Life and work is filled with hard stuff.
The call you don't want to make.
The conversation you don't want to have.
The client you need to fire.
Doing the hard stuff is what separates the big boys and girls from the sissies.
Remember what Eleanor Roosevelt said, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
What's the hard stuff you're facing this week?
Make the list.
Then, do the hard stuff.
- Ramon Williamson
Want to know the secret to having everything you want in life?
I learned it years ago from motivational speaking legend Zig Ziglar:
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
It really is that simple.
Make a list of the 10 people you can help this week.
Now, go help them.
- Ramon Williamson, the Motivational Speaker
Growing up, I remember hearing my mama say, "I'm getting to the end of my rope."
I didn't really know what that mean at the time. I do now.
I must have been a handful.
Everyone has a tipping point.
And, it's not reaching it that matters, its what you do when you get there.
I like what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
I'm glad my mama did, you can too.
- Ramon Williamson, the Motivational Speaker
If you've read my book, Six Simple Things That Can Change Your Life, you know the quote "focus on completion, not perfection."
What you may not know is that perfection keep the book on my to-do list for years.
Too many of us, including me, get stopped by the need to make it perfect.
The project takes twice as long.
The product ships 90 days late.
Some of our brightest ideas and best work never sees the light of day.
The French Romantic Eugene Delacroix understood it, “the artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
Focus on completion, not perfection.
- Ramon Williamson, the Motivational Speaker
My experience and observation in life is that the moment you decide what it is you want to do, what shows up is exactly what's keeping you from having it.
And most often, what shows up is YOU.
Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist said it well, "it is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
- Ramon Williamson