How To Get What You Want Must Point Finger At Mirror

If you are not where you want to be in life don’t point the finger unless you are looking into a mirror. Seriously to many times we set ourselves up for failure. I was recently in San Francisco Bay Area at a personal growth company event and one of the speakers Blake Mallen, who became a millionaire by his mid 20′s was talking about how we as a people constantly disempower, instead of empower ourselves. We think about all the things we don’t want to happen, instead of what we want to happen. It starts from being a kid with a huge imagination that I will talk about later in this short post.

The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
Success and failure really does start from childhood, a perfect example was the field trip I attended with my daughters 3rd grade class. We climbed all the way up a 104 step rounded staircase to the top of the Pioneer or the Gold Man at the Oregon State Capitol building. When we got there our guide started spouting off all sorts of interesting facts like how long ago we got this gold man and how he weighs 8.5 tons hollow and is 23 feet tall and because back then we didn’t have cranes, we had to use man power leveraging the weight of the gold man through a pulley setup. It ended up taking several men 3 days splitting shifts 24 hours a day to successfully get this Gold man up 180 feet to the top of the Capitol building.

With such a major operation at hand these men could have easily come up with the excuse that they couldn’t accomplish this massive feat at that time. Strong mental attitude equals the mind is powerful, if you make an unwavering decision to do something. If you do this the mind will help you solve the problem. However if you decide to think of all the things that could stop you then the mind will help you not get it done just as well. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” Napoleon Hill.

What A Man Thinketh…
At this point in our life we must take responsibility, we have to stand up to the things we fear, we have to realize if it’s meant to be it’s up to me, we must take right action to achieve right results. We will have trial and error, but theory and actuality are two completely different things, that’s why 2 hours in the field is worth 100 hours in the classroom as I was taught from a very successful friend of mine.

The unfortunate part about the kids in the field trip is a lot of adults act the same way as kids with what we’re taught and what we still teach in life. Most of us live life in what if’s land. Example the lady who was speaking started talking about how the Gold man was put up on the top and there was nothing fastening him to the Capitol. So in 1993 we had an earthquake and when they went to examine the goldman they noticed a ring to one side because he had been jolted and moved over. Thankfully it wasn’t 10 seconds longer or he would have fell 180 ft to his destruction. So due to that tragic possibility a massive renovation took place and iron bars were placed through the gold man and he was put back up safely secured to the building in case of another situation like that one. Once she mentioned this the kids started having wondering what if thoughts and saying things like what would happen if a tornado hit it, what if another earthquake happened etc…

This makes me think of reps in our industry that think they need to know everything about everything before they go talk to people. They say things like what if they ask me what’s in the product, or the compensation plan or what if the video doesn’t play the same on Internet Explorer as it does on Firefox or what if they don’t like it. Stop setting yourself up for failure! What if you had no one to depend on, what would you do then? What if you start taking daily action? The funny thing about a mirror is when we point at it the only person it points back to is ourselves, the only reflection you see is yourself. What if you don’t like what you see, then make the correct changes to get what you want and live a life worth reflecting on. Simply start taking daily action, simply take responsibility my friends point finger at mirror and when you do this you will get what you want.