Pleasure, or Pain?

I finish goals.  I didn’t used to, but this changed when I decided to work for me, and the skill impacts every area my life.  I’ve lost weight, developed great relationships, and paid off my debt!

Here’s the key.  I faced my pain.  I like pleasure, but I was motivated by pain.  For awhile, my pain didn’t bother me enough. I was managing it.  But I took a counselor’s advice to stop self-medicating and quit minimizing the reality my situation.  OUCH.  But going there showed me that the pain of change was not as great as the pain of staying the same.   

Do you want to change?  Are you ready sit with your pain and take responsibility for it?  NO excuses?  Can you bear to take a hard look at where you will be in 5 or 10 years if nothing changes? Then this might help!

1.  Have a Turning Point.   This is when you think a new thought and take action on that thought.  Dream big and start small.  Write it down and tell somebody.

2.  Find like-minded people who will support you.  Pick people who are where you want to be – and ONLY take advice from those with whom you would trade places.

3.  Embrace the mantra “short-term sacrifice for a long-term goal”.  I know I’ve made sacrifices along the way, but I can’t remember most of them now!

4.  Acknowledge that obstacles do not have to become excuses.  Shortly after I set my first big business goal, my 4 year-old daughter was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Big Obstacle.  I had to work differently and on a path that I did not expect.  I didn’t reach my goal that year, I surpassed it.  You will face obstacles, but what if you believed you could reach your goal anyway?