Coming up sometime this year I will release a book I’ve been sitting on for a while now called P2A: Possibility to Actuality – otherwise known in my house as how to make stuff happen.
Some people believe success is only for those with natural talent. Other people believe success is to be found in tricky psychological techniques, or even potions and pills. In this post I’m not going to go into what I believe success is due to (that’s for later), other than to say that when it comes to achieving things I have typically succeeded by ‘forcing the issue’.
Forcing the Issue
Now, some don’t like ‘force’. They prefer gentler, less confronting terms like ‘being fluid’ or ‘being in flow’. Personally, I don’t object to the sense of power in the word ‘force’, however I still see it the same as ‘being like water’. Yes water can flow gently around obstacles, but water can also be forceful. Loud. Persistent. Relentless. Insistent. Powerful.
By ‘forcing the issue’ I refer to insisting on success. Insisting that a certain thing be completed. Insisting that a certain level of skill be attained. Never giving up. Using everything I have within me to bend and shape the world around me. By forcing the issue I refer to dreaming big and beyond your limitations. Not settling for less than you know you are capable of and actually dreaming of more than that.
Forcing the issue is asserting your ‘will’.
Now, talking of ‘will’, an adviser of mine sent me this Will Smith video the other day and thought I’d share it with you. I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. I’d love to read your comments, so make sure and leave some!
