I'm especially guilty of this one. It is perhaps the number 1 thing that gets in the way for me, and I'm doing all I can to rectify this in my own life.
We become attached to things that have very little to no value, not that there isn't anything wrong with this if done in moderation, but for example, as employees, we work all day, a whopping 71% of us in jobs do not have any passion for what we must do in order to pay the bills, so at the end of the work day, we splurge our time away sitting in the recliner and watching television the entire evening.
Weekends, cherished as they are, become the time when we get things done that need to be done - groceries, cleaning house, yadda, yadda, and then reward ourselves with more of the same - television, movies, night-clubs, trips to the sports stadiums, and so forth.
When it comes to sacrificing some of this precious time to doing yet MORE work that it takes to realize dreams, emotion takes over and keeps us right where we'd rather be - since it takes too much effort to delay such gratification, and well, we've worked hard at our jobs - don't we deserve it?
I say:
You deserve better!
You are here at WA and surely, you know some of these things already. I'm not here to say we must give all of the above up, but some of it, yes!
Which scenario will produce results in the long run? Nights-full of television, or allocated tome for that and allocated time for campaigns, a little bit each night at a pre-determined time.
The Damaging & Controlling Nature of Emotions
If we are not careful, emotions can control our destinies. Fear, for example, has wiped out opportunity for millions. This insidious emotion plays havoc with our belief systems and turns soundness into faultiness.
Usually, the best antidote for fear is to face it head-on and remember that yes, at first, we will stumble at new things, but this is normal and if we will stick to them, we will get better with practice.
It all comes back to tenacity, discipline, the ability to delay gratification, knowing that any worthy ordeal takes time and mastery.
In our learning curve having a good mindset as recommended here in your training is critical to our being able to get to what we define as success. Totally agree, an overused and sometimes poorly used term, yet if we are careful to define what success means to us, not having it be just monetary, it will help give impetus to reaching our goals.
Thank you for the time you have invested in creating this. Love that it has bubbled up on a surface that includes me. '-)
Linda
Reply
Didn't take me long to put this out. It all started on Notepad and had it within an hour, from start to publish. It's why I try to stick with things I am well familiar with in my campaigns because otherwise, I could spend days on a single work, and that's not prophetable, being tied down to liabilities as I am. That's just one more thing that behooves me to include in the section about interest and passion in our campaigns.
By all means, success isn't the money. That's one way it gets misused, unless one's goal is solely to make money and forget the human beings who pay for the work.
Most definitely, success to me is in being able to pay it forward, as we are taught here, and is one thing that has gone to my heart. Success depends on your worthy ideal and how you approach it.
I like to say things that help build up my readers, and this, in and of itself, is a success to me, because I have not always been able to do this due to the negativity I lived in in the past.
I still have to get my ducks in order, but I'm getting there a little bit each day.
In all of the time I've been here, I've never seen another place on the Internet, no matter what it is, that comes close to the philosophy of paying it forward as done here!
Best wishes :) -Sherry
Daniel
And, I do enjoy reading your posts here, I find them very inspiring and well written. Take care and keep up the good work. Best wishes :) -Sherry
Keep up the good work!
Shawn>>
Now that I'm not living under my previous landlord's roof, he has stopped being so contemptuous and is much more respectful, so it's getting better all the way around. the only thing - I badly need my own Internet connection. All the time I've been at WA now, this is something I've never achieved.
