Pat Mesiti – Soaring Higher

Pat Mesiti International Motivational Speaker gives you principles to soar higher!
(excerpt taken from Pat Mesiti’s new book “Soaring Higher”)

What you feed grows, what you starve dies

When I was a child at school I had a teacher who enjoyed trying to scare the life out of me by sneaking up behind me and screaming at the top of her voice. I would be daydreaming and she would scream, ‘Mesiti, pay attention!’

When I first started going out with friends my little Italian mother would yell out to me, 'Pasqualie, watch out when you cross the road, make sure you pay attention, cause if you get hit by a truck don't you come home crying to me.'

It is amazing how things happen in life that could be avoided if only we paid attention. The great lesson of life is what you feed or pay attention to grows, and what you starve dies. Some years ago I built a brand new home and decided to plant the gardens with beautiful flowers and trees. A green thumb was never one of my strengths, but I thought I would have a go. One year later, during a conversation with some friends, I mentioned how the plants were not growing well and that I thought the soil was not as good as the soil at our home where I grew up. One of my friends said in his deep South African accent, ‘So the plants are not growing, Pat, is that correct? Have you tried watering them?' I suddenly realised I had wanted the plants to grow, I wanted beautiful blooms, but I didn't want to give them the attention they needed.

Too often we give too much attention to what is least important and too little attention to what is most important. Some people pay lots of attention to their physical body yet give no attention to their internal emotional and spiritual well-being. Other people spend a lot of time developing the inside – intellect, emotions, spirit - and don't care about the outside – fitness and appearance.  Both matter. 

Today there is so much trying to attract our attention: TV ads, music, meetings, catalogues, phone calls... But we must be the kind of people who pay attention to the things that help us build our lives successfully. You see, you can't ignore things and hope they will get better. You can't ignore your business and expect it to grow. You can't ignore your health and expect to stay healthy. You can't ignore things and expect them to stay the same or to get better. Instead, they will deteriorate. Consider your home - if you were to go away for two or three years and leave if totally untouched, on your return would the house and property be in a worse condition? Why? Because you neglected it. 

What I pay attention to will progress; what I neglect will regress. Some people try to find faults rather than remedies. If all you seek are faults, that is all you will find. But if you look for remedies, guess what, you will find remedies.

I need to pay attention to my gifts and strengthen what I already have. What I pay attention to becomes my priority. Priorities don't happen by chance, they happen by choice. You can tell what your priorities are by what you spend your time on, where your thoughts are, and the projects you are most passionate about. 

The thing that I pay attention to will give me reward. If you neglect your investments, they will not reward you, causing you a lot of financial harm. But if you focus and work on them, they will deliver rewards. Understand that many of the things that happen to us occur not because of fate or bad luck, but because we did not pay attention.

A little while ago, a good friend of mine was told that he had prostate cancer. It is a terrible disease. From what I understand, most prostate cancers should not happen if we would just pay attention to the symptoms and have them detected early.

Challenge

Focus on those things that are important to you. What aspects of your life are being neglected and starved?  Make sure you pay attention to the things around you so you don't suffer from neglect and regress. Negligence requires no effort, attention and focus require great effort.

Other Motivational Books by Pat Mesiti

Attitudes and Altitudes
Pat Mesiti at his best! This book addresses the "how's" of leadership. It deals with vital principles such as leader development, how to network people and how to bring out the best in those around you. Pat Mesiti speaks on: growing big people, passion, leadership, mentoring, encouragement, attitude, credibility.

Dreamers Never Sleep
Pat Mesiti, in his comical yet challenging way, will show you how to: replace wrong perceptions with winning attitudes, deal positively with change, define your destiny, go beyond the 'norm', handle failure and discover what success really is and how it can affect your world.

Opportunity Knocks
If you are one of those millions of people around the world waiting for an opportunity to take your life to another level, then this book is for you.
1) recognize opportunities
2) grab opportunities that come your way
3) Persevere with opportunities

Wake Up and Dream
Discover the power of personal vision and how your dreams can help change the world.
The various topics include: how to rise above the limitations of your past, defining your dream, developing a plan to make your dream a reality, developing character, skills and attitudes that facilitate change, and unlocking the gifts and talents of those around you.

To obtain more information on Pat Mesiti’s Motivational Books, CD’s and products, or to book Pat as a Motivational Speaker for an upcoming event please visit www.mesiti.com

To obtain information on Pat Mesiti’s Millionaire Mindset Club, please visit www.mmclub.com.au