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Eliminating Self-Doubt | Beating the Bogeyman at His Own Game
“1% of doubt is enough to erase 99% of motivation.” – Author Unknown
I am 29 years old and I have a bogeyman. When I was younger, he would chase me through my neighborhood at night. I never saw him but I always knew when he was close. The hair on the back of my neck would stand straight up and I could feel him breathing over my shoulder. When I sensed he was near I wouldn’t stop to turn around, I would just tuck tail and run like the wind.
I was fast so it wasn’t too difficult to outrun him. He never caught me and he faded away as I got older. I just assumed he got bored and gave up trying to catch me. But he is a hell of a lot smarter, and much more insidious, than I gave him credit for – I say this because my bogeyman is back and he’s been whispering in my ear this whole time… Read the rest of this entry »
Goal Setting for Dummies Part Two – Honing in on the Target
“The most important thing about having goals is having ONE!” -Albert Geoffrey
Assuming you read my last post (Goal Setting for Dummies Part One – a Top Gun Analogy), you know I have struggled with a vicious cycle of setting tons of goals, following through with some but not ALL of them, and then getting down on myself for failing (again) to live up to the personal “rules” and high standards I set for myself…but then I would find myself jumping right back in to the same old habit of doing it to myself all over again. I knew this pattern SUCKED and I needed to change it but I had a difficult time finding and sticking with something that worked. But then I came across an old post from Leo at Zen Habits that inspired me to review and restructure the way I set goals for myself… Read the rest of this entry »
Goal Setting for Dummies Part One – Top Gun Analogy
“I’ll take you right into the Danger Zone.” -Kenny Loggins from the Top Gun soundtrack
We all know the importance of setting goals and establishing priorities. Most successful people will tell you that you have to know where you want to go if you ever want to get there and you have to have a plan to succeed. But, if you are anything like me, you have struggled following through with all of your goals.
Do you set goals which empower and motivate you in the short-term only to lose focus and determination and fail to see them through to completion? Do you set up specific action plans to achieve those goals only to wake up in the morning to a vague sense of anxiety about how productive you need to be and how much shit you need to get done each day to reach those goals? Do you ever feel as though you are spread too thin, that you are pulled in too many directions, that there isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done? And, finally, do you ever stress yourself out to the point of inaction…and then feel guilty or upset that you weren’t as productive as you should have been that day?
Yes? Good! No offense, but it’s comforting to know I am not alone in this. It’s a vicious cycle – setting tons of goals, following through with some but not ALL of them, and then getting down on myself for failing (again) to live up to the personal “rules” and high standards I set for myself…but then I jump right back in there and do it to myself all over again. And it SUCKS! Read the rest of this entry »
Life is a Game of Inches and Hello Football Season
As anybody who knows me can attest, I am a huge football fan (Go Chiefs and Hook ‘Em Horns). With the college season already underway and the NFL season set to kick off next week, I wanted to pay homage to what life is really all about…football 
We all know football is a game of inches. And, if football is life and life is football, it stands to reason that LIFE is a game of inches. Al Pacino does a pretty nice job of summing it all up in one of the better movie pre-game motivational speeches of all-time:
“The inches we need are everywhere around us!” Are you fighing for each inch?
Have a great weekend and THANK GOD FOR FOOTBALL!
How in the Hell do You Start a Successful Online Business?!
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore
If you are reading this, chances are you are either already running your own online business and are looking to take it to the next level or you haven’t yet started a business but are very much interested in doing so. Either way, we all struggle from time to time trying to figure out exactly how to get the ball rolling. So what’s the absolute FIRST step you need to take to start a successful online business?
Just jump off the cliff and get started… Read the rest of this entry »
