Overcoming Obstacles

Every great leader faced challenges. History abounds with stories of success being created out of adversity. How determined are you to reach your goals? What are you willing to do in order to reach that level of success?

“Toscanini was so nearsighted that he could not see the score when conducting; Lord Byron had a club foot; Homer and Milton were blind; Sir Walter Scott was an invalid; Beethoven was deaf; Dostoyevsky and de Maupassant were epileptic; Franklin D. Roosevelt did not have free use of his legs,” as recorded in “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity” by Catherine Ponder. Abraham Lincoln failed many many times before becoming a great President of the United States and leading the nation to free the slaves. Napoleon Hill suffered threats, death of supporters and financial hardships on the way to writing one of the greatest books on prosperity ever written – “Think and Grow Rich.”
Helen Keller overcame deafness, dumbness, and blindness to make a very significant contribution to society.

Reflect honestly and objectively on the situations in your life. Knowing the power of the mind, victory becomes an absolute certainty for those who persist without exception. Bringing these examples closer to home, I was 62 when I started this industry. To say I had zero marketing experience would be an understatement. Have you ever placed an ad in the newspaper for a garage sale? We were on about the same level. Thanks to the training and step by step instructions, age nor experience presented a handicap. Limitations only exist in your mind. When you consciously decide that anything is possible, then it becomes not only possible but highly probable. If one can achieve a certain goal then others can do it also.

Thanks to this opportunity, I progressed from being in credit card debt to now owning 2 lovely homes – one at the base of a world class ski mountain and another on the 13th tee of an internationally known golf course within less than 3 years.

Jeff purchased a franchise. It failed leaving him over 253,000 dollars in debt. When everything looked bleak financially, he found a network marketing opportunity. He rolled up his sleeves and commenced working on the specific plan we laid out for him. Less than a year later he is out of debt and financially comfortable.

Gregg was living in his mother’s basement in England and he now owns a lovely condominium in the Cayman Islands. The success stories go on and on. Not only famous people have overcome obstacles but real people just like you have turned their lives from dire circumstances to success.

Everything starts with your mindset. If you believe that something presents a stumbling block for you, it will. If you believe you will triumph over whatever crosses your path, you will. The familiar quote is “Regardless of whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” It all starts in your beliefs.

Set your mind on achievement and prosperity and it will be so. Fill your mind with excuses or obstacles and you have defeated yourself. History abounds with examples of people who chose to overcome obstacles. The operative word is CHOSE. Success is a choice. Success is a decision. When success becomes more important than situations or perception of obstacles, success becomes a reality.

Creating a Vision

In “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity” Catherine Ponder reminds us of the need to visualize your success. The success steps in this process are easy to do, but as Jim Rohn, noted business philosopher reminds us, they are also easy not to do.

Step 1. Be very clear on exactly what it is that you desire to achieve. Know the precise goal to be reached. Know the exact time you intend to reach that goal. Know the tangible sign that you have reached that goal. For instance, if you are seeking a business goal, be precise about the award you will receive, the amount of money you will have earned or the number of sales. Your goal may be to make gross commissions of $10,000 in a single month. Set a specific date by which you will accomplish that goal. Set the time frame short enough to be a stretch for you and just long enough to be possible.

Step 2. How will you feel when you reach that goal? How will your life change by reaching that goal? Unless this is something which lights your soul on fire and really excites you, the goal is not big enough. Your goal should be something you are truly passionate about achieving. If it isn’t much different than the life you are leading now, you will not be motivated to make it happen. Unless you feel passionate about the result, you will remain exactly as you are now.

Step 3. The more clearly you see every detail of that goal accomplishment, the more likely you are to reach it. See it in living color. Visualize every detail of the setting. Hear the sounds. Touch the physical reward; hold it in your hands and feel the texture, the weight and the temperature. Hear the sounds all around you. Smell the scent in the air. Taste the food or beverages of the celebration. When you experience everything fully with all five senses and feel the feelings, you are well on your way to success.

Step 4. Repeat this process daily and more than once a day is encouraged. The more you mentally and emotionally step into the picture and actually live it as if it is happening at that precise moment, the more you bring it into your reality.

Step 5. Create a positive affirmation which you repeat aloud, repeat silently or write out several times every day. This keeps your goal fresh and current in your conscious and subconscious.

Some have even chosen to create a vision board with pictures and words to depict the entire goal and celebration. Any one of these is good but together they are excellent.

This technique has been used with extreme success for centuries. Get clear on what you truly desire. Set a time frame to achieve it. Visualize your success in living color with all five senses. Take the actions to move yourself forward. Know your success is assured.

Have a prosperous day.