There Is No Road Back once You’ve Started.
While thinking today, I began thinking how sad it is that some people begin a journey, be it an online business, or improving their self-confidence, and never manage to follow through completely. Now, it’s not so sad because they fell short of their goal, and, while that is bad enough on its own, it is disheartening because people are usually worse off than they ever were before.
It probably doesn’t make much sense right now.
Bear with me.
When at the beginning of any journey, you don’t know what it is that you don’t know. What don’t you know? Well, you don’t know what you need to learn in order to become successful in that respective field. You don’t see the intricate details at this point, and you have no idea what separates the okay from the amazing.
You don’t have a point of reference, so you can’t imagine how easy, or difficult, things are.
Once you begin your journey, task, or whatever you call it, you begin to understand just how difficult things are, and now you know exactly what you don’t know (I know, I know). You try to execute whatever you have in your head, but you find you’re doing more thinking than doing. You get stuck in considering what action you should take, rather than actually taking any sort of action!
Can you see the problem?
Now, let’s imagine for a second that we stop there. Let’s imagine that you gave up because things were too confusing, and you couldn’t quite get these things down pat. You quit because there was too much to learn, and you could never imagine learning all of that information.
The thing is, now you’re stuck. It’s like, taking the Red Pill. Once you have opened yourself to that world, there is no going back. There is not unlearning what you already know.
You’ve go those random thoughts and concepts bothering you when you need focus. The problem is that you can’t do anything about them. You never learned how to get a hold of them, because you never learned how to use them properly. They are reminders of the fact that you aren’t satisfied with life, and that there is a better way.
These thoughts, that you aren’t even using, won’t leave you alone.
There is no path back to unlearn what you now know, so you have to keep going forward. You have no choice other than mastering and controlling the ideas and techniques. You have to finish what you started.
Once you start learning again, you should start noticing how everything seems to fall into place. You start getting ideas easier, and you have less difficulty putting them into action. You still consciously think about doing things, but everything makes much more sense than they did at the beginning.
Eventually, if you stick with implementing the things you have learned, you get to the final stage. This is where you have absorbed everything you have learned, and employ it without realizing you are doing it anymore. This is where you want to be; on auto-pilot doing what you’ve dreamed about doing, and having mastered it. This is where the details come in, and you learn how to separate yourself from the people that are just good, and above average. This is where you become great, and life becomes great.
You deserve to master whatever it is you have in mind. Also, remember that you don’t have to be great at everything. You can just be great at one thing and good at everything else. You can always have someone else pick up that last bit of slack.
Until the next time, take the Red Pill, and see me in the morning.
