The First Post - What To Expect
March 5th, 2008On this blog you will learn the principles, techniques and ideas that have taken me from a depressed, drugged up teenager with ADD who almost didn’t graduate high school (in fact I rarely went to class at all, and got D’s and F’s in nearly every class the entire time I was in Junior High and Senior High School) to completely turning my life around and becoming successful, focused, and most importantly - happy.
My mission with this blog and website is to make a profound difference in people’s lives. What I’d like to prove to you - for your own benefit - is that it doesn’t matter where you are now.
Even if you grew up dirt poor (like me). Even if you have a horrible attitude and mindset regarding money and success (like I used to), even if you didn’t get straight A’s all through school and graduate college with a Ph.D (I barely graduated high school and that was only because one of the school counselors felt bad for me when my dad died and gave me a 2nd chance. To be able to graduate I had to go to school 6 days a week and complete a year and a half worth of school work in just a couple of months.
Even if you’re at the point now where you feel scatterbrained, overwhelmed or stressed - if that’s where you are now, I can relate. I used to be in your shoes.
Maybe your situation is not or never has been quite that bad. Despite your current circumstances, I hope the information I share here will help you change your life as it has helped me changed mine. Here is a key point to remember - take baby steps. Especially if you’re the kind of person who gets overwhelmed easily or procrastinates.
Did you know that clinically depressed people often have goals that exceed what they feel they can really accomplish? As a result, they often get stuck in “paralysis of analysis” and find themselves unable to act because they feel like they must have new skills or more information first. They get stuck in a cycle of learning and learning but never doing.
I’ve experienced this myself (MANY times) in the past when I had very low self esteem, and would set lofty goals I didn’t believe I could actually achieve. To overcome this, you need to get the ball rolling and gain some momentum by setting and achieving very small goals. Then use your small successes to motivate you and move you toward larger successes.
One last point I’d like to make is that part of the reason I’m starting this blog is I’d like to create a positive community and connect with like minded people, rather than negative people and “energy leeches”.
If you have come here to learn and grow from valuable life-changing information, to improve yourself and the lives of others around you - great! I’m excited for you to be here, and I hope you’ll return often and benefit from what you learn here.
However if you’re a negative, scarcity-minded person who likes to argue, complain, make idiotic excuses and bring others down - this isn’t the place for you. Please close this browser, and find somewhere else to spread your misery.
In the next blog post coming up, I’ll be sharing something with you that will open up your mind to future success principles you’ll be learning. See you back here soon.
