Each and every day we wake up and our FEELINGS are a little bit different. You know what I mean.
Sometimes we FEEL like doing something exciting and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we FEEL like we could conquer the world and sometimes we don’t. So, what do we do on the days that our FEELINGS are down? Well, if we are a true entrepreneur and not just a “wannabe” we do the EXACT SAME tasks we should be doing when our FEELINGS are at their highest!
What? But I don’t feel like it! My stomach hurts, my girlfriend broke up with me or my kids are driving me crazy. How can that be?
Well, FEELINGS are like the wind, they come and go and if we allow them to rule us we will “blow away” when they are strongest. And, we will “blown” in whatever direction we are swept – either positive or negatively.
But, it doesn’t have to be that way . . . Instead, from this point on . . .
“You need to make a choice to BE the person you WANT to be regardless of how you feel”
Will it be easy? Nope.
In fact, for some of you this will be a 180º turn from where you are now. Some of you are so swept up in your feelings that you let them rule you.
No longer!
Be the RULER of your feelings and you will see more positive changes occur in your business than ever before. You will become the type of person that your customers want to buy from.
You will become the type of person your customers want to follow.
“Change your THOUGHTS and the rest will follow!
I know what you are saying – “That’s touchy feely and that’s just hokey psycho babble!”.
Well you are wrong! Take a look at this equation that I first read in T. Harv Ecker’s book “The Millionaire Mind” and learn why EVERYTHING starts with your Thoughts and goes from there: T. Harv Ecker writes (paraphrasing) that every day you start with a thought. Just a simple little thought that comes and goes without a concern in the world. “It’s just a thought!” you think, so how much damage can it actually do?
Well, it can do a lot because shortly after your THOUGHTS comes the next part of the equation . . . FEELINGS!
Whoa, here come those feelings again, creeping up my spine. I just woke up five minutes ago, THOUGHT about the bad stuff that was happening in my life and here I am five minutes into my day and I FEEL bad. “Woe is me!”
So, as you sit in your misery for a minute or two you decide that there’s nothing better to do than stay in bed or eat ice cream all day. After all, you FEEL horrible!
So you go through the day just like this and before you know it you’ve eaten the entire pint of ice cream because you created the HABIT of sitting in your PJ’s and eating ice cream all day. Finally, you wake up tomorrow and aren’t feeling so swell so you decide to repeat yesterday’s pattern of behavior. In fact, you find it MUCH easier to convince yourself today that eating a pint of ice cream all day is good for you.
Before you know it, you look up a week from now and you’ve put on a couple of pounds, which makes you feel worse, which means more ice cream and before you know it you have created your DESTINY. And in this example your DESTINY is for you to get fat!
That’s a funny (but all too real) example of how our thoughts will lead us down a path before we know it. In business it works the exact same way.
I wake up one morning and my THOUGHTS are that I’m just a failure so before I know it I FEEL like a failure and therefore my ACTIONS reflect a failure because I don’t do anything all day to get me to my goals (i.e. more time and more money). Before I know it I’m sitting right
where I was six months ago with another failed business plan and another $1,000 racked up on my credit card.
“It DOESN’T have to be that way . . . but it’s TOTALLY up to you. Nobody else can change how you think and nobody else can make you a success. It’s up to you.
This means that your friends, family or acquaintances can’t want you to succeed more than you do. You must dedicate yourself to this and you must think of it as a marathon and not a sprint. This week’s lesson is the easiest one to blow off and say “okay, I understand”. But, I guarantee you that if you do not figure out your “why” then the “how” will never come. You MUST have goals that are meaningful to you and your family. And, this business that you have must help you to achieve them. If it doesn’t then you will quit before you see the payday!
So, how do you feel today???? 🙂