I met a couple of inspiring people today. Iain and Heidi are going to complete the Thames Path ultra challenge (50km) on Sunday.
Their story is one of adversity, courage, resilience, incredible determination and deep care.
Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18GRLAvwyo/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Perhaps their story will move you to sponsor them: a small or large amount.
They are a lovely team and I wish them well from 06:30 today until after they finish and recuperate.
Whether you have a great relationship or not, keep working it. Put the time in and you may be surprised where you get to.
There is always a key. Sometimes you have to look harder for it. Consider all possibilities.
When you find your key, you will be able to unlock the door you are working on.
Yes, be positive. Have a vision of a fabulous future. Feel it in your heart and in your bones. Let your soul sing.
Then use your imagination to imagine all the wonderful things you will be, do, and have that are the reasons you have a fabulous future.
Get quite specific with your imagination. Allow yourself the pleasure of dreaming big and bold. Have fun with this. Write it all down as fast as you can. Or you can dictate it into your phone notes.
Only be positive in this exercise. This is not the time or place to let doubts, worries or concerns creep in. We will deal with those later. For now, B+ and get your dream future on paper.
There are so many benefits to planning ahead. It will save you time and money. It also saves you energy and allows people to take full advantage of great opportunities.
Like a Boy Scout: be prepared.
The magic is often in the actual planning itself. You will recognise bottlenecks in advance and see how things work well before they need to.
Go on. Draw out your treasure map for the future. Plan ahead.
Great conversations find common ground. If both parties look for things they have in common, most often they will realise that there are very few things they actually disagree with.
If you begin with the belief you are miles apart, on all the issues, then you probably will be. Our minds tend to prove beliefs we hold.
But if you believe you probably have a lot more in common than you think, your brain will seek out those common points. And often you’ll find that it is true.
Everyone wants an easy route to success. Sit on the beach, drink Mai-Tai’s and let the wins pile up.
That would be great!
It’s not really realistic though. I suppose a few people could organise their situation to have this happen. Though I doubt it would work for most people.
Recall music or sports managers or agents that have ripped off people. You can outsource work, but you had better be very tightly managing the outsource activity. Trust but verify – daily! At worst you could do it weekly. But do not leave it longer than that.
This is how most of life goes.
You have a wish, desire or goal. You develop a little or big plan to achieve that goal. Then you start out all excited trying to achieve your goal.
Things then happen and you often will find out you need to pivot at that point.
From there it may all be fine so you can continue. However, if it is not all fine, you may need to pivot again.
Then repeat this process for everything you do in life. It’s that simple.
Life is simple if you follow the formula.
Eat simple and move. Provide value to others. Treat others as you wish to be treated.
If you want to get better, it takes effort. Consistency is pretty important.
If you want it bad enough, you’ll sacrifice comfort and put in the work you know you should do but don’t really want to do.
Stop hoping for an easier way. There isn’t one. Do the work or stay the same.
Starting can be hard, especially things we consider big or important. Smaller projects or tasks, that aren’t considered too tricky or important, get started more easily. Then we have too many projects and don’t complete them.
Two things can help here. First, discipline yourself to only start any project, large or small, if you’re going to complete it 100%. Otherwise, pass on that project or task. Secondly, once a project is started, focus on completing it as quickly as possible.
Then you can enjoy life a lot more.
