Beginning vs. Starting Over
"You can learn
new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a
beginner, the whole world opens to you."
- Barbara Sher
Author
Success-minded
people see every day as a new classroom experience. They know that there is more to discover,
learn and understand about the world they live in and their journey to
success. Those who either refuse to
learn or do not bother to learn new things will quickly grow stagnate and dry
up. They will not come to the
realization of their dreams and will settle for the easy, mediocre life that so
many have come to.
There are really three things
that cause someone to stop learning.
There three things are all fatal and will stop you from achieving your
dreams. They are ego, fear, and
laziness. Let’s see how they affect us
and how to overcome them in our life.
The Problem of Ego
I start with this because I
believe it is the most common among people who have talent and skill, yet do
not move forward to become their best.
Ego is what tells us that we know all that we need to know. It looks at the talents and skills we possess
and thinks that is all we need in life.
Ego believes it is better than everyone and therefore not subject to the
need of learning that others have to face.
The way to overcome ego is to
first understand that, as Dr. John C. Maxwell so skillfully pointed out,
“Talent is not enough.” Your talent and
skills are really useless if you do not know how to use them and help them to
improve on a daily bases. Success-minded
people learn, not because they have to, (although if they wish to achieve
success they do have to), but because they desire to be the best they can
be. Who you are today is always less
than who you will be tomorrow if you are open to learn.
The Problem of Fear
It is human nature to fear the
unknown. The things you do not know will
sometimes cause you great fear. What if
you fail? What if you get hurt, or make
a mistake? What if you make a fool of
yourself? All these fears are real to
the person who hides rather than set out to learn new things; have new
experiences and take risks.
Success-minded people have all
those same fears. We all do in some way
or another. What success-minded people
do differently is they move past the fear and deliberately learn what they need
to know. Successful people know that
there will be times when they fail, or get hurt, or make mistakes. They even know that they will at some point
make a fool of themselves. However, they
also know, and use, the fact that with each failure, mistake or foolish act
comes a lesson to learn and they make sure they learn it.
The Problem of Laziness
Success means work – hard work –
and there are no short cuts. Because of
this many people will not venture off on the journey because it is just too
much work. They begin to think that
there must be an easier way, but finding that way is also too much work. It is as American businessman, Robert Half
said, “Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only
kept a secret from the person who fails.”
Success-minded people are
successful mainly because they are not afraid to work. They know that nothing happens in life
without action, so they become people of action. Really, it takes less effort to achieve
success than to live a life of failure and want. Benjamin Franklin said it clearly and very
directly when he said, “A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two
things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
To discover how you can achieve the dream you have believed was
impossible for too long, read On The
Journey To Achievement by John Patrick Hickey. You can get a signed copy for yourself and
get one for a friend, by going to http://www.johnpatrickhickey.com/it-is-good-to-set-goals-better-to-achieve-then/.
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