Phillip had three Core Desires. He wanted to spend as much time with his family as possible while his children were still young. He wanted to have financial freedom before he was 45. And he wanted to turn his hobby – restoring classic automobiles – into his full time job.

This week I’ve been telling you about the Seven Mistakes People Make Over and Over. This series is drawn from the Success in 5 Minutes a Day, the affordable seminar that will in thirty days give you a blueprint for success that will set you off in the right direction once and for all.

An aspiring writer I know became friends with the creator of a complicated role-playing game. The creator asked him if he could write a novel featuring characters in the imagined world of the game. “It’ll promote the game,” he said to the writer. “And it will give you a book in print. Maybe we’ll make it a series.”

We’re still in my series, Seven Mistakes that People Make Over and Over¸ drawn from the Success in 5 Minutes course. I hope you’ve had a chance to look that over. It’s a really affordable way to define your Core Desires and release your Conquering Force once and for all. But in the meantime, let’s talk about Mistake #4: People fail to seek feedback and make course corrections.

I was sitting at the gate in the airport when I saw the baby crawling around the carpeted floor. He was a cute little fellow. I’m no good at estimating baby ages, but he was young enough to wear a diaper under his little blue outfit, and he was old enough show a mouthful of baby teeth when he grinned at everyone. I watched him for a while before I realized that he wasn’t just randomly playing. He had a goal.

Okay, Sports Fans. Answer this trivia question: What was Babe Ruth’s passion? You give up? Okay . . . I’ll tell you. Baseball! Oh, you already knew that? Yes, I guess you did. If you’re a big baseball fan, you might be able to tell me Babe Ruth’s batting average in 1933. Maybe you know what three teams he played for. But even if you don’t care for sports at all, even if you wait for the tip-off in football and believe that the term “offsides” refers to a kid falling off the edge of the bleachers, you know that Babe Ruth loved baseball.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias played tennis, baseball and softball. She was an expert diver, roller skater, and bowler. She was a three time All-American basketball player in college. She won two Olympic gold medals – one for the javelin throw and one for the 80-meter hurdles. She won an Olympic silver medal for the high jump. She set records in the long jump, shot put and the baseball throw. She then adopted golf as her sport, and went on to win eight two professional and amateur tournaments.

If you’ve got an entrepreneurial mindset and heart-set, the steps to starting a small business is something you can really get excited about. You’re passionate; you’re full of ideas – you are READY to go! But what happens when the business is up and running? Do the steps to starting a small business stop with [...]

Just like affirmations, visualizing the end result you desire can make you feel good, because you have been told this is a critical key to success and so you do it faithfully.

But, does it really work?

* Has your income increased by $1,000 a month?
* Have you lost the weight?
* Do you have that new boat, new car or mountain cabin you visualized?

On the other hand, have you ever gotten something you wanted without doing daily affirmations and visualization?

Of course you have! It’s not visualization that cause you to have success! It is something much more simple!

I have achieved everything that is important in my life and work without visualization exercises and goal setting. I never wrote down that I would be a professional speaker or the author of a book.

I was raised on a Navajo Indian reservation. I was the only Caucasian boy in my high school senior class, and most of the other kids didn’t like me because of my skin color and because of what the “bilagonas” (white men) did to their ancestors.

Their anger towards me was inherent, and it meant that I was bullied almost every day.

Do you start the New Year off with a renewed desire to do better this year?

A New Year presents the chance to:

* Start over
* Let go of the past
* Make the upcoming year better than the last
* Achieve goals that you haven’t yet.
* i.e. Lose weight, get in shape, be nicer to the kids or spouse. Sell more. Earn more. Stop smoking. Stop swearing. Stop lying. Go to church more.
* The list is endless…

It’s a chance to start anew with determination and resolve to be better, to do better.

At least, that’s the theory.