DavidDeFord

Live by this creed and you will improve every area of your life.

Discover the power of sharing your strivings with friends who support and assist you.

We do really well with our goals in the first week, but we begin to lose steam in the weeks and months that follow. Maintaining our enthusiasm for major changes can prove very difficult.

I’m getting some groups together to tackle this problem. We’ll help each other stay motivated. We’ll help each other develop meaningful goals, make effective plans to reach them, and keep each other focused on their attainment.

What do you want to do?

• Improve your finances
• Lose weight
• Stop smoking
• Deepen your spirituality
• Improve sales
• Read more
• Exercise consistently

No matter what goals you choose, you will succeed beyond any past achievements by leveraging the power of Goal Friends.

• Craft stronger goals
• Build and keep to an implementation plan
• Use the power of Good and Great Days to stay focused
• Stay motivated even when it gets tough
• Participate in a team with other strivers
• Receive daily reminders
• Feel the pride of finally accomplishing a long-held goal
• Develop new, more positive habits
• Enjoy individual and team recognition
• Overcome challenges that have always inhibited you
• Take responsibility for your own success
• Apply what you learn in this challenge to help you every year

The Goal Friends Challenge will last four months.

We’ll begin with a kick-off conference call to help you get a powerful start.

Next, you’ll join a team of Goal Friends who are striving for similar goals.

You will create your goals based on the Good and Great Day approach. Your team members will help you strengthen your goals definitions.

You’ll receive weekly challenges to keep you focused.

You’ll have some form of daily contact with your team members via: e-mail, phone, social media, blog, or whatever method you and your team choose.

You will report your progress to your team every Monday.

By Wednesday, you’ll see how your team is doing in the competition, and you’ll see how you rank with others.

We can do this. YOU CAN DO THIS!

I’ll cut off registration at twenty, so don’t wish and wait; act and achieve.

The minimal cost of $60 to participate can be sent by check or Paypal (dwdeford@yahoo.com) to David DeFord, 13964 Margo Street, Omaha, NE 68138.

You can also pay with ITEX to my account 3178621008540.

Checks need to be received before your kick-off meeting invitation will be sent to you.

Want to participate for free?

Form your own team by recruiting four more Goal Friends, collect their $60, pay the $240 in one transaction, and you join for free.

Get Free Bonuses

If you register by January 8th, you will receive 12 bonus e-books worth $275.

You’ll get the following PDF e-books you can read on your e-book reader, smart phone or computer:

• As a Man Thinketh, James Allen
• Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
• The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles
• Ordinary People Can Achieve Their Lofty Goals, David DeFord
• I Wish to Be Useful, David DeFord
• Make Your Life a Masterpiece, David DeFord
• Ordinary People Can Achieve the Extraordinary, David DeFord
• 1000 Brilliant Achievement Quotes, David DeFord
• 1000 Brilliant Leadership Quotes, David DeFord
• Where Seldom Is Heard a Discouraging Word, David DeFord
• Conversations with Millionaires, Mike Litman
• A Life on Fire, Healthy, Wealth, n Wise

The minimal cost of $60 to participate can be sent by check or Paypal(dwdeford@yahoo.com) to David DeFord, 13964 Margo Street, Omaha, NE 68138.

You can also pay with ITEX to my account 3178621008540.

Checks need to be received before your kick-off meeting invitation will be sent to you.

This will change everything.

I need your help.

I’m building a “Winners’ Creed” and would love for you to help me construct it. Here’s what I have so far:

Most people let their employers control their jobs; winners own their careers.
Most people wish and wait; winners act and achieve.
Most people blame; winners take responsibility.
Most people hope for opportunities; winners prepare for them.
Most people give up on their dreams; not you–you’re a winner.

If you have ideas, serious or not, just comment on this blog.

Most people wish and wait; winners act and achieve.

As a result of my nearly 40-year study of personal improvement and success, I’ve observed a pattern. Highly successful people follow these principles:

1. They take personal accountability for their own success.
2. They act right away when prompted or inspired.
3. They continue to study their craft.

Personal Accountability
We all choose our levels of income. If we want more, we must be more. If we want to be more, we must prepare.

Rather than blame our bosses, our companies, or the economy, let’s take personal responsibility for our situations.

Act When Prompted
Inspiration without action has negative value. It brings regret and lost time.

Inspiration with action brings prosperity. I don’t necessarily mean riches. With action we can prosper in our circumstances and grow above them.

Promptings have a source—and the source isn’t coincidence nor is it indigestion.

If we over-deliberate, we will often miss our opportunities.

Regret or prosperity, we get to choose.

Continual Study
Charles “Tremendous” Jones often said, “You will be the same five years from now as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”

Highly successful people have huge libraries.

Prepare yourself for when opportunity knocks. Those who are prepared get the breaks.

Become a lifelong learner.

One of the keys to success is developing self confidence.

When we feel confident we’re more likely to speak up for ourselves. We feel less stress. We can effectively handle most any situation with poise. We spread confidence to those around us.

This principle was brought home to me early in my life. I was in a huge leadership position with little preparation and few skills. I did my very best.

One day I made a mistake. I internalized this mistake, and began to seriously doubt my ability to lead this big group. The overwhelming doubt led me to make more mistakes–more serious ones. My ineptness became crippling.

In the midst of this leadership confidence crisis I had a dream. Not just a dream, but one of those life-changing, meaningful dreams you never forget.

I dreamed I was playing basketball. I was really good. I could handle the ball like a pro. I could spin dunk, make every pass, and hit every shot. Larry Bird came to mind, but it was me! I hit a groove and could do no wrong.

But then I made a bad pass. Because of my error, I got down on myself, and started making more and more errors. I questioned every move; and in my hesitation, I failed miserably.

In my dream, the coach sent in a substitute for me, sat me next to him, and said, “If you don’t believe in yourself, I can’t use you.”

I immediately woke up. The emotions I felt stunned me and affected me deeply. I knew I needed to work out my confidence crisis or failure was certain.

As I began to study, I learned to change how I reacted to setbacks and mistakes. Rather than say to myself such thoughts as, “You’re so stupid,” I’ve learned to say, “Ordinarily I do better than this.”

The more I studied, the more confidence I obtained.

I challenge you to look past your mistakes and see your worth. You have greatness in you.

As my daughter Sarah once wrote, “Deep down every girl knows she was born to do great things. The trick is to find what those great things are.”