WEEK 177: HOW TO GET ANYTHING YOU WANT IN LIFE

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.   Abraham Lincoln

REFLECTIONS (learnings and actions): How you would like to get anything in life?

No serious? Health, business, relationships, anything?

Well, you are int he right place today as I am going to show you in the next 5 minutes so stick around for the next 5 min.

Now last week I wanted to cook a new recipe for dinner. (I will get to the point, trust me)

It actually was something I had been wanting to cook for a while, just finally got the time to do it. 

I looked over the recipe, gathered the ingredients, and then got to work.

Everything was going to plan, but in the middle I was not sure what to do so I thought I would improvise and add a little brown sugar to balance the saltiness of the dish.

Something I had tried with other recipes, so in my mind I thought it would work here as well. 

Yet, when I tasted the dish, I was shocked at how it tasted. (It did not balance the saltiness)

Then I glanced back at the recipe and it said it should taste a little salty.

I did some corrections and in the end it was not terrible, but it definitely was not my best culinary work.

Actually did not serve it to my family or wife. Just kept it for myself.

Have you done something similar?

And more importantly, did you see the lesson that outlines how you can get anything you want in life?

No...Yes?

Here you it is.

FOCUS on the PROCESS, not the results.

Truly, if you are able to do this on a consistent basis you will master the process, thus get the results you desire.

In the case of my food failure, obsessing over the process would have been fully reading the recipe and following it directly, not improvising. 

Going to tell you a mentor, crushing a million dollars a month, once told me that results pay homage to the process.

Thus, if you do not like the results, go back to the process to see what you need to change.

But, there is a huge TRAP which is omnipresent in our lives that makes us focus on the wrong things.

What is it?

Give you a hint: Facebook, Google, Instagram...

The list goes on and on, but all of these platforms all focus on the end results.

The formula usually goes "Get X in Y months without your biggest pain."

We are bombarded with these messages daily, thus what do we crave? What do we focus on?

Results.

But focusing on results will lead you to the following:

Comparison --> stress --> frustration --> overwhelm.

Ingredients for burnout.

It is like you are constantly fighting the current to get up river to your destination.

Where as, if you focus on the process and show up daily to implement it perfectly you will understand the destination is actually down river.

Thus you are able to flow with the current.

Not to say there will not be an occasional log or two which you have to maneuver around, but you are no longer in the game of constant grinding, constant struggle.

So do you want to get whatever you want in life - health, business, relationships?

Obsess over the process and focus on showing up consistently to implement perfect days.

Guaranteed you will get whatever you want if you can do this daily.

Delay No More