August 12, 2004
Just Think For A Moment
I've been spending quite a bit of time thinking lately.
Thinking about...
- WHY I do what I do
- WHAT I really want to do - both now and in the future
- WHOM the sort of person I am and want to evolve into
- HOW I can convert my knowledge in many different disciplines into focused results-generating ACTION
- WHEN I listen to that voice inside my head - how do I feel?
Some of the 'results' from this thinking doesn't always come out the way that you would expect it, I can tell you!
What about YOU?
If YOU were to think about these things - what would YOUR 'answers' be?
Of course...there are no real 'wrong' answers to these questions.
What could be crucial to MY future success - might be the worst thing that could ever happen to YOU!
That's why it's so important to reference YOURSELF whenever you read or listen to ANY personal development material.
Unless it's in YOUR frame of context - then what you may learn might well end up worthless.
Do this enough times...and you're literally wasting huge chunks of your life reading (and no little money) - without any form of 'return' from your investment...which, once gone is lost forever.
I've decided that LESS is certainly MORE where new information is concerned.
Of course...I still invest in learning about myself and my business (as YOU should) - as that is exactly what successful people do.
BUT...I'm also spending some time CONSOLIDATING my previously acquired knowledge to make sure that I have made the most of what I've learned in the past.
And...at the same time...take a step back, stop for a moment...and THINK!
HI!
these are exactly the questions I think about on a daily basis, almost obsessively, or framed another way, these self questions have somehow come to become like second nature; under any cricumstance, and in any event. It is tho I have become a questioning observer of self. Now having said that, I have also noticed, that this awareness is part of the process, part of the process that leads to changes which then leads to new actions. And YES! consolidating, assimilating, and newly creating, are what seems to be the output of seeking answers to the questions!!
So, breath by breath, thought by thought, we move forward. In new awareness, new action toward. Some days are greater steps, some days appear to be ten steps back, but keeping the focus, on the questions, is definitly a great way to move toward becoming what you want to become.
Thanks Gary.
Brigid
