What's Your "Excuse Story"
For Not Taking Action?
“The failure to act is much more a product of inner,
emotional resistance
than external resistance. To move forward you must
give up your story,
whether it is excuses about your childhood, lack of
education, your
‘bad luck’, your unsupportive family, or where you live.”
- Dan Kennedy.
What is your dream? What is
it you would really like to do with your life? What have you always wanted to
do? What do you keep telling yourself: “I’ll do that one day”?
Why don’t you act on your
dream? Why don’t you make it happen? Why don’t you even give it a go?
Because you have a whole lot
of reasons why not. There’s the lack of money, the disapproval of others, the
risk, the fact of having to do it alone, the repercussions, and so on.
Or as Dan Kennedy says, all
those excuses you use that hold you back from living the life you really want
to be living.
You couldn’t handle what
happened in your childhood when you were only 4, 5, 6 or 7, but now you are 37
and you can handle your life now.
You didn’t stay at school and
get an education, but some of the most successful people in the world left
school when they were 15 years of age. A large number of the recently named top
100 BRW young entrepreneurs here in Australia, dropped out of university.
If you feel that you always
have “bad luck”, that you are jinxed, then you probably are because whatever we
have going around in our heads all the time, we become. When we change our
thinking, we change our life.
Your unsupportive family is where you learnt to be like you are. You
don’t have to abandon them, but maybe you do have to find a new group of people
who can become the “supportive family” you need, to be your cheer squad, as you
risk living your dream.
Dan Kennedy is very right.
What’s stopping you taking the action you need to take to live your dream is
NOT all these things above, it is all the feelings and emotions inside you that
frightened you, make you hesitate and give you very disempowering messages.
My challenge to you this week
is to spend time with your dream. Spell it out. Take it seriously. Find that “supportive family” – a colleague, coach or mentor – and share
your dream. Get their input and support as to
how you could make it happen. The JUST DO IT.
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