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HOW
MUCH DO YOU WANT IT?
Meeting the Challenge of Change, Part 14
Conscious change costs us. It costs time, vision,
commitment, effort, awareness, action. Without this investment change is
merely a thought, a wish, a yearning.
In order to succeed, you must have enough
dissatisfaction with the way things are, combined with a vision of what
you want and a strategy for getting there. This combo must be more
powerful than the cost of disturbing your comfort in order to manifest the
change.
On a scale of 0 - 10, how much is your life energy
being invested in dealing with the consequences of pattern you want to
change? How much is it the status quo costing you in energy (emotional,
mental, financial, physical), and time? Zero = none. 10 = 100%.
Look at that number and ask yourself - what could
you be doing if you were to free that energy to be utilized in a more
conscious way?
How much do you want what you say you want? Are you
willing to do the work of wrestling with the old to establish the new. You
must want what you want enough if you are to be successful at manifesting
the change you desire.
Change is accompanied by a struggle between our same
ol', same ol' zone of the familiar, and the new behavior we want to
manifest. The habit has been around a lot longer. It has been doing it's
thing, running it's pattern over and over for years, and years, and years.
That 'old self' wants to keep it's turf. It's going to do whatever it can
to undermine the 'new self's' successful take over.
Now ask yourself - how much do I want what I just
wrote down? 0 = not at all. 10 = as much as my next breath. Compare your
two numbers. If the dissatisfaction number is greater - then your comfort
patterns win.
To be successful you must have a powerful vision, a
strategy, and a willingness to take action again and again and again.
You can do it IF you really want it.
How much do you want it?
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QUOTES:
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action
without vision is a nightmare."
~ Japanese Proverb ~
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is
about creating yourself."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
"Losers visualize the penalties of failure.
Winners visualize the rewards of success."
~ Rob Gilbert ~
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING:
- Notice what you are dissatisfied with. What
situation, issue, behavior, pattern do you want to change?
- Ask yourself - how much of my life energy am I
investing in this issue? Be honest with yourself. Notice all levels:
physical, financial, time, emotional, mental, spiritual. 0 is no
energy at all - it's a non-issue. 10 = 100% of my energy.
- What do you want instead? If things, patterns,
behaviors, situations were the way you want, what would that be? Be
clear and specific. Write it down. Make your language positive,
present tense, and powerful. (See related articles for more details.)
- Now ask yourself - how much do I want what I just
wrote down? 0 = not at all. 10 = as much as my next breath.
- Compare your two numbers. If the dissatisfaction
number is greater - then your comfort patterns win.
- If that is the case - what can you do to make
your vision number BIGGER? What can you do to juice it up? Make it
more attractive? More powerfully inviting? Do you need to get clearer
as to the benefits to you, to others? How might accomplishing your
desire serve you and the world?
- Be honest with yourself. Is this a heartfelt
desire - or is it a should that is sitting on you? If it is a should -
make it a could and start over. Can you get enough juice behind it to
empower it to win over the zone of the familiar? What would Wild
Success look like? Really go for it. Imagine yourself enjoying the
fruits of your labor - living your desire fully and completely.
- If you cannot emBOLDen your vision to the point
of excitement and enthusiasm - CROSS IT OFF YOUR LIST. Don't waste
your time and energy telling yourself you want something you really
aren't committed to making happen.
- If you have empowered your vision to the point of
it being HUGELY attractive then ask yourself - WHAT IS AN ACTION - I
can take to move me closer to this vision.
- NOW DO IT!
- Keep asking the question and taking the actions.
Action, action, action produces results. You will know you are done
when you are living what you want.
WONDER QUESTIONS:
- What do you want?
- How much do you want it?
- Are you willing to make the investment, pay the
price, to have what you want?
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