Go For Substance, Not The Personality!

Life's one heck of a moving parade.

People come into our lives, and wander out, regularly.

Now, those of us looking for that edge in our lives in order to boost our finances, our relationships, our health, our self image, it's pretty easy for us to get caught in the celebrity addiction circus that rolls into town.

Let me explain.

Probably, right now, you may have more than a handful of books, courses, manuals, seminar notes, on one particular topic... right?

Well, I can guarantee that it won't stop there - you be collecting more info on the same topic.

Not that it should stop. If you're an 'addict' for it all, it'll continue and continue and continue...

UNTIL...

You put your foot down.

I say that because most of the info we gather that's on the same subject, is simply a painfully regurgitated knock off of the existing material we've already invested in.

Let's get practical and put this all to the test. And by the way, quite frankly that's where everything should be put to the sword - the test of reality - and not be content with some made up nonsense residing in the corner of some bod's cranium.

Here's an exercise to do. Not simply internalise. Not play it out in your mind. If you DO what I suggest, you'll get a mini revelation, right before your unbelieving eyes.

Gather up all the resources you've got on a particular subject - be it health, marketing, copywriting, creating a website, coaching... whatever it is for you.

Now, look at the last purchase you made for this particular category of interest. And then, ask this question -

"What Do I Want To Gain From This Resource That I Cannot Get From The Others I've Got in The Pile?"

Now, it could be that you're just collecting information to build your database of knowledge. That's fine. But, what would you practically use it for?

See, there's this huge inner problem we all need to solve for ourselves.

And that is, to stop buying into the 'personalities' of the resources, and instead, buy into our own committment to better our lives by MAKING THINGS HAPPEN WITH WHAT WE GOT.

Our mind, our attention, our focus, is continually on the 'look out' for something new on the horizon. And when we sense that happening, then there's nothing outside us that's the problem - WE are the problem. We're playing half-heartedly at life. Dabbling with the greatest resource we've got - OURSELVES!

I can guarantee that if most of us follow a few of the disciplines and practices outlined in just a few books, we'll be infinitely better off - financially, energy wise, disciplined wise, happiness wise.

Until WE proactively go after what's important to us, rather than get seduced by the newest attraction on the block, (and there'll ALWAYS be new attractions on the block, DAILY) the bigger the results that show up in our lives.

The next time you feel the impulse to buy a resource for something you've already got a bunch of resources for -- put the purchase on hold. Give it a few days to think it over. And, in those days you've got to think things through, actually go over the existing resources you've got and truly assess whether you've actually DONE something with them.

For if you haven't done anything with them, you'll simply repeat this same, unproductive process with the new resource.

Now, if you do have one or two favourite 'celebrities' you do value, you'd be better off getting everything you can from them and plan to absorb and learn it all.

I think you'll reach your goals and desires quicker, smoother and with a super duper spring in your step when you do this and that it'll tell you that you're not merley swayed by the new delight that's wafted into town - high flying personality, or not.


Raja C. Hireker
http://rajahireker.com/



P.S. I've personally carried this test out myself. I find that not only is life more profitable all round, it's also of an infinitely higher quality. And also, the space that I once thought I'd never see in my study room, has now been cleared of all the 'pretend' material I'd purchased. Gosh... life in that study room is so much more joyful now!