What get's in your way?

As I sit here on a beautiful Sunday morning, I wonder what stops me from being the amazing, successful person I want to be? I read a lot and watch all kinds of motivational talks, so I desperately want to be a motivational speaker. I know I have a lot to offer, and I'm told I run excellent groups at the facility I work at. So why do I feel like I'm in my own way?

I suppose a lot has to do with the negative self-talk I still have chattering in my head. The " you don't really think you're smart enough to pull that one off" talk. As a child, I struggled in school and barely got by. When I look back on those years, though, I tend to think that I really had given up trying. Learning was too much work for me (of course, I didn't realize that every other child felt the same way). I was never encouraged or challenged as a child to do better. Now I'm not going to sit here and blame my parents for not instilling a love for learning here because not only did they do the best they could with what they knew, but I know of a lot of people in the same boat as me and worked hard to get the grades. I just never could figure out how to get motivated to get started with tasks that I didn't really want to do.

Like I said, I like to read a lot and listen to motivational speakers and found that the key is, like Nike says, "just do it." Of course, that is easier said than done, but that's the point. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and there would be no challenge, no standing out from the pack. The people that are successful stand out from the pack. They do things that they don't want to do. The trivial and tedious things. They just keep at it. Perhaps then it is not that they are super motivated (I'm sure there's that) but persistent, relentlessly persistent.

I have a "failure list" that speaks to me strongly. IT is a list of some of the most successful people and their "failures." Some of them you probably already have heard of. One of my favorites: Walter Disney was fired from the editor of a newspaper for lack of imagination, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, Babe Ruth had over 1,300 strikeouts, a major league record! The one thing these men have in common is they didn't quit. They kept trying, perfecting, and honing their skills. They had a dream and was relentless in working toward their goal.

So, just do it, don't quit even if you fail 100 times, be relentless, and dream big!!!

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