OK, so how many personal, or business development weekends or seminars have we attended only to have absolutely nothing change in our lives, whereas others who have attended the exact same class was able to create major life changes for themselves? I’m raising my hand here. I have attended many of these things only to experience minor/if any changes in my life where others were able to create quite an improvement in their lives.
In fact one seminar I attended dealing with some aspect of real estate, was quite pricey and I had vowed to myself I would at least make my money back in this seminar. Not only did this not happen, but one of the instructors who became an instructor after only 2 years after taking the same course, eventually left the realestate business when the market dictated it, and moved into my field only to soar past me after only being in my field for 1 year.
That is a pretty humbling experience, yet one that can also be a very good visual of what it is that he was doing and I wasn’t. I would say it wasn’t skill or intelligence. I would say it was commitment. He was more committed to being successful and I was more committed to staying in my comfort zone and being arrogant enough to convince myself that it was enough to achieve the results I wanted to have.
The important thing is that in each and every moment we are committed to something. If what we are committed to isn’t creating the results we want, then it is insanity to stay committed to that. In the moment we realize that what we have committed to isn’t giving us what we […]