Ignore What They Say - Be Inspired!

I've spent the last few days getting back up straight after spending most of the last month away from the day-to-day business of doing this stuff.

On my ideas notepad in front of me - I have nine things that I want to do that will move both myself and my business forward.

Yet..I probably have at least half a dozen other things that are already in motion, or have been started.

Most 'gurus' will tell you that you should always finish what you start before you go off and start something else.

Well...I'm certainly no guru...just a normal person like you, and if I find something new more challenging and exciting than stuff I thought of doing a year ago - then I'm going to move towards what inspires me!

Life has an uncanny habit of forcing you off of the easy path...and onto one that's a little more 'interesting'.

It's only when we look back that we often realize that the easy path wasn't the right one, nor the easiest one in the long term.

Once you get yourself away from day-to-day, and look at what really fires you up, you'll soon find that even the 'down' times can be fantastic steps forward.

Everything happens for a reason, whether we like it or not.

Sure...a lot of the time, you may not exactly have a say in it happening to you (like with my son), but ultimately - everything that happens to you enables you to refine what you really want from your life.

Let's face it...unless you know what 'bad' or 'failure' is - then how can you judge what 'good' or 'success' means to you?

The trouble starts when you evaluate what success is based on somebody else's criteria.

The how-to gurus, the biz-opp players...they'll all tell you that earning 'x' is the way to go if you follow their system, but, their system is usually flawed.

What's the point in you getting yourself into a position so that you can pay off your mortgage if your wife and kids have left you, and you are so ill that you can barely walk?

Take me, for example.

I could easily spend another six months on the road...making some very nice money in the process, but undoubtedly my relationship with my wife would suffer.

- And I'd miss spending time with my two daughters.
- And I'd be miserable schlepping from hotel to hotel.
- And I'd be bored teaching different people the same thing.
- And I wouldn't have time to work on my ideas.
- And I would be eating fast food regularly and getting fatter and more unhealthy
- And I'd just be creating another 'job' for myself where I can't just wake up in the morning and decide to do what I want.

In fact...even though I'd be earning some very nice money...the reason for me doing what I do would be lost.

Continue this for a few years...and sure, I'd be able to buy whatever I wanted...yet be as miserable as hell!

So...be careful not to take for granted the very reason why you want to make more of your life in the first place.

And, funnily enough, I have attracted so much more money into my own life once I stopped doing stuff solely to acquire it!

Of course...you need to eat. You need to pay the bills.

But...a lot of these things will take care of themselves once you decide to get out of your comfort zone and start pushing yourself to find out what really inspires you.

Start small...just a few hours a week, and eventually you'll find something that you are absolutely world-class at.

After...that's when the real fun begins!

Posted by vurnumg