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Channel: Zerofatzreturns · 2015 · Howto & Style

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I Know the Perfect Place for a Gas Station | Overcoming Obstacles and Limiting Beliefs


I remember back when I had this job at the hospital, I used to drive by this intersection every day.  It was a super busy 4 lane intersection with alot of traffic.  

On the one side of this thing, there were new shopping plaza's going up and restaurants everywhere.  It was becoming a real center for activity in my city.  

On the other side of this intersection it was dying.  The stores were closing up, there were a couple of run down bars, a thrift store, and the general feel of the place was just...bleak.

The interesting thing about this intersection was that there was only one gas station and it was on the bleak side of the street.  So basically all the people who came to eat at Olive Garden and shop at Kohl's and Bed Bath and Beyond had to cross this really busy intersection and be seriously inconvenienced JUST to get gas.

Well, as I drove by this thing every day I thought to myself, "Self...you know what you could make alot of money on?  Putting a gas station on the other side of that intersection, down there with all those restaurants and stores."

Awesome idea.  Excellent opportunity.

So why didn't I take action on it?

Simple.

As soon as I thought of that really cool idea, my mind started to come up with problems.  Reservations I used to call them, or reasons why I don't think it's a good idea.  They were things like:

• I don't have the money to open a gas station
• I don't know anything about running a gas station
• I don't know anything about running a store at all
• Where do I get the gas
• The pricing for gas looks complicated

I could go on...but that's the kind of stuff that was flying around my head like ping pong balls.

The brain is a funny thing.  It likes to take issues and problems and quickly make decisions and summaries.

My brain took those issues and problems with my awesome idea and quickly melted them down to this:

Starting a gas station is too complicated and it's just not for me.


Maybe you have had a similar experience.


Fact:

 I had to seriously re-wire my brain to achieve anything.

Starting a gas station was not too complicated.  I let my brain defeat me before I even allowed the good idea to be explored thoroughly.  Your mind can be your greatest ally or your worst enemy. 

 At the heart of it we are still animals and our mind strives to keep us safe.  Doing something new and different is not safe.  Our mind rejects it inherently.

I propose that you embrace the ritual of being uncomfortable and not just learn new things but DO new things.  Take chances, and smile in the face of failure because you won't succeed without failure.  

Failure and the thought of it drives me every day.  We trade punches in the rain like weathered boxers that refuse to go down.  Sometimes I win and sometimes failure gets the best of me...but always...always I get back up and keep fighting.

Failure taunts me and threatens to break me, scaring me with thoughts of going broke and losing everything and a plethora of negative "what ifs."

And it used to bother me but now I grin and spit blood in failures face.  I wave my battered glove and motion failure to come on.  

I love the ritual.

When you have a great idea.  When you feel your mind throwing reservations at you like bullets.  A thousand reasons why you cannot do it.  I propose you write down all of the reservations.  Get them on paper.

And once you have those reservations on paper, begin to come up with 2 or 3 hypothetical ways you could overcome each problem.  When you are finished, you will have a much clearer understanding of what it will take to make that "good idea" happen.

It will be so much more real than it was before you did this.  It's the journey from vague notion to true opportunity and it is magnificent.  A journey that you all have inside waiting for you to be courageous.

I'm Kam and that's all I got for now.  Good luck in all your ventures and I'll see you in the next one!


Kam

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