Is your EGO advocating your limitations?

Ouch...get out of my EGO.  You are right.  Many times it's just easier that way...easier to hide, that is.

Barry, I know you just stepped on some toes with this one, and can hear the smarta$$ remarks echoing of the screens and there fingers twitching at the keyboard whating to snap back at you. LOL Great post.

                 ~ Life is Good

Barry Owen is it?  Are you sure you're not my alterego, getting in my face a bit?  :^)

The reality is, I've been goal driven most of my adult life, but my number one enemy is that I enjoy doing far to many things!   I seldom, if ever, seem content to just do the same things over and over again.  So, I never develop the benefits inherent within a dull and "boring" life that just duplicates the same thing over and over again. 

Unfortunately, that has GOT to stop!  And fortunately, I "stumbled" across the book, "The Science of Getting Rich" a few months ago and it's been having a dramatic impact on my life.  

I am finding that I am much more decisive than I've ever been.  I'm much more purposeful about my goal setting and I am more grateful for my many blessings in life, everyday.  

I was one of the fortunate ones, yes the highly blessed ones to make my 100% Re/Max goal in 2008, but why did it take to the very last day to hit the goal?   Because I set the objective with a deadline achieve that allowed me to have entirely too much focus on other things, until the very end of the year.   Now, I thought I was working hard all year, and no doubt I was, but I wonder what would happen if I moved that target date up to Sept 30, or even June 30th?  

That's the kind of bold action that my old alterego doesn't feel comfortable doing, yet why is my alterego comfortable setting the goals too low?  

Fortunately, I realized late last year that I was spread too thin, between my BNI group and my Two Rivers REIA of Central IA, LLC group, and my Real Estate sales career, and family life. 

The Science of Getting Rich, coupled with "Achieving the Balance" by Leo Weidner, the Bible, but a bunch of folks, and my very own "Life Creed" Audiobook is helping me get on the right track, and stay there.

It's SOOOOO good to feel like you're standing on solid ground and these three books, and my Life Creed statement have enabled me to feel very good about what I'm doing.  I'm not nearly as anxious, and for good reason!   I am in control of my own destiny and I am SOOO grateful for my many clients and talents.  Every day I'm feeling blessed in so many ways. 

So yes, I REALLY WAS at the top of my game all day, including this brief time I was posting this comment!   I have been so blessed and 2009 is going to be my best year ever, because I'm going to help more people than ever reach THEIR goals!   Hip - hip!    

The ego Barry is the single greatest challenge that we face in life. It says things that having you believing it is right and willleave you spellbound to it's manipulations. It is insidious and very sneaky about how it goes about doing it.

good post

Bo