Who are you being? How is it working for you? Are you getting what you want in your life? Are you achieving your dreams and goals?
I recently sat down for coffee (well, I had tea and he had coffee) with a Home Party Consultant who in a very short time has grown his business to tremendous success. I wanted to pick his brain on what he’s doing right and apply what I could to my business.
As the conversation went on I realized it’s not specific things he’s doing right – and there are definitely things he’s doing right – that’s generating his success. It’s who he’s “being” that attracts people to him and his products and is generating his success.
That reminded me of famous concept of be-do-have. The idea is that we need to “be“ a certain way and “do” certain things to “have” what we want in life.
Big lottery winners are great examples to demonstrate this. Did you know that something like 95% of big lottery winners lose it all and/or go bankrupt? That’s because they started with “have” and didn’t have to “be” a certain way or “do” a particular thing to get their wealth. So when massive amounts of money are handed to them they don’t know how to handle it and greatly mismanage their fortune. The same example can be found in children who inherit great sums of money. It’s their parents who had to “be” and “do”, not them. So like a friend’s client did, they squander large fortunes in a very short period of time.
So, let me ask you again - are you getting what you want in your life? Are you achieving your dreams and goals? If not, I might suggest examining who you are being and improving on it. From there “do” and “have” follow instinctively and effortlessly. Have you ever noticed how some people just do things and it’s so natural and effortless for them? That’s their “being.” We all are capable of tapping into our best “being” to achieve great things. One step to do that is to find our true self and honoring that, not try to be what and who someone else wants us to be.
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