Words to Live by Wednesday... "don't look down"

It's easy to get overwhelmed in life, add to that the hustle of small business and you could really mix up a disastrous cocktail. There is a reason that in every movie and show with someone scaling a tall building  to infinite heights someone always says "don't look down." Never be distracted by your surroundings when you are taking your goals and ambitions head on. The fear of failure is great enough to sometimes halt our steps, but what's worse is when that fear creates our failure.

You can't be afraid to climb.

There will be challenges, it won't always be easy, but the best things in life are hard. They test us, sometimes to the point where giving up is too easy of an option. This is where you will separate the strong from the standard. The standard being those of us who never fully embrace the challenge. They begin a journey with the concept that things will always be within grasp, that next limb will come to them and that everyone else climbing has special advantages. Making excuses and saying "why are they doing better than me?" isn't going to do you any favors, I can promise. What will help is "why am I not doing? what can I do better?"

Stop looking down and checking on small things that are entangling you or weighing you down. Stop looking for shortcuts to the finish line. What fun is a race if you get carried and dropped off at the finish line? There is no strength, lesson or endurance there. When you are looking for success it's in the same place its always been, the top.

Some of us work our business more ofter the others. We work our sales full time; without restriction or reservation. To break it into another pitiful climbing analogy, some of us are faster climbers. We can reach a little further, we risk the occasional leap to limbs just beyond reach.  We constantly check how far we are from the top,  our path to get there, which branch is next and the one after that and after that. We ask ourselves how long it will take to get to the middle branch and what we can do to safely get there with all of our gear still in tow. We help guide others around us that aim to reach for the same branches we are grabbing for. These are leaders, ready to climb to new heights, bring along anyone willing to climb with them but not fearful of how high they have gone. Don't look down, look forward. Remember where you have come from, when you started at the lowest level of the hill and use what you learn climbing on your own and what you learn from those who have gone before you to achieve your goals. Success is there for everyone, if you have a courage to go after it.