Archive for November 18th, 2007
Moving Through
There are times when you simply feel as though you are stuck in traffic … You are not moving. Just enduring a soft idle as the tread on your tires ever-so-slowly creep ahead.
When I get there — this is what I do next …
Essential elements to moving through the traffic jam of real-life:
- Accept full responsibility for your situation — whatever it is, whatever it isn’t.
- Then become proactive rather than reactive.
What does that look like? How to you get moving through real-life — past the worry, the what-if’s, the outright pain and agony, the confusion, the (fill in the blank)?
- Evaluate the specific actions (and any possible obstacles) available to you. What are the steps to accomplishing these actions? Overcoming the obstacles?
- Completely focus on the first five minutes of the first step of the key action.
- Put your heart into it and truly commit to said action.
- ACT!
To be successful, you must discipline yourself to think through what you are doing and then to concentrate on one thing, the most important thing, and stay with it until it is complete. This one habit alone can change your entire future. And you can develop this habit through daily practice. ~Brian Tracy
