Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Blank Piece Of Paper


I am reading this fantastic book right now called, "Integrity is Everything." Now this book is about getting real results in your life, in any area of your life. So I wanted to share something that I learned this week.

"Blank Piece of Paper Theory"
Have you ever been at that place in your life where you make a goal for yourself, and then a few days, weeks, or months down the road you realize that your not fulfilling your goal, or your starting all over. Well this is something that has come up for me, I set goals, and I go head strong for a week or two, and then the drive to fulfill it kind of washes away. However the reason, or my "WHY", on wanting to create the goal is still there and strong, however, I was falling short.
So imagine starting every morning with a blank piece of paper and you are only going to write down the items you've accomplished that day on that piece of paper. At the end of the day, you put that piece of paper aside, and then the next morning you have a new, blank piece of paper. Which you will fill out with your choices and accomplishments at the end of the day. Now they say the price to pay for success is the same price you pay for failure. Because on a daily basis your either making choices and following through with them that allow you to succeed with your goals, or to fail with your goals. Let's say my goal is to stay on top of my laundry. If every day I do a few loads, then I don't have to wait for it to bombard me all in one day. If I work out just a little bit every day, then at the end of the week or month, I will have had success. At the end of the year, I take this pile of papers and realize I have become who I strive to become, all because every day I set out to fill my life with little accomplishments, which in the end, result in amazing transformations of an individual who achieves her goals. Now just the opposite is true, if I fill that paper with things like, I slept in late...I watched TV...I ate fatty foods....I sat on the couch for a few hours.....I told my kids "in a minute" all day long. You get the idea, if your filling up your paper with accomplishments like that, you will not be happy with the end result. But if you find a way to do a ton of small and simple things throughout the day, you may not have the time to sit and watch TV, but in the end, you will not put things off "until tomorrow" and you will achieve those things you set out to achieve or become!! YOU ARE SO MUCH GREATER THAN YOUR CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND YOU HAVE A DIVINE DESTINY TO FULFILL

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