AVG RT: 4.5 min - 7/11/15 - by Michael
They're all depending on you to make it.
Your children.
Your partner.
Yourself.
The people that believe in you.
Even the people who listened to you when you told them about what you're going to do, because they are expecting you to follow through with what you told them you were going to do.
And the people that don't want the best for you?
How do they feel?
Who cares...
But, they are hoping that you don't do what you said you were going to do. Sometimes, people don't want what you have, they just don't want you to have it.
So everyone knows.
And there's no turning back now.
The pressure is on.
Do they?
What could they get from your success?
They can get:
Although, mini-me's need these things for their personal development, most of the pressure parents feel is to financially secure their future.
Will you be able to save for their education?
You know what I'm talking about.
This pressure is normal.
And you're not alone.
What are your reasons for your children being a motivational factor in your desire for success?
Write the reasons down now and read it tomorrow morning.
The pressure doesn't stop there.
What about your partner?
Wouldn't it be great if...
...you were able to pay the bills on your own if you needed to support your partner through an unexpected job loss?
I know you do.
But imagine not being able to financially support your partner (or household) during school or job loss.
It would be a great feeling to do so.
And it would be easy to feel helpless if you couldn't take care of things on your own and faced a possible eviction or foreclosure during your partner's inability of not being able to financially defend him or herself.
The pressure from this situation can rip a relationship apart.
But before that happens—way before that happens—there needs to be a mutual understanding of the risk involved, and what can realistically be done if the both of you had your backs pinned against the wall.
Or stop beating yourself up about this.
The pressure of success is felt before worst case scenarios come to life. Fear of the future can be a great motivational tool for success.
But if it gets to you, it can actually make your fears seem or become real.
And fears aren't real (yet).
See things for what they are, but not worse than what they are.
Success will happen in your life.
Not by luck.
Or by wishing or hoping.
But by action.
Don't let the pressure of success get to you.
Remove its negative power from your life.
If you don't?
There's a very good chance you won't do anything that will make you successful. Thinking thoughts of a fearful future will only slow you down.
Accept this pressure.
Understand that its completely natural for you to feel this way.
Newsflash: If you take everything that causes you to feel the pressure of success and mentally package it, you now have your reasons for success.
And less likely your biggest supporter.
That annoying and negative voice in our heads can get really loud sometimes.
I hear it a lot.
It mostly finds its way into my mind when I move further and further away from my comfort zone or when things seem too big to accomplish or if I think if I'm not deserving of the good that's going to happen in my life.
Can you relate to that?
I shut this voice down, though.
I acknowledge it and realize that its just a voice that's trying to protect me from what I feel may be uncomfortable.
That's all it is.
A voice.
Treat it trivially.
Its not so much to make your positive voice louder than your negative one. Its more about silencing your self-doubting voice, so you can pay more attention to your positive one.
Finding the most effective way to believe in yourself, be consistent, motivate yourself, keep the desire alive and so forth, all matter (a lot), but its not the way to realistically transition for where you are to where you want to be.
I'll explain.
Here are a few examples that help me explain what I mean. Below are examples of people who have the end-result in mind.
...in their mind first.
These awesome people didn't achieve these things simply by dabbling in it.
They lived it.
They dreamed it.
Breathed it.
They were these things!
NBA players are a basketball and court in human form (laughs).
You, my friend, must do what successful people do and become it.
And live that life.
There's a HUGE difference between doing successful things and living a successful life before success happens.
Don't dabble.
Be it!
THANK YOU for reading,
‐ Michael
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