Posts Tagged ‘failure’
I hope so.
Often times the difference between Excellence and failure is simply to get out of your mind.
In otherwards, sometimes you have to stop thinking and follow your intuition. Many people shrug off their “gut” feeling only to pay for the ignored in time.
Following your gut or more accurately you heart requires faith and a good set of nerves. People’s fear of failure overrules what they really “know” inside as the right thing to do.
Think back at a time when you “knew” what to do and ignored the feeling only to say to yourself “I knew that was going to happen,” or “I knew I should have done that.”
Golfers are very familiar with this feeling. Right after slicing a drive out of bounds, I’ve heard several people turn and say “I knew I was going to do that.” And I wonder to myself (and sometimes out loud,) “then why didn’t you step back and do something different?”
Why indeed!
Back when I use to trade options there were many times when my intuition was telling me to sell my current positions and I ignored it because my mind was looking at charts and saying the timing wasn’t right. Consequently, the charts were irrelevant and my position would vanish overnight.
Had I gotten out of my head and into my feelings I would have experienced a much better result.
So why do we stay in our head when every other sensation is screaming to do something different?
Simple… EGO.
Our ego runs our minds. It has us do things based on how we may or may not look to other people. Our fear of looking bad or doing something we may be judged for is stronger than our willingness to risk trusting our feelings.
And there are prices being paid. You’re paying your happiness, relationships, liberty, health and many other prices.
Sadly enough we are not the only ones paying prices for staying in our heads. Other people are paying prices too. For example, when we lose money, our family suffers from our stress, loss of liberty, bad moods etc…
All that because we listened to our head instead of our heart.
Today, I challenge you to remain aware of when your intuition is speaking and follow it. You may not see a different result or you might. The awareness is the first step to overcoming your EGO and Accepting Excellence.