What are the Top 10 things that keep you from doing what you want to do?

1. FEAR
2. MONEY
3. TALENT
4. OTHER PEOPLE
5. AGE
6. LACK OF CONNECTIONS
7. LACK OF EDUCATION
8. INERTIA
9. PRIOR COMMITMENTS
10. LACK OF PASSION

I just listed my 10 reasons that keep me from having all that I want. My guess is your list would have many similar things on it.

“But they’re facts,” you say. Here’s my question: How come we never let facts get in the way when we do go for what we really want?

Reminds me of a story . . .

When I was 17 years old I went to work for my father in the summer. He was a construction foreman and he got me a job as a laborer – the most physically demanding job I’ve ever had. One day I was cleaning up a room after the bricklayers had built the walls. There were scaffolds to take down, extra cinderblocks to be removed and a thorough cleaning of the room, which included scraping of hardened cement from the concrete floors. Apparently when they had poured this concrete floor they didn’t completely smooth it properly and there was a small section of unsmoothed concrete sticking up. I went at it with my scraper attempting to remove it. I was hitting it with all the strength I had and it wasn’t coming up as easily as the hardened cement did. The labor foreman came by and I demonstrated the difficult time I was having removing the extra concrete. He watched for a fashion and then said, “Give me that scraper boy.” He got it to come up in less than a minute. He handed me back the scraper and taught me one of the major lessons in my life when he said, “You gotta’ want to do it.”

When you really want to do something, facts rarely get in the way.

When we assert that we can’t do something, we make it more solid than the concrete I was attempting to remove. Yes, there are such things as physical impossibilities, but they are rarely the things we cite when we give reasons for not having what we want. I’m reminded of my 4^th Grade teacher, Miss Wagner who told us, “You can have what you want or your reasons why not.”

This isn’t a pep talk; it’s more of a suggestion to self inspect our reasons and notice that too many of them are just excuses.

Once we begin to notice how many of our excuses are masquerading as facts, we find that our top 10 list gets whittled down, making more things possible.

It’s easy to compile a list; it’s harder to inspect that list and find out how many things are possible that we have labeled out of our reach.

This inspection exercise provides great benefit but like the man said, “You gotta’ want to do it.”

All the best,

John

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