“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
—Charles Swindoll
Each night, the little spider at my front gate works busily, weaving his web to catch his morning breakfast. He is diligent and hard-working, he studied design and construction, and he makes a fine web.
But every morning, I break his web apart as I pass through to collect my morning newspaper.
I’m sure the spider sees the destruction and whines, “Why does this always happen to me? I work as hard as any other spider I know. I’m so unlucky! It’s not fair!”
The spider at my gate isn’t unlucky—he has just chosen the wrong location. Apparently, he didn’t have the advice of a good real estate agent who could have told him the three most important rules: Location, location, location!
Other spiders chose the right real estate, but then just sit there and chant, “I’m catching lots of flies, I’m catching lots of flies…” But they don’t build a web to catch them, so all the flies just zoom on by.
I’m sure they complain, “Those silly affirmations never work!”
Like spiders, we all have blind spots that keep us from attaining our goals, from having all the clients we want, and from making all the money we desire. We need teachers, mentors, and trainers to help us see the holes in our programs, devise the remedies to fix them, and practice our new choices until they become our new habits.
We know we need to learn, but we resist.
“It costs too much!” we complain. “It takes too long!”
“I’m too overwhelmed, it’s too far to drive, I have small children, my parents need help…”
And we sit by our webs in the wrong location or chant affirmations without any web and wonder why we don’t have any money or why our dreams haven’t come true.
Ask for help! Ask a professional real estate person if you’re looking in the right location. Ask a life coach for positive affirmations that will work for you. Ask a graphics professional for a new ad design.
Hire a coach, join a mastermind group, get into therapy. Buy books on sales, marketing, self-esteem, metaphysics, personal empowerment.
Take some action to learn something new so you can get new and better results.
Help is all around you—reach out and take it! You deserve to be successful—there are people praying for you to show up because they need you. Do it for them.
From From Worry to Wealthy by Chellie Campbell
