Engineering Dreams Into Reality

The decision to start a skin care line, didn’t happen overnight. Over a period of years, countless all-nighters, and the cumulation of research and hard work, Impact for Purpose, and The World Traveled Collection, was born.  During that time, there were times Impact for Purpose was on the back-burner, there were years it was on the forefront, and always somewhere in-between. This ebb and flow of progress and results, on any given day, either chinked or shined my courage. But one thing was constant, I wasn’t happy unless I was giving it everything I had.  

I have been asked many times, “Where do you get your energy?”  “How did you come up with that?”  “Where do you get your money?”  The simple answer… “I am just doing what I believe I have been called to do…everyday.”  

I have my own secret formula for success and progress, and you are welcome to use any part or piece however you wish to gain access to your own success.  

From my heart to yours, find the courage to pay to play.    

Belief, Goals & Action— Navigating your dreams. 

Do the Inside Work First 

Success is a well oiled machine WHEN you are at peace, and the only way to achieve peace is if you are living to match your own expectations of greatness.  If your soul isn’t in line with your purpose, success will be brutal and short lived.  

Take Chances on Your Passion 

There is no one else alive that can take a chance on your passion.  It was given to you, and only you.  You alone have the vision.   Risk it.  What is the worst that can happen?  Only those who give value to loss, are at risk of loosing.  Our recent ancestors boarded boats, (not guaranteed by insurance, definitely not protected against risk,) to have the opportunity to live a new life.  BELIEVE, ACT, AND ACHIEVE GREATNESS THROUGH YOUR PASSION. 

Get Comfy Outside the Box , (no it is not warm, or safe, but the view will  never be the same. 

Everyday we are surrounded by sameness. Do whatever you can to find the things that make you you, then do them better than anyone else.  Have your clothes tailored, customize your jewelry, design a flag for the country of YOU.  Whatever it is…. BE YOU!  We were blessed, literally and individually, with the power of creation.  Whether it be art, architecture, design, fashion, etc… each of us is destined to create.  No one can be special going home everyday on the same freeway, paying the same mortgage, turning on the same remote, to the same programs.  Have the courage to shake it up!  Bake a cake and take it to a neighbor, find and overgrown lawn and show-up with a lawnmower, teach a child to run a lemonade stand.  Stand-out, be a role model, scatter your identity into the wind, with the singular goal of being remembered.  

You Will Fail, so Make it Big

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks, only then will you know what you are truly capable of.  When you start learning from your failures, you are on the path to winning. 

Life doesn’t know where you came from, only you do.  Only allow what is right now, in this moment to define where you are.  

Discipline

For heavens sakes, train your brain, life, self-talk and others around you to show-the-hell-up.  

If you are fond of making excuses, fix it. 

Tired of failing?  Stop.  

Tired of stalling out?  Keep going.  

Tired of running up against a brick wall?  Get smarter!  

If you can only make it a week on a diet, before loosing will power, then quite whining and start again the next week. NOW!  We have an entire lifetime to get it right. TRY AGAIN!  Life is just life.  Choose to show up. 

Everything is Temporary Unless You Make it Permanent 

Find out what moves you, and find out what doesn’t.  

Want to know the key to life?  

It’s simple. It’s finding out what you want to do, and what you don’t want to do, (the latter is surprisingly more powerful.)  

For instance, if you go to a Chinese Buffett, and have only experienced 20% of the items on the menu, then you have made permanent the things you don’t know, for the convenience and consistency of what you do know.  You know that greasy spring roll won’t let you down, (or if it does, you will pass it off as a greasy spring roll,) but every time you accept what you know, you simultaneously pass by the experience of the unknown. Believe me, there is an entire world and culture of dim sum that you have just scratched the surface.  Start training your mind that every experience is temporary, until you make it permanent.  Give yourself the challenge to do something different every single day.  Make the goal to never experience the same thing twice. Keep growing, keep expanding, keep experiencing.  

Consistent Action 

Every single second counts, so make it count. 

Grind.

And when you think you can’t grind anymore grind harder, and when you believe you are at your end, BEGIN AGAIN!  

Hard work, and consistent action is the ONLY way to success.

If you want to call in, show-up!

If you want to procrastinate, do it now! 

If you want to take the day off, arrive two hours early!

Break the habits before they break you.   

I have many friends that live their lives in the million dollar plus bracket, and not one of them is a stranger to a 20 hour work day.  However, what does separate them from the rest of folks I know working 20 hour days in futility, is I have never heard the million dollar bracket crowd complain.  In fact, I can predict who will be successful from those who won’t, by the amount of complaining about the work they are putting in.  My million dollar plus friends, never speak of the work they are doing, EXCEPT in the positive or solution finding light.  In the end, be able to recognize that the work you are doing at 16 years old, 26 years old, 36 years old 46 years old, etc…., is cumulating to where you want to end up. This is the golden thread.  If you find yourself complaining now, you are undermining your future work.  There is no excuse for lack of perspective. Perspective is trained.  Begin now.   

Extreme Focus  

Doing more, doesn’t mean you are getting more done.  In fact, if you make your practice a habit of doing less with more focus, you are bound for success.   

Ways to get more focused daily? 

Delete your Netflix account, (you will survive.)   

Visit your Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest pages, etc… ONE TIME PER DAY, and have made a goal in doing so.  

Remind yourself that prattle blurs vision.  Cut the excuses and the chit chat out of your daily conversations, make every word that comes out of your mouth count, or say nothing. 

The More You Give, the More You Will Receive

Do I really need to go into detail on this?  Seems pretty intuitive.  

In the end your journey will be defined by your ability to focus on who you are becoming, rather than where you are now, then applying simple daily habits consistently to get there.  

Success isn’t rocket science, it’s stamina and repetition.