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Live It!

The third sample from Empower U's new book, Becoming Your Dreams: Want It. Create It. Live It!

The new book, Becoming Your Dreams: Want It. Create It. Live It! gives you an inside look into Empower U's powerful Leadership Experience courses, Leadership Awakening and Leadership Adventure. You also get tons of practical tools you can use to help you Live It every day.

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Do you only talk your talk, or do you really walk your talk? Are you just saying that you want it, or are you doing what’s necessary to create it? If you truly are committed to becoming the dreams of your life, then you’ll also need to know how to live it.

In our seminars, we say, "If you live your life as if it matters, it will." So, "live it" is about "intentional living," or living "on purpose," with a mission and goal in mind.

Are your dreams becoming reality—not just what you talk about, but what you do? Our company’s purpose statement includes this definition of "live it": we are making the world a bit better as we live our lives with a noble cause. In other words, tomorrow is becoming better because we are here today!

In our seminars, we say, "If you live your life as if it matters, it will." So, "live it" is about "intentional living," or living "on purpose," with a mission and goal in mind.

Live It Daily

Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, "Life is what happens to us while we’re making other plans." One of Chris’s favorite expressions is, "The trouble with life is it’s so daily." There’s more than enough "same-old-same-old" in our daily lives to make us forget that history is being written as we live it every day.

Generally speaking, we have good intentions to live a life that makes a difference. But it’s the "daily-ness" of living that causes us to lose focus on what we want, how we will create it, and why we will live it.

The plain truth is as human development expert Bob Moawad observed:

You can’t leave footprint in the sands of time if you are sitting on your butt… and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time?

So, our focus in this chapter is how to live our dreams. Without this third step, we stop short of the goal.

Rather than simply challenging you to "Live It!", I want to challenge you to "Lead It!" If you’re not leading your own life, you’re following someone else’s lead.

The Time is Now

We’ve developed a habit at Empower U that you’re free to adopt. When someone asks what time it is, we reply, "The time is now… 2:30" (or whatever the actual time of day is). In order to remind ourselves that the clock is running, that we must live in the present to be in control of our lives and opportunities, we precede the time of day by saying, "The time is now…"

Remember that time waits for no one.

The expression "time is money" takes on new meaning when you consider that every morning, the Bank of Time credits you with 86,400 seconds. If you think of those seconds as dollars, you’ll hate wasting any of them. Every night the Bank of Time writes off, as lost, whatever you have failed to spend wisely. There is never a balance that carries over to tomorrow, never an overdraft. Each day the Bank of Time credits a new balance to your account and burns the remains at the end of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against "tomorrow." You and I must live in the present, on today’s deposits. Invest it for the greatest return in health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. The time is now!