The Desert of Arizona
Clear and Cool 54 Degrees – 7:30 a.m.
I started my career in bidness after hanging up my pipe organ shoes (yes, you wear special shoes!) and walking away from a life in church music.
From that point forward, I put myself on a steady diet of knowledge from people who knew what they were doing in business, selling, marketing, mindset and more.
I started with all of the books about multi-level marketing businesses because that was (technically) my first business. For a scared, anti-social, well trained sheep, I learned a lot about how woefully unprepared I was for the world.
As it turned out, while churning out my straight A’s, I had spent zero time developing any skill that actually added value to the world.
I was a nice, compliant, sheep. “At your service… SIR! Coming sir, right away sir.”
During this time of study, I developed a rather bad habit that I’m only replacing in these past few years.
It’s the habit of living in what I call the Land of Nowhere.
Every day I woke up and lived in this land. The Land of Nowhere is a place where you don’t want to be, even though you are. And it’s the land from which you dream about where you’re “eventually” going to get.
The emotional result is one of deep and ever-present dissatisfaction.
I lived this every day. It was always going to get better once I got out of the Land of Nowhere. But for some reason, I wouldn’t leave.
Some would say this deep dissatisfaction feeling is what drives business and achievement forward. They would argue that the inability to accept what is currently happening while driving yourself forward towards some future goal is a good thing.
Before I started to figure out who I was, I might have agreed with this assessment. Now that I have left the Land of Nowhere and operate from much higher ground (thank God!), I know that’s not true.
You do NOT have to exist like this in order to achieve your full potential.
There is a terrible problem in the Land of Nowhere. You are neither where you think you should be or where you want to eventually go.
You wake up every day dwelling on this “fact” and end up filling your entire field of vision with it so you can no longer see your true point of power.
That true point of power is right NOW.
You can act NOW.
You can speak NOW.
You can love NOW.
So what happens to all of these things you want to achieve in business if you start OWNING your NOW and acting in that?
Well, I’d like not to ruin the surprise for you, so I just suggest you experience it for yourself.
If you’re living in the Land of Nowhere, board up your house and move out. It will never get better until you leave. And worst of all, with each day you choose to remain, you will spend another 24 hours on this planet robbing yourself of your power.
How much energy is wasted living in the Land of Nowhere is something we’ll never know. But I know how much energy I wasted there.
Few people know the key to get out is in your pocket. It’s always been there.
How about you use it?
It begins with what I call a RADICAL acceptance of what is. So radical you actually FEEL it in your core.
Then move from there.