Month: November 2019

Pattern of behavior

This is what I always do.

I have written hundreds of thousands of words if not over a million since I first started writing around fall of 1995 more likely spring 1996. That is basically when I gave up dreams of being a rock star (that had the same pattern) and focused more on being a writer. I did it through school and now almost 21 years of work.

This is what I do. This is how I write. Will I ever meaningfully share it? Does anyone want to read it? Will I be a coach, a mentor, an author, a thought leader? Or will I just pound out hundreds of words futilely until I die?

How does this tie in to my objective? I always see next step and growth riding on the wave of writing (and sharing) but the two worlds never intersect.

Three years

I chose my specific objective: $200,000 in 2020

But the mechanism I am using is Hospice sales.

That is not going to do it. Even if I keep the job all year, bonus significantly and earn a promotion I will come up well short of my goal.

I have drive focus ability in my current money making endeavor but no path to achieve my specific objective in that time frame.

Should I change my objective to match my mechanism and opportunity or vice versa?

It is easier to change the objective. Those are just words, an idea.

I have not made my annual nut for three years. I have not hit my objective in three years. I need to hit my objective or come closer to keep my current living situation.

Transformation

The ability to reach your objective comes from the most desperate, scared, panic induced time of your existence.

When you feel like you will actually be destroyed the only answer is forward.

Stress will eat you alive. Stay in it.

When you have to let go, breathe, blank out your mind, re charge then go back.

Stay longer than before.

Find it again. Stay longer.

Transform and condition your mind to be someone better than you ever thought possible.

Dead end

I have clung to my plan for 2 years.

I didn’t want to just achieve the objective, I wanted to do it my way. More specifically NOT the way I just laid out in the last post.

My mind is revolted by what I have just discovered.

I always could have achieved my objective but I rejected the way.

I struggle to embrace it still.

Objective mechanism

Objective = $200,000 annual

The objective could be ANYTHING but without a mechanism I cannot achieve it.

I have drive and focus.

I discovered them working to achieve a sales quota at a job I am working.

But the position I am in will not deliver the objective.

Or will it?

I could exceed my quota. Move up in the company, continue to be successful, move up until I run the company. That would achieve the objective.

Reason for Change

I left my job because I thought I could do better, achieve more.

But is that the real reason?

I am not in the habit of giving up +$3000 paychecks simply because I thought I could do better.

The travel was oppressive, the people uninspiring and the work was stagnating.

The catalyst to change was not the desire to pursue growth but to remove myself from a toxic situation.