what do you desire? let that drive you
tick-tock, clock is ticking
#89
Someone asked me how I find time to put up these posts (almost) every day. My response was: “I want to do it, so I find the time.” Naturally, his next question was, “how do you find the time?” and in the most Ato response, I said, “I don’t know. I just do.” 🙃🙃🙃🙃 I find it difficult to explain my processes some times. When things just “make sense” to me, I do them and not think too much about anything else. The author of the extract below references Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Very important book, that switched my thinking on a number of topics. The first step out of 13 that Napoleon Hill discusses is desire. Meaning you have to want it to get it. And how bad do you want it? If you’re not pushing on obsession, you probably won’t do it and do it well.
So, what do you desire?
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Most people “say” they want to be successful. But if they really wanted to, they’d be successful.
I used to tell people, “I wish I played the piano.” Then someone said, “No you don’t. If you did, you’d make the time to practice.” I’ve since stopped saying that, because he was right.
Life is a matter of priority and decision. And when it comes to money — in a free-market economy — you can make as much money as you choose. The question is, how much money do you really want to make?
Instead of vegging on social media day-after-day, year-after-year, you could spend an hour or two each day building something of value — like yourself.
In the book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill invites readers to write down on a piece of paper the amount of money they want to make, and to put a time-line on it. This single act will challenge you to think and act in new ways to create the future of your wanting.
For example, despite growing up so poor that for a time his family lived in their Volkswagen van on a relative’s lawn, Jim Carrey believed in his future. Every night in the late 1980s, Carrey would drive atop a large hill that looked down over Los Angeles and visualize directors valuing his work. At the time, he was a broke and struggling young comic.
One night in 1990, while looking down on Los Angeles and dreaming of his future, Carrey wrote himself a check for $10 million and put in the notation line “for acting services rendered.” He dated the check for Thanksgiving 1995 and stuck it in his wallet. He gave himself five years. And just before Thanksgiving of 1995, he got paid $10 million for Dumb and Dumber.
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Blessed weekend.
📱📱Quote of day
“Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.” – Napoleon Hill