Tag: passion

Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

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We are always looking for it.

Lottery tickets, betting on something, looking for the shortcuts, trying to find a way to get to the pot of gold.

Yet our pot of gold is on our hands every day of our life, we just have to invest in getting it.

Invest the time and effort in ourselves and our dreams, work on it every day, trying to improve and get better.

There are no shortcuts that are worthwhile.

The long-term game is the only one to play and you will then get to your pot of gold, whatever ‘gold’ is for you, maybe happiness, joy, fulfilment, meaning…..If it’s money, then perhaps carry on trying to find the end of the rainbow, or buy more lottery tickets.

Hard work, commitment, discipline, passion, determination, applying learning, patience and love will bring gold.

What to do first?

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All of us struggle at some point, or even every day, to decide what to do first.

However, if we paused for a moment and stopped to ask these two things, then it would be a whole lot easier to decide.

What to do I fear the most?

What matters to me, as in really, really, matters?

It’s likely to be the thing you fear doing the most is the thing that really, really, matters most.

Fear is the barometer and something that matters the most is the inspiration to motivate us to take action.

As Mark Twain said ‘take the biggest ugliest frog first each day and eat it’ or words similar to that. The most important thing that will make a difference to our life, is the thing to do first and carry on until it’s done and if it can not be done all at once, then break into chunks, but start on that thing first every day.

Often the fear of success prohibits us doing the obvious and we busy ourselves with ‘avoidance’ tasks that make us feel like we are ‘on it’. We are not, we are putting off the things that matter simply to avoid facing our fears.

Don’t think, just start, small steps every day, but do something you fear and something that matters.

Our moments of greatness in life all start now with the first magical step into the unknown of doing things we care about.