Feature Article: Making Way for Success

Note From Jack: A new season for a new beginning

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Dear %$firstname$%,

I hope this finds you in good health and good spirits, as well as continuing to embrace Spring and all that comes along with it! 

With this wonderful season, I'm enjoying so many beautiful new colors and feelings of my environments: blossoming flowers, blooming trees, and that great feeling of new beginnings.

Now that The Success Principles Tour has ended, I’ve shifted my focus to my annual 7-day training, Breakthrough to Success, which is coming up in just a few months. 

I know you’ve heard me say it before, but this training is truly life-changing!  You will undoubtedly leave a changed person.  I love this training so much because we really get to dig deep into this work, getting to the bottom of what's blocking you from attaining your next level of success.  If you are available from August 9-15, 2009, I urge you to get to this training!

We’ll be returning to the beautiful and serene Fairmont Resort in Scottsdale, AZ which is an amazing property.  Lush grounds, sparkling pools (which have been home to many impromptu pool parties in past years), and families of bunnies playing throughout the cacti are just a few of the many things you’ll encounter at this first-class resort.

So, if you've been considering attending Breakthrough to Success , I URGE you to reserve your seat as soon as possible... especially if you want to take advantage of our 4-payment plan (expiring 4/30/09), or the $500 pay in full additional discount! 

The training will bring similar emotions and feelings to you that this great season does - new beginnings, new feelings, new action plans, new friendships, and so much more!

Do you have clutter (both mentally and physically) that's keeping you from moving forward toward your breakthrough goals?

Today’s article is about the cycle of completion, which discusses how you can’t fully be prepared to move forward in your life if you have incompletes in your life. I think you’ll really enjoy it.

Enjoy, and I hope to see you this summer!  

Your Success Mentor,

Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach
Taking you from where you are to where you want to be

P.S. A BIG congratulations to Ann Brock, who won the drawing at our recent Success Principles Workshops to work one-on-one with a Canfield Personal Coach who will provide her with the personal support, objectivity and the constructive feedback she needs to achieve success.

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The Cycle of Completion: Making Way for Success
by Jack Canfield

Do you live in a state of mental and physical clutter? Do you have a bunch of unfinished business lurking around every corner?

Incomplete projects, unfinished business, and piles of cluttered messes can weigh you down and take away from the energy you have to move forward toward your goals.

When you don't complete tasks, you can't be fully prepared to move into the present, let alone your new future.

When your brain is keeping track of all the unfinished business you still have at hand, you simply can't be effective in embracing new tasks that are in line with your vision.

Old incompletes can show up in your life in lots of different ways...  like not having clarity, procrastination, emotional energy blocks and even illness. Blocked energy is wasted, and a build up of that energy can really leave you stymied.

Throw-out all the clutter and FEEL how much easier it is to think!

Make a list of areas in your life (both personal and professional) where you have incompletes and messes, then develop a plan to deal with them once and for all. Fix and organize the things that annoy you.

Take your final steps in bringing closure to outstanding projects.

Make that difficult phone call. Delegate time-wasting tasks that you've let build up.
Some incompletions come from simply not having adequate systems, knowledge, or expertise for handling these tasks. Other incompletions pile up because of bad work habits.

Get into completion consciousness by continually asking yourself...What does it take to actually get this task completed? 

Only then can you begin to consciously take that next step of filing completed documents, mailing in the forms required, or reporting back to your boss that the project has been completed.

The truth is that 20 things completed have more power than 50 things that are half-way completed.

Finishing writing a book, for instance, that can go out and influence the world is better than 13 books you’re in the process of writing.

When you free yourself from the mental burden of incompletes and messes, you'll be AMAZED at how quickly the things you do want in life arrive.

Another area where you'll find incompletes in your life is in your emotions. Are you holding on to old hurts, resentments, and pain? Just like the physical clutter and incompletes, your energy is being drained by holding on to and reliving past pain and anger.

Remember, you'll attract whatever feelings you're experiencing. So, if you're stuck in revengeful thinking and angered in muck, you can't possibly be directing energy toward a positive future. You need to let go of the past in order to embrace the future. Letting go involves forgiveness and moving on.

By forgiving you aren't releasing the other person from their transgression as much as you're freeing yourself from their transgression. You don't have to condone their behavior, trust them, or even maintain a relationship with them. However, you DO have to free yourself from the anger, from the pain, and from the resentment once and for all!

When learning to forgive, make sure to complete the cycle.

Acknowledge your anger, your pain, and your fear. But also own up to any part you've played in allowing it to happen or continue. Make sure to express whatever it was that you wanted from that person, and then see the whole event from the other's point of view. Allow yourself to wonder what that person was going through and what kind of needs he/she was trying to fulfill at the time.

Finally, let go and move on. Every time you go through this process you're learning how to avoid letting it happen again!

I'll be back in two weeks with another edition of Success Strategies. Until then, see if you can discover ways to immediately implement what you learned from today's message.

(For more insight on this subject, read Chapter 28 titled
Clean Up Your Messes and Incompletes in The Success Principles)

Are you "stuck" in this area?
Send me your most pressing question about this topic,
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