Emotion or Progress...you can't have both.

 

Emotion or progress…you can’t have both.

When you’re emotionally connected to something, sometimes hanging on to it, stops your progress. 

Let’s say for example, you want to jog 10 k’s. You might do it for a while, but then one day you push yourself too far and the next day, 

you’ve lost your drive. The emotion you’re feeling; that’s it’s too hard, too time consuming, or too painful, stops you from training that day. 

If you really want to jog 10 k’s, you have to set emotion aside. Set aside those negative feelings and concentrate on the desired outcome. Only then will you push past the emotion and make progress. 

Your ability to communicate, determines how successful you become. The better you are at communicating with others, the easier it is to change jobs, make sales, meet new connections. 

How you communicate to yourself, also determines your outcome in life, be it positive, or negative. A constant barrage of mental rehashing past mistakes, or criticizing yourself, puts a negative spin on everything you do and you’re less likely to try new things, when you’re in that state.

We all work towards what’s important in our lives. To raise your level of happiness and joy, you have to raise your thinking. If your thinking doesn’t allow your dream to be actualized, you’ll never see your dream unfold. 

Raise your thinking so that you can achieve what you set out to do. Build a self confidence that can’t be shaken. If you have no self-confidence, start small and build on the little things, until you feel you can tackle the larger goals you set for yourself. 

Have a plan in place. A plan will keep you focussed and on track. Your plan should include mental strategies, for the days you don’t feel you’ll get through. It should also include time for meditating on how you wish to see your successful days unfold. Journal as you go and one day, you can look back and see the progress you’ve made.

Journaling also shows us where we’re going wrong. It reminds us of what we’re doing right and what we do right, we need to replicate. 

Live life expecting good thigs to happen. Many of us are just muddling along, hoping to get life right. However, you may have heard the phrase; those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

We need goals to take us where we want to go in life. Humans are incentive based. This means without incentive; we won’t make progress. Having a written plan for your life and taking action on it, gives you a 90% chance of succeeding. I like those odds. Oddly enough though, I’ve heard it said 99% of people don’t have a written plan. That’s a lot of people, planning to fail.

So write up a plan and place it where you’ll see it every day and work on it every single day, until it becomes routine. Just like driving a car, which is difficult when we first start, but eventually we find it automatic and effortless. Once you’ve driven for a while, you don’t need to think about driving. Driving just happens. 

You want your goals list to flow like driving; happening all the time, without thought, or effort. And you can only do that, when you’ve got it as a routine and are working on it every day. 

Mostly when left to our own devices, we think we aren’t as smart as the next person, but this isn’t true. You’re no less intelligent than other people. If they can do it, you can do it. It just takes dedication, knowledge and practice. 

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to be successful? Doing whatever it takes, also means remaining teachable? Listen and learn, then implement strategies. Application and repetition, are the simple things, which bring about success.

Life is not perfect. As long as you try, you can raise the bar. We all have room to raise the bar. 

The decision to try is made perfect, by being comfortable with wrong decisions. No one gets it right all the time. Expect to make mistakes. We learn how not to do it, when we make mistakes and then we get it right. When you first rode a push bike, you were shaky and probably had a fall or two, but once you ‘got it,’ you never needed to learn to ride again.

Don’t put yourself in a box and accept something less than you are, just because society, or the people around say so. You don’t have to agree with them. You can prove them wrong. You can run to their script for your life, or you can create your own script. 

Decipher what matters and what doesn’t. And focus on what matters. What matters is what will get you to your destination. It’s easy to be side tracked, so keep your plan in front of you, keep your focus and keep working, until you achieve what you set out to achieve. 

And one more thing I’d like to add; If you love it, you’ll persevere and though it may be a lot of hard work and worry, you’ll keep pushing through, but you will eventually succeed. Even if you get it wrong, you’ll love it enough to have another go, ironing out the kinks along the way, until you get it right. 

Embrace life; change it, improve it and make your mark upon it and it will unfold beautifully before you.