What can you do to increase your willingness to engage in process? Realize that you do not have complete control over success and failure. Try as you might, success in reaching end point of some of your goals may elude you because of events beyond your control. So focus on what you can control, not on what you cannot. And what you can control is doing and quitting. You can control doing and quitting much more than you can control end result of your efforts.

Here’s process:

1.Visualize result 2.Work on process of achievement 3.Persevere 4.Enjoy results

A formula to remember is Vision + Process + Time = Results. (VPTR)

This formula for success is like gardening. The fruit does not immediately spring up from earth. In January you imagine eating a juicy watermelon from your garden in heat of summer. Then you do patient work of preparing ground, planting seed, watering, fertilizing, pulling weeds, and keeping pests away. If you do all those things, in good time you will be able to harvest rich ripe fruit of your dreams.

Ted Isensee is a business and personal coach. His mission is to live a great life and to help others do the same. He lives and works in Houston, Texas and coaches clients by phone anywehere they happen to be.

Well, yesterday Yazzie finally got up her courage and went over. Now, she loves thing! She plays and plays with it, and bell is virtually forgotten. What did I learn, you ask, other than that it pays to give average parakeet time to adjust to something new? I learned that we are all pretty much like Yazzie when it comes to something new in our lives. We can easily get nervous and let fear take over.

Instead of just strolling right up and checking new thing in our lives out, many times we will hang back, try to ignore it or get angry and try to let it know who is boss. And I think that lots of humans would not be as brave as Yazzie and overcome a new challenge within 48 hours.

So, next time a challenge comes up in your life, why not ask yourself if you aren't braver than a little parakeet, stroll right on up to it and look it squarely in eye. You may find out, like Yazzie did, that it is just a mirror, and nothing to be afraid of.