Do you know where you are going?
Have you ever gotten something that you wanted? Of course you have! We learn to want things, to dream, and make things happen.
A wish or a hope lacks direction or a plan. However, a dream has pictures and feelings. It is part of the basic formula: Want, Picture, Plan, and Get!
Do you know of someone who is very successful? What is it that allowed them to succeed where so many others come up short?
They practiced simple disciplines every day, toward their predetermined objective. "They sacrificed what they wanted at the moment for what they wanted the most!" Most people do it the other way around. Rob Tate only won a single state title in high school, but was recruited to wrestle in a NCAA Division I program. He never attended a prom while he was in high school, because each year the Freestyle and Greco state tournament was on the same weekend. Rob sacrificed the prom to become a better wrestler, and his college coach recruited him on who Rob was, not what Rob had accomplished. As a redshirt freshman this year, Rob became Gardner Webb's youngest NCAA qualifier, and accomplished something most wrestlers never do, he won a match.
Winners know what they want life to look like when they "have made it." They have dreams, and work towards achieving them. They have a “blueprint” upon which they build their life. No matter how rough your blueprint is, it programs your mind for action. Then your mind can get to work on making your dream real. This is the only way that your mental picture can become a reality.
It’s like building a house one brick at a time. Your life is built the same way. If you don’t have a blueprint or plan to build a house and just add a brick at random, it will ramble all over the landscape, and never become anything more than a disarray of brick and wood. This would, of course, be disastrous for you. Do you know anybody whose life looked like that? These are people that only accept what is given to them and do not plan their life.
"Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived by looking forward." Who do you want to become? What would you like to be known for? When people are at the end of their lives, they seldom wish they had more things in their lives, they are more thankful for the relationships they've had. So many of us set goals "to have," yet forget to set goals "to become."
The best way to predict the future is to create it. You have two eyes to see it, and a third eye in your mind that can help create it. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
There must be something about writing down goals that scares people, because so few are willing to do it. It must be the fear of failure of a written commitment. The written commitment makes the goal like a contract with yourself that you must fulfill. As a rule, people take failures far too seriously because our society is so geared to winners. But, it is a strange thing that the biggest winners are also the biggest failures. In other words, they fail time and time again before they become winners. Many people have failed many times and come back stronger each time.
What we are talking about probably all comes back to the word “pain.” Failure is interpreted as pain and people want to avoid pain. However, for a real change to take place in people’s lives, the pain of unhappiness must be greater than the pain of change before a meaningful change can take place. It is my hope that you are dreaming and longing for success in every bone in your body. Picture it, feel it and plan it and you will not be denied.
"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
A wish or a hope lacks direction or a plan. However, a dream has pictures and feelings. It is part of the basic formula: Want, Picture, Plan, and Get!
Do you know of someone who is very successful? What is it that allowed them to succeed where so many others come up short?
They practiced simple disciplines every day, toward their predetermined objective. "They sacrificed what they wanted at the moment for what they wanted the most!" Most people do it the other way around. Rob Tate only won a single state title in high school, but was recruited to wrestle in a NCAA Division I program. He never attended a prom while he was in high school, because each year the Freestyle and Greco state tournament was on the same weekend. Rob sacrificed the prom to become a better wrestler, and his college coach recruited him on who Rob was, not what Rob had accomplished. As a redshirt freshman this year, Rob became Gardner Webb's youngest NCAA qualifier, and accomplished something most wrestlers never do, he won a match.
Winners know what they want life to look like when they "have made it." They have dreams, and work towards achieving them. They have a “blueprint” upon which they build their life. No matter how rough your blueprint is, it programs your mind for action. Then your mind can get to work on making your dream real. This is the only way that your mental picture can become a reality.
It’s like building a house one brick at a time. Your life is built the same way. If you don’t have a blueprint or plan to build a house and just add a brick at random, it will ramble all over the landscape, and never become anything more than a disarray of brick and wood. This would, of course, be disastrous for you. Do you know anybody whose life looked like that? These are people that only accept what is given to them and do not plan their life.
"Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived by looking forward." Who do you want to become? What would you like to be known for? When people are at the end of their lives, they seldom wish they had more things in their lives, they are more thankful for the relationships they've had. So many of us set goals "to have," yet forget to set goals "to become."
The best way to predict the future is to create it. You have two eyes to see it, and a third eye in your mind that can help create it. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
There must be something about writing down goals that scares people, because so few are willing to do it. It must be the fear of failure of a written commitment. The written commitment makes the goal like a contract with yourself that you must fulfill. As a rule, people take failures far too seriously because our society is so geared to winners. But, it is a strange thing that the biggest winners are also the biggest failures. In other words, they fail time and time again before they become winners. Many people have failed many times and come back stronger each time.
What we are talking about probably all comes back to the word “pain.” Failure is interpreted as pain and people want to avoid pain. However, for a real change to take place in people’s lives, the pain of unhappiness must be greater than the pain of change before a meaningful change can take place. It is my hope that you are dreaming and longing for success in every bone in your body. Picture it, feel it and plan it and you will not be denied.
"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
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