Do Not Write A Check With Your Tongue That Your Actions Cannot Cash

Who hasn't been guilty of this? We announce that we are joining a gym and losing weight on January 1st. We announce that we are going to reach the top level in our business. We are going to turn over a new leaf in our life! Just wait!

Then, when January starts you eagerly run to the gym and sweat it out. After a week, it gets harder to motivate yourself to put on your runners, and eventually you give up on the idea of exercising to lose weight. Well, actually I am in pretty good shape, you tell yourself.

Are your friends going to think any less of you? Probably not, because they do the same thing. But you planted a negative seed in your own mind, that sooner or later, you will have to overcome.

The same holds true when you set unrealistic goals for yourself in other areas of your life. What do I mean by unrealistic goals? When you have any doubt in your mind, when you are not convinced that you can achieve that goal. When you don't put your whole heart into that goal.

The peer pressure, when you announce your goals, may help you work a bit harder, reach a little further, but in the final analysis, it is your belief in you that will make you stretch to reach your goal.

I believe in you, your friends believe in you, do you believe in yourself?

Herb Ratsch