How truth and words lead to success
Common words of a loving parent: “I would do anything for my child.” You’ve heard that before, right? Even said it yourself, perhaps.
After raising two children into adulthood as a single mom, I’ve learned that children are our greatest motivators--especially toward financial gain! The necessities of diapers and clothes, then school supplies and cars will motivate you in a heartbeat! Don’t have any children? Well, you were a child once, so you can imagine how your parents were motivated to provide for you in the best way possible, can’t you? So now, we’re all on the same page.
But is motivation alone enough to get us where we desire to be in our businesses?
A parent can sincerely say and believe they are giving their “all” towards the welfare of their child when they go to work. Yet, every time that parent doesn’t take the bull (dreams and goals) by the horn and run and keep running until they’ve netted a fruitful end, then they've really not done anything of the sort.
Sure, not everyone can be the high achiever—or so we tell ourselves. After all, the stakes are high and funds needed are low. Yet, in hindsight, those factors mean absolutely nothing, as they’ve always been there and always will be. So, are you going to let them hold you back forever?
Apparently, something vital is missing in this equation for the loving parent to actually give their all as they’re claiming to do. There’s gotta be something missing; otherwise, more truly motivated parents would be succeeding financially by leaps and bounds. But they’re not. So what's missing?
Well, I can think of two things off the top of my head. First, truth; secondly, words.
Yes, before we can claim success, we must first truthfully recognize the difference between our intentions and our actions. For instance, we can say with our lips we want the best for our children and their future. Or if we don’t have children, we can say we want the best for our community or all of mankind. Great intentions, right?
However, every time we pass up an opportunity to do more with our talent and skills due to lack of discipline and self-confidence, we let our actions prove the total opposite. Every time we doubt our ability to step out on faith and instead remain in our comfort zone, we let our excuses beat down that grander future we speak of and hope for.
The second important component to moving from the initial stage of being motivated to the final stage of being successful lies in the words we speak. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. In essence, our negative words will leave us stagnated with the same amount of force that our positive words will catapult us forward!
Dr. Robert Anthony, author of The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence, and many other motivational books, said it best. “People can only have two things in life: reasons and results, and reasons don’t count.”
Even when I didn’t have the proper methods and strategies in my business to help me get the results I’m seeing now; confidence, consistent action and positive affirmations, would have carried me through. The truth of the matter is I did consistently push forward, but usually with the same chugging resistance as a car with a faulty fuel pump. All thanks to my occasional negative words of doubt and inability. In other words, my occasional negativity might as well had been negativity spoken daily.
Now is the time to major in results, not reasons!
That’s why I’ve partnered with a team of online marketers who are doing just that. We incorporate social media strategies that allow team members to help each other boost our presence online, which then draws more traffic to our perspective businesses. Working with like-minded people has helped me more in several months to steer my business in the right direction than I could have ever done on my own! It’s because we speak the same language of serious success!
Some of the more experienced business owners on our team have experienced increases of upwards of $200,000 and $500,000 in less than six months with the marketing strategies we use. While those are not typical results, they are results that come a lot easier when an individual first stands in truth about what needs to be done and then makes positivity his/her norm.
What WORDS are you speaking today? I challenge you to begin keeping a journal of your spoken words. Every time you catch yourself making a negative, judgmental, doubtful, rude, or worrisome comment, write that sentence down. Stare at it and imagine how you could change that sentence into a positive one. Each night, evaluate the progress of your endeavors connected to the words you’ve spoken that day. After doing that for a little while, watch your list of negative words get shorter and shorter as your income gets larger and larger.
We don’t just owe it to our children or our community to perform well; we owe it to ourselves. It all starts with an ounce of truth and the power of our tongue.
RAWspectfully yours,
Terri (T’Eileen) Liggins
RAW- Reach And Win
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I love this. Challenge accepted.