Some just make excuses & others get shit done. Why?

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> my part. It is on my list to do maybe next year when I have some

>PDO's built up and I can take a Thursday off work to go to one of

>her >classes. KC is an hours drive for me so it is possible.

 

When I was re-newing my NLP credentials back in '92 I'd leave the

office at noon, drive up to Vancouver Washington (a 5 hr drive) get

there in time for a quick snack and then go to class from 7-11 pm.

Get out of class, hop back in my car and drive back that evening,

another 5 hr drive so I could go to work the next day.

 

And I did that EVERY WEDNESDAY for 2 yrs.

 

That certification was IMPORTANT to me.

 

My point is not about bragging but about 'propulsion' systems.

 

Just curious.

 

How can you make something so IMPORTANT to yourself so that you'll DO

ANYTHING to get it?

 

I did put the same question on the EC discussion group but no replys

at all.

 

Curious.

 

John M. La Tourrette, PhD

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, " docspeed2001 "

<docspeed2001 wrote:

>

> That certification was IMPORTANT to me.

>

> My point is not about bragging but about 'propulsion' systems.

>

> Just curious.

>

> How can you make something so IMPORTANT to yourself so that

> you'll DO ANYTHING to get it?

>

> I did put the same question on the EC discussion group but no

> replys at all.

>

> Curious.

>

> John M. La Tourrette, PhD

>

 

That is a tough but so IMPORTANT question. And I haven't asked myself

that enough, for sure.

 

When I compare the times something has been so important to me that

I'd do anything to get it, it's had a sort of wider awareness about

it, where I'm feeling how much I'd enjoy having something and also

feeling how much I'd be bummed about not having it.

 

Stuff I don't want as badly, I don't sense being bummed if I didn't

get it. Clearly I'm motivated by away-froms, that being the striking

difference in the important things.

 

But if that's the difference, doesn't that mean the away-froms are

what create the importance? Can I reprogram myeself to respond as

strongly to toward-motivators alone? Or is it a matter of identifying

the away-from aspects of the things I desire?

 

I also wonder if a big part of what makes the difference in those

situations is that the willingness to do anything opens my perception

to a wider view of the field of possibilities.

 

I know, too, that a clearer, more focused image of what I want in the

first place is a prerequisite. Generalities aren't very motivating or

engaging.

 

Meditating ala Silva on that focused image, too (visualizing it,

seeing it as a process, seeking guidance on advancing through the

process).

 

I'd like a few more things in my life so important I'll do anything to

get them right now, too. Periodically, I find myself with no or few

or weak things of importance, and I'm coming out of one of those

periods currently.

 

But I don't know if the things above are all it takes to find them.

That's cause I haven't spent enough time with this question. Thank

you - I appreciate the nudge. - Alan