VITAMINS FOR THE MIND by Ron Reynolds #3321 (Wednesday, June 26, 2013) Remember Your Purpose We often address the subject of ‘finding your purpose” and making it strong and blending the emotion of passion into your pursuit of that purpose. It’s that passionate purpose that keeps people pursuing the vision they’ve built into themselves that keeps them involved and believing and trying and getting better with each attempt they may make, regardless of whether the outcome of those attempts is successful or not. It’s when the outcome is ‘not’ successful that we can lose our vision and the passion that’s so fundamental in turning our vision into our own daily reality. Anybody can keep going and keep getting better when their world is ‘better,’ but the ‘better’ world is never constant; we have to always remember that as surely as our success is never final, so is our failure never fatal – or least we must remember not to let the failures become fatal for us. As I’ve been writing and saying lately, our circumstances on any day of our life is not an accurate indicator of either our value or of our destiny; our destiny is to leave an indelible mark as we go through the process of living our lives – a ‘positive’ and indelible mark that the bad experiences cannot erase. And, our ‘value’ will, over time, slowly but substantially increase provided we don’t let the bad experiences do something ‘to’ us instead of doing something ‘for’ us. Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the occasion to go to a few cities to present the AdvoCare Diamond pin and necklace to several AdvoCare Distributors who have succeeded in climbing the ladder in the AdvoCare Success System through the eight steps in the marketing plan from Advisor to Diamond Advisor. Imbedded in the stories of their journey is a message of growth, of dealing with setbacks brought on by self-doubt, and of moments when the climbing the ladder just seemed to be not worth the effort. That happens to all of us who make personal development not merely a descriptive term that seems to imply an act of ‘motivation’, but a disciplined, daily effort designed to make us better so that we might live better. Of each of those stories I heard, one thing stood out and that one thing was the intense and burning and unquenchable desire to make something of ourselves; not a wish, not hope and not pretense, but a daily dose of self-imposed disciplines that finds us thrusting ourselves willingly into the process of doing some uncomfortable things until they become somewhat more comfortable; that’s the way ‘getting better’ and ‘changing ourselves’ takes place, and if we aren’t willing to make changes in how we are, then nothing around us is ever going to get any better, because for things to change, we must change. Remember – we don’t attract what we want, we attract what we are, and what we ‘are’ can’t remain as its always been; we must give up some things now – in the present – if we are ever to have a chance for something more and something better later. We cannot be like the man who sat in front of his wood-burning stove on a cold winter day, and who said to the stove – “You give me heat and then I’ll give you wood.” Our “then” must be now, not when we get what we want.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:02:31 +0000
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