The Two Most Important Words To Your Development
In this article, I’m going
to explain to you the two most important words to your development. Your development means achieving your goals
and developing yourself in all areas of your life. You will benefit from these words by integrating them into your
vocabulary and applying them.
The first word is
“start”. To reach the end, you have to
have a beginning. Start things up. Let me tell you something you probably already
know but maybe hadn’t thought about really consciously until now. There is no perfect time to start
something. So why wait? There’s no reason. Many people describe their goals as “When I…X” or “When X
happens” where “X” is the condition they’re waiting on and will continue to
wait on.
Just get up and
running. If you want to do something
well, it’s worth doing badly at first.
It’s the way we all learn. My
philosophy is to just start up and go for it.
When I take one step, the next step will be revealed to me. Sure, I may not know what the heck I’m doing
and yet I believe in myself enough to figure it out. If I don’t know what to do, I have the second most important word
to lean on, which I’ll describe later in this article. Just take one step. Promise yourself to take one small action
every day.
Again, there won’t be any
perfect time. Shoot, I can wait years
for the stars to align, for the ocean tide to be high, for my astrological sign
to be aligned with the moons of Jupiter and so on and so forth until I get the
right “sign” to begin. But meanwhile,
I’m burning up my most precious commodity; my time.
When you burn up your time,
it’s like you’re taking the present that the Universe/God/The Great Spirit is
giving you and slapping it away. And
you can never get it back. My point is
to just start doing something. Do it
badly if you must and just say, “Hey, I’m going to find out some of the ways
this won’t work and when I run out of ways it won’t work, I’m going to
succeed.” It’s true. Run out of ways NOT to succeed and you’re
bound for success.
Think about something you do
incredibly well now. This could be at
your job, at home, with your hobby, with your family, or in sports. At some point in your past, you probably
weren’t as good as you are now, are you?
You may have even been downright rotten. What happened? You kept
at it and you got better and now you’re successful at it. See friend, this part of the article is not
groundbreaking. I’m just reminding you,
“Hey, remember when you didn’t do something well but now you do? Well, anything you want to do well now but
aren’t so red hot at is just the same experience repeated.”
You’ve got all the resources
in you to do it. This is undeniably
true. You’ve been less-than-excellent
in the past and now you are excellent at something. You learned one skill which means you can do it again, now. And I do mean right now! Not tomorrow, not the next day. Now, now, now, now. You get the drift of what I’m saying, don’t
you?
So after you get up and
running, you may run into snags. Snags
are obstacles you meet on your journey to success. Still, I commend you for using the first word “start” to get
rolling. <Kent pauses to salute
you!> Now here comes the second most
important word to your personal development ever. Are you ready? It is
“help”. Help, to me, is a near magical
word. You can summon others to help you
achieve what you want.
Ask for help early and
often. For whatever you want to do,
achieve, or solve, there is someone or something out there who not only knows
how to help you but who WANTS to help you too!
They may have already handled this challenge you’re facing. Stubborn pride cost me a lot because I
wouldn’t ask for help from others in the past.
I thought I had to do it all alone.
Meanwhile, I wasted time fumbling around while another person could have
immediately helped me.
Any worthwhile pursuit will
have snags along the way. So get help
when you find them. Defeat the snag and
move on to bigger and better things.
And when you get help, pass along your expertise too to others so that
everyone benefits.
There you go. ‘Start’ and ‘help’ are the two words that
will put you on the path to achieving your every goal and living the life of
your dreams. Congratulations. As you imagine leading your dream lifestyle,
you can picture it now so clearly, and tell yourself inside how great a job you
did, as you feel wonderful with this powerful sense of achievement…you can
remind yourself that you did it because you got started and you asked for help
along the way.
Kent Sayre is a worldwide persuasion expert and author of “The Ultimate Persuasion Formula” available at http://www.TheUltimatePersuasionFormula.com Furthermore, he is the author of the bestselling book “Unstoppable Confidence” endorsed by such celebrity authors as Brian Tracy, Robert Allen, and Jim Rohn.