Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Pendulum of Life

Life is a lot like a swinging pendulum. On the one side of the pendulum is happiness, fulfillment, excitement, variety, interest, and on the other side is the POTENTIAL for failure, risk, disappointment, criticism.

If the pendulum stands still and doesn't swing then nothing happens. Sure you don't have failure, you don't have any risk, you don't have any disappointment and no one says anything bad about you; however you also miss out on all the excitement of life, the fulfillment, the variety, the interest and the happiness.

YOU CANNOT SWING A PENDULUM ONE WAY.

Think about this for all aspects of your life. In every relationship there is a risk that your heart can be broken. When you raise a family there is the risk that children will make bad choices that cause pain to themselves and others. However you don't run away from a relationship or a family because you are scared of the POTENTIAL pain. You are willing to take a risk because you want the other side of the pendulum.

Now think about your business. On the one side is financial freedom, excitement, fulfillment, success, but on the other side is the POTENTIAL for rejection, criticism, failure and disappointment.

Unfortunately we see many people who let the pendulum stand still. They don't want the failure or the rejection or the disappointment so they don't take massive action. However, what they fail to recognize is that by making this choice then they are also missing out on the other side of the pendulum - financial freedom, fulfillment, excitement, success.

My advice - swing that sucker high!!!!

The less you are scared of the "bad side" of the pendulum and are willing to charge ahead (who cares if you fail anyway, failure is never permanent unless you accept it as such) then the pendulum will eventually swing to the good side.

That is the universal law - If you are willing to push the pendulum to the "bad side" then it will inevitably swing the other way!

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