I’ve read/listened/watched so much about self-development that there aren’t many ideas I haven’t encountered already.
So when one crosses my radar that isn’t just reinforcement, but actually creates a new synapse I get as giddy as a straight-A student on report card day.
Today that happened.
Bummer of a Monday Morning
I was having a self-doubting sort of morning. (Please don’t EVER call it a case of the Mondays in my presence.)
So I headed to the gym determined to make it just a bad MORNING, not a bad DAY.
I threw my AirPods in and cranked up “Best Motivational Speech Compilation EVER #24 – POWERFUL“. (No seriously, that’s what it’s called. Click the link.) And in the middle of the usual stuff, there was a line dropped that stopped me in my tracks.
New Synapse Created…
A deep, raspy voice said:
“I stopped asking how long it will take and started asking how far can I go? And that has changed everything.”
WOW! *mind blown*
What it all means
Looking for the finish line is like watching the clock. It’s a surefire way to make time move as slowly as possible.
It’s negative. It implies that whatever you’re doing right now, you do NOT want to be doing right now.
And it forces you to focus on it even more.
Asking how far you can go zooms out your perspective.
Even if you don’t like your job, tying it to a grander perspective turns it into just a stepping stone for the next, even bigger thing.
So as you hurtle towards achieving Financial Zen, don’t focus on the finish line. Focus on what comes AFTER the finish line.
It will collapse time not just by refocusing your perspective, but it will also help you with the actual question “what comes next?”
(And THAT will be the subject of tonight’s Financial Zen Live!)
