Be Your Own Here: Seven Steps To Success
"What do you want to be?"
This is a deep question that we often ignore.
We are so busy caught up in making a living that we forget we
have the power to design a life. We forget the possibility that
at any moment we can turn everything around and become an
outrageous success in life.
Most people opt for the default choice of mediocrity.
Yet this is not a pleasant choice. Nor does it provide more
approval, control or safety than risking the idea of following
your dreams. When you fail to aspire to be anything, your life
rings hollow with the pain of feeling unfulfilled.
The main obstacle people encounter in following this line of
thought is how to set it up.
While the dreaming and the intending can come to you with a
little bit of effort to overcome your resistance, the challenge
is in how to start.
The truth is that you can be anything that you want to be--but
you do have to work at it.
The first step is to have the courage to dream.
The second step is to make an intention (even if you don't have
a clue on how to start).
The third step is to choose a role-model. Who is already doing
what you want to do? Who is already the consummate actor, the
best-selling writer, the charismatic businessman, the internet
marketing millionaire, or the great humanitarian? Whatever you
want to be--there is someone who is already an expert at it.
The fourth step is to study all you can about that particular
person and that particular field of endeavor. You need
knowledge...lots of it...you need to enter the arena mentally at
first.
The fifth step is to emulate your role model. Adopt that
person's habits and skills from your reading or even from your
actual relationship with that person. Do what they do to have
what they have--and when you do this, you'll be like or better
than them.
The sixth step is to continue to study and practice. It's one
thing to have the knowledge and to see how it is expressed in
the form of someone doing what you want to do--and it is another
to have it so deeply rooted into your subconscious mind that it
seems like second nature.
And the seventh step is to persist. Obstacles will arise.
Challenges will have to be faced. And you will have to work on
your own disbelief that something extraordinary is possible for
you; but if you persist long enough, you'll learn from your
mistakes and become the person you really want to be, and do the
things that you really want to do, and have the things that you
really want to have.
Seize an hour today to dream your "impossible" dream. Over time,
you will realize that nothing, in fact, is impossible.
Saleem Rana is a psychotherapist in Denver, Colorado. You can
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