Today I decided to start a blog post a day of the lesson or lessons learned each day. This way It will get me back into the habit of writing and keep my perspective growing. Over the last couple of weeks I have met some really amazing people from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of success. Some of which I really look forward to the many projects that I will be collaborating with them on.
The lesson that I learned today is somewhat simple when stated, however in application I am finding that it has been extremely hard to understand for others. The concept is as follows:
If we setup in our minds that the reward for doing something is failure, we soon lose interest in doing any of the steps associated with that goal.
Simply put if you think you are or focus on the failure of a thing you soon will begin to stop moving in the direction of the completion of that thing. I shake my head for all the times that I felt that way about something that at one point I was on fire for. Ready to go out into the world and hunt that thing down kill it and drag it back home. Visions of being a victor of fear and doubt, hearing the cheers of the crowd of doing battle and winning. Only to lose the drive to finish and having the project fade into obscurity. We have all been there. The question really is… Are those hopes, dreams, and opportunities really gone? Or is it that we have covered them up with the many layers of excuses that we so quickly become comfortable with these days?
Take a moment and reflect on those things that you might have been really wanting in your life and see if they are possibly valid now for you. That beachfront home or the car of your dreams or even being physically fit. They are all still possible and you never know a dream you might have had could be the key to your future and you had it inside you all the time.
If you find something or you might even have something that you are bringing to reality, the first step is clearly identifying what it is going to mean to you to have or achieve it in todays terms. For myself the turning point was deciding to become Debt-Free. When I looked at my household debt of over $90,000 dollars, I realized that I had been living numb to the where I was headed and made up my mind that enough was enough. I set out to not only crush the debt but to come up with a plan to do it quickly. I will be sharing the method by which I did it in a series of posts called “Steps To End Debt Now”. Once I got fired up I realized that I could not do it without a system and that a system would not work until I was honest with myself and admitted where I was.
That bit of clarity combined with a proven system made a change in life that has been immeasurable.
