Journey to my Success Part 3

“I think I can” – Watty Piper

Well it’s that time again! Thank you all for your comments and the emotions felt from my postings, I hope the overall feeling left, was that of joy and hope.

All the feedback did remind me on the Rolling Stones Song – “Sympathy for the Devil” and the opening line “Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste” (which is also the closing line of Interview of the Vampire – cheap Anne Rice big up)

The song also made the quote that “Made dame sure Pilate, washed his hands and sealed his fate”

These need some explanation, the first line is not of course in context but I associate with it because of my belief in faking it, before making it as it quite presumptuous of me to offer advice and push my thoughts and feelings out there especially on the fear line between Good and Evil most of you would of slid me towards the left hand side when you had to make a snap judgement when gauging my heart and affinity.

I am in love with the thought of being righteous and it’s a nice place to be and the line will continue to play through my mind when offering advice.

The second line is the main body of this post and of course the weakness of an individual when trying to please the masses by going against what he feels is right in his heart or looking for the easy option.

So how is this relevant to my journey towards success?

We all have life changing moments and one of mine was the birth of my daughter Lilith, well to be precise about 3 weeks after her birth.

I was a smoker, and have smoked since a young boy. I remember the day it was Christmas Eve (2007) and was outside having a cheap Mayfair cigarette leaned up against the wall in Jules back garden the only light was a halogen security light from the next door neighbour shone across my eye line. The yellow hue was rippled by fine rain covering all parts of non shadowed space with a static like covering. There was nothing but silence and of the silent raging noise of my mind.

This was an opportune moment for my brain to select a thought track one that would the most appropriate, the thought began the play…. The thought selected was either from a programme / article / person which is now not relevant but it just made that statement and hung there for a few seconds……

“The biggest cause of baby cot death is the chemicals still emitting from the smoker mouth nearly after one hour after exhaling the last drag”

So Christmas Eve 2007 around nine PM, I became a Non Smoker as the desire for my daughter not to die and live a full life was greater than my desire to smoke.

The next act was to throw away the cigarettes and lighter, walk back indoors wash my hands and rinse out my mouth and scrub my teeth.

I have not smoke since that date and calculated that I had actually smoke 2/3rds of my life to that point and the reason that I had not given up till that day was that I never had the desire too.

So if you smoke too much, drink everyday, eat more than you should or do not exercise it is because your desire to stop is not as great as the fear of failing.

So this is the point the biggest difference for me in 2007/8 is that I will no longer focus on failure or to calculate the risk so to reduce the level of failure. I was going to focus on success and if I failure did occur then it will act only as a bump and I would bounce back into focus for success.

You see we all encounter this but how many people when they hit just ONE bump decide that it is too hard and just stop announce to the world that they cannot do it and sulk and return back to the state when they were less judged for that kind of behaviour and that was when they were a child.

So let’s take the idea of becoming a child and apply it to another realisation for me in 2008. I used to get serious frustrated and impatient, strangely enough my Kinesiologist issued this too as a set up statement for my Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

I deal with a lot of people day-to-day and I used to let people’s behaviour affect me, I used to have sleepless nights running through the issue and constructing new scenario’s in my mind which made me more angry and frustrated and they haven’t even happened! We talked about this in my last blog “over thinking”

It came to me one night and from that point not lost one moments sleep and think that this was my second revelation of 2008 and Mike Dooley actually puts this best when I received one his wondrous daily emails sign up now http://www.tut.com

“When you can look beneath their behaviour that hurt you, Scott, and you can see the frightened child - it becomes nearly impossible to be angry and carry a grudge.
And you so can.
ILY, the Universe

Besides, Scott, your happiness, abundance, health, and friendships are not dependent on how others behave

As a writer you just can’t add to such a beautiful statement as the one above and I so much enjoy getting these everyday. They arrive on my blackberry between 09:04 -09:43 and my day starts from that point.

The thing is,you can not let behaviour stop you from doing anything you want or desire to do as the feats of man are so magnificent that they actually need the dichotomy of total fear and weakness demonstrated by the majority.

I was reminded not long ago of the children story “The little engine that could” and can relate this story to the strength and determination that my son Johnnie has shown over the years.

It was not than long ago that turning himself onto his front was a celebration event. The fact that he went through his journey of shuffling, sitting up unsupported, to crawling, to cruising and finally taking his first steps at the age of 4.

He was that little blue engine fighting to go up that mountain and he had the heart and vision to just keep going, although it took such a long time in his mind he was saying, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can and he did he completed every stage and after every success said “I thought I could”

How many of you out there reading this blog started with I think I can! Then didn’t?

I really would like to hear your excuse why!

Click and watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_lb_PlJJw

I want you after watching the above video to make a promise to yourself, that every time you think that it is too hard, that you remember that clip and even though Joey had no glasses and could not see, he tripped twice, he had cuts to his knees that at least he finished the race.

So what is your excuse?

Or what is my excuse? I do not have one as I am still on my journey and can see the white lines and if I hit a bump will go back between and follow through to the finish line.

So the top quote “I think I can” is my belief for every one of my goals and when I achieve it will be replaced with “I though, I could”

This, my friends is the beauty of the Law of Attraction; ASK, BELIEVE & RECEIVE.

Next blog will bring you up to date with my journey before I tackle some more heavyweight subjects.

Ciao x