What does real PROGRESS Means to you..?

Yesterday I went to visit a friend .During the course of our discussion the issue of making progress in life came up and after leaving him these seven letters just kept coming to me..what does real progress mean to you..?

Most of us have an idea about what progress means to us, and we have a mental vision of what it
will look like when it arrives in our lives. We might finally get the career recognition we’ve
been working so hard for, earn a lot of money, find the man or woman of our dreams, start a
family, purchase our own home, buy the sports car we’ve wanted since we were a teenager, or
reach any number of other personal accomplishments. Is this progress? For some of us, it might
be. Perhaps you have a different vision of what progress means to you.

Regardless of your personal definition of progress, you likely have one thing in common with the
rest of us: you are still seeking the level of progress you want to attain. Maybe you’ve had
progress in certain areas, but not in others. Your career might be going great, but your
relationships are lacking. Or you’ve met the love of your life, but you just can’t seem to earn the
amount of money that would make you happy. Or everything else is great but you can’t seem to
lose those last 20 pounds and get into better shape.

It’s a maddening position to be in, especially if you don’t understand why it’s happening. You
may think you’re doing everything right, but circumstances just won’t bend to your will. You
constantly run into obstacles, sabotage your own efforts, berate yourself for your “failures,”- and
the struggle continues.

This struggle continues because of one reason, and one reason only: you are focusing your
energy and effort in the wrong direction!

In this modern age, we have the misguided notion that success is some elusive quality “out
there” that we need to hunt down and capture. We believe that if we say the right things, do the
right things, take exactly the right steps, success will fly right into our little butterfly net and we
can pin it down on a sheet of cardboard and hang it proudly on our wall.





We can’t capture success, nor can we buy it, stumble across it, or fall into it. We can only create
it, from the inside out. And the only way to create it is by changing our thoughts and habits.
What do thoughts have to do with anything? Everything! What we expect to see, we see. What
we expect to have in our lives, we have. What we focus on the most, expands.

If your life isn’t what you want it to be, your thoughts have not been in alignment with it. This
can be a tricky concept to understand, but the most important point to get is that it’s a cumulative
process.

Think of a scale. If you place a grain of sand in one of the trays, it probably won’t make much
difference to the balance of the scale. But if you add another grain, and another, and another,
before long the scale will begin to tilt in that direction. Your thoughts work in much the same
way, and if you have enough of one particular type of thought, it will affect your quality of life.

This may sound bad, but it’s actually a good thing! If we can create imbalance and lack with our
thoughts and habits, we can also create progress. It’s all within your control.

To your progress till we meet again