Do This. Get Rich!
I read a really cool book awhile back and I just recently pulled it off the shelf again for another go because I felt that I needed a little whack upside the head as far as my mental thinking goes. The book is called “Do This. Get Rich! ” by Jim Britt.
I don’t know if anyone else experiences this but I go through these serious bouts of self-doubt about the decision I have made as to what business direction I have chosen. Just yesterday I worked all day on the computer on trying to make a header graphic for one of my web-sites and at the end of the day I thought I had finally figured out how to create the damn thing and get it saved. Well, I had ordered more memory for the Dell PC that I own to upgrade that. I thought to myself, it can’t be too hard to install this. So I opened up the computer after finding a diagrahm online about how to to do it and installed the new memory chips. Turned the computer on and nothing. No picture on the monitor. The green lights would go on and the computer would start and then it would turn off.
When my husband came home he jumped on it and got on the phone with Dell and they had sent the wrong memory chips! So he proceeded to order the right ones and install the old ones back in and get the computer back online. Now mind you this is the only computer I can use the website building software XSitePro that I use so I kind of needed it.
Now this might sound stupid and girly, but when he was on the phone I started to make dinner and I just started to cry. I just let these tears roll down my face and said nothing. It lasted for about 10 minutes. I was crying because I felt like I had gotten absolutely nothing accomplished that whole day. I had been feeling this way for awhile and I was tired and just felt emotionally crappy. Now luckily I didn’t sit in it and wallow too long. I didn’t beat myself up or cut myself down. I told myself that stuff happens and I would get it done tomorrow.
I read the chapter in Jim Britt’s book this morning that is called “Manage Yourself”. It talks about being in control of every aspect of one’s life. He says that we create our own security through how we manage our actions and through the choices we make. Basically he says that we have all been programmed to believe that security lies outside us ,(which isn’t true). There are definately some days where I feel the path that I have taken, being an entrepreneur and not working for someone else is sooooo hard. I often feel that maybe it would be easier to get a job. Then I have to pick up books like these to get my head on straight.
He says ” Self-management starts by making the conscious choice to become the predominant force in your own life.” This really hit home because then he went on to say that “Victims show up thinking they are under the control of someone else’s choices, playing someone else’s game.”
He also says ” the first step to self-management is get on the playing field and the second is to realize that you are playing chess not checkers- you have endless moves (good to know for analytical people like me.) The third step is being willing to study all possible moves and make the right ones.”
Victims say “I have no choice” ; Winners say “What’s my next move?”
Well I am choosing to be at my computer today saying to myself, “What’s my next move?”
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