{"id":9573,"date":"2014-05-30T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=9573"},"modified":"2014-05-30T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T04:05:17","slug":"step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2014\/05\/step-by-step.html","title":{"rendered":"Step by Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2014\/05\/elephants-in-an-approaching-storm-pictures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9574\" alt=\"elephants-in-an-approaching-storm-pictures\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/85\/2014\/05\/elephants-in-an-approaching-storm-pictures-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080\"><br \/>\nElephants are powerful and magnificent.\u00a0 They have tremendous hearts and compassion.\u00a0 Elephants symbolize strength, wisdom and prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">In this picture, although a storm is approaching, the elephants take life step by step, always moving forward toward their destination or goal.\u00a0 They do not let the fear or concern of the approaching storm affect them and their actions.\u00a0 They move forward with awareness.\u00a0 They are a family and stay together, helping and caring for one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Life gives you lessons for your greatest growth and development every moment.\u00a0 Opportunities for your success are all around you.\u00a0 Be open, be aware and be ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">No great achievement or success was built overnight or instantaneously.\u00a0 Success requires a proper foundation which can sustain its growth.\u00a0 There is an expression that it takes a village to raise a child.\u00a0 Similarly, it takes a great deal of time, effort and dedication to create lasting success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Becoming a true success requires being a successful person.\u00a0 Qualities of honesty, integrity, service, compassion, kindness, leadership, sincerity, humility, acceptance, acknowledgement, discernment and appropriateness go a long way.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\">It is important to measure success properly.\u00a0 It is not only a function of money.\u00a0 Health (spiritual, mental, emotional &amp; physical), peace, fulfillment, joy, quality relationships, time in nature, self-expression are all fundamental components of true success along with financial wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Give yourself the opportunity to actualize your full, creative potential &#8211; your divine design.\u00a0 Create your own Game Plan for $uccess.\u00a0 Write out all of the details of how you want your life to be &#8211; include your vision, purpose, goals and ground rules.\u00a0 Live your dream one step at a time.\u00a0 You are here to do great things and most often that means taking many small steps in a positive direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">May you manifest the divine plan of your life, under grace and in perfect ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Prosperously yours,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\">\ud83d\ude42 Lee <\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000080\">The MEGA Coach<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Google<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants are powerful and magnificent.\u00a0 They have tremendous hearts and compassion.\u00a0 Elephants symbolize strength, wisdom and prosperity. 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