Is your Why Big enough?

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When you want to take a leap of faith to fulfill your dreams, do you feel that restraining hand of fear trying to hold you back? It manifests in many forms. It could come as that probing question, Are you qualified to do it? Whatever made you think you can pull this off? Fear of failure? Fear of the unknown?


Fear of the Unknown

The idea is to make you hesitate and question your ability to pull it off successfully. Its intention is to stop you from carrying out your plan. Sometimes you may need to dial back and re-examine your Why. Because if your why is strong enough, you will push through the nagging voice of opposition and continue on your path.

I remember when I wanted to become an affiliate marketer. I kept on hearing the voice that being an affiliate marketer is not for you. It is for techie guys who could code and since I knew nothing about coding and I am a non-techie, it is not for people like me.

For many years, I held back on that dream of becoming an affiliate marketer. A little research on my part could have helped to dispel this wrong notion and launched me into the career I had always wanted.


If I perish, I perish

There was a lady in the Bible whose Why outweighed her personal comfort. Her people were going to be exterminated by the King if she did not make a move. The weight of this tragedy outweighed her personal discomfort and so she made a move. She was the queen but even in her capacity as the newly installed queen, in the law of the Medes and Persians, she could not see the King except by invitation! The penalty of going to see the king uninvited was death. She had no idea when next the King would invite her.

As the dreaded day drew near, she had no choice but to see the King unannounced. She burst into the king’s chamber and presented her case. But before then, she had asked her people to pray for God’s favor and had fasted for three days. Just before she left on this mission that could be her last, she uttered the now famous quote: “ If I perish, I perish.”

She got access to the King’s chamber and invited the King to a banquet. She feted him and at the right moment, presented her case to him. The King acquiesced to her request to save her people. By that simple action, genocide was averted and the man who brought the idea to the King was humiliated and hanged in the gallows he had prepared for the queen’s uncle.

The Book of Esther

This is one book in the Bible that reads like a modern-day thriller!. There is no specific mention of the name of God in this book but you could see HIs hand as he orders the affairs of men.

Queen Esther put her life on the line to save her people from being wiped out. If she had failed, she would have paid with her life. She made a success of it all by summoning up the courage and venturing to see the King because she felt her goal of saving her compatriots far outweighed the comfort of just living her day-to-day life as a queen.

Saving her people from extermination was her big, hairy goal! Because of how much store she lay by this overarching goal, she put her life on the line to achieve it.

What is your Big, Hairy Goal?

What is your big, hairy goal? What is my big hairy goal? Is it as big as Esther’s? Except your goal is big enough, it will not be able to propel you beyond the front door. You need the force of a big hairy goal to push you to the finish line. You may say, I am not Esther. I am not carrying the weight of an entire tribe of people on my shoulders so I do not need to make it a life or death matter.

Yes, you are. Yes, I am. Do you know how many orphanages are in need of basic supplies and stand to benefit from a windfall from you and me? Those basic supplies could make a difference in the lives of these orphans. Think of the feelings you would have in your heart by merely looking at hundreds of orphans with a satisfied look on their faces. knowing that you contributed to that feeling is priceless!

There is so much good we can do in this world with profits from affiliate marketing, but it all starts with having a big enough goal. If our goals are not big enough, it will not generate the level of enthusiasm that will prod us to their accomplishment. Small, puny goals lack the punch to fire us. We need big goals to drive us.

Conclusion

So the first step is to re-examine your goals and ensure they are big enough to catalyze you to action. The next step is to capture this big, audacious goal in a picture or drawing so you can make a mental note of it. Put a representation of this big hairy goal in every area of the house where you will see it daily. Let it soak into your subconscious. Go to work like a maniac!

So, what is that big, hairy, audacious goal that makes you toss and turn in bed all night?





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I sense that you are alluding to a sweet spot that occurs between the alignment of your personal goal and that of the broader community. My being in a MMO niche is fine however it is substantially better appreciated if my advice/ strategies are directed towards the upliftment of small entrepreneurs in my local area. The melding of personal passion and higher purpose so to speak.

When your passion is aligned to a higher purpose of meeting the needs of your community, you are certainly in a good place.
Thanks, Hugh for swinging by and offering some light!

Happy to offer my flashlight

Thanks for sharing

Thank you, Geoffrey for swinging by and offering a comment. I appreciate it.

Being part of a community like WA, keeps me in a way accountable for reaching my goals. Thanks for the share, Dada :-)

You are so right, lucbizz! Being a part of the WA community is one of the best decisions I ever made.
Thanks for dropping by. I appreciate it.

At times you have to back yourself, 9 out of 10 you will pull out off.

Like they day don't ask or do, it's 100 % you fail.

We are fortunate here in WA, step by step consistency is born and results are created.

Sound thoughts Dada.

You are right, Alex. You can achieve spectacular results if you follow the system and implement what you have learned. Thanks for your comment.

You are most welcome, Dada.

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