
Start Where You Are
Jeff
Bezos the founder and CEO of Amazon started his first business at school. It
was called The Dream Institute. He started from that little space and today is
one of the richest men on the planet. Working
to achieve something is hard. It requires your determination to succeed. We
sometimes Battle adversity as we work on a project, or just in our day-to-day
life which is even harder. Progress demands seeing beyond the frustrations and
fears that strike on a daily basis. Emerging on the course requires that we put
aside frustrations over results and improvements that come infrequently and on
a smaller scale than might be desirable.
“I
knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might
regret is not trying.” Jeff Bezos
When such hurdles occur in my life, and I ‘m
able to view them objectively, it seems to me that they come from three main
sources: Annoyance that I’m not starting from a better position where the
results and rewards flow regularly — A reluctance to accept where I am.
Frustration that my results feel woefully inadequate and disproportionate to
the considerable efforts I’m putting in and the sacrifices I’m making — Refusal
to simply ‘do’ without being fixated on the outcomes. Demoralization that
everywhere I look there are the others who seem to find life easy, who don’t
suffer the same discontent and frustration that I do — Unhelpful
comparisons with others and a refusal to acknowledge what I have. I know
it’s irrational to allow these feelings to influence or get hold on my mood and
mind-set. Knowing it makes it no easier to ignore or manage.
Most
times when I engage people, I come in contact with them during outings, they
tend to have so much in their mind but they still believe they don’t have what
it takes to start from their little space. Most of them will always talk about
what they need to start. Like big Cash! A brand-new laptop. Sometimes I ask, what do you have? they reply
“Nothing”. We have to identified what we have to start. You’ll always have
something you can offer to start if you truly want succeed. In my previous
post, I wrote about Persistence. I wrote about building heathy relationships
with the people in and around your community. Write this down -Healthy
Relationship Helps In Enhancing Success.