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When Being Driven Takes You to the Dark Side
| Guest post by: Melanie Benson Strick |
Article Overview: In order to get more results, many of us condition ourselves to rise above our mental and physical limitations. We challenge ourselves to achieve the unimaginable in record time.
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When Being Driven Takes You to the Dark Side
As an entrepreneur we are trained to
focus on results – make more money, get more clients, sell more products, and
achieve more recognition. It becomes easy to let these hard numbers
dictate our daily levels of success, happiness, and even survival.
In order to get more results, many
of us condition ourselves to rise above our mental and physical limitations.
We challenge ourselves to achieve the unimaginable in record time. Often
we look around at everyone else, notice what (we think) they are accomplishing,
compare ourselves to their success, feel behind, and say, “I should be doing
that too!”
We may even find ourselves spouting
wisdom from these high achievers with mantras designed to push past our comfort
zone such as:
“Come on don’t give up now,
you can do it, push a little harder, just finish up these 10 projects THEN you
can go to bed.”
At least, I know I have been here;
and still can catch myself in my default mode of hyper-drive with a million
to-do’s in record time.
So here’s an opportunity for you to
shift deeper into most successful self…
When does it make sense
to stop pushing from the “long list of to do’s and the drive to be more” and
shift gears into being enough?
Is there a trigger that
causes you to default into hyper-drive, struggling to achieve what ego wants
(versus staying committed to your genius?)
And do you catch
yourself doing things from the space of “being driven” that you later realize
were a complete departure from your truth?
Here’s what I’ve discovered about
myself.
I have a great strength in achieving
extraordinary results in record time.
When I was born the doctor told my
mother, “This one will survive anything. You’ll never have to worry about her.”
What she should have said is, “This
one has been born to push and struggle her whole life in order to achieve her
ego’s desire.”
Whoa.
Huge a-ha.
There is a fine line between
challenging ourselves to overcome our perceived limitations and creating a life
experience of struggle to keep up with what we think we SHOULD have.
I realized that somewhere along the
way I graduated from “challenging myself” to a condition of struggling
unnecessarily.
I’m not exactly sure when or where I
created this pattern but what I do know is that in this New Era of
Entrepreneurship struggle does not work!
Struggle stops the flow of inspired
action and in essence shuts off our most essential element of success –
passion. It moves us away from our genius and into copying others without any
real connection to our truth.
Now if you are thinking to yourself,
“I don’t get this, I don’t struggle”, then take a minute and really check in. Do
you really never struggle? Do you not push yourself ridiculously hard
to achieve things you have no real need for anymore? Do you not feel tired and
unmotivated but find yourself glued to the computer screen because it’s still
light outside? What if we redefined “working hours” and only applied inspired
action when we were really juiced up?
Just so we are on the same page, I’m
not saying we shouldn’t work hard at times. I’m saying there is a HUGE
difference between pushing and struggling to achieve something and being in
inspired action where our actions are in flow with our genius.
Have the wisdom to know the
difference and your big ideas will take off like wild-fire.
So what have you been struggling
with? Share it in the comments below…
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