Lost Your Fire to Press Forward?

byAllChristie2

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5 years ago

There is nothing impossible!

Everything you want is on the other side of fear. You must activate our own impact on life. It is the way WA works. Tend to and water the garden of your growth. Embrace the newness of the training. Throw caution to the wind and jump right into the middle of it all. As you learn new lessons, you will win confidence and security.

You must untangle your white knuckles from that imaginary arm-of-steel that holds you to the chair near the TV. Wrangle that suction until you can rip off your arm and stand up. Release that stale energy, that thinking that you know it all already, shake it off you and march to your computer and work. Work to learn and then proceed to success. The road to success is right here at WA.

Do you hear voices of "how" in your head? Do you wrinkle your forehead in over-thinking? If so, read this story.

Mildred The Timid

There once was a cow named Mildred. She was born in the last months of the year, not in the spring like most all other cows. She had sad eyes because of the teasing she got from the herd which was full of many other cows. They called her “funny tail.” It was different than theirs, it had some grey hairs in it. They laughed at her every day around the hay trough and water hole. She never hurried or pushed her way in front of the older cows who were in a hurry to be fed. She walked slower and tried to keep out of their way and their criticism. They made a chant about her and teased her all the more.

“Here she comes now, late as ever,” they said childishly.

Then they would loudly sing out, “Always behind, just like an old cows’ tail. Always behind, just see how grey those hairs. Well, when she gets to milking day, we’ll just gather round and say, always behind, we just knew you’d fail.”

“The farmer will wonder if your milk has already soured before he hooks up your milkers.” Then they would laugh even louder at Mildred.

One day they. banned together, got in a big semi-circle around her, and pushed her into the huge, sloppy and stinky mud hole. Her legs flew over her head and she had a terrible time trying to find her hooves to turn herself back over. That hole was pretty deep. She was so embarrassed. Mildred started baying and baying...Moo; crying for the farmer to help her get out. She didn’t know that the stink would last and last. It was sort of like the smell of decaying leaves or skunks. She wondered just how they got so rowdy and lacked manners.

As new calves came into the herd, Mildred’s mooing to them was to tell them about her abuse from the older cows. "Yes," she said, "Even the bull was rough with her." They begin to believe that Mildred’s treatment would happen to them too. It made them all jumpy and mistrusting.

You see, Mildred was the first purchase this year of a pure-bred Guernsey-Ayrshire dairy cow. She had papers and excellent breeding. This was a new cross-breed from tagged Scotland stock. This made her the farmers favorite.

Her color could be from fawn, brown, black, mahogany, to red. She would produce more milk which would be higher in butter fat and protein, have a higher cream volume, and her size would be much larger with longer legs than the other herd. Her meat would be greater in volume and more choice, bringing in more income. This breeding would produce more milk on less feed. Another money saving feature.

Mildred’s face was a bit unusual. She had brown ears, her face was almost black with a white streak across her ears and down her nose. She had a number of markings along her body, some light and some dark. It reminded me of a pinto horse, a little.

The farmer watched how the herd behaved around Mildred. He began to get a clue into what was happening out there with the older cows. Cow’s milk can be spoiled when the cow is stressed and when the food source gets changed.

It is sort-of-like when someone loses their job and has to start over doing something else, when they aren’t sure it will work out. Skipping meals or eating too much sugar also does this. There is a lot of stress and stress upsets the stomach.

The farmer took Mildred out of the field and corralled her into a large paddock with lots of straw on the barn floor, hay in the bin, and fresh water. There was even a roof over her head while she ate. She was fed and milked twice a day like clockwork. He rubbed her soft skin and combed her mane with a soft brush and placed a salt block in her pen. She thought heaven must be just like this.

Mildred had worried and fretted and thought “no one loves me or cares about me.” Perhaps, she thought of running away just to avoid facing those others in the herd. All this trauma was unnecessary. Mildred just didn’t know that she was special to the farmer. She didn’t know that he had her in the field with the herd only until she had learned about the processes involved in the farmers routine. She was jumping to the wrong conclusions. She needed to understand all cows get milked daily, come out of the field when the bell rings and back to the barn to be milked. Obviously, these few things could be learned by watching others.

In WA asking questions serves as the way to find answers to questions in order to reduce the stress factors arising when frustrated.

Training can be a lot like looking over the shoulders of someone who already knows how the job works and what must be done daily to reach the proposed goals.

Walking into an office or signing up with WA and expecting to know how it all works is not plausible. Learning must take place first. Some kinks (in your old armor) that you believe should never happen because it didn’t happen before, do. New rules and procedures are the norm. Sure, the old solution worked then; however, now they don’t and there is a need to expand your knowledge. The same is true in jumping over lessons that you think you learned long ago. Do not jump ahead or skip lessons. It is intelligent to do every one in order. They have been set up this way by Kyle for a reason. Even one seemingly small change in “How it used to be,” will make a big difference for you in your success today.

Mildred came to enjoy hearing the farmer chatter and hum while he attached the milking equipment twice a day. She learned patience and chewed her cud happily. Before she knew it, she became a mother with a calf in her stall. This calf was a big one. It stood up in minutes not hours. The farmer was overjoyed because now his plans for his business had been followed, step by step, day by day, lesson by lesson, and success was standing there right before him.

It is time to look at your own reflection in the mirror. Are you willing to curtail your rowdiness, your fun filled breaks that seem to last all day? Are you ready to buckle down, learn how to succeed, and just DO IT?

Then, may I add my congratulations to you. You will not fall behind with unkind songs sung about you. You will set goals and work hard to follow the plan. You will succeed.

See you at the top!