Someone Once Told Me

Someone once told me, "Kid, some day you will change the world."

I replied, "Why not today."

Often times people settle for less than what they are capable of.  People look around at what everyone else is doing and tell themselves what they are doing is enough.  People conform, people settle for mediocrity.  Why is that?  Why is it that people have every resource in the world to create a world that they want but don't?  It could be their environment.  It could be their desire for what they want.

I remember Tony Robbins once talking about people with impotent goals.  Most people settle because they don't know what they really want.  And if they do know what they really want and aren't achieving it, there is still something that holds them back.  What is holding you back from achieving what you want?  What's stopping you?

I was looking at my life over the past few weeks and I feel I've been making similar excuses based on similar circumstances.  It was with my work.  It was the show, or I wasn't talking to the right people.  Or I just didn't have the opportunities that would have allowed me to sell more.  Or it was the person I was working with, they got all the good opportunities.

This is a victim mentality.  There is nothing worse than a victim mentality.  I hate it and I'm glad I caught myself.  How do you get out of a victim mentality.  Think of abundance.  Create an abundance mentality.  Stop making excuses and start solving problems.  Your excuses are a clue to what you need to work on.  Let's say you're consistently late, maybe you need to plan ahead better or be more organized.  Let's say you're not in the financial situation you want, maybe you need to track your expenses better and earn more money.  Focusing on the activities that create income vs the activities that are not as important.  There are only a few important things that need to be done to move closer toward your goal.  Doing those things first is the key.

It's possible that the important thing is harder to do and that's why people avoid it.  Stop avoiding the hard thing if you know it's the important thing.  What are you doing today to move closer toward your goals?  What's your big goal you're going to accomplish by the end of the year?  Is there anything I can do to help you?  Let me know

Cheers,
Josh