If you could do anything you wanted and be 100% positive it wouldn\u2019t fail, what would you do?\u00a0 Have you ever asked yourself that question?\u00a0 Try it\u2026it\u2019s an interesting exercise to do with yourself.<\/p>\n
I was talking with a friend tonight about what they want to do with their life business-wise. I asked them what they thought they wanted to do in business. They thought about it for a minute and then immediately they began telling me why they would have said [insert their first idea here] but they weren\u2019t going to say that because that wouldn\u2019t work for reason x, y, z\u2026then they said that they thought about saying [insert second idea here] but they decided against that for a, b, c\u2026they went on for several minutes listing several ideas which were each followed up by why each idea wouldn\u2019t actually work and then they looked at me and said, \u201cSo, I don\u2019t actually know what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
My next question was, \u201cI want you to pretend that we are in magic land for a minute, where everything is guaranteed to be successful\u2026what would you do?\u201d This friend started in again with the \u201cyeah, but\u201d responses and I stopped them and said, \u201cRemember we are in magic land and none of the problems exist and it is guaranteed to make money and be a success\u201d. Finally they thought about it for a minute and they threw out what it was they were secretly wishing they could do.<\/p>\n
Suddenly instead of looking at all the reasons their idea wouldn\u2019t work or couldn\u2019t work they started saying, \u201cWell I suppose I could figure out a way to ____, and maybe I could do some research to find a solution for _____\u201d and before you knew it this friend began to see that perhaps their dream could be possible after all!<\/p>\n
Pretend you are in Magic Land and you were guaranteed to be successful at whatever you wanted to do \u2013 what would you do?<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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