Business Success Meant Not Being a Perpetual Participant

To be successful has been part of my thinking for as long as I can remember. I have always longed to be an achiever and have always set goals for myself. I am no longer that person who puts the idea of success out there to hope for someday. I am a person who takes action and each day I accomplish new levels of success. I have crossed the line from thinking about it and hoping for it and knowing in my heart that I deserve it...to really getting up and doing something about it!

I was thinking about what it was that really helped me to cross that line. I remember that I was starting to think that "It's now or never." I have wanted greatness for myself and never seemed to really go out on a limb to get it. At the time, I thought I was working hard and taking action, but I was mistaken. I was in a false state of productivity and I was nothing more then a perpetual participant. Someone who was not really in it to win it, but instead was happy to participate and learn along with any group of others who were interested and looking for the same thing.

My improvement was really an illusion, and I was not really becoming who I wanted to be - the improvements were not real or lasting. In the last 10 years I have taken 1000's of hours of classes and workshops, I have been to over 100 live events, I have read over 350 business and personal development books and joined at least 20 groups. Yes, all this is the definition of a perpetual participant. Of course, I was proud to be involved to such a degree, but I wasn't committed to doing whatever was necessary!

I knew, all along, that I had so much more potential than what I was demonstrating and I was so very frustrated that I continued to be the only person who got in my way. I don't know what was holding me back! I didn't know, but I think I do now. When I look at what I have wanted to accomplish for myself I see that when the uncomfortable steps and unknown factors emerged I called in sick! I always held back when faced with doing something which was uncomfortable, uneasy, or downright scary!

Today, I'm happy to say that I'm a new me. I am becoming everything I always wanted and knew I could be!! I still get "stuck" from time to time, and I'm a long way from perfect, but I am new and improved because I refuse to let that stop me. I no longer look for excuses to justify why things aren't happening the way I dream of. I'm a new and improved version of me now that I am aware what it really means to make a commitment and then do whatever is necessary to keep promises to myself.

I heard that it was important and helpful to have a 'why' that moves you to tears that it is so meaningful to you! At the start of this year I made a commitment that I would do whatever I needed to do to grow and surpass my limits. I thought long and hard and the 'why' that I came up with has been my lighthouse though this journey. I am determined to be an example to others of what is really possible! I hope to encourage you by sharing my own experiences so that you, too, can cross that line for yourself. How bad do you want it? Success is a choice! It is a choice that you don't make once, you make it every day for the rest of your life!Make today the day you stop being a perpetual participant, and instead decide you are in it to win it, whatever it takes!

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