VITAMINS FOR THE MIND by Ron Reynolds #3637 (Thursday, September 11, 2014) Missing the Point A few days ago, I wrote a mental vitamin and the point I was making prompted someone to write to me with “How do I…?” I won’t go into what the question was about; after my full page comments on one of the things it takes to build a growing and rewarding AdvoCare business, the person obviously read the message, but had a challenge that cried out for an elaboration on “how” to implement what I had suggested. And there’s the word again that ‘ties up’ a lot of people who hear, who learn, and who really wants to make progress but just can’t seem to get any significant momentum going; and what’s that word? “How.” I can’t do Mixers very well, I can’t talk in front of people, I can’t get people to Success School, I can’t get people to take the products the way they should, I can’t get people to join, or if they do join they don’t do much. How can I do the things that everyone says needs to be done? What am I doing wrong? What’s wrong with me? Success in this business mostly has to do with ‘why’ and only to a much lesser degree with the ‘how’ to do whatever it is that you’re wrestling with. By that statement I mean that when your reasons for wanting to do well are strong, the ‘how’ reveals itself. Show me a person who sees AdvoCare as a solution to their issues in life, and who is infused with a passion about getting results that neutralize those issues, and I’ll show you someone who has a rendezvous with their destiny. We can see what a passionate purpose does for a child who decides they’re going to do something; more often than not, that boy or that girl will go over, under, around or through whatever it takes to convert their ‘mental picture’ into a new and better reality – into the achievement of what had begun as nothing more than a dream, that had begun as little more than a vision, and that – through taking action with the vision they saw, converted an idea into an achievement. ‘Something’ was made out of nothing; from imagination on to creativity, combined with focused and determined activity, and – Bam! – there it is, I did it in spite of others saying I couldn’t; that’s how young girls become cheer leaders or honor students and how young boys become star athletes or the president of their class. ‘Self-imposed limitations’ are for grownups, not for kids; the kids still have their imagination, their desires, their dreams, their self-confidence, their curiosity and their spirit of exploration intact; the grownups on the other hand have little more than hard-wired habits that confine them to a rather pitiful level of accomplishment. With enough strong and passionate reasons, people – including the grownups – can do the most unbelievable things. Is ‘how’ holding you back today? The views expressed on this post are those of Ron Reynolds and do not necessarily reflect the views of AdvoCare.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:00:00 +0000
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