In the space of leadership, do you have a historical figure to admire? I ask this because if you are looking to pursue ideasworking from home then you need to become a leader. Why is this you may ask? Read on and maybe you will be able to work out the answer.

What do you know about Theodore Roosevelt? Yes you may know he was one of the US presidents, the 26th in fact. Roosevelt was a man of action – an outspoken man of action. This was a component of his vigorous life. 

He was well known for his regular boxing and judo sessions, he took long horse back rides. He did long and hazardous hikes. Nothing was on obstacle for Teddy – the nick name given to Roosevelt.

There was a time the French Ambassador tells about a day when they went for a walk through the woods when the two came to a river. The river was too deep to cross by foot, so Roosevelt stripped off his clothes and expected the dignitary to do the same in order swim to the other side. 

At different times in his life, he was a cowboy, explorer, a big game hunter and an officer in the Spanish /American war.

His enthusiasm and stamina seem boundless.

During 1900, when campaigning for the vice president William McKinley, he gave 673 speeches and travelled 20,000 miles. 

Years after his presidency, whilst delivering a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt was shot in the chest by a would-be assign. With broken ribs and a bullet in his chest, he insisted in delivering his 1 hour speech before taken to the hospital. This is commitment. 

With all the leaders the nation has ever had, Teddy was one of the toughest – both physically and mentally. However, it didn’t start that way. 

As a child he was poorly, thin and his parents didn’t think he was going to survive. When 12, his father told Roosevelt “You have the mind but not the body. The mind can not go as far as it should. You must make the body.” Taking note, he then embraced the process. Everyday he spent building his body as well as his mind. He did that for the rest of his life. He worked on the weights, hiked, ice skated, hunted, he rode and boxed.  

Reading about the people he admired, Roosevelt had a great admiration for men who were fearless, who could hold their own in the world and who had the great desire to be liked by them. By the time he graduated from Harvard, he was like them. He was then ready to tackle the world of politics. 

It wasn’t easy. He did not become a great leader overnight. The journey to presidency was one of slow continuous growth. He served different positions ranging from the New York City police commissioner to the president of the USA. All the time he kept learning. He improved himself. In time he became a strong leader. His list of accomplishments is just remarkable. 

Really look at this guy. Under this leader, the US emerged as a world power. He helped build a 1st class navy. He saw the Panama Cannel was built. He negotiated peace between Russia and Japan.

He became president when McKinley was assassinated in 1901. When he completed his term as president up to 1909, he travelled to Africa where he led a scientific exploration. 

In 1913 he explored with a group the uncharted River of Doubt in Brazil. That one exploration changed maps as we know of them today. He went into an uncharted tributary, off the Amazon – one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians were armed with poisoned tipped arrows. 

What an incredible life journey. So why would he do all this? Because it was all a great learning adventure. 

At the age of 55 whilst at his New York home, January 6 1919, he passed away in his sleep. The U.S. vice president, Thomas R Marshall said that "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.” There was a book beneath his pillow too. Up to the very day he died, he was still striving to improve and learn. He was still embracing the process. 

If you want to be a leader then everyone has the potential. However, it is not accomplished overnight. It requires persistence and you cannot ignore the process. Leadership is not developed in a day – it takes a life time. 

We can all aspire to achieve better things. It may be a case of changing direction and doing something you have never done, but always dreamt of. I’m helping people to think positively about the future and how best use their time. I believe that people can find a way within to pursue an idea and a vision. We all have the ability to take control of our lives, but many just don’t know it or know how.

My name is Gary Oakes and I have established a 3 in 1 solution to help anyone who is looking to start an income opportunity through the comfort of ones own home. Step 1 is to develop the passion and drive – set expectations. Step 2 is much about internet marketing techniques (free information). Step 3 provides an opportunity to work from home. The website is full of information and you will not see such valuable information contained all in one place to help you. The journey starts by following this simple link to Ideas Working From Home.

There is no commitment or expense to view the free material available to help you, and you never know, this might be the very thing you are looking for!

What is really understood about the power of having the right perspective? How many people are afraid of failure? I write quite often about combating the blockers that stop people moving on in life and in business. Being afraid of failure will hold you back. Learn to take risks by having the right perspective especially if building a business with ideas working from home.

Let’s be honest, you’re not living if you do not fail. Taking risks can be exciting. We are not born to be great and successful at everything. We learn through application and experimenting and this is regardless of training and education. The secret to success is not to quit – despite this being a short four letter word that is easy to say and do. Maybe it should have been a much longer word?

History shows that failure can be the path to success. At school, Napoleon was rated 42 out of a class of 43, yet he built an army to conquer many parts of Europe. George Washington lost 2/3rds of his military battles, yet against overwhelming odds won the revolutionary war and changed American history. Albert Einstein, a slow learner, was advised to change his studies from physics to something else. Yet he is considered the father of the atomic age.

The list goes on. We shouldn’t dwell on people’s failures, the journey to their success, but take the right perspective and look at their contributions to the world.

Only when you consider your failure really is final that you become a failure. Failure is not an event, it’s an opinion.

‘A righteous man may fall 7 times and rise again’

The fear of failing! Is this you? Are you in this space? The fear of failing could prove fatal in achieving your gaols by preventing you from trying again and again.

Baseball players normally hit the ball 3 out of 10 times. How do these guys go out and play with such a high failure rate. They focus on the law of averages. They know if they keep swinging the bat they will eventually get on base.

In 1952, Roger Bannister a forma English athlete, ran in the Olympics in an attempt to beat the 4 minute mile record. In his race he came 4th place and failing to win anything. However, he refused to quit his goal to run the mile under 4 minutes. The historic event took place 6th May 1954 and Roger Bannister achieved his goal. Nowadays, runners do this all the time.

If you refuse to quit when you fail, you can ultimately succeed. You need to be willing to get back up.

Abraham Lincoln was defeated a number of times on his journey to become the 16th President of the USA. Today, he is considered to be one of the best. The wise man concluded:

‘It’s a mistake to suppose people succeed only through success. They often succeed through failure’.

By doing something the wrong way, you will soon learn to do it the right way. This is so true – practise makes perfect. The truth by failing in one area will drive you to explore other areas.

Most success in life is through trial and error. However, if you don’t like something then you are likely to fail. But this is driven by the lack of effort and commitment.  If you hate your job, you are likely to fail at it.

What do you understand about serving leadership? The benefit of failure makes you less judgemental of others. When you experience failure, you become more sympathetic. Instead of pointing and condemning others of their failures, instead you lend a helping hand and show them the way. Instead of saying, ‘I can’t believe you did that’. You take the view that you have been there and because of this understand their pain. This makes you a better mentor.

In the dictionary, striving and struggle comes before the word succeed. Coincidence or done on purpose?

Make the transition to live the dream. Learn from the mistakes you make. Don’t be afraid and have the right perspective.

We can all aspire to achieve better things. It may be a case of changing direction and doing something you have never done, but always dreamt of. I’m helping people to think positively about the future and how best use their time. I believe that people can find a way within to pursue an idea and a vision. We all have the ability to take control of our lives, but many just don’t know it or know how.

My name is Gary Oakes and I have established a 3 in 1 solution to help anyone who is looking to start an income opportunity through the comfort of ones own home. Step 1 is to develop the passion and drive – set expectations. Step 2 is much about internet marketing techniques (free information). Step 3 provides an opportunity to work from home. The website is full of information and you will not see such valuable information contained all in one place to help you. The journey starts by following this simple link to Ideas Working From Home.

There is no commitment or expense to view the free material available to help you, and you never know, this might be the very thing you are looking for!

Here is another article about motivation, but this time focusing on conditioning. Let’s start with a question. What keeps you going in life? Is it faith, belief, drive or is it fear? The reason I ask this is because the way we think, behave and act is influenced by the we are brought up. This includes schooling, family life, interaction with friends and the environment for which we surround ourselves. This is all part of the conditioning embedded within up to now.

With conditioning, be aware of it, but acknowledge it. Although by all means use it to your advantage. If looking to do something different then it may be a case of reprogramming. There are a lot of people looking to do something different, wanting to create ideas working from home, be their own boss and run a business in their own way. 97% of people are just not tuned in to do this because their conditioning has taught them to get an education and then get a job working for someone else.

3% of people think differently and aim to become an entrepreneur and be in control of their own destiny. This is hard work and is not for everyone although anyone can achieve great things if given the right guidance and direction. So what is the mindset of a 3% leader. There are basically 5 areas they focus their time:

1. Daily visualisation and meditation on their goals
2. Income producing activities
3. Working on yourself
4. Making the commitment to mastermind with other leaders each and everyday
5. Cultivate the expectation of leadership

Here is an interesting perspective regarding conditioning.

In the USA, the standard railway gauge is 4’ 8½”. This is the measurement between the rails. Why such an odd number? Why the question?

The railway gauge in the USA was built to the same gauge to that of the UK. The people in the UK who built the railway followed the same gauge as the tramways. The tramways were built to the wheel spacing used on the wagons. The spacing of the wagon wheels were made to fit in the ruts that existed in many of the roads. Now the interesting part. The ruts in the road were made from the wheels from the Roman Empire war chariots back in 50 to 500AD. These ruts are spaced at 4’ 8 ½”.

This is a great example of conditioning. People doing something because that is the way it has always been done. There are companies in trouble today because of this – didn’t see clearly or plan ahead differently because of their past conditioning. Market conditions change. People’s demands change. So you need to change. Going forward in business based on the past is not going to get you where you need to be in the future.

Next time you are handed some instructions, question where they came from? The Roman war chariot wheel spacing was designed to accommodate the back end of two war horses. Ironically, the space shuttle booster rockets were made smaller than required because they needed to be transported via rail. In other words the restricted gauge limited the size of 20th century space exploration because the gauge was restricted to the backside of two Roman war horses.

Know it or not, but the majority have been conditioned. If you could surround yourself and mastermind with great leaders and entrepreneurs then you would have a totally different outlook and perspective to life. You don’t have to follow your conditioned past, but break free, be different and create a life of your own design.

We can all aspire to achieve better things. It may be a case of changing direction and doing something you have never done, but always dreamt of. I’m helping people to think positively about the future and how best use their time. I believe that people can find a way within to pursue an idea and a vision. We all have the ability to take control of our lives, but many just don’t know it or know how.

My name is Gary Oakes and I have established a 3 in 1 solution to help anyone who is looking to start an income opportunity through the comfort of ones own home. Step 1 is to develop the passion and drive – set expectations. Step 2 is much about internet marketing techniques (free information). Step 3 provides an opportunity to work from home. The website is full of information and you will not see such valuable information contained all in one place to help you. The journey starts by following this simple link to Ideas Working From Home.

There is no commitment or expense to view the free material available to help you, and you never know, this might be the very thing you are looking for!