Herman School of Business
Are you wearing Blinders?
There are many forces in the universe. Among them is the fact that seldom does a wonderful opportunity just fall in your lap. Usually you have to at least be looking…and I don’t just mean peering up at the clouds with your hands clasped together in prayer. It amazes me when people complain about their situation in life, without lifting even a finger to change things.
Stop reading this for a minute, and close your eyes and sit back in your chair and ask yourself a few questions. Are you in love with your job or your business? Do you need more money to make ends meet? Where would you go to put your hands on ten thousand dollars right now? Stop reading and start thinking about these things.
If you spent more than thirty seconds contemplating the questions, then pat yourself on the back. You see the first step to taking the blinders off is to see the reality of where you are right now. People refuse to stop and look around from time to time and think about changing their lives.
Maybe you just want to learn how to play the guitar, or you think about changing your career, or you know it is time to do something about your entrepreneurial spirit that moves inside of you and wonders when you will take the first step.
If you want to make a change, then take off your blinders…recognize that you can make wonderful things happen if you decide to look around and follow through on your thought, your desire or your idea. I hear from people stuck in the mud all the time. They want to know how to get from where they are to where they want to be. The very first thing I tell them is to see yourself where you want to be. Visualize accomplishing your goal, or having the business you want, or playing that guitar and hearing the sweet music you can learn to make.
Being paralyzed from fear of trying, or lack of vision of where to go and how to get there is pretty normal. Most people would rather keep the blinders on and at least not fail. Have you never heard the phrase, “It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.” Well, the entrepreneur’s version is “act on it” or never feel the joy of putting yourself out there, where success is waiting for you. It doesn’t climb down the chimney and crawl over to you, and success doesn’t rain from the sky on a cloudy day…you have to take off your blinders and see the opportunity…it’s right in front of you.
- Posted: 26 February 2008
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- Category: Business success
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