When we talk about preparing for success, we are talking about cultivating an atmosphere internal and external to increase the potential of succeeding.

This process is non-negotiable.

Priming the Pump

Some may remember the term to prime the pump.

Those who aren’t familiar perhaps want to know what does the phrase priming the pump means? Essentially it means pumping the water to remove all old sediment and residue before filling your glass.

We must prime the pump to get the best water.

We must rid ourselves of the sludge that clogs up the pipelines and slows down our progress, if not outright stops it. Sometimes this requires a reset or grounding.

Reset and Grounding: Precursor to the Cleanse

Get rid of all the impurities; the impurities of thought and the environment.

Wipe the slate clean.

What is the slate?

Your slate is your mind!

You see, what an individual thinks they become. Remember the power of words.

So as creative spirits, we have the power to call things into existence using our tongues.

Therefore don’t bite the poisoned apple (it’s toxic)

Good Fruit vs. Rotten Fruit

Good fruit arises from good seeds.

Poorly established seeds render rotten fruit or no fruit.

To get rid of toxic elements, you must take yourself through a process of Detox.

What is a Detox?

Detox is the process of purification. It is the elimination of toxic elements that are harmful to an organism’s state.

Why Detox?

Before you can dive headfirst into strategizing and planning you must set yourself up to win. This requires developing behaviors consistent with success ( the right mindset)

So to do this, you must detox.

What does Cleansing entail?

Look at everything you are allowing into your life.

Determine if the seeds that fall into your consciousness’s soil are negative or positive.

• Are those things empowering or destructive?
• Do they charge you or drain you?
• Do you leave with more than what you arrived with?

If those things are positive, empower, drive, encourage, and grow you, then keep them and use those things to improve you daily.

If those things are negative, discouraging, draining, subtracting, or adding nothing, then you must detox from them ASAP.

“What’s the most effective detox program? Distancing yourself from self-destructive thoughts, behaviors, and people.”
― Charles F Glassman

Why the urgency?

The seeds you allow to take root, as they are watered, grow until they are full-grown and almost impossible to root up.

The more you stay around the negative influences, the more negative you will become.

Though you may not realize it, that poisoned seed will poison the entire tree rendering it suitable for nothing.

“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life” – Robin Sharma

Final Words On Detoxing

As you are in the dream building process. Take inventory and take it well.

Examine everything in your life.

Some things will be harder to detox from than others, but there are ways it can be done!

Please take this seriously; your fulfillment depends on it. Give your dreams a chance to live.

A Mind-blowing reminder

In one of his messages, Les Brown offers this very eye-opening story.

He asks his listeners to imagine that your life is drawing to a conclusion. Imagine as you lay on your bed ready to pass from this life around your bedside is every dream that never got its chance to see fulfillment.

Imagine them standing there in all their fury and sadness. because the only one who could allow them to live did nothing or did the least.

How does that make you feel?

So please don’t let your dreams die.

There is someone incredible out there waiting for the vision you hold within you.