Believe It To Achieve It
I mean success that’s bigger and better than anything you’ve already accomplished.
One thing that is common to all humans is how we “overestimate” our future.
They say this is only common in Americans, but it’s present in ALL people. This “entrepreneurial” mindset.
The kind where you look out into the future, and see things much brighter than they really are.
The reason for this is to simply keep us moving forward. Sure, it feels great to achieve stuff, but that feeling doesn’t very long. Pretty soon we’ve got our sights set on something else.
Even world championship teams know that can’t bask in glory forever. It’s only a matter of time before the next season starts and they’ve got to defend their title.
This plays out in any kind of forward movement. Take jogging, for example.
At the beginning, the goal is to run for a mile without stopping. Once that happens, then it’s two miles, then three.
When you get up to three or four per day, then the focus shifts to decreasing times for the same distance.
I’m sure you’ll notice the same thing, in any of your previous accomplishments.
Which means you’ve already noticed that “startling discovery” that I alluded to earlier.
Before we achieve something, we kind of put it up on a pedestal. But when we achieve, it comes back down to Earth. It seems normal. Sometimes you may even have wondered what the big deal was.
The secret is that ANYTHING you can think of, no matter how BIG and FAR OUT it may seem, can one day seem as normal as tying your shoes.
All you’ve got to do is get from where you are now, to where you want to be.
It may take a while, and it SHOULD take a while if you’ve got big goals that are worth pursuing.
But it shouldn’t be scary, or difficult, or frustrating.
All you’ve got to do is shift your mind, so that you believe you can achieve it, and you will.
But be warned, though. When you DO achieve it, the heavens won’t open, you won’t be invited for a ticker tape parade, you won’t feel like a super hero.
Because you will have learned a very under appreciated secret of life.
That you can get ANYTHING you want in life, so long as you believe you can.
Because when you do, getting THAT (whatever THAT is) will be as normal as baking a cake.