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Trading-In

Last year in 2011 I set a goal to be on the first page of Google. I not only made the first page I am ranked at number one, at least when I checked it recently. Then I checked Yahoo and discovered that I was number three on the first page. But therein lays another catch because when I left Yahoo and searched on the same terms later I was nowhere to be found. But then when I searched Yahoo again, I was at number one. So sometimes I'm there and sometimes I'm not. Ouch. Such is the mystery of search engines. However with Google I have been pretty constant – at the top.

Now this may not seem like much but on Google I was number one out of 72,000,000 hits. That’s a big deal and it’s important, very important. Why? Because it proves that goal setting works, universal laws work, and good old fashion faith works, which is one of the subjects I write about.

Now will anybody look for self improvement and politics? That is a completely different question and matter. I don’t know but if they do I’ll be there. I may not stay at number one (I’ll continue working to be there) but I’m confident I will remain on the first page.

I know it seems like I’m tooting my own horn, and to be honest I am. But I know this event would never have happen if I didn’t practice what I talk about. By maintaining a consistent effort I achieved this part of my overall objective. So it’s a start and one that I am determined to keep working at because I believe that we, each of us, can be better than we ever thought possible. It took me 60 years to get to this point but I know that I am on my way to fulfilling my goal. And when I reach my goal then what? Simple, I’ll just keep climbing.

Reaching goals is one of the hardest things a person can do. This task requires a steadfast effort on our part and that effort is often side-tracked, filled with obstacles, often disappointing, and just plain difficult to attain. This is why I always gave up because I hit a small speed bump in the road and concluded it was to difficult to continue. That is until now.

So what happened, what happened to me? What events transpired over the last year which landed my website in the number one spot on Google? The answer – I happened. I decided to change myself and that decision is altering my life.

The majority of us grow up never learning how to set and achieve a goal. We go through life bumping our heads against the proverbial wall and we occasionally get “lucky.” That luck can be winning the lottery or getting a great deal on a new car. When the “lucky” break happens to us we can’t believe it because we were raised with negative values, hence we never believe that our “luck” will hold. Such was my life and if you are reading these words, it was, and is, probably your life as well.

It’s not that our parents deliberately (at least in most cases) decided to keep us down but rather they felt the need to protect us. Much like government today wants to protect us from ourselves. Taking a risk and getting hurt goes against a parents better judgment (like liberalism today), hence we were never taught to succeed at life (after all success is only for those with the proper Ivy League education).

I, like millions of others went through high school and college, and was never taught how to set and achieve a goal, I had to learn that concept on my own. I have come to believe that I was cheated in my education because of this issue. Maybe my life would have been different if I had been taught how to set and achieve goals, but woulda, coulda, shoulda doesn’t change the past, or the present.

For decades I lived from paycheck-to-paycheck and I always had, and have, too much month left at the end of the money. So one day I began to ask myself some questions, serious questions. One being: Why am I allowing myself to live in this condition? The key words being “allowing myself.”

That question, that concept started me on the journey I find myself on today. Thus I began to formulate a plan and do something I had never done before: set and achieve real goals.

Now I have read numerous books and articles on how to set and achieve goals and I discovered that setting goals is easy, but the attainment is… not so easy. Then I learned the effort I was engaged in was not goal setting but rather “wish” setting. I was wishing for my life to get better but it wasn’t and I was constantly discouraged. In some ways I still am yet with the revelation of the Google search that discouragement is turning into motivation.

To be sure the path has been slow and filled with discouragement. There were, and still remain, times I just want to quit. Until now I have never seen any indication that I was making progress, and my discouragement level was, and sometimes still is, indescribable. But I continue on, watching and working so as not to end up on the rocks of destruction. That Italian cruise liner that now lays on its side is a stark reminder of my life. One little slip, one mistake can shipwreck me on my own reef. I cannot, I will not allow that to happen. Hence commitment and steadfastness is the order of my day, because I intend to change my life... correction, I intend to trade-in my old life for a new model, one that contains a great payday.

And you can change your life if you so desire, your old life for a new one. As I said it’s not easy and this trade-in requires commitment and dedication on your part. So my question to you is instead of allowing yourself to live in a rut of despair and misery shouldn’t you allow yourself the opportunity at a real life?

I took the step and I’m changing my life for the better. A decision I have not regretted. I challenge you to do the same.

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