Do You Want to Win the Race?

Do you ever hear someone say something that makes you stop in your tracks and think for a moment? That is exactly what happened to me yesterday.

My daughter was watching this silly cartoon on the Discovery Kids Channel called ‘Kenny the Shark’, while I was washing the kitchen floor. I wasn’t even paying attention to the TV but I could overhear some of the storyline. Kenny is a shark that wanted to leave the water and now he’s a little girl’s land walking pet shark that does everything that people do.

In this silly story Kenny wanted to enter a Dog Race with other Normal Pets. A friend of his was helping him train. While Kenny was complaining his friend said, “Do you want to win this race?” Of course Kenny replied, “Yes”.  Then his friend said something that struck me, I had to stop mopping for a minute while it hit me. He said, “Then You are Going to Have to Want Nothing Else Until You Win this Race.”

That statement hit me because That is What True Success is All About. It is about focusing ONLY on the ONE THING that we want to achieve. It is easy for us to get distracted, spread out our focus and make up excuses about why we haven’t achieved what we want. But, if we continue to let ourselves get distracted and focus on more than one thing at a time, we will never see True Success. We’ll Never Win the Race.

It’s not about sprinting through The Marathon and achieving all of our desires at once. It’s about focusing on Winning one Goal and One Race at a Time. If we focus all of our energy into wanting nothing else except our one goal, There is No Stopping Us!

Look at all of the things you Want to Accomplish and are Trying to Accomplish right now. Are you spreading yourself out instead of focusing on one thing? Create a ‘List of Races’ for yourself and Commit to Winning One Race at a Time. Write them down in order so you know which race you need to win first, then next, and so forth….

This list will be great for you to see the big picture, but to also break it down so that you can ‘Want’ one thing at a time and not get yourself distracted. When it comes down to it, we have to Want it More than Anything Else before we can achieve it.

I know that I heard this message yesterday for a reason. Life is funny how it puts us in the right place at the right time to receive all of the things that we need. Be open to everything that is happening around you and the messages that life and he universe and sending you. The value in these messages is unmatched.

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Believing in Your Success,