Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)
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I’ve been around long to enough to have learned that life is all about living with the outcomes of our earlier decisions. We become one of two people:
• Someone who has true satisfaction in their accomplishment
• Someone who has regret for things they could have done but never did

For example, once I started down this road of research and discovery concerning human self-belief, I got to a point where there was no turning back. Didn’t matter how hard or difficult it got I kept working at it.

I was hooked.

My siblings thought I was crazy. I wasn’t making much money so they looked justified in their assessment whereas I didn’t.

This went on for decades but I couldn’t shake the truth of the clear vision I had before me. Now every time I work with someone who’s doing H.E.R.O. and they begin to realize that same truth in themselves that’s when I feel validated for taking the path that I did.

Happens every time.

If I have any regrets at all it’s that I didn’t start sooner. This is no truer than in my attempt at becoming a masterful writer. I always thought it would be too much work and, since I’m a bit lazy and get distracted easily, the river of time continued to flow by and now at age sixty two I really need to just get on with it.

Although to this day I have not yet produced an actual book at least I do have one in the works now (and, yes, it is as tough as I thought when you first start doing it).

Years ago I was of the mind that believed that there was a lot of things I couldn’t do. That there are things that just can’t be done (at least by me).

• I didn’t have the university degree
• I didn’t have the money
• I didn’t have the gift of oratory
• I wasn’t an effective enough communicator
• (and on and on…)

I’ve managed to perish most of those old ideas. They really aren’t that useful.

So now, as I start to see things beginning to move forward in my chosen business, I remain more convinced than ever that a deep self-belief powers good decisions.

And I have to say with the utmost certainty of a person who now feels more like a winner every day: “I’m glad I did.”

More power to you.

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This morning I was reading a post in Seth Godin’s blog. He titled it: “Infinity–they keep making more of it.”

He was writing on the pursuit of the “more” mindset. Instead of getting better, he warns, were all too focused on getting bigger. (I touched on this theme in an earlier post)

It’s true that we all want to grow a business that’s bigger than it is now.  The profit motive has a lot to do with that. A small tree naturally grows into a big tree. A bigger tree should give more fruit.

But the fruit isn’t necessarily better or bigger. There’s just more of it.

I couldn’t help but notice that part of the message in Seth’s post speaks right to the core of my own work as the developer of the H.E.R.O. eMachine. In an oblique way it even references the spirit of what I found when I first used it myself.

After a lot of years struggling with it, a couple of months ago I finally realized what it was I really wanted to say to the world about what I had discovered.

It’s simply this: If you want to live a long, happy, and fulfilling life stop chasing after success. Even if you haven’t had any of it yet and especially if you have. Better instead to become immune to failure itself.  For one thing, if you’re moving forward at all, there’s always going to be lot more of it around.

I know we all hate failing.

Failure makes us look bad. But it’s the undisputed price of success and it’s hands down the greatest teacher there is.

If you want to prosper in these uncertain times you’d better grow big in the immunity department.

More power to you.

…David

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