As I journey through life, there are times when I feel so overwhelmed, that I sit down and look around, I blink and blink again trying to see clearly but my vision is blurred. Its hot and the pressure is on. I question my ambition and desire. I conclude that I am lost. What direction am I going? What do I need to do to arrive at my destination? Where am I? And how did I get here?
Have you ever been lost in an urban setting or in the wilderness? No, seriously...have you ever literally arrived at a location where you knew absolutely nobody and you had no idea where you were? Just think about that for a moment.
Do you know what that feels like? There has been a few times where I have been completely turned around out in the wilderness. Its pretty scary. I think the scariest for me is when I lose sight of my son for seconds at a time. I hate when that happens.
Right now I feel I am literally 3 feet from gold. I have worked so hard and have came so far but where am I? One day I'm on top of the world the other its as if I been kicked so many times-I'm down and don't know what to do.
I need an anchor, a bearing, a true north. In boy scouts I was taught to use a compass. In college I got into photography, night photography. I would go out after the sun had set and take long exposures of the starry night sky. They are called star trails - but the cool thing is when you shoot the north star, it doesn't move. Everything goes around it. Its beautiful.
We need to establish our true north and find someone who we can trust who can help us arrive to where we want to go. Its not going to be easy, but it will be worth it. And guess what? You can do hard things.
The conclusion I have come to is - when I make a lot of money what exactly is going to change? A few things but not much. So why not just assume the sale, be confident, be solid and believe in yourself. Know its going to come. Its only 3 feet away, you just need to keep on digging.
"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when you are overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another." Napoleon Hill
Have you ever been lost in an urban setting or in the wilderness? No, seriously...have you ever literally arrived at a location where you knew absolutely nobody and you had no idea where you were? Just think about that for a moment.
Do you know what that feels like? There has been a few times where I have been completely turned around out in the wilderness. Its pretty scary. I think the scariest for me is when I lose sight of my son for seconds at a time. I hate when that happens.
Right now I feel I am literally 3 feet from gold. I have worked so hard and have came so far but where am I? One day I'm on top of the world the other its as if I been kicked so many times-I'm down and don't know what to do.
I need an anchor, a bearing, a true north. In boy scouts I was taught to use a compass. In college I got into photography, night photography. I would go out after the sun had set and take long exposures of the starry night sky. They are called star trails - but the cool thing is when you shoot the north star, it doesn't move. Everything goes around it. Its beautiful.
We need to establish our true north and find someone who we can trust who can help us arrive to where we want to go. Its not going to be easy, but it will be worth it. And guess what? You can do hard things.
The conclusion I have come to is - when I make a lot of money what exactly is going to change? A few things but not much. So why not just assume the sale, be confident, be solid and believe in yourself. Know its going to come. Its only 3 feet away, you just need to keep on digging.
"One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when you are overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another." Napoleon Hill
1 comment:
Nice post Travis. It reminds me of something my friend Stefan told me, "In many ways, the work you put in is a lot like the one degree of separation that turns water from not boiling to boiling. Or from not being frozen to frozen. It takes a lot of energy to get to that point, but you don’t actually see any impact until you get to the last degree that changes things. There’s a great short movie clip you can all watch that talk about this principle: The 212 Degree Movie."
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