What Dies With You?

Today I’m bringing you a quote from Dr. Howard Thurman, see the other day I was coming home from a funeral and I was listening to Les Brown and he said this quote and it really struck me and I want to to see how it strikes you.

“The ideal situation for a man or woman to die is to have family members standing with them as they cross over but imagine if you will, being on your deathbed and standing around you are the ghosts of the ideas the abilities, the talents, the dreams given to you by life that you for whatever reason never pursued those dreams, you never did anything with those ideas, you never used those talents, you never use those gifts, or took advantage of those opportunities. And there they are standing around your bed looking at you while you take your last dying breath with large angry eyes saying ‘we came to you and only you could have given us life and now we must die with you forever.”

– Dr. Howard Thurman

And the question is if you die this very moment what dies with you, what dreams, what talents, that life

gave to you dies with you. For whatever reason, whether you let fear or procrastination hold you back from really going after what it is you wanna see.

I believe you’re here all here for a purpose we all came into this world for a reason and that’s life purpose.

I implore you to find your purpose in your passion, go after it don’t wait, most people are waiting for something… the next thing to happen… we have to create the circumstances  that allow us to go after what it is that we truly want. Don’t wait until school is done, don’t wait till the kids are in school, don’t wait until you’re married, until you find the perfect one, until work is done, until the bills are paid off, until you retire

All those people are constantly hitting the snooze button on life, never really waking up on purpose

It’s your job to figure it out to find out, nobody’s going to do it for you!

Nobody can take your gifts, your skills, your abilities, your dreams…and make them come true.

They came to you!!!

It’s time for you to wake up on purpose

Information Overload

Have you ever experienced information overload?

Most of you probably have.

If you are stuck in a rut and buying information products, online programs and other things you think are going to solve your problem of not growing a business. You are most likely are suffering from “information overload.”

This is when you are constantly looking for something that will actually work, if your bookshelf is full of books and info products, if your hard drive is full of downloadable reports and how-to videos and you are not making the money you want to make, then you are suffering from “information overload.”

Don’t panic, I suffered from this exact disease for years.

I was able to get my passive residual income to a point that allowed my wife to stay home with the kids and was earning a good second salary in my spare time. But then I got stuck, it stopped growing. That’s when I started buying just about every product I could, reading every book, listening to audio seminars, watching online video courses.

It didn’t help.

It gave me “Entrepreneurial A.D.D.”  I wanted to try all these different businesses, I wanted to jump into a ton of different opportunities. I spread my time to thin, I didn’t stay focused on the things that I was good at. The path to my end goal of financial freedom became very cloudy.

I became very frustrated, I started staying up later, waking up earlier, thinking this product, this report, this book, this video course was going to be the thing that sparks everything back on track.

But it didn’t happen.

Has this ever happened to you?

If not, Congrats! You are focused and determined. But if you have ever been at this point, maybe some of you reading this course right now are at this point.

There is hope.

You see, if you are staying up late, getting up early, searching for the next big thing, or the next opportunity. This tells me you have what it takes to succeed, you just need to cure “information overload” and/or “Entrepreneurial A.D.D.”

How do you do that?

Most of the information products focus on a Tactical level, never on a strategic level.

Information Overload is really a symptom.

Entrepreneurial A.D.D. is a symptom of another issue all together.

This goes back to the section on being a Strategic Entrepreneur.

Have you ever walked into a book store? (YES…)

Did you PASS OUT from all the information in all those books?

NO!

Information overload is just a lack of focused energy. Stop searching for the answers outside of yourself.

The CURE for Information Overload is CLARITY & CONFIDENCE!!!

Sit….clear your mind, and develop a clear vision of where you want to go…..now get to work on getting there!

Still stuck….Take a look at this

Are you living your dreams or dreaming of living?

When you are dreaming of living, you are living someone else’s purpose. You are likely living in fear of some kind. So what is holding you back from really doing what you want to do?

Have you ever really stopped long enough to think about that?

I recently sat on a park bench on a beautiful warm sunny and breezy day, and asked myself those questions. As I sat and formed mental picture of what I thought was holding me back I dove a bit deeper and asked myself how true is it that money is holding me back, and do I truly care enough about what others my think of me to stop me from putting myself out there?

And the deeper I questioned myself the more I felt free, I started to look at the grass and heard this clicking sound, coming from this one spot by a pine cone and I really zoned in to that one spot. Then suddenly I saw an ant, chomping on this pine cone and that seemed to be where the clicking was coming from. I was so hyper focused on this pine cone, in this tiny patch of grass and this one ant that I complete shut out the entire rest of the world. As I sat there and completely oblivious of the rest of the world spinning around me, a bee flying by caught my eye and I thought, this be doesn’t give a shit what the ant is doing and the ant really isn’t paying any attention to the bee flying by.

So, what the hell is the point of that story!!!

Do what you do, because that’s who you are, even if it’s just a little bit. If you are constantly looking around telling yourself that you can’t do it for any reason…Stop and ask yourself “How True is it?” dive deeper until you really discover that any fear that is holding you back from living your dream is just in your head. It’s nothing more that the story you are telling yourself of why you can’t have what you want.

You deserve it, you can have it, you can get it.

Want it!

Want it bad!

Crush the story and become bigger than your fear!

When you are living your dreams you are living on purpose!

It’s time to Wake Up and Live on Purpose…

I’d love to hear what you think is holding you back and what your thoughts are now, comment below and share this if it resonated with you.

Why not, why not you, why not now

Why not, why not you, why not now

Why not, why not you, why not now

How often do we wonder why…

When we should really be asking,
“Why not?”
“Why not you?”
“Why not now?”

Start believing in yourself, start believing in the power of now and see yourself better than you are, bigger than any problem or challenge you’re facing.

It’s time to start Waking Up on Purpose!