Motivational advice – NEVER GIVE UP!

Yes, it takes courage to change. It takes courage to follow your dream, but you can do it. You’ve done it before.

Remember:
As a child, ‘Never say die’, ‘Have no fear’, ‘Try and try again’, ‘Enjoy the moment’, were your working metaphors. Choose now to revisit and reuse these winning thought processes. Look at the way a toddler attacks life with energy, enthusiasm and curiosity – and without fear!

By the age of two most people have learned to walk. It’s a very interesting process. One day, something inside you tells you that you want to be able to do more than crawl around on the floor. So you pull yourself up on your feet, using whatever is around to help you. You’re a bit shaky at first and you end up sitting on the floor a lot but you gradually get steadier on your feet and more confident. Before long, you can navigate the room using the furniture as a prop. Then it happens! You want to get from A to B but there is nothing to hold onto! You’re going to have walk all by yourself!
You fix your eye on the goal – where you want to go – and you launch yourself from the security of the armchair into open space. You take a step – wobble a bit – steady yourself. Take another step. Then land on your backside!

What happens then? Do you give up? Do you say to yourself ‘I tried my best and I can’t do it. It hurts. I’m never doing that again!’? Did your ego kick in and start whispering ‘you’re making a fool of yourself. Better quit while your ahead.’?

If that were as far as any of us were prepared to go, we would all be walking around holding onto solid objects for support! But each one of us is born with an innate desire to reach our full potential. That statement is worth repeating; each one of us – and that includes you – is born with an innate desire to reach our full potential. We are programmed for success, but we get sidetracked by circumstances.

Go on failing. Go on – only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Think about this: if you repeatedly fail in your quest for a new job, or a more toned body how long will it be before you give up? Would you view every stumble as another defeat, or as a step that taught you a valuable lesson and brought you closer to success?

By the age of five you had acquired a vocabulary of over eighty per cent of the words necessary to communicate daily. Imagine attempting to become proficient in a new language, without the aid of any direct instruction, textbooks or tutorials? It seems like quite a challenge, but for the ‘uninhibited child’ – free from the chains of social conditioning – everything is possible. You didn’t care that you got it wrong a lot of the time. You were not discouraged when people couldn’t understand you. You just kept on doing your best until you mastered language.

Before becoming brilliant you must look stupid to the crowd.
I Ching

Whatever you want to achieve now, whatever your dream life looks like, know that you have already displayed the courage and resilience to make it happen. You already have what it takes. You only need to be reminded.

Failure is a natural and necessary part of the process because how can you know what works until you learn to recognize what doesn’t?

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

©Kevin Kelly 2008
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