So over the last few weeks I’ve really been thinking about what 2009 is going to mean for me. I’m not one of those people who have a whole new plan on January 1st and that’s my New Years resolution. My new years resolution was to put some serious thought in to where I wanted to go and what I wanted to accomplish in 2009. To have some purpose behind my actions. Today was a day I specifically set aside to work on my dream line. For those of you who don’t know what a dream line is, it’s basically a chart of your goals which includes specifically what you want to accomplish and how you plan to accomplish it with specific actions.
I have been dreading this because my last dream line that I did totally fell apart in a short period of time. I only accomplished one of my many goals for the 6 month time frame of my dream line. I pretty much had forgotten what I wanted in my life. The whole purpose of the dream line is so that your goals are clearly defined and you set your intentions to accomplish those goals. Nobody ever trained me on what to do when I failed!
Over the past couple of months I’ve really hit a wall. I’ve lost a boat load of money in Real Estate, Software that I purchased to re purpose for resale and had my biggest ad campaign canceled and all of my ad revenue from my websites went to ZERO!
So today while sitting down and refocusing on some things, I came across this video on the blog of Tim Ferris. Tim is the author of The Four Hour Workweek, a book that I highly recommend you read if you have the Entrepreneurial itch. Anyway, Tim posted this and I really wanted to share it with my readers. I haven’t wrote anything in a while so I might not have many left, but if this inspires one person……like it inspired me today then it was well worth it! Enjoy!
So what did we learn from this video? If we fall down, we need to get back up no matter how hard it is…..right? The truth is that I have fallen down many times in my life and have always found the strength to get back up. To get back up and attack the very things that knocked me down. When we don’t get back up , we are giving up! We are accepting defeat! We are settling for mediocracy!
I have read and learned a lot of things about a lot of people in my lifetime. Every successful human being on this planet has failed at something, but they succeeded because that got back up and tried again. They learned from their mistakes and made better choices next time. Pro athelets, Real Estate tycoons, Business Giants, Movie Stars……they’ve all failed, but they never gave up!
Because I lost money in Real Estate, does that mean I will not invest in Real Estate again? NO…..I lost track of how many times that Donald Trump has gone bankrupt!!! He never quit…..and I sure in the heck don’t plan on quitting either…..at anything!
In the words of Tim Ferris…..
Business icons, superstar professional athletes, billionaires — it doesn’t matter how rich or how accomplished — I’ve had them all tell me the same thing…
There are moments when you feel the world is too much. Days and even weeks when you want to (or perhaps do) pull up the covers and half-sleep in bed until nightfall, avoiding a feeling of hopelessness that seems insurmountable. Long-awaited deals fall through without warning, haters attack you without reason or fact, circumstances turn good decisions into awful realities — sometimes it just feels like the deck is stacked against you and there is nothing you can do about it.
I’ve felt the same on more than a few occasions, and more are coming.
Entrepreneurs in particular seem prone to feeling on top of the world one minute, only to feel crushed by it the next.
To this breed, I assure you all: in our species, it’s normal.
It’s an integral part of building anything remarkable, whether a business, a relationship, or a life. Expanding your sphere of comfort and abilities comes with a cost: repeated self-doubt.
I thank my mother for forwarding me the above video to put things in perspective. In your moments of self-doubt, I encourage you to watch it and meditate on all of the things you’ve done that you once considering impossible. The odds you’ve overcome, the critics you’ve proven wrong, and the small defeats that — through making you stronger and smarter — made huge victories possible later.
Get back up. Bigger and better things are waiting for you.
So, this is my comeback speech (Post)! 
I am refocusing this year on some new dreams! Bigger and better dreams……and I will accomplish them and I will write about my jouney here.
See ya soon!
Pat
January 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Pat – What a great “come back” post!
You have always been an inspiration to a lot of people. I’m sure I speak for many when I say that we are certainly glad to see you writing again!!!
I hope that you get all that you want and deserve in 2009! Will you also be making more posts on FitnessLifeClub.com too?
Take care!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Lisa…you are quite welcome! I didn’t expect such a quick response from someone since I haven’t been writing on any of my blogs the last couple of months.
I appreciate you and your family! I hope that you are all doing well and having a great new year!!!
….and yes I will be writing again on htt://FitnessLifeClub.com since that’s were most of my readers are. It seems that I am still getting about 3000 people per month over there…..which is not killing it, but I’ll take it!