Are you on the couch? Are your dreams and goals sitting there with you? You are in the fight of your life, and you must defeat the enemy, the enemy called average. What is the average? Are you an average middle class woman? What exactly is that? Is your favorite hobby babysitting or working eight to five Monday through Friday and then flopping on the couch every night watching mindless sitcoms, or is watching CSI your thing? Is that average?

Let’s face it, moms are tired. Every day you babysit, do the laundry, shop for groceries, pick up the dry cleaner, clean the house, make dinner, pay the bills, and so on. Or maybe you work full time AND do all of the above. But you love being a mom. You enjoy every minute you spend with your children, but it is also important that you take time for yourself. You are overworked and underrated, but you are not average.

What are your dreams? What is important for you? Would achieving your dreams affect your life, the lives of your children and your grandchildren?

Every great achievement begins with a dream or vision of something exciting or different, a deep feeling that inspires and motivates you to love higher than ever. What is your vision for your life?

Allow yourself to have big dreams, big dreams, and giant dreams. What others have done before you can do too. What others have never thought, you can do! You may feel comfortable. You can plan to retire in 10, 20, or 30 years, put a little bit into a 401k or IRA, and with social security, you plan to get comfortable. Don’t feel comfortable. Do something great with your life.

Being a modern 21st century mom is about an attitude that is only slightly muted when feeding at 2am. A Hot Mama is a woman who radiates confidence and a woman who loves herself and her family, but is not consumed by the madness of motherhood. You know how to balance your needs and those of your family. A Hot Mama has big dreams and goals. A Hot Mama does not settle for the average.

Ask yourself these 5 questions, the answers will change your life:

1. If you continue with what you are doing now, will you have the kind of life you dream of?

2. What kind of life do you dream of?

3. If the way you live today is okay, if you feel comfortable, can you accept that that is all you will have?

4. Do you want something so desperately that not having it is unacceptable to us?

5. If something comes into your life that will allow you to get what you are looking for, are you ready to start right now?

You can make the difference. You can do something great with your life. You have the power in you, the power of ONE.

Andrew Jackson said, “A man of courage is the majority.” A man or a woman can stand up and make a difference.

George Washington, at a critical moment during the Revolutionary War, rallied his men; they were cold, they were hungry, they were losing the war. They weren’t even Americans yet. They were Hampshire men, Virginians, Maryland residents. What were they fighting for? Washington looked at his troops and said, “Let only the Americans watch tonight.” It encouraged our Declaration of Independence. The power of one man.

Think 1996. Are you where you wanted to be back then? A decade passes quickly. More importantly, you must ask yourself how you are going to live the next ten years of your life. What actions can you take today to create a tomorrow that matches your dreams? 2016 will surely come; the only important question is where you will be.

You do not have time. If you’re eighteen, don’t wait until you’re twenty-eight. If you’re 60, don’t wait until you’re seventy, don’t wait. There is not enough time to wait to do something great with your life.

Tonight when you are home, sit with your loved ones, look into their eyes, tell them you love them, tell them what keeps you awake at night, tell them what moves you, tell them what you dream about, then the next day go out. and do something great with your life.

Make today the first day of the rest of your life. Get off the couch and leave your old friends, dreams and goals behind. Make new friends like Achievement and Glory, go ahead! If you can dream it you can do it. You can be whatever you want. Don’t feel comfortable. Be good. Make difference. There is power in number one. There is power in you! Don’t be mediocre, defeat the enemy. Do something great with your life.

Aude Aliquid Dignum

“Dare to something worthy”

Copyright 2006 LL Gibson Marketing Communications.

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