If you are prone to making excuses, it is something you will want to change… immediately.  Using excuses to explain away your failures will not only stifle your progress, but stifle your growth and drastically limit your results.  People use excuses to let themselves off the hook for not giving it their all.  Taking responsibility for your actions, results and experiences is one of the most powerful disciplines a human can take on.  It is a discipline, an inherent character trait, of successful people.  By taking responsibility for your life, nothing or no one can get in your way.  Every person at some point comes to the epiphany that if I want to be successful, nobody is going to do it for me.  Certainly, friends, family, associates and your environment may contribute to your success, but if it is to be… it will be up to you – 100%.

I invite you to think back to your last failure, and think back to a big one.  Think back to one where there was something really important at stake.  Who, or what, do you blame for that failure?  Was it your age, health, gender, education, environment, race, friend, spouse, government, the economy… what was it?  Is it true?  Was it really to blame?  Or, was there something else you could’ve done before accepting failure?  Were there multiple things you could’ve done before accepting failure?  What did that excuse cost you?

Take responsibility for your actions, your results and your experiences and watch a new level of personal performance suddenly emerge.  Notice how your communication improves.  Notice how your relationships improve.  Notice how you will begin to receive assistance from people that had never moved a muscle for you before.  Notice how life actually becomes easier, because it will.  Even if it seems a little counter-intuitive at first, trust it.  Clarity around the power of responsibility will be created before you know it, and you will be able to use it as a tool to accomplish whatever you set your sights on.

Best practices:

1. Trust your abilities. We are all born for greatness and engineered for success.  Believe it.  You must have confidence in this belief before others will have confidence in you.
2. Look for the bright-side in every challenge you experience. Get in the habit of asking yourself in the face of adversity, “Is this really as bad as I’m making it mean?”
3. Focus on solutions instead of excuses. Specifically, always focus on what you want to have happen as opposed to what’s happening.  What else could I do to produce my desired result?
4. Be Lucky. Luck exists in the moment when preparedness meets opportunity.  Always be preparing.  Always be learning.  Always be practicing skills and improving your knowledge.

“In times of change learners will inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” –Eric Hoffer

Here’s my favorite resource to stay prepared and equipped for whatever future challenge or opportunity I may meet.  Perhaps it will become yours, as well?

Everybody wants to be successful to some degree.  Most believe that success will manifest all those wonderful things we call “wants.”  While humans aspire to be successful, very few have the belief that they will succeed.  Unfortunately, that’s where success begins, with beliefs.  No successful beliefs = no success.  Until one has cultivated a strong belief in themselves, success will forever elude them and the “wanting” of success is really nothing more than wishful thinking.

There is nothing mysterious or magical about the power of belief.  History is replete with countless examples of successful people giving an overwhelming amount of credit to their beliefs and thoughts.  Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is one of the more famous studies of such people.  It is successful people’s belief in themselves and what they are up to that attracts and creates their opportunities.  A person with strong beliefs will radiate confidence and influence within their environment and network.  Confident and influential people attract other confident and influential people.  Circles of confident and influential people beget access to resources, contacts and communities that elude other circles.  This type of environment is constantly presenting openings for seemingly effortless action.  Action creates results, results create success, and success will strengthen your belief in success perpetuating the cycle of success; And it all begins with beliefs.

One thing to keep in mind at all times is that “beliefs” do not discriminate.  Successful thoughts lead to successful results.  Mediocre thoughts lead to mediocre results.  Negative thoughts lead to negative results.  Small thoughts lead to small results.  Big thoughts lead to big results.  Beliefs are beliefs.  It takes no more effort to believe in success than it does in failure.  That’s great news!  And even better news is YOU get to choose what you believe in.

In a nutshell, you are what you think about most of the time.

Our mind is like a rubber band, when stretched, it will never return to the previous size. Stretch you mind by learning from and modeling successful people. The aim is to make successful thoughts and actions your habit.

Welcome to the first day of TheDoOverGuy.com!

The above two minute video is my personal welcome to and introduction of TheDoOverGuy.com.  There’s tons of information that I can, and will, share with you in the world of producing results, however, the realm of Internet media is a new frontier for me.  All I have to say is “thank God” for video and the unlimited “Do Overs” it allows.  It took 40+ takes for me to produce 120 seconds of acceptable footage for this first post.  I suppose there lies your first lesson, if at first you don’t succeed… Do Over! (even if you have to do it 40+ times ).

If somebody you know is in the process, or deserving, of a “Do Over,” your sharing of my website would be greatly appreciated.  I made it real easy for you below to share through the use of those cool little icons each representing your favorite social media spot.  Just click and share.  Thanks!

Again… Welcome!  I’m glad you’re here.