“Do you ever wonder why it can be so hard to get ahead in life? You try everything out there, and nothing seems to really work.”
In my last post I was covering the seven success keys and how they’re guaranteed to make a difference in your life. We covered the first key which was having a Vision and I hope you took a serious look at what having a Vision can do for you.
At this moment we’re going to get into the second key which may be the most important of all but I’ll let you decide.
But before I jump into the details with you let me share a story with you…..
I used to work as a cabinet maker at a medium sized millwork plant and one of my co-workers was a guy named John. Now John was a nice enough guy but he seriously had no vision, he just seemed to be led around by life’s circumstances living moment to moment and paycheck to paycheck.
By the way I’m all about living in the moment but how John was doing it was down right destructive and here’s why.
John would come into work most days right at the top of the hour, often a few minutes late. He was a hard worker and got along with everyone and at times you could see him procrastinating at his work station or giving up if his work got to complicated.
Like most of us John loved his weekends and at times would enjoy them a little to much and because of this he would usually be late to work come Monday morning or not even bother to show up at all.
John was an easy going guy but couldn’t for the life of him figure out why he could never get ahead. He was getting paid what the job could afford to pay him. It was certainly enough for the rest of us to get by on but John was struggling and could put his finger on the problem.
The thing was is I knew what John’s problem was, and that brings us to the second key for success: Strength.
Strength may be the most important attribute of the seven keys but then again maybe not, we’ll see. Of course, I’m not talking about physical strength but rather mental strength.
Mental strength covers things like your ability to know when your procrastinating and pushing past it, or being able to persevere through the rough, aggressive, brutal times when the only thought we can hold is that of quitting.
Strength is about persisting when you don’t want to persist. It’s about doing when you don’t want to do. Inner strength can be the difference between success and failure, it’s about never giving up until you win period.
If we don’t have inner strength then we allow things like worry and doubt to cloud our thoughts and extinguish our dreams.
Without strength of mind, anxiety creeps in and keeps us exactly where we are in life with no hope of moving forward.
If you want an immediate cure for anxiety I’ve got one: Take everything in your life that’s not working for you right now and stop doing it.
Think I’m crazy saying that. Think how every bit of anxiety would just melt away if everything in your life was working for you. Now tell me, am I crazy now?
It’s been said before that; It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over, because if you have control over them then there’s no sense in worrying about them. Also it makes no sense in worrying about things you have no control over, because if you have no control over it then there is no sense in worrying about it.
I will leave you with this quote from Ovid: ” Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying,once and for all”.
Remember to get the third key to success in my next post, it’s bound to leave you breathless!
Tags: inner strength, mindset, success
