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When you set a goal to make an extra $10,000, or to release 15 pounds of fat from your body, or find the love of your life, or to create the freedom to spend more quality time with your family, wouldn’t you want to arrive at that goal as fast as you possibly can? Of course you would!

Mentors have the knowledge, experience, and motivation to help you arrive at your destination much faster and safer as you can avoid many of the obstacles and mistakes that they experienced. Listen to Change Series Expert Donna Fox as she shares one of the most powerful lines that I have heard in regards to mentoring…

Role Models and Mentors

What Donna said that really resonated with me was “There’s an easier way through that mine field… I know how… here’s the map.” That is a perfect way to describe the true power of mentoring.

Donna has been one of my mentors for the past 3 years. She has a gift of asking me great open ended questions and allowing me the time to think and respond. Not only has she provided me with a map for success, but she has also made the journey outrageously fun for me.

When I set my sites on some pretty big ambitious business goals just over 3 years ago I couldn’t afford wasting any time in achieving those goals. In the literal sense I couldn’t afford anything. At the time of setting those goals I had recently closed down my health club and claimed bankruptcy. I was flat broke and overcoming a bout of depression.

When I was presented with the opportunity to be mentored by Donna and fellow Change Series Experts Mike Filsaime and Tom Beal, along with Paulie Sabol who made up the i5Gold mentoring program, I knew that I had to do whatever it took to be a part of it.

I took on extra personal training clients and worked my butt off in order to invest in their mentoring program. I knew that hard work and action was going to produce great results.

If it wasn’t for Donna, Mike, Tom, and Paulie, The Change Series would not have been possible. It was because of them that I was in the right place at the right time to be surrounded with all The Change Series Experts.

I’m not even sure if they realize that without they’re influence non of this would have been possible. The impact that they have had on me will in turn impact a great number of people around the world.

That’s the beauty of mentoring. Mentors have an understanding that teaching just one student can have a dramatic impact on the rest of the world. Mentoring is a great way to create a legacy for yourself.

We’re all mentors in one way or another. When you share your life experiences with someone and encourage them to live up to their potential and explore the gifts that they have been given, you are in fact mentoring them.

Share your gifts. Mentor someone who you would like to see fulfill their dreams and find yourself some mentors in various areas of your life to help you reach your full potential. I don’t know of a greater way to make the world better place.

Embrace Change… Your dream life awaits you,

Scott Tousignant

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With the soon to be released dvd “Beyond The Secret” and the future sequel to “The Secret” coming out as well, the buzz about positive thinking and The Law of Attraction certainly has been picking up. I can’t help but be a positive thinker. I believe it’s in my genetic make up to be ridiculously optimistic. My positive outlook on life certainly has helped me attract wonderful and amazing things, but can optimism actually do more harm than good?

Listen to what Change Series Expert John Paul Micek has to say about Positive Thinking…

Optimism vs Pessimism

It’s actually ok to be a pessimist at times as long as you don’t allow it to consume you. Lets face it, sometimes no matter how positive your thoughts are… crap happens.

I’ve certainly experienced my share of disappointments from depression, bankruptcy, and weight gain. But you know what? All of those negatives shaped me to make me the positive person who I am and allow me to experience the joys that life offers me today.

I tend to find a lot of positive in nearly any negative situation. It usually sucks in the moment, but I’m someone who believes that things happen for a reason. Even the negatives present opportunity. If I didn’t close down my health club and claim bankruptcy I wouldn’t have the online fitness business that I do today and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to help thousands of people around the world transform their body’s and their lives.

In the Change Series program as John Paul continued his discussion on positive thinking he said that he prefers to be a “short term pessimist, but long term optimist.” I think that’s a great way of looking at it. We can have faith and be optimistic that we will achieve our goals in the long term, but we need to have that little bit of doubt to put things into perspective and realize that obstacles will present themselves along the way. It’s not going to be a completely smooth ride no matter how positive you think.

What do you think about the Law of Attraction and positive thinking? Has it served you well? Have there been times when it’s got you into trouble because you were just thinking positive thoughts but not taking any action toward making those thoughts a reality?

Are you able to turn a negative situation into a positive one? How do you handle the really tough times when you want to be negative for a bit and grieve for the situation that you are in?

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please take the time to share your opinions in the comment box below.

Embrace Change… Your dream life awaits you,

Scott Tousignant

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Chances are that you already have in your possession a map to a million dollars. You know the steps to get there and you probably even took those first few steps but then you stop before taking the remaining critical steps. At that point the million dollar map that you are holding is utterly useless.

You can use the same analogy weight loss. Chances are that you have the blueprint and the steps to achieving the lean and desirable physique that you deserve. I’m sure that you own at least a book or two on diet or exercise. And You probably followed the programs for a couple weeks, but then for whatever reason you threw in the towel and stopped all together.

Change Series Expert Joshua Pellicer generated an aha moment for me when he used this analogy. Check it out…

As Joshua said, there are plenty of maps and blueprints for success out there. If you haven’t hit the ‘X’ on your map chances are it’s because you haven’t followed the steps all the way to the end.

Taking inspired action is crucial to your success, but you must do this on a consistent basis. When you set a goal and you begin to follow the footsteps to achieving your goal, you need to follow through until the goal is achieved.

You set that goal for a reason. Go after it with everything that you’ve got. Expect roadblocks and challenges and prepare to overcome them. Don’t give up. You have set a worthy goal. It’s meant to be achieved.

You are no different from the successful people that you look up to. If they can do it, so can you. They’re just like you and in many cases they started off in a worse position than you. The only thing that makes them different is that they were willing to do whatever it takes until they achieved the worthy goal that they set.

My question to you is, “Are you willing to take ALL the necessary action steps to achieving the life of your dreams?” I want to hear from you. Are you willing to do what it takes? Forget about winning the lottery or taking the magic weight loss pill. Are you ready to recognize the effort that it will take to achieve your goal and then put forth that effort to achieve it?

The time to achieve your dream life is NOW! Tomorrow will never come if you don’t put forth the effort today. You are worth it. I know you are. Go get what you deserve and lets celebrate together.

Embrace Change… Your dream life awaits you,

Scott Tousignant

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Have you ever set a goal and told yourself that you would achieve it by a certain date only to have your goal date come and go without experiencing any kind of significant progress? If this is the case you are certainly not alone. I’ve been there myself and that’s why I can vouch for just how powerful it can be when you announce your goals publicly.

If your goal is worthy of dreaming about… It’s worthy of sharing… and it’s worthy of achieving. Take a moment to watch this inspirational video about public accountability from one of my mentors and Change Series Expert Mike Filsaime

Public Accountability Will Help You Achieve Your Dream Life Faster

Why did you dream about achieving your goal in the first place? What inspired the thought? What were the feelings that you experienced when you began to envision the impact that achieving this goal would have?

Why the heck would you want to keep it to yourself? There’s only a few reasons that I can think of and one of them is fear…

Fear of what people would say if you don’t achieve the goal that you set. Fear of the effort that you will have to put in if you are going to achieve the goal. And sometimes even fear of achieving the goal.

My friend Dax Moy says that the word F.E.A.R. stands for Forever Expecting Awful Results.

We all experience fear, but as Change Series Expert Nicola Cairncross says, “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

My best results in all areas of life have come from when I made my goals public. I set a major financial goal in Mike Filsaime’s forum and within three months I had made more progress than I had in the past 3 years. Last year I made my fitness goals public on my blog and documented my journey. In three months I released 35 pounds of fat from my body and got my 6 pack abs back.

My question to you is… What has held you back from stating your goals publicly? For those of you who have stated your goals publicly whether it be in a forum, in a blog post, or to friends and family, how did that impact your motivation to achieve your goal?

Share your comments in the box below. We would love to hear from you.

Embrace Change… Your dream life awaits you,

Scott Tousignant

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