BE Where You Are

You’re working on building your dream

“They” call it a small business or home business…

but it’s YOUR DREAM


Independence, freedom…the lifestyle that you’ve always wanted.

You’ve been working at it for months…maybe years…yet you notice…

While you’re at your computer, or writing, or reading an article, you find your mind drifting…

Thinking about yesterday’s disappointments, things you need to get at the grocery store later today, or the appointment you have tomorrow, or a movie, a song, your spouse, your kids…or your 8th grade science teacher!

You get on the computer to “get some serious work done” and before you know it, you’ve spent an hour and a half (or longer) following some rabbit trail. Don’t forget where that got Alice!

You start one thing…start a second thing…start a third thing…

None of them get done

Nothing gets accomplished

There is no forward movement

You feel stuck and start to think about giving up

You look for “help” and find something that sounds good to you

So you spend good money on a course, a book or a system

NOW you’re on your way!!

Then when you’re at your computer, or writing, or reading, you find your mind drifting…thinking about yesterday’s disappointments, things you need to get at the grocery…

Time to get real…be honest with yourself.

It’s not the tool, or the system, or the book…

It’s YOU!

Not the “who-you-are-as-a-person” you, but rather your focus, your ability to BE in the present moment (or apparent lack thereof)

Does that mean you should give up?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

You can train your mind to be totally present to where you are, what you are doing and what you’re experiencing.

The late, great Mr. Jim Rohn said,

“We go through the day rather than getting something from the day. We are everywhere at any given moment in time except living in that moment in time.”

Learn to be wherever you are. Focus on each moment, extracting everything that moment has to offer. Don’t let yourself be distracted by yesterday and tomorrow…today is slipping by.

It can be hard work, and it takes discipline, because our minds tend to “go back” to repeated thinking patterns (topic for another day), but you can develop the lifestyle of BEing in the moment. Some examples…

• Someone is talking to you…LISTEN to each word they are saying and really absorb the message
• Sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed for several minutes…listen to the SILENCE (hint: great thoughts can come to you during this exercise…WRITE THEM DOWN)
• Watch a sunset…notice where the sun is in the sky, how quickly it sets, the colors it creates, how those colors change, etc.
• Look at a painting…really LOOK at it, noticing the colors, the details and allow yourself to be drawn into it.

Above all, don’t beat on yourself when you find yourself drifting. It’s going to take time, and as I mentioned, discipline, to train your mind to really focus.

The good news is you can do it...you CAN DO it...YOU CAN DO IT!!