Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, “Include me.” Providing you have the energy to pull it off, you can do what you like. And the Universal Law, being impartial, will be only too delighted to deliver. – Stuart Wilde, British writer.
In 1983 I had a decision to make. The company I worked for was being acquired by another company and consolidated into one very large organization. In order to keep that paycheck, I would have to uproot my family, move to a different city, and take a lesser position than the one I had. Or, I could leave that company, start over working for another, or start my own business, consulting small and medium-size companies in the area of human resources and organizational development. I chose to become an entrepreneur and start my own company. That choice set the direction of my life.
Making a choice to become an entrepreneur represents one of the ways that we can enabled the act of Choosing Yourself. Seth Godin, American author, marketer, and public speaker talks about it. James Altucher wrote a book on it, and all the successful entrepreneurs, visionaries, and outstanding performers live by it. Choosing yourself is the simple act of taking responsibility for yourself, your accomplishments, your work, and your future. It’s about not waiting, hoping, or wishing to be selected for a job, a team, or a school. It’s about picking yourself, facing your fears, and with persistence and determination go to work.
What is your aim in life? How do you see the latest version of yourself? Your aim in life should be to become the very best that you can be. Do you see yourself as you really are, or do you see yourself in comparison to others? Why do we consistently compare ourselves against others? Why do we look at people who are 3, 5, or even 10 years ahead of us in business and in life and get completely dejected that ‘we’re not there yet’ or that we fall way short in comparison?
That’s like comparing yourself with Richard Branson, one of Britain’s most high-profile billionaires with his current empire worth billions instead of the Richard Branson who was a college student trying to make a magazine come to life and getting loans from his mother.
We will always come up ridiculously short in our comparisons. That is a game for losers to play, but winners choose not to do it. You can’t even begin to know what’s behind another person’s journey and what it took for them to get to where they are.
Of course, you can learn from others, and emulate the great things they do, just as long as you don’t try to measure up against them.
It’s a choice. We can choose to have faith in ourselves, overcome the roadblocks and obstacles in our life, and create our own future, or we can choose to sit around comparing ourselves to others and wishing that our life was different. We have the freedom to choose to see ourselves and work on our own strengths. We also have the freedom to choose to see our weaknesses in an unfair comparison against others. We are free to choose our own destiny or stop in our tracks because we don’t feel that we measure up. We have the freedom to choose the road less traveled or allow our fears to cause us to keep company with the average.
We have the freedom of choice. In my article, “Finding Confidence to Succeed For Business Owners”, published by Ezine Articles, (http://EzineArticles.com/8369667), I talked about the fact that successful entrepreneurs must build a workable self-confidence.
The mind is a funny thing. It’s one of the best things we as humans have going for us, and yet it’s where our greatest battles are fought: negative vs. positive, hate vs. love, disappointment vs. hope, action vs. inaction… The mind can produce a lasting impression in a moment’s time, but at other times it can wrestle with issues for weeks or months – even years – before coming to rest on a conclusion.
The battles of indecision are often a sign of another battle going on: fear vs. confidence. To win the battle of the mind, we have to train our minds to think correctly. Thinking correctly is exercising our freedom of choice and choosing to say “yes” to creating a different and wonderful future for ourselves.
Why do most people live as average? Many do not realize that they are making that choice. They think that they are living the best they can under their circumstances. And that’s the problem. They don’t realize that their circumstances are a result of their past choices.
We have the freedom to choose to not be under the circumstances, but be on top of them. So, you can simply take responsibility for yourself, your accomplishments, your work, and your future. It’s about saying “yes” to yourself, facing your fears, and with persistence and determination go to work to create a different tomorrow. We can choose to keep living an average lifestyle without financial security, or we can choose a life of financial freedom.
What’s hold you back? What is keeping you from making a different choice? Go to http://www.sayyes2u.com and register to get my free guide to saying “yes” to your full potential and begin to choose your own destiny. Live the life you deserve.
Ron Jobe 