You made the decision to work

I have set hundreds of goals.

37 plus years ago I started a journey and am still climbing. It was not a lifelong dream of mine to become a car salesman. I started as a short-term solution while I prepared to go to Fresno State. I threatened to quit at least once a day for years. Many Sales People suffer from this affliction. Our business can be feast or famine. It took several years for me to realize what I needed to do to become successful as a salesperson.

I have set hundreds of goals. In moments of reflection, I wonder how many I have accomplished.

Learn fluent Spanish, this goal I have set and reset too many times to count. Still cannot speak Spanish comfortably. 

Open a Bar/Music venue in St. Marten,

Run the #1 Toyota dealer in the Denver Region.

Lose weight. Gain weight, Get a six-pack.

Retire at 50.

Many, Many More.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Think of your journey. List all the goals you have made, accomplished or not. In my case there are 100s more, I did not achieve.

I set goals and reached many of them. I have a tattoo of the sun and moon combined to remind me always to look up, never back.

Why do you accomplish some goals and not many others?

Several times in my life I have declared I am going to learn conversational Spanish. I spend money on the workbooks and flash drive to play in my truck. I start, the first week I can introduce myself, say hello. The second week I skip a day or two because I am too busy. I go back to it. Now I have to start over, forgot how to introduce myself. After the fourth time going thru module one, I start to procrastinate.

Wait, I wrote it down, I believe, I committed, I made a schedule. Still can't introduce myself.

“Many of us have convinced ourselves that we can break our own personal rules ‘just this once.’ In our minds, we can justify these small choices. None of those things, when they first happen, feels like a life-changing decision. The marginal costs are almost always low. But each of those decisions can roll up into a much bigger picture, turning you into the kind of person you never wanted to be.”

However, conceding “just once” is a slippery slope—the proverbial thin end of a wedge. If you allow yourself to compromise just the once, you can wind up doing it frequently.

It’s easy to unearth some justification to infringe upon your decision or break commitments you’ve made to yourself.

Make a decision. Set up a green line. You have to step across the line.

We have crossed over to the other side. It is the beginning of changing our behavior and reaching our decision.

The way is the decision. Everything we are, everything we will become, what we have. Came to us because we made a decision. Good or bad.

Remember, you are always in the right place at the right time, if you have the right attitude.

Make a decision