No Excuses by Lorii Myers Named Finalist in the Prestigeous Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2014

No Excuses:  The Fit Mind - Fit Body Strategy Book by Lorii Myers Named Finalist in the Prestigeous Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2014.

In life, as in golf, approach every day as if it’s a new round. By using strategic methods to get the maximum impact or the best shot for that day, you can ensure that you are on a path of continual improvement as you move toward your ultimate goal. This enlightening new guide by Lorii Myers shows you that by living smart, practicing, planning, and removing excuses, you can’t help but succeed. 

Designed to teach readers how to exercise their minds and bodies in a new way, 3 Off the Tee: No Excuses proves that to achieve great things in life, your body and mind must work in unison. By taking responsibility for the good and bad in life, planning for improvement, and taking the hazards out of play, you can reinvent your world if you desire, and this motivational guide shows you just how to do it. 

An empowered employee turned entrepreneur, Lorii Myers has more than three decades of business experience that encompasses a wide variety of careers, challenges including senior manager, controller, business owner, and award-winning author. With the belief that the right attitude is everything, she carefully details the mental and physical makeover strategies that will lead you toward the mind-body achievement connection, and ultimately to success. Myers is the author of 3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success, the first volume in the 3 Off the Tee series, and 3 Off the Tee: Make it Happen. She currently resides north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mental Agility in Tenerife

Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and 

incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.

3 Off the Tee:  No Excuses

The Fit Mind-Fit Body

Strategy Book

by Lorii Myers

(Copyright 2013) 

NANOWRIMO day 22... Yikes! 4222 words a day to go!

Keeping in mind that I was in Tenerife, Canary Islands,  Spain for 10 days on vacation, and my writing slowed somewhat ... I am still 38000 words away from hitting my target of 50000 words by the end of November. 

YIKES!  That equates to 4222 words a day for nine days to make it!

Am I still determined to go for it?  Yep!

Oddly being in Tenerife was quite inspiring and I was able to gather some pretty kewl material for the manuscript which I have now inserted in point form... and which I will be developing in the days to follow.

Initially Tenerife was not even in my mind when thinking about what I would write about.  Now it is the location where "it" all happens -- the pulse of adventure -- the mysterious destination steeped with haunting history and intrigue.

So, the names have been changed to protect the innocent ... I'm just sayin'. lol. 

Joking aside, the Tenerife adventure proved to be more than I was expecting -- in real life.  We heard gun shots in the afternoon.  Moments later as we walked around the corner toward our hotel we saw policia everywhere.  Yet, this news never hit the papers.

Hmmmm ...    A woman was beheaded there in May of 2011 -- in a grocery store - with lots of witnesses.  It hit the news everywhere.  But nothing of this?  I will keep googling.

One last thought! Stream of Consciousness the BOOK ... the MOVIE?

Stream of Consciousness the BOOK ... the MOVIE?

Hey think BIG and never let 'em see you sweat --2 great rules to live by!

Last night I was sleuthing around and managed to snatch a great domain address for the book and then I slapped a quick site together.  http://www.stream-of-consciousness.com/  CHECK IT OUT!

I am thinking that this should be the book's web-site but I am also thinking it could be the main character -- Katrina's site, promoting herself as a journalist.  This would be kewl as I could include past articles that she has written about travel, history, culture, cuisine ...

Then I thought, hey, you know what would be really kewl?  I work the site into an exciting new movie release site and include video clips, on-location action shots, character development bios detailing their roles in the book / film.  I could even have the book characters describe the actors that should play them in the movie.  Oh it is limitless!

I WOULD LOVE SOME FEEDBACK!  ARE YOU FEELING CREATIVE TODAY?  TALK TO ME!

You need dreams—lots of them—and passion!

What have you been dreaming about over the years? When you have many goals and dreams and you want to be better equipped to make them reality, you need to summon your passion. Passion is one of the most potent motivators when it comes to cranking up your desire to succeed. It’s crucial to understand the direct relationship between the fuel of your passion and real success. The relationship really only exists if you have been honest with yourself about whether you really want your goal or dream to materialize. You have to want it—desperately!

In golf, you quickly learn to play the best shot, the shot that’s needed, and not the one you may want to play. You play smart. You play the correct shot even if you feel like going for the risky or low-percentage shot. You lay-up (to hit a shorter shot than you are capable of in order to avoid a hazard or to position the ball in a certain spot) if you need to, stay out of trouble, and avoid adding unnecessary strokes to your score.

In life, this compares to staying the course even when you may be tempted to stray off in another direction. You play smart and focus on your final target of success. You find your passion and use it to cultivate and fuel the staying power needed to reach your ultimate goal or dream.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant!

If you can honestly say that you are fully aware of what you’re up against in life, you are brilliant. Being aware means you are informed―alert, knowledgeable, sophisticated―and you have the tools to visualize, strategize, focus, and win.

The more aware you are of life and its difficulties, of how people act and their effect on you, of your own quirks and how you handle both good and bad situations, the better off you are. But how many of us are that aware?

THE RIGHT ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING!

The right attitude is everything!

So what is the right attitude and what does having the right attitude mean?

Does it revolve around being optimistic and inquisitive?  How about confident, inspired and challenged?  Perhaps it means that you readily recognize opportunity because you pay attention -- you know when the right opportunity comes your way, you will be ready!

I think the right attitude is a combination of confidence, determination, and guts. It’s a deciding factor in how you live your life.  To me it’s having the impetus to step up and into challenge, having an insatiable zest for life, and being passionate about your dreams and expectations. 

What does the right attitude mean to you?