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Upping the Ante - Jeff Davidson
Upping the Ante
by Jeff Davidson
When you up the ante
after reaching a challenging goal quickly, your power and influence markedly increase. It’s time to make things more challenging. You can take an incremental approach, put everything in sequence, and go for broke.
Making Things More Challenging for Yourself
On the way to accomplishing your goals, sometimes you set your sights too low. As challenging as your goals might have seemed, even before you cross the finish line, some of them apparently had been well within your grasp all along.
Your challenge then becomes to up the ante
and decide to go for more, because you've either proven to yourself, or feel in the marrow of your bones, that you're capable of accomplishing more.
Why Me, Why Now? -- You're someone who has either constantly, or will hereafter, be setting challenging but reachable goals which are quantifiable and have specific time lines. You're someone who wants to better his lot in life, whether it's along mental, physical, family, social, spiritual,
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