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Beware of ‘Word’ Narcotics

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For many years I have been trying to find reasons why someone with obvious potential for greatness wastes their life and someone who, by society’s standards, was least likely to succeed, creates monumental success for themselves.

Having said that, potential is a word that I disliked. Only because I’d heard it so much in my life. “Why aren’t you doing X or Y? You have so much potential!” Grrrrrrr.

Now I’ve made my peace.

The discussion about my own potential made me uncomfortable only because I knew I could do better but really didn’t know what I needed to do. I was reading the ‘success’ books and listening to the motivational tapes and nothing was happening.

Well that’s not entirely true.

What was happening was that I was slowly changing my way of thinking and I was beginning to see myself differently – as someone able to really explore and begin living out my full potential.

But there was still something missing.

ACTION!

I was saying all the right things but I wasn’t DOING anything and that’s my  message today.

BEWARE OF WORD NARCOTICS!

What we tell ourselves while doing nothing about it could be detrimental to our lives!

Jim Rohn calls it action versus delusion. He talks about the man who dreams of wealth and yet walks daily toward certain financial disaster and the woman who wishes for happiness and yet thinks thoughts and commits acts that lead her toward certain despair. They are both victims of the false hope which ‘talking’ without action can manufacture.

If we’re not careful, our words about what we’re doing can have the same effect like a narcotic, lulling us into believing that if we say what we want enough we will get it, somehow without action.This is why affirmations don’t work, that is without faith and action.

So please be aware of using ‘word’ drugs to temporarily soothe  your pain and numb  you temporarily from the effects of your inaction.

Robert Ringer said simply “Nothing happens until something moves!”

Erm that something I’m afraid is YOU and ME of course in the direction of our dreams!

Let’s rock the boat, fly the coop, wing it, or ANYTHING that with movement, will take us that much closer to fulfilling our true potential.

I love you potential!

And in case you need a summary of what I just said in pictures….

HA!

Today NOT Tomorrow

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Nike popularized “Just do it”.

One of my colleagues instilled in me “Do it now”

Yet at times I find myself putting off the very thing that I KNOW will take me to the next stage – the next level of my life.

Why?

Perhaps because I am afraid and fear really is our only true enemy.

If I remove the fear attached to my thoughts then my outpicturing becomes far more pleasant.

We truly have nothing to fear but fear itself.

As logical as all of this is sounding to me as I type, I wonder if I will revert to old behaviors tomorrow, despite the insight?

Then I remember that now is all I have and so in this moment, I am pretty cool with the thought of plucking fear from  my present thoughts and plans which make them seem doable somehow, which gives me a little more confidence and realization that I can choose to trust in my fearfulness or I can choose to trust in the wonderful ideas that surface for me.

Tomorrow will take care of itself.

Why you need to avoid the real world

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Today, anyone can be in business. Tools and technology make what was impossible in years gone by, possible and cost effective. One person can now do the job of three, with a virtual office, operating any where in the world working between ten and forty hours per week. You no longer have to deplete your life savings, neither take a tonne of risk but there’s one thing that you must do and do everyday and that is – get up off the couch and make it happen!

The thing is, when you set foot into the “real” world, it is so packed with naysayers that you can’t avoid running into a few everyday. People tell me often, how impossible my personal leadership methods are going to be for Tobagonians because they are “different.”

Then, there are those that would argue with me that an idea I have for filling restaurants won’t work in the islands because the population is too small.

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Procrastination…how we die to our true selves daily

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Henry David Thoreau urged us to go confidently in the direction of our dreams and live the life we’ve imagined.

Yet we slip so easily into procrastination, like our favorite pair of pyjamas…[ahhhhhh sweet] and it prevents us from putting forth the necessary effort and work needed to be done to channel our goal from an idea into manifestation.

Nigel Wall, author of Ask Leadership said that procrastination is the death of many a great idea. We don’t even give some ideas light enough to germinate. What good is inspiration if we don’t take action? When you are inspired to do something, it is your actions that set the stage for progress. The work you do has a cumulative effect. If you want success it requires continuous creation and effort.

Everything stems from a place of being and doing.

Procrastination has its rewards or else we wouldn’t be addicted to it! When we procrastinate we temporarily reduce the anxiety related with certain tasks.

Procrastination is learned and it can be unlearned by developing alternative tools for coping with fears We can start by approaching the efforts we must make towards our goals, not as painful and depriving, but a natural steps in getting us to where we really WANT to go. If we want to move along our life’s path and keep a positive momentum flowing through our daily efforts then we will remain focused on our goals and take consistent action.

When we work passionately towards our dreams, avoiding the false comfort of procrastination, we would begin to live the life we’ve imagined and not reach to the end of our days, dying with all our ideas locked tight in our hearts because we were just too afraid to take action!