Insure Your Dream – Part 3

Don’t get comfortable. Get uncomfortable, because discomfort causes you to move. It causes you to take action. Remember, if you’re not moving, you’re dying. If you’re not moving, you’re not helping other people. You’re basically saying, “I’m comfortable with what I have, I don’t want anything more. Leave me alone and I’ll be just fine.” Mediocrity is not for you!  Live your life with passion.  Live your life with honor.  Live your life knowing that you are making a difference and making a positive contribution to other peoples’ lives.

Champion 3%’ers are Relentless when it comes to their dreams.  They smile when the naysayers tell them “You’re still going to seminars? Come on, that stuff doesn’t work.  Why do you keep blowing your money on books and CDs.  It’s a money making scam!”  You have to be relentless in pursuit of your dreams to handle comments like that.  If it ever gets to you, just take a look at the status of their life. Where are they headed?  Nowhere!  What are they doing?  Nothing!  You can’t let people like that distract you from your calling.

What happens when you don’t read or listen to motivational material for five days? Your brain starts to get dirty. We’re surrounded by negativity. You start to listen to the people around you. “Maybe they’re right. Maybe my dream really is too unbelievable.” You must be relentless and focus on your dream every single day. The famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar says, “Some people say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does a shower. That’s why you do it every day.”

You have to immerse yourself in personal development on a daily basis so that the negativity doesn’t cause you to lose focus.  You don’t take a shower once and expect it to last ten years. You don’t eat once and expect not to get hungry again for a week. So, why would you think reading one book in five years is going to help you achieve your dreams?  It sounds ridiculous, because it is!  Be relentless and refuse to be stuck in a rut.

A – This letter represents what everyone does at one point or another – Analyze everything.  However, 97% people typically don’t just analyze something.  They overanalyze it to prevent themselves from making a decision.  “Should I invest in that seminar? I don’t know. Do I have enough time? How much does it cost? Can I get a refund?  What will my friends think?”  Then instead of actually considering how this one thing might actually change their life, they ask their negative friends and family members what they should do.  Of course, they say “NO!”  They’re analyzers too.  Analyzers look at all of the facts and details before they make a decision. They take their eye off of their vision for the future. They stop focusing on the possible or believable and instead focus on the practical and realistic.

If you ask someone for their opinion about your goals and dreams, they won’t hesitate to tell you what they think. They’ll say, “You’re crazy. Who are you to think you can achieve that?”  They don’t know who you are. How could they? Remember, you’re developing an insurance plan to protect your dreams so you can’t waste a moment worrying about what they say.  You don’t want losers in your insurance plan, do you? I don’t see why you would. There is no reason for them to be involved in the process of achieving your dream. They will only hold you back!  Only allow people that believe in you and your dream to be involved in your insurance plan.

One of my most favorite things to do that just happens to begin with “A” is Annihilating the enemy.  To be in the 3% crowd, you must be relentless in pursuit of dreams and annihilate the disbelievers and dream stealers that get in your way.  No, I don’t mean physically annihilate them.  Just stop associating with them and refuse to let their negativity impact your life.  You can also take an offensive approach to annihilating the enemy of your dreams.  All you need to do is a little bit more than you’ve been doing.   Take a look at what everyone else is doing and do the opposite. Do something that seems impractical or improbable. It will skyrocket your success, and your focus will cause the enemy to run the other way.

Geniuses are the type of people that do everything outside of the norm and live life completely differently than anyone else. Why?  Because they allow themselves to see what no one else sees, believe what no one else believes, and are willing to step out in faith to achieve the unrealistic expectation that they have.  Albert Einstein saw what no one else was able to see.  Genius – yes.  Perfect – no.  Many people don’t know that Einstein had a speech challenge as a child, and he actually failed his school entrance exam.  After graduating with an average school record, Einstein had problems finding a job and even questioned his decision to become a physicist.  As you see, Einstein wasn’t a perfect being but he was able to achieve his goals, because he believed that he could and he believed in himself.

When his theories about science and the way the universe works were proven to be correct, he gained the utmost respect not only from other scientists, but from people all over the world.  Einstein truly was a genius in his field of study and lived outside of the norm to achieve greatness.  As one of the most intellectual men in the world, even he had his challenges.

You don’t have to be a genius to discover something new, something incredible, or something revolutionary. It happens everyday by people just like you that simply followed their dreams and believed in something that only they could see.  Let me ask you a question…Can you see your dream coming true?  If not, then there’s no way that you will achieve it.  Before you can accomplish anything in life, you have to believe will all of your heart that it is possible.

Let me take this time to tell you about another million dollar tool that will help you annihilate the enemy of fear and skyrocket your level of belief. This simple yet life-changing device is called a pillow speaker. When you’re sleeping, attached the pillow speaker to your mp3 player, set your player to repeat your favorite motivational teachings and tuck it underneath your pillow.  As you listen to this material, your mind will be infused with positive motivational messages.  It shouldn’t be so loud that it disturbs your sleep. This doesn’t take the place of your daily personal self-development.  It’s just that little bit of extra that will create extraordinary results.

N – This letter stands for Nothing. Why?  Because that’s what 97% of people have going on in their lives…NOTHING!  Remember, you want to stay away from these people.  How exciting is nothing?  Not exciting in the least!  If nothing is going on, THEN you’re living a dull and meaningless existence. You’re refusing to see the blessings that surround you. Every single person has an infinite amount of blessings in their lives, but sadly most people never see them.

For the 3% crowd, the letter “N” stands for “Nothing will stop me.”  Even if you don’t know how you’re going to achieve your goal, as long as you know why you are doing what you are doing and you believe in yourself and your dream, that’s enough.  Most successful people didn’t know how they were going to achieve their goal when they first set it.  But they kept going nonetheless, because they believed in their dream enough to know that nothing would stop them from achieving it.

Henry Ford dreamed of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient.  Most importantly, he wanted the automobile to be affordable to ordinary people and not just the wealthy.  He became laser-focused on his product and customer base to achieve his dream.  Several major financial backers actually left Ford, because he refused to introduce a car that he didn’t feel was ready for customers. There were also many people that questioned his abilities, and his right to even legally manufacture automobiles.  But that didn’t stop him.

In October 1908 when announcing the birth of the Model T, Ford proclaimed “I will build a motor car for the great multitude.”  Because of Ford’s dream, the Model T automobile was one of the greatest changes in the lives of common people in history.  Can you imagine how much different the world would be if Henry Ford had listened to everyone around him?  Thank God Henry Ford believed in his vision and was relentless in pursuit of his dream.

How often do you let what someone else said or another obstacle keep you from achieving your dream? Are you as relentless and persistent as Ford? If not, what’s stopping you?  Move beyond your fear and self-doubt and allow absolutely nothing to stand in the way of your success.

C – For the 97% of people, C stands for Casual. Most people are casual about their life.  You could even call them passive observers. They let life pass them by day after day.  Casual people are bored in life. They don’t know that life can be absolutely amazing if they only made a decision to dream big and step outside the societal role that they have conformed to over the years.

Casual is synonymous with comfortable. Casual clothing is seen and defined as simple and comfortable. You already know how I feel about being comfortable. When you’re comfortable, you’re not growing! You’re settling for things as they are at that very moment in life.

Even billionaires are constantly growing and expanding. It wasn’t enough for Bill Gates to create Microsoft and become a multi-billionaire. He didn’t want to stop there. Now he runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest funded non-profit organizations in the world. Could he have stopped and settled for being the chief officer of Microsoft?  Sure he could have!  But he knows how important it is to keep pushing yourself and keep developing new dreams and visions. He’s dedicated to helping the world in more ways than one and knows that being comfortable does not contribute to society in a positive way.

Are you casual in regards to your life? Do you let your dreams go by unnoticed because you think those dreams are bigger than you? Let me tell you something, champion. You are so much bigger than your dreams. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t even have the mental capability to think them up. As the famed author of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill said, “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” I believe these words with all of my heart.

Those in the 3% group believe in staying Committed. You must be absolutely committed to your dream. If you’re not, no one else will be. No one else will believe in your dream if you don’t. You must be so committed to your dream that you can see it, taste it, touch it, feel it, and smell it. Your vision can become your reality if you’re committed.

When you make a commitment to someone, that commitment is as good as gold.  People take commitments very seriously. If you break a commitment, it’s as though you don’t value the other person. You will more than likely lose that person’s respect. You may even lose all possibility of doing business with them again. When you give your word to someone that you are committed, they expect you to uphold your end of the bargain. When you don’t, you not only disappoint them, you disappoint yourself.

Have you ever made a commitment to yourself and broken it? Perhaps you committed to exercise five days a week. Perhaps you committed to quit smoking.  How did it feel when you broke that commitment? It didn’t feel very good, did it?  When it comes to your dream, you are the most important person in your life. When you break your own commitment, it’s as though you’ve given up on yourself. Make a commitment to keep your commitments. Don’t allow yourself to break them. Commitment will take you to places you never thought you could reach and beyond all realms of expectation.

E – Here’s where 97% of people just lose it.  “E” stands for Enough. “I’ve had enough of this. I’ve had enough of dreaming, quitting is much easier. This is too hard.  I’ve simply had enough!”  These people give up on their dream. They dwell on the adversity rather than focusing on their dream. They forget that their vision controls their future, and they control their vision! They’ve had enough of dreaming. They’ve had enough of thinking about how they’d like to live their life. It’s so sad to think about the number of unfulfilled dreams that exist in the world.

There are an infinite number of unfulfilled dreams, because there are an infinite number of ideas that people simply give up on. But remember, everything has an opposite. If there are an infinite number of unfulfilled dreams, there are an infinite number of fulfilled dreams of people just like you that simply refused to quit.

Those people are in the 3% group and are Empowered by their dream. Their dream fuels them. They gain power from it. They wake up feeling good about themselves and blessed to have the ability to achieve their dream. In the old Greek, blessed means empowered to prosper. You have to be empowered to surpass mediocrity and achieve greatness.

The amazing thing is that when you are committed to achieving your dream, you not only empower yourself, but you empower the people around you to want more out of life. Empowerment is contagious. When you’re empowered, other people are empowered!

Now that you have an insurance plan for your dream, you’ll be able to stand toe to toe with anyone that challenges your ability to achieve it.  Remember, you have made the decision to join the 3% crowd.  Don’t listen to the naysayers or those stuck in the 97% group.  It’s your dream so protect it!

To Your Success,
Chris & Jewell Tunstall