Do You Really Want To Take It To The Next Level?
Or are you just wishing?
The past several weeks, I have seen some leaps forward in my speaking/training/consulting business. I am quickly approaching the “Next Level”, or what the masses would begin to call “Successful”. Others are starting to see those same leaps forward, and have been telling me they too, want to take it to the next level, can they talk with me about it? Sure, but do you really want to take it to the next level or are you just wishing? Or more to the bottom line, are you just wanting me to do the work and hand it over to you?
Shockingly (not really), many people want the bottom line, “Just hand me your success, because you’ve got more work and clients than you can handle, so just give some of them to me”.
“Oh. I thought YOU wanted to take it to the next level. What I am hearing you say is that you don’t want to do the work, just enjoy rewards of someone else’s labor, pain, and suffering.”
If you want to experience the rewards of the next level, YOU have got to do the work, experience the pain, and yes, the suffering. It’s called blood, sweat and tears, for a reason. Whether you want to go to the next level in your health and fitness, your personal relationships, or your career/business, YOU are the one who has to do the work.
Definitely get a mentor or coach that knows what to do, how to do it, and when to do it, then Forrest Gump your mentor/coach. (As in, just do what she/he tells you to do. As in, do the work.) Don’t look to your coach, get the process from them, and then tell them that you’re not really wanting to do the part(s) of the process that might take you out of your comfort zone.
Take an honest assessment based in objective reality, if any of that type of thinking sounds familiar to your own thought processes, you are just wishing about the Next Level.
Ask yourself this critical thinking question: “Is this line of thinking helping me or hurting me?”
Boo Yah!!