Why this big dream on writing? Why write 750 words a day?
Thousands of articles, books will be written and published this year online and offline. Why one more and where is this going?
Let me give you my dear reader just a little history.
A few years ago, I witnessed an exceptionally impressive series of motivational meetings.
The leaders I've seen always were excited and motivated, bar none. Each leader and speaker wanted to stress a sticking point.
Each leader had on stage the newest high performers for their own businesses. Each seem like ordinary people with ordinary lives.
They had achieved something I hadn't: an extra monthly income that didn't depend upon how much they worked but what they had set in place. This introduced a concept of "passive income" to me and it motivated me.
But I had to start from "zero" to get what they had: freedom of time and money.
Each leader/speaker challenged the audience.
I can't remember exactly what they said word for word, but it went something like this: "Do you think that if they can make it, you can make it?"
Secondly, he asked: "What does he have that you haven't?"
Then a list of questions hit me between the eyes:
"If he earned 10 times more than you do, does it mean he's 10 times smarter than you?"
My answer: I don't think so.
"Does he have a distinct advantage over you?"
My answer: Maybe. He had a head start and more time than me.
"Is he more handsome than you?
My answer: I'm better looking.
"Can you do what he has done?
My answer: Of course I can
"Then why don't you?"
My answer: I don't know why.
"If these people succeeded, why don't more people think, act, and do what they have done."
Now came the answers.
The leader said, " the difference is that he thought and did bigger things than you"
From what I could remember, he inferred something more tremendous: "Your success is determined by the size of your thinking and doing."
So, that got me thinking to move forward to get where these people were that I wasn't at. I decided to dig deeper into success patterns and steps that produce results.
I read more books on success.
I listened to more audiobooks or tapes on success.
I started to watch what I saying, focusing on getting rid of the negative and focusing on the positive.
I started to hang out with success-oriented people more than ever before.
I started to write goals and work towards those goals.
Then along the way I met Mr. Failure.
The size of my thinking, although I thought it was big, wasn't that big to kick Mr. Failure in the rear.
It seemed that the more I dedicated myself to my goals, Mr. Failure was just around the corner, ready to strike and strike often in a most common type of thought ambushes:
"You can't do this."
"Who do you think you are?"
"The trouble with you is you."
"Let things be, it can't be changed."
"Success isn't worth the price."
"Let it be, it's your fate not to succeed."
"There's too much competition out there."
"No one has done this before in your family."
"You'll get rejected and people will talk about you."
"What will others think."
"You're a failure now, what has changed, what is new?"
"You are too short and not caucasian."
"You can't handle success like others."
"Money isn't everything you know."
"You can't get rich."
Pitiful.
Pathethic.
Feeling overwhelmed.
I had to turn things around and I was spending money that would have given me a comfortable retirement account.
I had choices to make:
Lie down and take a nap.
Put it off.
Go watch TV or go to the movies.
Talk to somebody and make things work no matter how long that took.
"But I'm too private and guarded with myself," I thought.
And the battle of self-doubt and limiting beliefs came into being.
Purely and highly emotional.
"But something needs to challenge all my mental shortfalls", I thought again.
Oddly, I felt odd and I didn't know it all.
And I wasn't thinking big enough.
So I set out to overcome myself and its nuances and nastiness.
I wanted to pay particular attention to my thinking from the top down.
This lifelong search into success, that is the planning, doing, and acting would be a lifelong process I needed to do.
And this is what I'm doing in one quote by Disraeli:
"Life is too short to be little."
