A friend of mine says if I really want to change my thinking I need to work on changing my actions first. It all starts with you, he keeps telling me. While I know that works on a personal level I also know the same rule applies when it comes to achieving success in your online home based business. The real developments only occur when you really work on changing your thinking.
Bear with me a moment... I'm not one of those guys that skives off to a shed out back to find his domestic distance. Somehow it just happens when I sit down at the keyboard and start mumbling, grumbling and tapping away. That's why I like writing. It's the one time the wife really leaves me alone!
Magically, she seems to just disappear. I guess she figures she knows where I am and that I can't get up to too much mischief just sitting at a keyboard in our home office trying to avoid looking out at the yachts on the bay.
I guess she's upstairs out on the terrace drinking coffee and talking to her friends on the phone. Nothing wrong with that really...except that she's got a better view of the yachting than I have! OMG what was that? That little thought that just crept into my head. You know, I could work on that if I wanted to. She's up there just taking it easy while I'm down here slaving away and, and, and...
One of the hardest things I've ever had to do in life is take a hard look at myself. I won't go into that too deeply at this point, except to say that it's all part of a paralysing issue best explained in what I jokingly refer to as, the problem with wives and mirrors. To give an example, I came in from the garden the other day, my hands were dirty and I was in a rush to wash up. As I passed the office I caught a glimpse of my wife at my computer reading one of my articles. She was chuckling away and as I cleaned up in the bathroom I looked in the mirror and suddenly realised, she's laughing in all the wrong places!
The point I most want to make here is that no matter what you do, no-one will ever see you the way you see yourself and the bottom line is, when you look in the mirror, if you can't live with what you see then it's certainly time to take action.
You need to build a picture of where you want to go and then take the actions needed to get there. Remember the action comes first. If you consistently work on changing your actions, changed thinking will follow. I do it like this:
1. Always start with a daily plan, a to-do list
2. Follow the plan.
3. If you did not complete all of today's tasks, put them on your list for tomorrow.
If you are like me, you'll probably need to examine what happened at the end of the day because somewhere along the line something usually turns to custard. If you're ruthlessly honest with yourself you may find that the thing you really didn't want to do today actually got everything else done. Don't be too hard on yourself. Put it back on the list for tomorrow. Remember, each day has a new dawn.
Facing up to change isn't always easy. It's about working on developing a positive attitude. I'm doing it with the help of friends in our own online business. To find out how we tackle it go to:
http://www.positiveattitudetowealth.com
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