Set Backs!
Sitting in my new favourite place, Two Chicks. Great music playing, Matthew building a castle out of wooden blocks in front of me. Great coffee and of course the internet!
So yesterday I was on pins and needles all day. A new paertnership that I have been working on for the last two months had a little set back. It by no means went “bad”, it just had a few set backs. I was asking for approval to go-ahead with 6 diferent projects and got the go-ahead for 3 and half of them. I was really upset at first and then I got a phone call from my trusty assistant J-O… she said to me some very important words.
“You got here by tennacity. You don’t give up!”
That really helped. You will find when you surround yourself with positive people you get that support you need. Then I got an email from the main guy I have been working with at the group we are trying to create a relationship with.
He wrote me a quick note that wrote…
“Stay positive. Nothing good ever came easy.”
He is right of course. I just need to refocus and work a little harder. If I want it then I can make it happen. I am still excited and I am still positive. Made me think about all of those people that go through our programs like camp. It is easy to be positive while you are at camp or at that retreat, but can you stay that way when you are back in your daily lives?
Here is today’s question for your journals… get them out!
What can you do today to stay focused and move towards your goals? What are those small steps, those 1% actions you can take today, right now?
Write down the question and the answers in your journals and then please post some thoughts here in the BLOG!
Picture today to follow as I am having problems with uploading my pic. No worries…. just a set back.
What can you do today to stay focused and mov towards your goals? What are those small steps, these 1% action steps you can take today, right now?
What I can do today to stay focused on my goals is journaling about them everyday and focus on where and how i am going to get there. Some small 1% action steps i can do today are look into different collages in california, look into numerous auditions and keep coming to YLCC for support. Doesnt matter how far in distance.
Josephine=)
Well Stu..since im at a resort in Collingwood..and its not the greatest..im going to enjoy every bit of it.
Secondly..im going to try and convince my dad with my excellent sneaky skills to buy into the time share here..so that for 25 thousand…we get 50 years of traveling wherever we want..and paying only 800 a week. this is an excellent 1% action step to completing my FLAG on seeing the world.
I can also let my sister know that she should be making the best of everything and be open to new experiences when she complains about this place.
Love and Smiles!
Olivia =)
Talk about set backs! Stu I was planning on commenting to your blog with some mention of my backyard. We cut down an apple tree in my backyard yesterday that has been there since we moved in. I LOOOVED this tree. I used to collect all of the fallen apples with my friends. My mother and I used to make homemade applesauce with them. Great memories came from this beautiful tree.
But then a bigger set back came my way as I got into a very minor car accident yesterday. No one was hurt, no severe damage. Just a big HONKIN SET BACK is what it was. A tiny bit of my day yesterday was flustered and stressed. A careless driver was not going to ruin my entire day.
More of my day was spent playing with my 2 year old cousin Katherine, who was in from NYC. What an ADORABLE child. Julianna, you and Katherine are my Bubaloos! We blew bubbles and trucks and read a musical book that I bought her and had a lovely, lovely family picnic.
I will not tolerate a ruined day because of a minor set back. That is my non-negotiable for today.
Miss you!
~Ann Marie
I think about this often, especially as I work towards building http://www.danharbeke.com along with my day-to-day work at a major corporation. I like my work, but I love talking with students about life, leadership, marketing themselves, breaking into their careers, managing their personal life, and so on. I have a passion for it. It can be discouraging sometimes because there is such a drive there, but not always a highway, if that makes sense. I have certainly made a ton of progress over the past several years, but there is still so much I look to achieve and it can often times be difficult to have the patience and perspective that is necessary. That leads to the 1% Action Steps. Though I may not yet be at the level I hope to one day be at, there are things I can do every day that will propel me to where I want to go, be it blogging here and there, listening to a friend with an issue, giving advice where appropriate, and doing my best to show others how to achieve their best and live a fulfilling life.
I made a very big 1% step today with my parents. In fact it was more like 10%. I had a very honest, and open conversation about trust, and me being given the space to walk my talk. I have gained such insight into myself and my abilities and who I am and what I want, thanks to my journaling, and thanks to a mentor of mine, who is on a fantabulous blog roll.
I basically asked to be given the chance to be the person they so readily tell the world I am. I want to “Be the change I want to see in the world”, and continue to “Be the kindest person I can be” so I can live my Magnificence. And it was difficult as it for most parents when their children begin to, well, not need them as much, but by the end of the conversation, they had a different look in their eyes. And it was a big step for all of us.
Time to test these here wings…with tenacity.