The barrel of failure in our lives
When we look down at failure, we do whatever it takes, something, anything, to get moving, to start an upward climb to the point of survival. And, once we get to that point where our head is above the waters, we get content. We than start to head back down again. As we get closer to the failure line that we see coming, we once again do whatever it takes to turn this route around and start heading back up to survival. And the cycle continues….
That’s what I have done and what many other people do, living their entire life oscillating between failure and survival, sometimes striving towards success, may be even reaching there and then turning back and heading downwards again.
We do this with our finances, relationships, health and in our lives as a whole. We sabotage ourselves for all kinds of reasons. We blame the past, the present, the circumstances, the environment, we’re mean to ourselves and for some reason we believe we don’t deserve success. but what we don’t realize is that when we are at the bottom, the failure path, we find a way, something, anything, to get moving towards survival, then our comforts begin and that is where we stop progressing. This is the only reason why our lives follow this roller coaster, it’s that simple. As soon as we get away from failure and up past the line of survival, we quit doing the things that got us there. And you know what that means, it means you know already how to do everything it takes to make you an outrageous success. And all you need to do is it keep going, but we don’t. 99.9 percent of the people do the same.
There is a profound success secret hidden within this roller coaster, if we would only keep doing the things that got us from failure up to survival in the first place. So, what exactly are those things? What are the actions that move us upwards from failure to survival and then the actions that drive us down? The answer is ‘Simple’’……
The things that take us out of failure and up towards survival and success is ‘’Simple’’, so simple that it is so easy to overlook. It’s easy to overlook them because when you look at them, they are so insignificant. They are not big things that take up huge effort, nothing dramatic. But mostly just little things you do every day that no one actually notices. They are things that are so simple to do, that successful people actually do them, while unsuccessful people look at them and don’t take action.
Let’s get some examples to understand what I mean, finances – taking a percentage out of your paycheck and keeping it in your savings so compounding it will grow. Following a consistent exercise plan to keep fit, grow your body without skipping or taking short cuts, reading 10 pages of a book daily to improve your language skills, or to give you inspirations/motivation, take a moment to tall someone how much you appreciate them. These are little simple things, which when compounded yield big results.
In business, it is the same, once you develop your business plan and have a strategy, you need to continuously monitor it, successful business, daily review their performance with the previous day.
Things that leaders do every day daily, clarifying and visualizing their goals ensuring they are always on the right path. Review their incomes and look into their marketing plans. Make time to grow themselves, invest in their growth. Network with others in their field, expand their circle of influence. Act as leaders to their teams, subordinates, accepting accountability for actions, tasks and goals they are committed to.
Let us all try to live simple but consistent in what we do.....and that will bring us success and happiness.