Are you succeeding at whatever you’re doing? If the answer is yes, then you don’t need to keep reading.
If the answer is NO, then you need to think about what I am going to tell you. There are plenty of reasons why people aren’t successful. Health, not enough money, lack of time, lack of knowledge, lack of support…and so the list goes on and on and on.
If you want, you can accept that you won’t be successful because it’s just too hard! However, if you do accept and give up, you’ll never achieve success. Perseverance is the key to getting anything you want. Athletes face loads of hurdles before they achieve any of their goals. The same applies to everyone.
Forget what hurdles other people face. Concentrate on overcoming the ones you believe stand in your way. You can push them out of the way. If they won’t move, go over them, go around them, tunnel under them or find a different path but keep going!
Success is usually just beyond a particular hurdle but you’ll never know which one if you don’t keep going. Focus, don’t accept excuses from yourself or others and don’t let anyone or anything stand in your way.
January 30th, 2011 at 11:26
Are you talking to me ? Yes, and thousands of others just like me too. The last paragraph of your short article says volumes but you could write a hundred more to help us overcome those hurdles.
It is not always a swift kick in the rear that starts one moving. Many of us are mules or stubborn donkeys that still stand still or back up.And it isn’t always the “hit bottom” and “move or give up” that motivates us. Been there,saw the movie, and bought the T-shirt ,but success seems still to be so far out of reach. Do we need a pep talk, a volume of constant inspiration , a light at the end of the long and apparent never ending tunnel ?.Is it the completion of our first blog or web site build ? What about our 1st subscriber or member; our 1st dozen ? Is it the receiving of our 1st relevant comment to an article we posted or the 1st dozen ,from people we don’t know? What about our 1st sale or dozen sales ? Is it all of the above ?
Take your last article paragraph and the article in general and enlighten us with many more great insights to our failings and successes so that our failings only strengthen us and our successes grow more frequent.
January 31st, 2011 at 16:05
Yes, I am talking to everyone who reads my posts. While there may not be a lot of you, I am sure that some of you will spread the word and maintain the positive attitude which is just the start of what it takes to achieve any real measure of success.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step my friends. It’s never too late to start something. It’s never too late to change your mind about something. The only time it is too late is when you’re 6 feet under and we are all a long way from that point if we are still breathing!
Today, a post. Tomorrow, an article on another website. Next week, your own website. Next month… well nobody can put an upper limit on what you can do …
except for you!
If it’s to be, it’s up to me. Therefore, if it’s up to me, it’s to be!