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 Start with a new purpose.
Perhaps your first goal was to make money – enough to buy a house. Now you're there, in that job, and in your house. As you begin your new journey, will money again be your goal? Or will you look for something different?
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“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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Maybe it's time to review your hobbies and other interests. Or time to review the real skills you’ve developed in your current work and see how they apply in areas you've never considered. Often, a thorough personal inventory is used to work with more information in a structured approach. It all depends on you and what you need.
With your coach, you can determine where your deepest interests lie and how best to apply your gifts.
If all of this sounds like work, it is! But face it, you already know that nothing worthwhile comes without work. But perhaps not “work” as you traditionally think of it. No matter what successful person you look at, or you admire, you can be sure that he or she did not accomplish the things you admire without a lot of work.
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“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
- Vince Lombardi
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
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And, yes, there is a risk that after all the hard work you won't achieve exactly what you expected. It's a very real risk. But its a virtual certainty that if you don't work, you won't achieve anything. So you can't let fear of failing interfere with all your hard work dreaming and planning. Especially because you can never know where so-called failure can lead.
Keep trying, keep refining your strategies, using your coach to assist in identifying what's working and what's getting in your way. Even genius athletes play under the guidance of a coach.
You don't have to let your fears about being smart enough, or educated enough, or good looking enough, or any other artificial barrier, stop you. If you put your mind and heart to it, you will succeed.
The trick is to begin the journey whether you’re confident or not, whether you're afraid or intimidated or not.
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Because once you're on the path to your dream,
the only thing that can stop you is you!
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