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So what are we, who tend to inertia, to do? It is simple really: just take next step, and next, and next, and next... For every step of your journey, you will come up with excuses or reasons not to go on. Use your mind to steamroller these objections. What do I mean by this? Let me use an example. Until recently I had a problem getting up in morning when my alarm would go off. Often I would snooze it until there is no more snooze left on alarm (an hour later). What I started to do is, evening before, I would imagine what I would feel like when alarm goes off. How I would grumble while still feeling very sleepy. I would imagine how I would go to bathroom even thinking that I would want to sleep some more. I would then pre-programme my mind to react to these objections and steamroller them. I would switch of alarms instead of snoozing it ("Its too much effort to set
the alarm again just to get some more sleep"), I would switch on radio ("I cannot sleep with all that noise and its too much effort to switch off as its in a different room") and I would start bath tap running ("I would not want to waste water already run"). After a bath or shower I would be awake and not thinking of sleep anymore. And in end I would even imagine being proud of myself for overcoming my own objections and getting up early. In same way we should do this with all other things that require work or effort - imagine your objections, imagine yourself steamrolling your objections and most important of all imagine you are successful at it.
What if you would fail? What if you would fall? Just get up and take next step. Never cease your journey because you have fallen. Remember how far you have come - all steps you have taken. If you want to be successful, work is key. Yes, even repetitive work. And after you have toiled, you will come to realise "The pen might be mightier than sword, but plough is mightier than all."
Leon van der Walt is an aspiring netrepreneur in the fields of inspiration and financial freedom. Leon has a masters degree in quantitative risk management and when not working on the Net is a bank employee. He strives to continually improve himself and is focussing on increasing financial literacy. He is the web master at www.financial-inspiration.com and can be contacted at leon@financial-inspiration.com.