Where is your mind?

The bowl season is winding down and will finish Thursday when Alabama and Texas play for the championship. I want us to turn our attention to The Liberty Bowl. Arkansas survived several game winning opportunities from East Carolina to win the game. As we embark on 2010, we can all learn from the game.

East Carolina's kicker, Ben Hartman, missed field goals in the final few minutes of the game and in overtime to leave the door open for Arkansas. You could read his mindset and know that he was not ready to make those kicks. The question is are you ready to make your kicks in 2010.

The definition of luck is when opportunity and preparedness meet. If you are prepared to take advantage of the opportunities in the upcoming year, you will automatically see more opportunities. One of the hottest books and videos out recently was The Secret. Great book -- I saw the video, enjoyed and subscribe to it's message. However, one of the contributors to that book is Jack Canfield and I heard him on an interview say, "Eventually, you got to get off your butt and go do what you want to do as you are expecting good things to happen." His message is simple, just sitting and expecting good things to happen, will not make them happen.

Here are some suggestions for 2010.

1. Give yourself credit for what you do. If eating is a problem for you and you eat half a piece of cake instead of a whole piece, give yourself credit and build from there.

2. Be willing to miss the mark (fail) The most successful people in history (Edison, Trump, Jordan) They all failed - but then learned from those failures and became extremely successful.

3. Have goals. If you are missing excitement in your life, create goals and then work hard to hit them.

4. Create a stop list. You have habits that are stopping you from your success. Killing those habits and replacing them with more positive habits, will help you in 2010.

5. Worry about what you can control. You can not control a lot of things. Every moment you spend worrying about those things, you are robbing yourself from concentrating on the things you can control.

Sometime in 2010, you will be asked to make the kick. Be prepared, look forward to the opportunity, then make it.

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