Breaking Through

Did you make New Years resolutions this year?

How are they going?

Are you on fire with motivation and accomplishing everything that you set out to do?

Or have your goals/resolutions fallen to the wayside?

I hope that you are part of the former, but if you do find yourself in the latter, it’s not too late! And for those that planned on creating resolutions, but just didn’t get around to it, don’t wait until next year! You have 11 more months to make this your best year ever.

We set goals and resolutions because we believe that there is something that we feel we need to change or improve upon. It is very healthy to set goals and it can have a tremendous effect on your future. Most successful people haven’t always been successful and people in great physical shape haven’t always been healthy. At some point they looked at themselves and where they were in life and decided that they wanted better, made plans to become better and followed through on the plans. We should follow the same model.

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Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn

In my journey towards success, one of the biggest challenges I’ve encountered is the management of time. When we were young, it was so easy to be careless with our time: partying, sleeping and just hanging out with friends was a pastime. As I’ve grown older, I’ve found that the use of time is absolutely critical for the pursuit of happiness. Whether married, a parent or striving for success, time seems like a universal limiting factor.

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Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Luke 16:10-11

I consider myself a good and honest person. I go to church, pray every day and try to help others in need. In my May 5th post titled, Inte(rnet)grity, I shared the challenge of web browsing during work. I have found that one of the reasons why I allow myself to get distracted at work is because… Continue reading

“Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.”-Proverbs 13:10 NIV

For the past 4 days I have missed blogging and working on my business. There were a number of factors that arose that limited my energy, motivation and time. Though I could have taken an hour here and there to work, I embraced it and reflected on my progress and personal life. Since the start of 2009, I have set in my mind that I MUST generate additional streams of income so my wife and I can purchase a home and start a family. From that point I have had a huge sense of urgency and, in the past 3 months, I spent a lot of focused time on building a business. As things started to come together, I got really excited, which increased motivation to spend more time working. Before I knew it, my work had consumed me. Though I set goals for areas of my life that are most important, faith, marriage, family, health and success; most of my time was spent on developing a business. It was a difficult lesson to accept as my wife revealed this in “spirited debate.” Continue reading

Check out this insightful video of self help author Brian Tracy on personal development and attracting success.

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” -Brian Tracy

(brosephj.com is not affiliated with the advertisement at the end of the video.)
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A ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scale and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A,” forty pounds a “B,” and so on. Those being graded on “quality,” however, needed to produce
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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan

In September 2009, Michael Jordan will be inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Though he was cut from the high school varsity team for being too short, Jordan didn’t give up and trained to be the best. Today, the NBA calls him the greatest basketball player of all time. One of the most endorsed athletes in the world, Michael Jordan’s name remains synonymous with the sport even after years of retirement. In 1991, a Gatorade commercial was aired with kids singing “Like Mike.” We should all strive to be “like Mike.” Here are some words of wisdom from Air Jordan himself: Continue reading

I have been pondering for a long time what I should write in my first blog post. As I was brainstorming my first post in Barnes and Noble, I noticed a familiar face. It was someone I went to middle school and high school with. We engaged in a deep and interesting conversation on faith, success, life; just a bunch of random stuff. I knew he was a very smart guy, but I just found myself blown away by his views, theories and philosophies. I showed him brosephj.com to get his feedback and he asked me a very interesting question that I never thought of: “What is the most important thing you need to know to become successful?”  Continue reading