Inspiraelevation

Everyone wants a cheerleader, a support system, someone that will push you through the toughest times.

Creating change and moving toward goal achievement is not an easy process.

Sometimes it takes a little more oomph than you feel you have.

Your energy reserves may be low. Your spirit is waxing and waning. You simply feel that you have done all you can.

All you really need is that one extra push to get you through the thick of it.

The fact is, there will not always be somewhere there to cheer you on.

There will not always be someone there to push you to move beyond mediocrity to greatness.

And sometimes it may seem that people are doing the very opposite. Rather than giving you a hand up they become the very obstacles that threaten to bring you down.

Those are the times when you have to apply your strongest effort. You have to be your own cheerleader. You have to remind yourself of your purpose, of  “why” the dream is so important to you.

But how?

During your most proactive, most energized, and focused moments create a self-talk journal whether it be on paper or audio. In that journal remind yourself of why you are doing what you are doing. Talk about who you are. Complement and encourage yourself.

When you begin to struggle to push forward read or play those journals back to yourself. Use them as a method of motivation.

Become your own cheerleader. 

 

 

You have to push forward even when no one is cheering for you.

You can do it, I believe in you!

One of the worst words to ever enter an achievers vocabulary is the word try.

Trying simply indicates a minimalist mindset.

To say that one “will try” indicates a weak intention to commit to a goal.

The person who is merely always trying to apply action or commit to change masks his or her true intentions.

My grandfather once said that before a person acts he or she has already mapped out their intentions within their mind.

Thus, when one says that he or she will try, he or she has no solid desire or premise to act or move forward.

As harmless as this word may seem it is the ultimate reason for escape and is the biggest excuse for inaction.

“Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away. Eventually, the success goes away because that is the command “excuses” gave out; “pack and go”!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Yoda once said there is no try, there is only do or don’t do.

“The point is that when we say we are trying we don’t really have to do anything. It also provides us with an excuse for why we didn’t accomplish the outcome we say we want” (Hyatt).

However, there is no between for those who wish to succeed.

Success is built on continual efforts, progress, and action.

You must make a decision to do what is necessary with passion and intention, not half-heartedly.

One who wants to reach any level of success he or she must do more than just try.

“Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.”
― Constance Friday

We must speak to those things which we most desire. What we say is a manifestation of what we think or innately believe.

If you believe that you are an achiever speak and act as such.  Speak to your forthcoming success.

Replace the word “try” in your vocabulary with “will or can.” In every way exhibit the success you wish to manifest.

 

Reference:

Hyatt, Michael. ” Difference Between Trying and Doing.” Web.

https://michaelhyatt.com/the-difference-between-trying-and-doing/. Retrieved 18

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Achievement does not come easy, it is almost always the result of work, “mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result” (Merriam Webster).

However, there are levels of effort.

One can put in as little or as much effort as he or she deems necessary.

Assuredly, nothing is accomplished without some minimal level of effort.

If your desire is an achievement of any kind, you must exert some effort.

No one else is going to make your dream a reality but you.

There is no genie that is going to make all your dreams come true, it is solely up to you.

Your level of achievement is solely dependent on the amount of applied effort.

Thus, to begin, one must decide on the level of achievement they desire. Then,  one must apply the action necessary to achieve it.

Greater and lasting achievement typically requires the application of greater effort.

This type of effort is what is referred to as grinding.

Grinding is not pleasant.

” It applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion” (Merriam Webster).

Grinding requires a lot of a person. It requires one to move beyond his or her comfort zone and implies exhausting all possible avenues to become successful. It means “never letting up, staying on top of things, being consistent, showing up, and putting in the work” (Merriam Webster).

Grinding means, working, especially when you don’t feel like it.

Ultimately, it is consistently pushing oneself to new limits.

It is an absolutely necessary ingredient for high achievers.

Your results will always reveal your efforts.

The achievement always goes to those who put in the work.

I challenge you to get out there and grind.

I woke up one day and I wondered.

 

I wondered how I arrived where I was at that very exact moment in time.

For, what I was seeing manifested in my life was alien to me.

After all, I had been firm in my commitment over the past couple of months.

I had made the changes needed to realize the transformation I was seeking, I thought.

Yet, I was seeing nothing in the present to reflect those efforts.

Things seemed to be going very opposite to what I was targeting.

I began to doubt the possibility of change.

The questions that rang incessantly in my mind were “how, and why”.

How was I doing all the things necessary to create change but there were no results to reflect my efforts?

Why was I experiencing this?

After some contemplation, inquiry, and seeking, I was brought to a revelation.

There was no mistake or mixup.

I had created all that I was seeing.

Everything I was, and that I was experiencing in the present; I had built it.

My habits over the last few years brought me to this place.

Nothing I was doing to change it would bring about a change overnight.

Admittedly, what I was seeing was shocking, but it was undeniably a result of what I had invested in my life.

It would take me the same amount of time to reconstruct, that it took me to get to where I was currently.

I began to realize that I needed to accept what I saw as a harvest and understand my role in the cultivation. From there I needed to redefine my vision of who I wanted to be, what I wanted, and why I wanted it. Above all, I had to believe that the investment I was now making would manifest those desires, but not instantaneously.

NO matter what I was seeing right now in the present it would not define who I will be if I continued to put in the work.

It’s not an overnight fix.

I want to motivate you.

Believe that whatever the present looks like and how impossible it may seem your present does not have to define your future.

However, you must first be realistic and accept this truth.

1. what you are experiencing now is a result of what you have invested in the past.
2. If you are unhappy with where you are, you must change what you have done up to this point. (However, reconstruction will take time. reprogramming is a timely process.)
3. If you have made changes but don’t see results yet, don’t be discouraged you must keep going.

*lasting and effective change will take more than 30 or 90 days.

If you stick to it, one day you will wake up and you will be pleasantly surprised at what you see. You may even miss the exact time when you start becoming and transforming into what you have been building.

Be assured that what you will see did not occur overnight.

Today I reaped what I sowed yesterday. Tomorrow I will reap the harvest that I am sowing today, good or bad.

Recommended Read:

Meadows, Martin. This Time Will Be Different: Short Book on Making Permanent 

     Changes. 

Most are familiar with the dog eared statement, “knowledge is power. ” Although this phrase has become heavily cliched it is has a definitive accurateness.

Knowledge renders one capable of acting and enacting change.

Without knowledge, there would not be any progress.

As we learn our sphere of awareness enlarges bringing with it clarity and new insights.

And it is certain that without the growth, that increasing one’s knowledge brings, one would surely perish.

However,  it is also wise to remember the adage “all things in balance”.

While knowledge, if used correctly, can be the key to unlocking innumerable successes;  there is a point where knowledge can become a liability

One of the most crucial points wherein knowledge becomes a liability is when it is untempered.

There is a fine line where the increase in knowledge becomes counterproductive.

Primarily too much knowledge leads to incomprehensible complexities.

 

Undoubtedly, increasing one’s knowledge increases one awareness and options, which in and of itself is not negative. However, an increase in choices often makes it harder to focus or choose.

The resulting factor “Paralysis by analysis”.  And, lack of action regardless of how much one knows still results in the cessation of progress.

Secondarily, untempered knowledge can increase one’s arrogance, contribute to complexes of superiority, or even lead to depression.

When seeking knowledge, be wise in the undertaking. Remember there must always be a balance.

It is not merely about how much information one can absorb, but what type of information is being absorbed,  the purpose behind the search, and how that information is being used.

Lasting success and achievement result from balance.