Instant Success

I just read a statement from Daniel Tardy that said Valentines Day is usually the time that people have already given up on their New Years resolutions. Wow we give our life changing goals a whole 45 days to be complete. On top of that we quit in the middle of the shortest month of the year! I want to start a new business on Jan.1, but if I am not profitable and able to leave my current job I will be done Feb.14. Or I want to get out of debt that has taken me my whole adult life to acquire; I will give it 45 days. Wow, we live in a microwave society and our goals require cooking in a crock-pot. Hey I am as spoiled as the rest of us, but the crock-pot does teach me patients. What makes us think this way, we have the lottery mentality, just one ticket and I will be set for life. It is a blessing that we do not achieve success quickly. It can destroy us because we have not developed the character or the spiritual muscle to handle it yet. Look at this statistic, 80% of NFL players are broke ten years after they retire. We can’t just beat up the people who strike it rich quick. When we get married we want to have everything our parents have now. We don’t realize it has taken them their whole lives to get where they are now; we want to put it in the microwave and go! Then we pray, God give me patients and give them to me now! He even tells us In Proverbs 13:11, Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.”
If we want to reach our goals and accomplish what we were put on the earth to do we need to change our mindset to crock-pot mode and cook a lot slower than we like. We also have to have a goal bigger than ourselves and our wants. We need to be disciplined. Discipline is the thing we don’t want to do to get the result we want. It’s hard, but it’s worth doing. As Vince Lombardi says: “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.” You may be thinking well what if I am not getting any where with my business do I keep trying and losing? Not always, you may have to modify your plan or change it, and if you get no traction re-evaluate and see if you need to continue. My wires get crossed and I have to quit some things or change them, remember the world is not perfect. Don’t think I have everything down to a perfect science, I am not even close, but I am learning it takes more time than I like. This builds what is lacking in my life, patience and perseverance. It’s not comfortable but it is good for me weather it feels like it at times or not. I love the line in the outlaw of Josey Wales, played by Clint Eastwood. “ When things look bad and you think you’re not gonna make it, that’s when you gotta get mean, I mean plum mad dog mean, because if you give up you neither live nor win.” Let’s start winning and living and not quit before the process gets going good. Start that new career or business, get out of debt, lose the weight and get your life back so you can accomplish what you were put on the earth to do!

Tim West
Go West Coaching

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