Your Focus Becomes Your Reality

I'm accused of being a Pollyanna all the time. I'm too enthusiastic. I don't face reality. Times are tough. Everything we have is transient. I can't depend on what I have being there tomorrow. What's new?

I've been married twice. I've had successful businesses. I've had unsuccessful businesses. My house has burned down. I've had cancer. I am fully aware of what may happen, of what can happen.

I have loved every woman with whom I've been involved. I've loved my successful and unsuccessful businesses, because I've always worked in businesses that help people.

I didn't lose anything of value when my house burned down. To this day, I give thanks that the firemen were not hurt putting out the blaze. And God bless the generosity of the people who came to help my family and our neighbors that night and in the ensuing weeks. As for cancer, I have nothing but positive memories. VCU and the Massey Cancer Center are truly care givers.

All of that said, the world is fearful right now. Recession is just another way of saying, "I don't know what to do; so I'm going to wait and not do anything until I see other people doing something."

2009 has been the best year in Catch Your Limit's 10 years. We've worked heroically. Even with our great results, for every 3 clients that have said "yes" this year, 2 have backed out and we've still managed a record setting year in the middle of this global slow down.

Regardless, I'm not fearful. I'm sure we will continue to excite people with the possibility of their catching their limit and I'm equally sure that some people will wake up the next day and for whatever reason decide that now is just not the right time to take that step.

To get back to my Pollyanna ways. I'm frequently accused of not being appropriately concerned about the way things are. I am absolutely positive that positive is the point of view that enables me to roll with the punches and come back every day looking forward to helping people catch their limit.

So, my reality is the joy I get from working with my ><(("> colleagues and our clients. As I mentioned earlier I'm no stranger to the downs of life; but it's said that Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas fell to his death because he was focused that day in 1978 on not falling.

I've written before that if you take your eye off your goals you will wind up among the shoals.

So, join me in celebrating. Celebrate everything that's going good in your life.

Put your eye on your goals, your dreams. Don't ignore the brutal truth of where you are today; just don't let the "facts" stop you from taking the steps necessary to keep moving toward catching your limit.

And as we say at ><((">, Carpe Diem is not the catch of the day. Seize the day.

><(("> Gayle Turner

Gayle is a ><((“> Team Member at Catch Your Limit Consulting, a management and marketing firm with offices in Tallahassee, Florida and Richmond, Virginia. He is a keynote speaker, facilitator, blogger and contributing author for international, national and regional publications. To learn more, visit http://www.catchyourlimit.com/ .