Overcoming Obstacles
I was reviewing a chapter in Rich Dad, Poor Dad about overcoming obstacles. Think about this:
One of the biggest obstacles keeping you from success is the fear of losing money. Or I might add the fear of losing period. And it is the fear of losing that in fact causes one to lose more than anything else!
Playing it too safe is another way of putting it. A great analogy is the pursuit of winning the Super Bowl. I remember when the Denver Broncos were yet going to another Super Bowl after losing their 1st two tries. There was such concern by the fans that they would LOSE again and heaven forbid be associated with losers like the Vikings or the Bills.
The fear of losing actually had many thinking that it would be better not to even be in that game because of the chance of not winning it!
When you think about it, that is ludicrous. When I hear talk about the Bills and Vikings being the all time losers, it really shows just how warped our society is about true winners. The losers those years were not the final two teams, but the teams those years who really had compromised themselves...did not pay the price that it takes to win...and finished last etc.
No one remembers the teams those years that really did have losing records, losing attitudes, lazy work ethics, etc. Remembering teams like the Bills or Vikings as the greatest losers strikes me as really having it wrong. They just came up short in the final game after a great season.
Fran Tarkenton said, "Winning means being unafraid to lose."
And isn't it true that success/winning will most often follow times in our lives that we have failed! Think about when we first tried to walk, ride a bike, speak/learn our language, play a sport....we failed miserably.
Isn't it interesting that these things we have now learned to do very well were at the time supported with an abundance of encouragement, praise and celebration! Remember when your child was learning to walk and fall down we would clap, laugh and be so excited for them! Or when they said their first words, in a very unintelligible manner, we would laugh in amazement!
That is how we tend to teach and handle the development of young ones.
As we get older, we do just the opposite. We criticize, humiliate, down grade, poke fun of anyone with a dream, a hope, or worse yet, a defeat.
As hard as it is to go against the stream, I am going to live trying to take every failure and loss as an inspiration to succeed.
If only we had the support of the world around us as we had when we were kids!
One of the biggest obstacles keeping you from success is the fear of losing money. Or I might add the fear of losing period. And it is the fear of losing that in fact causes one to lose more than anything else!
Playing it too safe is another way of putting it. A great analogy is the pursuit of winning the Super Bowl. I remember when the Denver Broncos were yet going to another Super Bowl after losing their 1st two tries. There was such concern by the fans that they would LOSE again and heaven forbid be associated with losers like the Vikings or the Bills.
The fear of losing actually had many thinking that it would be better not to even be in that game because of the chance of not winning it!
When you think about it, that is ludicrous. When I hear talk about the Bills and Vikings being the all time losers, it really shows just how warped our society is about true winners. The losers those years were not the final two teams, but the teams those years who really had compromised themselves...did not pay the price that it takes to win...and finished last etc.
No one remembers the teams those years that really did have losing records, losing attitudes, lazy work ethics, etc. Remembering teams like the Bills or Vikings as the greatest losers strikes me as really having it wrong. They just came up short in the final game after a great season.
Fran Tarkenton said, "Winning means being unafraid to lose."
And isn't it true that success/winning will most often follow times in our lives that we have failed! Think about when we first tried to walk, ride a bike, speak/learn our language, play a sport....we failed miserably.
Isn't it interesting that these things we have now learned to do very well were at the time supported with an abundance of encouragement, praise and celebration! Remember when your child was learning to walk and fall down we would clap, laugh and be so excited for them! Or when they said their first words, in a very unintelligible manner, we would laugh in amazement!
That is how we tend to teach and handle the development of young ones.
As we get older, we do just the opposite. We criticize, humiliate, down grade, poke fun of anyone with a dream, a hope, or worse yet, a defeat.
As hard as it is to go against the stream, I am going to live trying to take every failure and loss as an inspiration to succeed.
If only we had the support of the world around us as we had when we were kids!
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