Or, how to get what we really want!

Do what we love. Take a chance on ourselves. We only pass this way once in our lives. What could be the one thing that we will look back at the end of our life and wish we had done? Does it align with our values? Do that.
If we still don’t know what that thing is yet, just ask the Universe. And then wait for the answer. It will come and it will excite us like nothing else. If it doesn’t, then that wasn’t the answer. It will probably involve helping someone else to do something they couldn’t do before. That feels good, right? Keep asking.
Do not procrastinate. “We don’t have time right now.” Time is all we have. How we choose to spend it is our conscious choice.
Prepare. Learn, practice, read everything we can. Get all the information. This includes motivational information, as well as technical. Get better. Never stop learning. Become a master. Someone once said that good luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seek help from those who can help us reach our goal. Few people can achieve their goal in a vacuum. Make sure we repay the favour, or pay it forward, whenever we can.
Make a plan and set a rough budget. If we need some capital to tide us over while we’re building our venture, then save for it. Borrowing is not a great idea, not at first. If we’ve scrimped and saved towards our goal, we are going to be so much more invested in its success. If we borrow money off a relative, then blow it all, we’re going to feel a lot worse than if it were money we saved.
Exercise, eat well, get some sun each day, or Vitamin D, and fresh air. Avoid tobacco, limit, or eliminate alcohol – they don’t help, in fact they hinder. Get balanced physically and mentally. We have got to take care of our mind and our body to achieve our goals. This must form part of our regular routine, every day.
Try to eliminate technology from the early evening and get a good night’s sleep.
Steven Pressfield (‘The War of Art’) says that resistance to creativity is not us, it’s a force of nature. It’s based on fear. Fear is the flip side of ego. Our ego is not us. To get past resistance (and fear and ego) we must connect to our core.
Connect to our core. Meditate, do tai chi, smell the roses, hug a friend (after the shut down), do whatever it takes to connect with our core, several times a day. Make operating from our core our default mode. That will eliminate worry.
Stay present. Continually questioning our plan won’t help. Take time out once per month and once per week to reset our plan if necessary. The rest of the time we are in “execute” mode. That does not mean that we switch off, quite the opposite. Take notice of everything helpful, or challenging, that happens moment to moment. Be relentless, stay with our core.
Treat every knock-back (like a coronavirus shut down) as an opportunity to learn more, adapt, and get better. It’s in the failures that we learn the most, and get better. Treat problems as opportunities in disguise.
This one comes from Oprah Winfrey. Keep a note of all the things that happen during the day that we are grateful for. Fill in a Gratitude Journal each evening of at least three things you are grateful for that day. Pretty soon gratitude is going to attract real joy in your life. And what is better than that?!
Be relentless. Keep getting up, adjusting, then get back in there. Time after time after time. Keep our goal in mind. Its possible that better versions of our goal will come along. Adapt, adjust.

And then one day we find that we’re doing it. We are living the dream.

We’ve become our own hero. Feels good doesn’t it?!

Rhys Dwyer
027 244 5886
paxbodyworknz@gmail.com
Clinics in Ngaio & Upper Hutt

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