#1 Decide Right Here, Right Now, If You Are Ready To Change
April 28, 2008
The first tip is the most important in this website. If you are not 100 per cent ready to wrest control of your life back from your business, you won’t achieve it. I attended an interesting motivational seminar recently at which the host asked one man in the crowd of 4000 people what was wrong with his life. The hapless fellow rattled off a list of his woes, from no girlfriend to no money, niggling health issues but nothing serious, and a losing battle with his weight.
The well-known host, with a big grin, asked what was stopping him from getting his life together. The poor man gave a lengthy list of why he couldn’t change any of the things in his life that he was unhappy with. They were all good reasons and they sounded reasonable to me, albeit a little defeatist and whiny. The host then said, ‘If I gave you $1 million right here, right now, could you change your life immediately and rid yourself of the issues that are plaguing you and preventing you from making the most of your life?’ In a heartbeat the man said, ‘Absolutely-yes.’
Now this is interesting. It’s not the problems or the solutions that are the issues. They are simply the mechanics of the situation. Any reasonably intelligent person can sit down and write a list of the issues that are affecting them and what they need to do about it, or find someone to help them do it. The secret ingredient to make change work is motivation. If you have the right motivation, you can change anything in your life. If you haven’t, the change will only be token.
What can I do today?
Print or write this message on a piece of paper and put it on the wall, in your diary or wherever you will see it every day: ‘I am taking control of my life back from my business. I am the boss.’
[tags]Balance Life, out of balance, change[/tags]
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