In "Don’t Ever Call Me Ma’am,” Linda Franklin outlines seven steps to unleash what she calls your "Real Cougar.” Franklin calls her "I CREATE” a personal Success Magnet and writes, "When you learn how to use it, there isn’t anything you won’t be able to create.” Here are the seven basic steps:
→"I” is for imagination. Instead of letting yourself get stuck in the "what ifs” of everyday life, use your imagination to envision your real possibilities and don’t give up on that imagination until it becomes reality. "There’s nothing stopping your imagination from running wild but you,” Franklin writes. "Never underestimate what you are capable of.”
→"C” is for choice. You may not always believe it, but everyday you have the freedom to choose how to see your world. "You are capable of being whomever you choose to be. You just have to want it badly enough.”
→"R” is for role-playing. Fake it ’til you make it. "This will take you from the comfort of ‘what is’ to the more challenging world of ‘anything’s possible.’”
→"E” is for education. When creating something new, you have to replace the old. This is where education comes in. "No matter what you are planning to create, you need the help of someone who has already arrived where you want to go,” Franklin writes.
→"A” is for action. "Up to this point, everything you have done was in preparation for this moment,” Franklin writes. It’s time to take the leap from imagining, choosing and planning to actually doing.
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