.

-       Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience; solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem.

-       I will step into the field of infinite possibilities, in excitement and anticipation while I’m open to an infinity of choices.

Your Daily Quote - Determination

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

Bethany Hamilton

Your Daily Quote - Leader

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader." 
Dolly Parton

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Law of Least Effort

No.4 The Law of Least Effort

Nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease, harmony and love. When you harness those forces – of joy, harmony and love, we create success and good fortune easily and effortlessly.

How to apply it?

-       I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, events, circumstances as they occur.

-       Having accepted things as they are, I will take responsibility for my situation, and for the events I see as problems. This means not blaming anyone or anything, including myself.

-       Today I will let go of the need to defend my point of view, and not be attached to it.

Accept your day. Enjoy every minute...

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Law of Karma

No.3 The Law of Karma, or Cause and Effect

Every action generates a force of energy that return to us similar action. Sow the seeds of happiness, and happiness you shall receive. Karma implies the action of conscious choice-making.

How can you apply this law in your life? Make a commitment to:

-       Witness the choices you make in each moment. “The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.”

-       When making a choice, ask yourself: “What is the consequence?”, and “Will this choice bring fulfillment and happiness to me and to those affected?”

-       I will ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort. This guidance will help me make spontaneously correct choices.

Elena Long

Your Coach to Success

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra: Law of Giving

No. 2 The Law of Giving.

The universe operates through a dynamic exchange, through giving and receiving. This is how the energy frlow in the universe. When we give what we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating within us.

How can you apply this law in your life?

- Whoever I encounter, I will give them a gift - a flower, a prayer, a compliment

- Today I will gratefully receive the gifts that life has to offer me - the sound of birds singing, a smile

- I will keep wealth circulating in my life by giving and receiving life's most precious gifts: caring, affection, appreciation and love.

Elena Long

Your Coach to Success

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Law of Pure Potentiality

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra are:

No. 1 The Law of Pure Potentiality. Our essential nature is of pure consciousness, infinite potentiality, therefore - pure joy.
How can you apply this law in your life?
- take time each day to be silent, to just BE
- commune with nature and silently witness the intelligence in every living thing
- practice non-judgement.

Elena Long

Your Coach to Success

Your Daily Quote - Anticipation

Anticipation is one of the ultimate powers. Losers react, leaders anticipate. 

Tony Robbins 

Your Daily Quote - Start from Now

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”– Carl Bard