Excerpt From SuccessMapping: 8 Things That Are Blocking You From Success
The following is an excerpt from the book SuccessMapping: Achieve What You Want…Right Now! (Emerald Book Co., 2009) by Arlene Johnson. The book provides a step-by-step roadmap to achieving success and your personal goals.
Here’s a very basic and universal truth: We all have far more potential than we will ever realize. Really, you are wired to experience success in all that matters to you. It’s who you are. So, equipped with your belief in what might be possible and what you next want to accomplish, SuccessMapping will show you how!
The Eight Success Blockers
Even when we strongly believe that we are totally capable to achieve a specific goal, we can stall out and stop taking action before we accomplish what we set out to. What keeps preventing us from starting or completing our most important journeys toward life dreams and goals?
There are eight major reasons-”success blockers”-that can stop you from starting something you want to achieve or completing it once you’ve started.
The Eight Success Blockers are:
1. Neglecting your potential. Not believing that you can succeed with-or, because of multiple options, having no clarity about-what you really want to accomplish.
2. Lack of focus. When your thoughts, behaviors and actions are not “laser-focused” on what you want to achieve.
3. Choosing not to engage. Making decisions that Do Not Help you achieve what you want: When needing to change, choosing to wait and see and do nothing different. Or choosing to oppose or resist engaging in the change opportunity.
4. Ignoring your strengths. Not knowing, not utilizing or not leveraging your personal strengths to help you more easily achieve a goal.
5. Ignoring potential obstacles. Not being prepared to see, resolve or transform potential stumbling blocks.
6. Going it alone. Not using a collaborative approach to ask and get the specific support or resources you need to help you achieve your business or personal goal.
7. Decisions without foresight. Not weighing the benefits and consequences of important decisions and actions. Possible results? Decisions made with no commitment or that you later regret.
8. Not being change-ready. Allowing how you respond to change to sabotage having the life you want. Not recognizing and taking charge of the predictable dynamics of change.
Even with extraordinary capabilities and an abundance of resources, these Eight Success Blockers can delay you or stop you cold. Not knowing or not managing these success blockers can cause you to wait, start-stop, and become easily distracted or sidetracked with other life activities. Sound familiar?
Knowing is preventing.So, if you are not pursuing an important business or personal goal, ask yourself: “Why not? Which block right now is causing me to delay accomplishing what I want?”
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Whatever you put on those lines is self-knowledge that, alone, is a huge step toward overcoming a barrier between you and your life dream or goal.
This knowledge and the information and tools of each SuccessMapping Step will easily guide you through the Eight Success Blockers. The outcome? You will have a step-by-step Success Map that really works, regardless of what you want to accomplish.
Copyright © 2009 by Arlene Johnson. From SUCCESSMAPPING: Achieve What You Want . . .Right Now! by Arlene Johnson (Emerald Book Company). Reprinted with permission of the author. To order this book or receive more information, please visit www.successmapping.com.
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Nashville-area homes sales were up in October compared to last year — the first time since October 2006 that year-to-year home sales increased for a given month.
According to data released Monday by the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors, 2,145 home closings were reported last month, up 22.7 percent from last October.
“This is undeniable evidence that the $8,000 tax credit has been meaningful in stimulating home sales,” Mike Nichols, president of the Realtors association, said in a news release. “There is no question that many of these sales were initiated due to the tax credit, and it is certainly our hope that, with the expansion and extension of this tax credit through next spring, we will continue to see positive sales in the area.”
“And while one month does not make a trend, having a significant number of sales pending for the next month is also encouraging,” he said.
There were 2,106 sales pending at October’s end, compared to 1,504 sales pending at this time last year.
Year-to-date closings still are down for 2009, however. According to the association’s figures, there have been 17,598 closings through October, an 18.4 percent decrease from the 21,581 closings reported through October 2008.
And while volume was up in October, values were down. The median price for a single-family home was $160,000, compared to $170,000 in October 2008. The median price for a condo was $144,000, compared to $152,500 last year.
“Inventory is down overall and actually down significantly in the single-family homes category,” Nichols said. There are 23,398 such homes on the market today, compared to 24,043 at this time last year.
“Based on October’s numbers, we are at about an eight-month supply in that category, which is much more in balance than what has been the case for some time,” Nichols said.
The condominium inventory also decreased, from 2,541 in 2008 to 2,417 currently.
***Scroll below to see crape myrtle pruning diagram
By: Brent Wilson - Wilson Bros Nursery
When it comes to pruning crape myrtles, it would be better to leave them alone than to prune them improperly. We've all seen over-pruning - people chop back crape myrtles below the knuckles each and every year.
When a crape myrtle is pruned back too far it has two effects:
- Reduces the number of blooms that will be produced during summer.
- New branches will grow far too long and therefore not be able to support the weight of heavy blooms - particularly when wet. These long branches weep over and often break off during heavy rains.
When a crape myrtle is pruned properly:
- It will produce twice the number of branches and therefore twice the number blooms as it did during the previous year.
- The new branches will be strong enough to support blooms.
The Time To Prune Crape Myrtles
Wrong-season pruning would mean November and December. Don't let "peer pressure" by neighbors and commercial gardening crews get to you. If you trim the crapes in the last two months of the year, and we get a warming trend in January or February, the trees might actually start putting on new growth. That new growth will be highly susceptible to freezing weather should it come on the heals of a warm spell. New growth will also tend to draw the cold right into the plant, causing needless damage to a tree that should be resting in dormancy.
So, the best time to trim crapes in is late winter or early spring - just prior to new growth emerging. For years, we've suggested this as a great time to trim them, because at that time we're also trimming back our roses and many other plants and trees.
Other Crape Myrtle Pruning Tips
- For older established crape myrtles that have developed a nice mature canopy and form, pruning is not necessary. What is older? Maybe over 10 years in age.
- Sharp hand pruners work fine for pruning younger crape myrtles with branch diameters of 1/2" or less. For larger specimens lopping shears or a pruning saw may be necessary.
- Suckers that grow from the base of the trunk of a crape myrtle tree can be removed any time of year.
Great information on pruning Crape Myrtle Trees. Winter or early spring is the best time to prune according to most all gardeners I have researched. Most people prune in the Fall and that leaves potential new growth subject to freezing!
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