Creating Your Own Destiny - 3 Key Lessons Straight From Hollywood!

It's that time of the year again. Time to set new goals for the year and to start creating your own destiny! But where do you start? You know you want to change and at least for now you have the motivation, but how exactly do you start down the path to change.

Quick tip? Take a look at those blockbuster movies that you happily stand in line for and pay top dollar. You know - Avatar, Saving Private Ryan, Rocky..and yes even the Notebook. Sorry guys, my wife made me do it!

Do you want to start creating your own destiny in a way that gets you excited, fascinates others, and yes may even have all the people you care about clapping and cheering you on? Then keep these tips taken straight from Hollywood in mind.

1. Get a solid script!

Picture this. You have all the actors on stage, all the sets prepared, and there's no script! Sounds like a disaster, but that's exactly what a lot of us do. We show up in life without a plan and wonder why we get nowhere and feel bored or unfulfilled.

If you're serious about creating your own destiny you will literally script out your life as part of a detailed goal setting plan for each year, each month, each week, and yes even each day. Pretend you are Steven Spielberg and threaten to storm off the set if you don't have the best, most compelling, script in hand.

Think big, think audacious, think exciting, think grand, think contribution, and then work your tail off to write the most amazing and detailed set of goals that you will accomplish!

2. Get a big star that can carry the picture!

Think for a minute. What would happen if you took every picture Will Smith or Angelina Jolie has done and replaced them with your college chemistry or calculus professor? Snoozer, right? Well why should your life be any different? Listen, your life can be so much greater than any Hollywood movie and I guarantee you a lot more people will be impacted by what you do in your life than anything on the big screen.

So let me ask you straight out. Are you the star in your life or are you simply an extra that quietly disappears into the background? Do your kids, wife, or husband see you as the lead actor or simply the usher? If you are serious about creating your own destiny you will step up and steal every important scene and every event in your life. Life is too short to live any other way.

3. Bring emotion!!

This ties in with the two other points, but if you're movie lacks emotion it might as well be one of those agricultural documentaries that you slept through in the fourth grade.

Same goes for your life! You have to evoke the same type of emotion, drive, and fire that Rocky had if you are serious about truly creating your own destiny. There are lots of ways to immediately create these emotional triggers to help you blast towards your destiny, but the easiest way to develop this raw emotional power is to create a vision of your life that is so compelling and rich that it ignites your passion and motivation for taking the steps necessary to reach the destiny you designed!

So there you have it! Three tips straight from Hollywood that can help you in creating your own destiny. Write a compelling and detailed set of goals, step up and take the lead, and bring your emotional "A" game to everything that matters. Keep these in mind as you are creating your own destiny and you will be rewarded with something that dwarfs any gold colored statute - A rich and fulfilling life!