With the Victorian Bushfire tragedy in Australia this past week, like many Australians I have been focused on how I can assist in any way to support my fellow Aussie mates who have suffered in a way that I cannot even begin to imagine or comprehend.

So if you are feeling a bit drained, emotionally or physically, from this week’s events and have lost your laser focus on achieving your goals… you are OK….this is normal behaviour.

Let’s help support you to get you back on track and ‘in the zone’ right now….back into action focused on the scheduled plans you have set in place to achieve your goals.

Focus - Some of the most difficult kind of setbacks to achieving your goals is accepting the ones where you miss your goal by the tiniest of measures… losing on the final shot, losing the promotion because of a single botched assignment, failing a test by one point. There are a million other examples. And they are all painful.

The one common thread in all “close but no cigar” failures is that with just a little more focus, just one hour more of practice, the tiniest bit of attention to just one detail and a crushing defeat would have been a glorious, possibly life changing victory.

For that reason the Think Like A Champion Club blog is now available to everyone who visits the Think Like A Champion Club. ….

And another reason why I created the Thinking Like A Champion Club that is filled with attitude altering new beliefs, from the world’s most successful people that will help you gain laser-like focus on the details related to your most important objectives in life. When the pressure is on, you want to instinctively perform at your best no matter what distractions may be present.

So sit back and listen to the day I turned a potential negative experience into a positive, saw a risk as an opportunity, overcame the major obstacles, and embraced one of my greatest fears whilst I created new friends “the jellyfish”!

……creating history along the way too; winning gold and achieving the inaugural FINA Women’s World Champion 25km long distance event in my hometown of Perth, Western Australia.

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and remember:…. if you don’t quit, you will make it!

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Go For Gold in 2009!
Shelley Taylor-Smith

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The Secret created a great deal of publicity for the DVD “The Secret” and more generally “The Law of Attraction” is all over the internet at the moment.

It seems people are waking up to the fact that, what you focus on, you tend to create in your life. Speaking to you as someone who understands the power of taking control of your life, I’d reinforce this message wholeheartedly.

You really have the power to create almost anything you truly want in your life and are creating your experience of life with your thoughts every moment of every day.

However, my experiences speaking to people since the hype over the last couple of years have led me to believe that many people are missing a crucial detail.

The pace of life is speeding up and we live in a world where people increasingly want to make things easier and quicker and that includes me. My coaching philosophy is about helping people make the changes in their life they’ve been procrastinating on for years, and I believe the easier we can make those changes the better.

However, in listening to “The Secret” etc. many people seem to have decided that all you have to do is “ask” and the universe will provide for you, “Your wish is my command” as they say in the film.

The truth is there really is more to it than that, you have a big part to play too, and by part to play I mean action to take. Many people seem to have missed this part in the film.

Taking charge of your thoughts and visualising what you want will transform what appears in your life and then you have to take action when the opportunities arise.

The first steps of the process help you clarify what you want, get you on the path to believing you can have it and then sensitises your unconscious filters to the opportunities that are all around you all of the time. Then it’s your turn, when an opportunity arises, you have to take action.

If you want to use the metaphor of the “universe providing” then you could see taking action as your part of the bargain. Taking action and being willing to learn from the feedback is a crucial element of personal empowerment.

Too many people these days are waiting for the time to be perfect, or for other people to act so they can act. By developing the habit of being proactive, taking action and learning from the result, people can break out of their old fears and realise much more of their Champion potential.

So maybe the next time you find yourself thinking, I’ll do that when…, or I wish they’d do … then I could… etc. Maybe you could just ask: “What can I do right now to move this forward?”

It could be as simple as making the phone call! But do it!
Whatever it is do it and begin to break those old reactive patterns today!

Accepting that in taking action you will get a result, and you can learn and develop from that result, be it the result you wanted or not.

As you begin to take more action, I’ll think you’ll find as many people throughout history have found before you, that life tends to reward action.

It’s no secret that action combined with reflection and learning from the result leads to every success in life, from a baby learning to walk, to the first steps on the moon. All success is built on this simple principle.

Think about these examples that will help you attract what you want …remembering we attract what we are in order to create what we want:

What’s really important to me today?
and what am I willing do about it?

Or maybe a better question is, What action will you take today?
Whatever it is, if you were to do it today, what could you learn?

And remember to have some fun today too.

Go for Gold!
Cheers Shelley