MUST DO
I have a bunch of quotes printed up on my wall where I work. One of my favorites is a quote I have attributed to Walt Disney that says, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” I love that quote. Another favorite one is by Charles Spurgeon which says, “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” That one makes me chuckle, but it’s oh so true – that’s how anything worthwhile has ever come about; by perseverance.
There is one quote that I particularly like that I would like to spend the remainder of this article discussing. I don’t know who said it. I’ve done a search on the Internet to see who might have originally said it and I have not found a source. Here’s the quote:
“If you want what you’ve never had you must do what you’ve never done.”
Nearly every time I read this my head begins to reel with woulda-coulda-shoulda’s. I have had tons of great ideas throughout the years, and I know that many of them would have made me very wealthy. So why am I not very wealthy? Because I didn’t do what was required in order to succeed at whatever the great idea was.
It’s the “MUST DO” part that I fail at. Now don’t get me wrong, I do stuff, even stuff that gets me closer to my desired objective. The problem is that I don’t do what “must” be done.
You see there is a law that works 100% of the time. It is the law of cause and effect, otherwise known as the law of the harvest, which states that what you sow you will reap. If you plant corn seeds you get corn plants not coconut trees.
That is what I was doing, I was planting the wrong seeds. XYZ idea required XYZ actions. I was ABC actions and expecting XYZ objective. You know the definition of insanity don’t you? Doing what you’ve always done and expecting different results.
I was insane.
Sound familiar? Or maybe you are as diluted as I am and convinced yourself that you indeed were planting XYZ seeds. Be honest, did you really? Or did you do what I did? I planted an X seed or an XY seed and tried to pass it off as a XYZ seed.
The law of the harvest is precise. Plant corn get corn. It really doesn’t get any more complicated than that. But like I said, we try to pass off what must be done with other stuff and expect our results to be our objective.
Buckminster Fuller said,”You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.”
If your existing reality isn’t what you were expecting stop fooling yourself. Realize that you are doing the wrong things. Start doing the thing that “must” be done to bring about your desired creation. And then stick to it until it becomes the reality you desire.
Easier said than done, I know, but that is the way these universal laws work. Remember they work 100% of the time too. There is no fooling them, or side stepping them.
 Today I want you to pick out one objective (creation) that you can focus you attention on.FOCUS – Follow One Course Until SuccessfulNow, focus on it and do what you “MUST DO” to create it. Nothing wavering. Onward! |
To your creations,
Michael Claridge
