Got a dream? How badly do you want it?
There are two things in my life that I decided I would achieve, no matter what: Succeeding as a broadcaster and winning my beautiful wife.
It took 10 years of effort just to get good enough to be competitive in the trade. People I admired said I would never make it. I had a speech impediment. And I was a painful introvert.
But I found role models who became fellow travelers and best friends.
I was lucky enough to come up in a time before consolidation. There were still radio stations around where you could be bad while you learned how to be good. Eventually, I had the skills. But I also had the wisdom to understand that what I thought I wanted didn’t have the future I needed.
Radio’s gift will always be discipline, curiosity and flexibility. I had to develop them to learn how to become skillful enough to add value while enjoying (most of) the ride. I’ve tried to remember that over six reinventions.
And I still work very hard to be worthy of my exquisite Queen, every day, 47 years later. Anyone who has been in a committed relationship for the long term knows we aren’t the people now that we were then.
Remembering the reasons you love some one on the days when you don’t like each other very much comes with the territory. You believe in the team, even when you may feel one of the members is letting the other one down.
Manifesting what we desire isn’t just about positive thoughts. It’s being willing to keep your eye on the prize and going after it when everyone is telling you it’s out of reach.
What do you care enough to attain… against all odds?
How badly do you want it?
I hear people rant about an issue who would never engage beyond a social media post. Some may see an innovation and say, “I had that idea a long time ago,” and did nothing with it. This is why it’s oh so easy for driven individuals, both good and bad, to rise to prominence. 95% of the world quits at the first stop sign.
If it’s going to happen for you, you have to want it so badly that nothing will stand in your way. Because you’re going to have to overcome a thousand obstacles to earn it.
And once you have it, you must spend every single day continually improving your skills, your knowledge and your resilience to keep it.
Whether it’s a career, a significant other, or an issue you care about, nothing worth achieving is easy. That’s why so many people waste time on tension relieving instead of goal achieving.
If you don’t like your job, your health, or your situation, you must want the change bad enough to fight for it until you get it.
The tenacious survive. We get what we accept. And where we are right now is totally of our own making, unless we decide to change it.
