Is Your Life Working...?
Jack Canfield
is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand
Chicken Soup for the Soul. A life coach, he is well known as
"America’s Success Coach". Here he shares wisdom and
advice for getting yourself on the track to living the life you want.
Success depends
on facing facts.
It depends on
realizing what’s making you achieve success, and then realizing
what is stifling your success. Sometimes recognizing the things that
aren’t working in your life can be painful. You might try to
rationalize them, make excuses for them, or hide them. But truly,
these things will keep you from the life you want to be living.
Do you want to be
active and strong? &ldots; Then you have to stop making excuses about
your weight and lack of exercise.
Do you want to be
in a loving relationship based on friendship and respect? &ldots;
Then you have to stop rationalizing why your mate is so unsupportive.
These things can
be painful to look at because the truth is that you have to do
something about them in order to make it work in your life.
You’ll have
to say no to the second helping of dinner and the dessert to follow
and go through the awkward stage of getting into shape. You’ll
have to confront your mate about the areas that need work.
Plain and simple,
you will have to do something uncomfortable.
Successful people
do not waste time in denial. They face situations head on. They look
for the warning signs, they find out why things aren’t working,
and they go about fixing them.
You, too, must be
willing to recognize bad situations and decide what the appropriate
action will be to remedy it. You will have to deal with circumstances
that are uncomfortable and challenging in order to achieve your goals.
To make it easier,
learn to seek these situations out.
Keep your
awareness on the feedback you are getting from life and decide to
address the situations immediately.
Commit to finding
out why things aren’t working and learn what will fix them. Once
you start the process it will be much easier to continue. Once you
tackle one thing in your life that isn’t working, you will gain
confidence to tackle some of the harder situations. But you must
decide to take action.
Trust that making
changes to the situation will ultimately bring about the best results.
Sure you might go
through a bit of discomfort during the change, but in the end you
will triumph! Trust that you won’t make matters worse by owning
up to what is not working in your life, and going about fixing them.
If you confront a
partner about what you want, you will either get what you want or you
will know that you need to leave to get what you want. But you will
not get what you want if you do not change your situation!
So are you ready
to admit the things that just are not working out?
Relationships, a
job you thought would be wonderful, your finances, your diet? Make a
list of the things in your life that are working against your success
and ask how the situation can be improved. Commit to tackling just
one of those issues and be brave.
By facing what is
not working, you WILL only improve your life.
See if you can
discover ways to immediately implement what you discovered from
today’s message into your life.
© 2008 Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield,
America’s Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the
billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and a leading
authority on Peak Performance. If you’re ready to jump-start
your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you
do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com.
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