July Determination: Unstoppable Entrepreneur

From my Integrity Seminar:

ASSIGNMENT: 
Bring workability, freedom and possibility to one of the important areas of your life that you rated low on the scale of workability.  You acknowledge and take responsibility for any broken promises or agreements, and fully clean up the mess in the area.

In the space that opens up by restoring your integrity, create a new possibility for yourself and your life, and enroll at least 2 people important to you in your new possibility.

The area I rated low was my hours on my business, since I only average 5.5 per week.  I have an agreement to myself that I will do whatever it takes to escape the life of trading my time for money, that this is the most important goal of my life, and yet I am constantly getting stopped.  I am spending time playing games, going on trips, hanging out with my girlfriend - and while it is not a bad thing to do these things, I spend this time at the expense of what I consider to be the most important thing.

I agreed to average at least 10 hours a week, and to get 500 hours on the business this year.  I instead have averaged less than 6 hours a week and I am on track to get 250 hours on the business this year.

The impact of this is that I live with shame and resignation.  I feel like a failure and I don't find it possible to hit larger goals.  My business turns with every change in the currents of life.

What's missing is any  sense of an unstoppable will.  I could put my foot down and say "NO.  I will work instead of XYZ so I can stay on track".  When something important comes up, I could IMMEDIATELY re-schedule my entrepreneur work hours to make sure I still hit 15 hours for the week.  I could treat my business like my life depends on getting those 15 hours in.

Integrity is only as critical as what you are dealing with matters.

Would you forget to feed your kids?

My determination for July is that I will make 15 hours per week CRITICAL.  Living a life of pride and free from the corporate ladder and rich and satisfied depends on my integrity with being an unstoppable entrepreneur.

Broken Agreements Built Upon Broken Agreements

The reason I had to give up meditating is I'd dishonored so many mindfulness agreements that I couldn't trust that anything would work since I never kept true to any of the previous things.

It just got less and less and less workable until there was no possibility left.

So I got back to the heart of the issue.  My agreement to catch and replace.  That if negative thoughts ("troll thoughts") took the wheel, I'd catch them and re-program the thought by rerunning the reaction back over, this time responding positively.

In doing so, I re-discovered myself as my word.  My word is to be a positive, happy, smiley person.  To have positivity win out over negativity.  To be 90% positive.  And honoring my word starts with honoring this basic foundation.


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Impact of not living your values = "Willy Nilly" life

Failing is Good. "Being a Failure" is a Racket

If you consider yourself to be a failure, you're going to become more of a failure.  That's just the law of attraction at work.  If you want to be successful, you must be kind of sort of all about yourself.  You've gotta love yourself, love your life, be about it.  Then you'll attract a great life.

I've highly valued humility, but it has cost me.  I now find myself stuck for years in the ACT racket of "being a failure".  But it's a racket.  Let me explain.

When you are a failure, you are freed from the responsibility of failing.  Normally, when you fail you've gotta learn and step up.  If you're failing at swimming in the Ocean, you're going to die if you don't do something.  In life, if you accept failure without stepping up, you will die inside (but hey, at least you'll "escape" the responsibility of failing!)

I think of myself as a failure to avoid the responsibility of stepping up my game, and I do so at the cost of my vitality and my future.

Your life is really determined by your responsibilities

Your responsibilities more or less choose you.  We cannot avoid them.  Essentially, just eating is a responsibility - if you don't ever choose it, you will die.

So your life, by and large, is about what responsibilities you are committed to.  And doing things you don't want to do is just about choosing a responsibility.

For instance, if someone needs help and you're busy and don't want to help them, you may help them anyways because you feel that it is important.  That is choosing responsbility.

Your capacity to commit to responsibilities, then, is essential to your greater success.  Elon Musk commits 99%+ to Tesla AND 99%+ to SpaceX.  He has a major capacity to commit.