Overcoming Frustration in Changing Times
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn
No matter what your political affiliation or who you support for next president or where you stand on social issues or whether you believe in global warming or not, there’s one thing that everyone seems to be agreeing on these days and it’s this: there’s a recession going on and it seems to be affecting everyone.
We all see that gas is expensive, and on the rise, probably hitting an average of $4 a gallon before summer hits. We all see that the real estate market is suffering, especially in places like Florida where the prices were, in recent times, quite inflated and are now extraordinarily deflated. We all can see the U.S. dollar isn’t worth what it used to be and that people from around the world are seeing this and using this to their advantage as far as buying American properties and businesses for much less than what they were once worth.
We can sit around and complain, we can lament the past, the “good old days” when gas was only $3 a gallon. We can start sentences with the phrase that used to drive us crazy with our grandparents . . .”When I was young . . . ” or we can get stuck in negativity. My thought is that these negative thought loops draw more negativity to us, attracting exactly what we’re wanting to avoid.
Recently I was chatting with a student of mine on one of our one-on-one calls. This student is a financial adviser and has a piece of property in Florida she is attempting to sell through another student of mine who is a real estate agent. Things are not progressing at all and the house has been looked at by one person who never got back to them.
I know how frustrating this is having recently gone through the process of selling a house myself. I feel her frustration. And yet, as persuaders, we are not doing ourselves, our clients, our prospects, our families, our business associates, our friends, any good by submitting to a defeatist attitude.
Instead I suggest that we ride the crest of the wave (so to speak), and not struggle behind it. Even when times are tough out there, there is still money to be made. Fortunately for us, we have honed our skills and can ride the wave with ease.
What does this mean? How does it translate to life? Well, it means we go the extra mile, going above and beyond what we were previously doing while maintaining a positive mental attitude.
Times like these are perfect opportunities to work our “self magic” — going over our universes, for example, and reinforcing our intention on all fronts, working more intimately with our gentle giants/other than conscious minds to resolve to have success no matter what the outside world has to say about it, no matter what the things beyond our control (if there is such a thing) have in store. Get to work on that self persuasion and align yourself in such a way that you are impervious to the weather outside.
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