Failing to Communicate with Yourself

I’m usually pretty careful with how I do my work when I am in my yard. We live on the side of a mountain and it can be pretty slippery out there, when the grass is wet. Last night, I decided to work on all of my different websites and write some new articles and such. When I realized it was getting late, I said to myself, “Boy, I’m going to have to stay up all day tomorrow because my lawn really needs mowing.”

That’s right, just because I have a successful business, it doesn’t mean that I have a gardener or anything. I live back in the woods, on the side of a pretty tricky mountain and my lawn, where most around here are small, is about seven acres and all on a steep slope.

Well, a few years ago I had damaged my knees in the martial arts tournaments and had reconstructive surgery done to them. I walk fine now, but boy do they tend to hurt from time to time. So there I was, today, on the side of the mountain pushing a lawn mower and I stepped in a little ground hog (kinda like a giant gopher) hole.

Down I went. I must of rolled and split my legs in 4 different directions. I sat there, on my ass, laughing. I looked up and realized, “Maybe, I should have gotten some sleep last night.” As I sat there, very glad that there was no one around to see my “CIRQUE DU SOLEIL” or… { Cirque Du So-Lawn:) } I realized I have been beating myself up a little too much.

I sat there, reflecting over the past few months, remembering how I could list off a thousand projects that I’ve completed, but I really couldn’t tell you of any special fun event I’ve had with my family. I surely wouldn’t be able to tell you about any great movies I’ve seen lately and meals have been quick and small. Why? The “Tether Tendency Theory.”

Unbind the Tether that Is Holding You Back from Your Goals

You see, I have a theory where it seems that many of us are tied to this “Tether” that allows us to go so far, to almost reach certain goals and then it whips us back to our current state… seemingly.

At times, we tend to restrain ourselves while working on our goals. We allow ourselves to just touch the hemline of the desired situation we’d like to find ourselves in, then, just when we are about to encompass ourselves with the “robes of prosperity”, that tether snaps us back until there we are, sitting on our ass in the middle of our lawn, laughing because it was ourselves who created this.

I knew that I was in no shape to be going out on that hill today. I hadn’t slept in almost twenty hours, I didn’t eat my regular kick ass healthy breakfast and I was up staring at a computer all night. Last night, I once again watched my family go to bed, instead of going along with them and waking up in the morning with them.

Today I got a bit RAW with myself. What is RAW to me this week?

Reality = Action + Willpower

If we would like to create the reality that we are so striving to achieve, then we must take forward moving action; that’s a no brain-er. But, it’s when we decide to push through procrastination, push through the limits we have placed on ourselves and break away from the priorities we THINK are the most important, we will find that it gets tougher.

“WHAT?”, you say? Yes, it gets tougher. Not every article I write is going to have this happy joy philosophy wrapped in butterflies and kitten kisses. Things do get tougher, but tougher as we perceive it from the stand point of our present selves. You see, if you can be OK with the fact that the success, accomplishments and desires lye at the end of a bumpy road, then you are preparing yourself for any barriers that you may come across.

But imagine this. Imagine that you decided to plan out the path toward the reality you would like to create. Imagine if you mapped out broad strokes of action, that you can later put more detail into. Imagine if, even when you don’t feel like, you decide to press forward and leverage the rarest form of energy any human being possesses, WILLPOWER.

Imagine, if you picked yourself up and said, “I’m going to walk in my house, eat a nice healthy meal, take a long peaceful shower, and take a much deserved nap. Then, when I wake up I’m going back out on that mountain to finish up my work. I’m not going to push and punish my physical body. I’m going to take my time and enjoy the process. Whatever doesn’t get done today, will be there tomorrow… AFTER, I spend some time having fun with my family and for myself.”

Huh… could you imagine what your life would be like if you started taking that R.A.W. approach to your life?

That’s what I did today, have been doing for years and will continue to do. I will never be done growing and I truly don’t want to be. I will make plenty of mistakes in my life and I am sure I will fun recovering from them. Now, it’s time for me to ice my knee and it’s time for you to stop putting it off. What are you putting off? Drumming up the willpower that you have within you. Saying to yourself, “I may not like this approach right now, but it’s time I stop thinking I want everything I’d like and it’s time to start taking action on what I need in my life.”

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