Entrepreneur Development - Is Your Past Killing Your Future?
Monday, July 6th, 2009Good Day Everyone,
Before I get into today’s topic I just wanted to comment on Tiger Woods and watching him play. He always intrigues me how focused he is and how he visualizes not one route but two or three outcomes before he takes the swing and then the intensity and strength through his body. The absolute commitment to the shot no hesitations just total focus. He always inspires me as all great athletes do. I try to emulate them in their tactics as I go about my business as I fulfill another dream..
Today we are going to take a variation on a theme and everyone gets to play today.
The past, you have to love it don’t you? Always dictating how our future will be. We make resolutions that we really intend to resolve. But we don’t follow through. We make commitments to ourselves and others and we don’t quite get the job done. We have all these good intentions but somehow we just don’t quite get it off the ground. And oh yeah, we are full of all the excuses as to why we just couldn’t do it , why it didn’t get done and it is never our fault, it was the situation or someone else intervened or the sky fell that day. If we were half as committed to getting things done than we were at thinking up those crafty excuses, perhaps we wouldn’t be wasting so much time thinking them up. My how easy it is for us to rationalize our actions or inactions. My how we let ourselves off the hook but perhaps we don’t do the same for others. How do you feel when someone promises something and they don’t deliver? What goes through your mind then? Pretty judgemental then aren’t we when all the while making up excuse number 20 for why the phone calls we were going to make today just didn’t get done.
The past is what ambushes us and drags us back. The sad truth is that the past is never really past is it? It is always with us…sometimes strong and supportive, pushing us toward our goals and dreams like a friendly wind at our backs. But more often than not it is wound tightly around our shoulders like a shroud its weight dragging us down, tethering us to the ground, occasionally even burying us alive, and killing any hope we have of accomplishing our dreams. The strange thing is that given the opportunity to rid ourselves of these deadly wraps, we often cling to them instead. So we have to ask ourselves…if we truly want what we seek…. If we really want to change our reality, why do we not do it? Why do we settle? Why do we accept less than what we are deserving of? Don’t you feel just a little bit embarrassed when you look at it? I mean what are we two year olds, can we not change? Are we deluding ourselves? Do we really not want to achieve that dream? We are not cowards, why don’t we just get it done?
The past. The big ugly past. You try to dodge and weave but you still find yourself right back to where you came from. Sad, unhappy, probably even more unhappy because you saw the dream you had it right there in front of you and yet, here you are again. Why do we put on our past cloak and head out into our future and actually think we will achieve the results we want?
The past is a double edged sword. I had a past of nothing was good enough except the best, nothing but first place; that was what was expected of me. When I came is second I was not congratulated, I was told there was one person in front of you, you need to do better Therefore if I failed I hid it so no one would know. I pretended. I was a fraud. It also instilled a great sense of determination and perseverance, tenacity, which is the great to the double edged sword. It was also wearing as I did not stop to rest or to play or to enjoy the fruits of my labour.
I stopped one day just stopped. I made the decision that from this day I would live with wide open eyes, with no judgement, with no preconceived notions with an open attitude and mind. I would not care what position I ended up in as long as I was playing full out and living free. And guess what, my world opened up to me with wonder I pursued dream after dream and achieved them one after the other again and again. A simple change, just one; to rid myself of the past, of the part of past that did not form a future for me that I wanted. That did not serve my dream
Today we are all going to change. Today we are going to do something new. Today is a challenge. We are going to change the themes of our lives just like we change the skins or wallpaper on our computers If you are a rigid theme we are going to switch to a flexibility theme….give you a few more options to work with. If you are a static theme, we are going for a dynamic theme. If you are like me and tend to be a little shapeless theme, we will make a list and stick to it today; we will be a structured theme.
See where we are going with this. Take the challenge and change your life, one moment at a time.
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