A Key to Your Success
Post By: Rick Hoening
Perry Marshall recently sent me the following. I’ve edited it to remove the person’s name.
Perry Marshall’s wife’s close friend really and truly had a 36-24-36 body. She wasn’t a fashion model, but she was as attractive as anyone could expect a 30 year old mommy to be. The perfect combination of slim, trim and curvy.
Suddenly one day, the bulimia she had in high school returned with a vengeance. Literally on a Tuesday afternoon in November. SLAM!
She descended into a death spiral. 2 months later she’s down to 82 pounds. Her ribs are showing and she’s gaunt and pale. Her butt is flat and her
jeans are baggy and her arms are bony and we’re imploring ” please, you’re so skinny and you’re going to kill yourself, please please please get some professional help and start eating…”
…yet when she looks in the mirror every brain cell is SCREAMING, ” YOU ARE SO FAT!!!”
It was the strangest thing. You could not reason with it, you could not argue with it, it would not budge. It didn’t matter what you told her, she saw a *fat* woman when she looked in the mirror.
In his book “The Secret Code of Success”, Noah St. John puts it this way:
“When someone is said to have the condition called anorexia, we are typically describing a behavior pattern marked by an aversion to or pushing away of food. When someone has bulimia, it typically means behavior characterized by the bingeing and purging of food (gorging on food and then inducing vomiting).
“But when I first became aware that I was settling for the crumbs of life, I realized that there WAS something else we humans could starve ourselves of, and this previously unrecognized method of starvation was affecting tens of millions of people. What no one had considered before was that human beings could starve ourselves of success.”
MOST of us starve ourselves of success. I often find myself avoiding really important projects that I KNOW can move me forward, and wasting time on trivial stuff. Can you relate to that?
Ever made a stupid, totally avoidable, million dollar mistake? Do you ever wonder why you did this? Do you ever wonder how to interrupt the cycle and change the voices in your head that hold you back?
Perry Marshall write many articles about the subconscious ways we sabotouge our own success. Yes , we can be our on worst enemy very easily. Make a truce with yourself and work with yourself in for a better outcome.
In conclusion: Hind sight is always 20/20 and unless you change what you do and how you do it, you will always get the same results. Take a chance and step outside your comfort zone and see what it’s like. Ask a mentor for help and follow their lead. It’s like the chilly water, sometimes you just have to jump in with both feet.