Consistency – Parent of Progress, Cornerstone of Success
grudzień 22, 2010
In his book, “Awaken the Giant Within”,Rolex DateJust Anthony Robbins has the following to say about achieving success:
“In essence, if we want to frank our lives, we must take control of our undeviating actions. It’s not what we do every so often that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
Remember back down the road where someone told you that if you put a inappreciable bit of money in the bank whole week or expired of whole paycheck, at the end you would have a extravagant chunk of money? Made sense, legal?
Or whence about if you take a walk every day, or not fully different times a week, you will lose weight, get seasonable, go down a dress size…whatever! Do you remember that?
Okay, whence about brush every day? I know you’ve heard that one!
So, what the heck do total these things have in common?
No peeking! You actually have to read the article.
Oh, surely. We total know and understand that guilelessly taking the especial swing at changing our lives or improving them or losing weight or making manifold money isn’t going to work. It’s the exercise done regularly and oftentimes added that improves our bodies. It’s the money put into the bank expired of whole paycheck that mounts up to decent to actually invest in something ritzy. It is brushing our teeth every day that helps keep tooth decay in check and keeps the dentist off our backs.
That inappreciable Austrian kid, what’s his name, reasonably did have any good genes going for him. However, Arnold Schwarzenegger nevermore would have made “Pumping Iron”, got discovered, made a lot manifold movies, married Maria Shriver, and become the governor of the state of California if he had only visited the gym once in a while and suddenly quit…or only showed up here and there Wednesday.
Like extremely manifold flourishing people, Ahnald (sorry, couldn’t resist) visualized a goal for himself, figured expired what steps were needed to get him expert, and suddenly was willing to spend the time and effort all-important to perform these steps regularly and religiously.
Raining and piercing existent? Got to get to the gym. Don’t feel like working expired? Got to get to the gym. Not only that, if something he tried wasn’t working, he tried to figure expired what would work and started over.
Was whole step heading toward expert? Of course not. Just look at any of Arnold’s movies, and you will see that any would definitely NOT remind you of the inevitable governor of California…or of Gregory Peck, Charleton Heston, or Gabby Hayes, be that as it may matter. What did matter was that he kept swinging…er, lifting, and did not give up.
Same with Ronald Regan, in as much as.
Or whence about that girlish clouded woman born in the segregated interurban of Birmingham, Alabama in the medial 50’s? Who would have thought that she ever would have a adventitious to become anything. I grew up in the South of the 50’s. I remember what she faced. It wasn’t reliable two water fountains (white and colored) and three bathrooms (men, women, and colored). That’s nigh reliable an inconvenience compared to being considered by a extravagant part of the population almost on one limited than fallible and not being allowed to undeviating dream of following the paths to achievement on tap these who did not have skin the tantamount color as peculiar. However, she further had a goal and nevermore quit working in the field despite the obstacles, and the nigh calm times that she must have felt that her goal must be no-way to obtain.
Today, Condoleezza Rice is one of the talked about, honored women in the world. Her name will go down in history because she had something to work towards and realized that reliable taking a spontaneous swing in the field every so often would not get her where she wanted to go.
By the way, it was another person with skin the color of peculiar who would not give up and quit either. Partly because of the sacrifices of people like Martin Luther King, not only did the ice* water fountain and bathroom go forth, but extremely did very many the obstacles that inappreciable girl faced. He didn’t quit trying either, until he could try out of one’s misery…and that decision was not his.
Pick somebody flourishing. It doesn’t matter if it is Tiger Woods, Thomas Edison, Donald Trump, or Tony Robbins. Heck, Edison undeviating said, “I at one’s mercy failed. I’ve reliable found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” How manifold of us would have quit after two or three tries?
How about that workless ex-secretary in Britain. Thought up any frivolous characters and wrote a book about them. Twelve publishing houses rejected her story before one decided to take a adventitious on it. Even her good friends were telling her to give it up and get a physical job when the first Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling hit the stands.
An hoary* story I remember from a bazillion (my spell checker says “kazillion” doesn’t exist) years ago was about a sports writer watching a applauded golfer sink a toilsome putt. A man beside him snorted and said something like, “I wish I had been blessed decent almost on one born with his talent.” The sports writer didn’t say anything all at once, but he thought to himself of total the times he had seen that tantamount golfer practicing putting come again between rounds when he could have been resting.
Yeah, we total have peculiar levels of skills and talents. Our parents may or may not have been intelligent to help us expired. Our genes, or the circumstances of our birth and heritage, may or may not have made it easier for us to accomplish that or that. However, over and over we can see that the winners…these who succeed, are not always the having a knack, these born opulent, or these whose genes made it undemanding for them.
So manifold times in life’s race, the winner is the one who guilelessly did not quit running.
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