The Secret Remedy

For anyone who wants:

• More time

• Increased productivity

• Better results

• Goals reached

• STOP procrastination once and for all...

Here is the 'secret' remedy!

Take a piece of paper, draw a round circle on it, and in that circle, the letters TUIT - cut it out and put it in your wallet!!! Don't ask why! Just do it!

Ok, now you have done that! Phew! I hope you know what this means! You know when someone asks you to do something, or you know you have to do something and you say the words... "I'll do it as soon as I get around to it!"

Well here is your round TUIT you have been looking for! You finally have one, and now you will have no trouble getting all those things done!

Ok, a bit silly! But IS IT?

Is it silly to put our dreams in a corner and say "I'll do it later", "I'll get to it someday", "I'll do it when I get around to it"?

Let me tell you something - that language DRAINS your energy! It keeps you stuck doing NOTHING, it gives you an excuse, rather than taking responsibility that you haven't done it yet!

I get so angry at my husband if he uses the word "should" at me! Grrr! SHOULD! No! To quote Yoda "Do or do not - there is no try" - EXACTLY! There is no try, should, can't, could, possibly, maybe, or any other of those pathetic, noncommittal, energy draining hopeless words!

There is WILL, CAN, MUST - words of power, commitment and strength.

While we are talking about 'talking' - the other thing I see people do that holds them back and keeps them stuck, is... 'talking' about what they are going to do.

The "I'm gunna's" of the world!

Ahhhhh! Worse if you say 'should' than if you say 'I'm going to'!

My response is always the same - Don't tell me - show me!

So if a client says I'm going to start exercising - I say oh no! Don't talk about exercising - start exercising! So the rest of the session is us walking around the farm! Don't talk about learning French - call up, book in your class, and tell me when your first class is! Don't talk about riding your horse - talk about how good your ride was! Don't talk about entering your first competition - talk about how excited you are now you have entered your first competition!

I don't 'do' future tense! I do present tense!

Now I know you will say "But we have to say what we want"! I tell everyone I am going to the Olympics 2020! Well that's 'talk' - I'm not doing it! But I am taking actions towards it, I am riding, I am competing, and I have planned every year leading up to 2020, so my entire life is already taking the actions I need to take to get there. I do like to say instead though - "I am a 2020 Olympic Gold medalist". Yeah you call me weird... that's ok!

People use the escape 'when I get around to it' because when they think of the goal they see all the obstacles in their way. Lets say you have a desire to compete advanced. You have had this desire for years, but you see all the 'obstacles' - "I don't have enough time", "I don't have a float", "I don't have a good enough horse"... so you file it away and hope you will get there... on that fabulous day called 'someday'.

Instead... take ACTION! Knowledge is power! Firstly, get the advanced dressage tests and look through them - what movements do they have - which movements can you already do? I remember when I was Grade 4 looking at a GP test - going! Yay!!! I can enter at A and salute! I'm almost there! And guess what... there is walk across the diagonal in there... I know all of you can do that too! We are almost there!

Do you see by taking action it suddenly begins to look easier! I bet you didn't know that all of you could do parts of the Grand Prix test!

I love language - how we language our world is how we experience it. I love the word MUST! That word just turns me on and presses all the right buttons!!! What is your 'word'?

Just compare:

I should ride I must ride

I might exercise today I will exercise today

I could compete advanced I can easily compete advanced

Or are you a 'duck' person! You know you need all the ducks lined up PERFECTLY before you will take action - "I'm waiting for this" or "have to wait until I get that", blah blah. There is never a perfect time, never the right time, never a time where you won't hit unexpected detours, disappointments and criticisms - all you find is an excuse for not starting.

Here's to your success at someday arriving, getting around to it and HAVING all your dreams coming true!!

To Your Success

Natasha Althoff



Natasha Althoff-Kelley
http://yourridingsuccess.com
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