What Would You Do If It Was You?
You are the architect of a goal that you are passionate about.
You have just designed the most beautiful structure you have
ever seen. It has consumed your waking and sleeping hours for
months now. It is your baby and you can see it, taste it, almost
touch it, but your contractor doesn't believe that he can build
it.
It is too fantastic he says and out of his league. There is no
way that a building like that could maintain its integrity built
on a slope like that. How can you even get men over there when
there is no road or bridge? It is impossible to build it the way
you want. Can you change it? Make it less grand?
No said the architect, I want it this way. This is what I want
and I can see it. I have been dreaming about this for so long
and it consumes me. I know that it is possible. Please trust me.
It can be done. I don't think so said the contractor, and this
went back and forth for many weeks. Now they are both stuck.
What should the architect do?
What would you do? Do you hire a new contractor, someone who
willing to take a risk and build something they have never done
before? Would you be able to trust them? OR, would you reduce
the vision like the first contractor said, and stay with him?
Most folks respond adamantly that they would hire a contractor
who is willing to work with them and give them what they want.
Says K "I would find an architect that caught fire with my
vision and wanted to dialogue about it and co-create it with me.
I would look for someone who had the absolute passion and
enthusiasm that I did for what I was doing." How about you? Do
you have your answer?
What if I told you that YOU were the architect? Oh, and you are
the contractor too.
Every day millions of people just like you have dreams and goals
and desires that their very own architect designs for them, and
every day they set that dream aside because their contractor
says NO, it's not possible!!
Why are you so adamant that you would find someone to give you
what you really want,when every day you smother your real
passion to start a business of your own. Your dream of becoming
a full time painter or the author of published a book lies
unfulfilled? Don't let your dreams die or be diluted when you
can have it all. There is an old Native American Proverb and it
goes like this, "I seek strength, not to be greater than my
brother, but to fight my greatest enemy ... myself. - anonymous
Native American Proverb
Now that you recognize the war inside, why don't you let your
architect win a round and see where it takes you? If you have a
passion for something that consumes you than don't let anything
or anyone get in your way of achieving your goal. Even yourself.
Can you think of something that you can do right now to help you
align yourself with your vision? How could you mediate between
your architect and your contractor to get working on your goal?
What ACTION could you take to start breaking ground on your
dream?
I specialize in the impossible. People tell me all the time that
I make things seem easy and do-able. I have thought about this
long and hard and figured out why. It is because I believe. I
believe I can do something so I can. So can you. Let me ask you
again.....What would you do if it were you?