Jet Balagtas

It’s been a while since my last post.  I guess it happens to everybody… life overtaking you.  Once in a while, you get that itch to write something but you get distracted by something else.  Nope, it’s not the TV for me.  Just work.

Today I came across something that I think is worth sharing here and obviously it’s not my original work (and what a way to come back into blogging, eh?), but it really is something special.  Betty Mahalik wrote a book called “Living a Five Star Life” in 2008, and in it is the excerpt that I believe is worth sharing.  It’s been shared by many others.  It was shared with me.  Here it is…

“In this day and age, we are surrounded by messages that virtually scream, “Your life

would be perfect if…”  My life would be perfect if I had a different job, a different house, car, nose, spouse, bank account (fill in the blank).  Or my life would be perfect if I could be like some celebrity whose life appears so well-ordered and perfect-o.  This week I encourage you to stop playing “my life would be perfect if,” and start playing “my perfect life.”  What’s the difference? Three things: being in the present, an attitude of gratitude, taking action with what’s available now.

When we’re caught up in the “my life would be perfect if” trap, we’ve lost touch with the present. And the moment we detach from the present, we can no longer practice gratitude.  Think about it:  it’s difficult to be grateful for what you don’t have…and what you don’t have is always somewhere out in future-ville.

Look around you right now.  Think of 10 things you’re grateful for.  Do you have a roof over your head and food to eat?  I’m guessing the answer is yes.  Do you have at least a few good friends or close relationships?  Then appreciate them too, right now.  Keep going, and practice being in the present and being grateful for what is here and now at least a couple times a day.

You’re also probably sitting there thinking “yes but.”  Yes, but I want more money, a better relationship, more time to travel, to be thinner, happier or whatever.  It’s one of the great mysteries I’ll never figure out.  The minute you stop focusing on what you lack, start focusing on what you’ve already got, and add the “magic” ingredient of action, you actually begin to attract more of what you want.  It’s an amazing formula for really living your perfect life!

Let’s say you want to lose weight or get in better shape, but you don’t have an hour a day to spend exercising at the gym.  Therefore, you’ve pretty well resigned yourself to not losing weight or getting in shape.  What if you had five minutes though…just about everyone can find five minutes to exercise, stretch, walk around the block or walk the dog.  Would you be willing to be grateful for five minutes and make the best possible use of it?  Therein lies the beginning of your perfect life!

A simple formula may help you remember how to apply this principle:

The present + an attitude of gratitude + positive action = my perfect life.

Try it for a day.

Each time you start dreaming about how perfect your life would be if…come back to this moment, give thanks for what is, and do one thing to perfect what you have and who you are right now.  There’s a saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher appears.”  If you’re ready to start perfecting your life, your teachers are all around you.

What are you waiting for?”

Pretty good stuff to share, I think.  And no matter what it is we’re doing, after all, this blog is about successful 21st century marketing from home, whether you’re into affiliate marketing, blogging and social networking, information marketing, cpa marketing, internet marketing, one-to-one marketing, mlm, or network marketing, what Betty wrote is applicable, especially if you’re just starting out on your own.

Talk soon,

Jet