Ask yourself these important questions
“I want you to sit down and ask yourself these important questions:
1. Honestly, how committed am I to achieving my dreams and goals?
2. Sincerely, how hard am I willing to work to achieve my dreams and goals?
3. What will it feel like inside if I achieve my dreams and goals?
4. What will it feel like inside if I let things like laziness, apathy, and fear cause my dreams and goals to die inside of me?
Be introspective and honest with yourself as you ask these questions. The strongest reason you will (or won’t) achieve your dreams are your emotions. It’s why these questions are meant to elicit powerful emotions.
If you’re willing to be honest, and emotional, with yourself, you’ll be more willing to bring forth the emotions that will cause you to do what you must in order to make your dreams a reality.
In the end, you’re going to be filled with one of two emotions:
Immense Gratitude
or
Painful Regret
If your desire is to be filled with immense gratitude, it’s going to require the discipline to lead yourself through the fear, through the hard work, and through the countless obstacles that will most certainly get in your way.
Living the rest of your life with immense gratitude requires a choice.
It’s simple actually – you choose to have discipline now or you choose to have regret later.
At this point, you may be trying to squirm out and just put the decision off for another time.
Procrastination is a choice… no choice at all is a choice for regret.
Here’s how it will play out for you if you choose regret or if you simply lie to yourself and say you’ll decide later.
It will sting a bit now because deep down, you know you’re bigger than what’s holding you back.
You may lie to yourself that you’re too young, too old, not enough experience, not good with people, don’t have the education, too shy, or whatever else that comes up.
Listen, you can lie to yourself but you can’t lie to me.
You have what it takes.
You can’t convince me otherwise. Having helped more than 50 people become million-dollar earners just within my own sales teams, there is no common background that made them earn a million dollars.
There are people less educated than you who did it, people older than you, younger than you, shyer than you, dumber than you, and people who started out way more fearful than you.
How did they do it?
They chose to have the discipline to overcome their challenges.
If it feels like I’m trying to get in your face and ruffle your feathers or maybe even piss you off, that’s exactly what I’m trying to do.
I’m here to play a big game and to rise up leaders. I’m not here to try and make you feel good about the level of mediocrity you’ve been playing at thus far.
If you’re honest, you know you’re capable of more.
It’s time.
It’s time to step up and take your life to the next level.
The consequences of regret for you not stepping up are too big.
Even though we may have never met, because you are my brother or sister, I love you too much to let you play small.
The regret you feel from not stepping up right now may not be devastating. It may only sting a bit right now. It stings because you know you’re capable of more but you’re letting your own bullshit get in the way.
The real consequences are years down the line.
You see, regret isn’t one of these things that just stings now and it’s over.
Regret haunts you.
Regret haunts you five, ten, twenty years from now when you’re still having to worry about money because you didn’t step up.
Regret haunts you when five, ten, twenty years from now you still aren’t driving the car you want or living in the home you want because you didn’t step up.
Regret haunts you when you see other people taking the exotic vacations you could be taking but aren’t because you refused to step up.
Regret haunts you when you see other people making a positive impact in the world and you’re not because you refused to step up.
Regret haunts you when you look back at the people who doubted you and you know you made them right because you refused to step up.
I had those naysayers and doubters just like you may have had in your life. I had people laugh at me when I said I was going to be a millionaire. I had people tell me my business would never work…
…But instead of letting their bullshit control me, or my own bullshit for that matter, I chose to step up.
Today, instead of them haunting me, I’m haunting them.
What’s it going to be, my friend…
Are you going to be the haunted?
Or the haunter?”
From Matt Morris book 7 Secrets to Success
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