Just do IT

Recently I read a quote from Iyanla Vanzant. She has been pretty big for many years in the Self help and Spiritual books field, having been on Oprah countless times until they fell out over some issue or other. I also heard from many people that Ms.Vanzant frequents my country and got her start here. I would not be surprised. Anyway...she made a quote about the fact that you cannot succeed if your self-esteem cannot surpass a certain level. I thought that that was interesting, as I have encountered that. I have seen the way students and the like say things and cut themselves off from their best because of fear of the unknown. I remember most pointedly that I knew someone who said to me that they wanted to make a certain amount of money a month, I cannot recall how much it was now, so I will just average. They said let me say, $15,000. SO, ok, I say to them, alright, imagine that you can get that amount a month. Before I even go further, she amends it, she says, well, she's ok with $10,000. So I then ask her why she decided to reduce it that much? As I ask she goes down even more to $7,000. I was so dismayed by how quickly she whittled down her dream. On another front, I have a friend I spoke with last week who was telling me how upset and disappointed she was with someone she's close to, because they neglected to do something that she expected them to do. When I pressed her about it, and suggested that she too could have mentioned what was forgotten, she brushed it off and blamed the person for not being able to read her.That sort of logic is infuriating! I am more determined than ever to get a tape recorder and observe myself, because if I do one tenth of what people around me do, no wonder results are always so skewed? Why do we behave like that? What is it about wanting certain things and then talking ourselves out of it? I am here on this blog tonight to give myself a good scolding if needed. I am about to embark on two projects that I have never considered before, and I am nervous. But I am not facing out of either one. I am just mentioning my nerves becauseI am completely out of my comfort zone with what I am going to be doing soon. But I have to do it. I have to give myself a chance to diversify my skills and to achieve certain things next year comfortably, and I am certain that these two things will be very good for me. I have been seeing thins that I thought about being done by others, so I am confident that these two projects are things that will work well. Seeing those concepts from my past done in the ways they were done tell me that that proverbial belief that creative people reach into the heavenly space to literally drink from a cup of inspiration, is an excellent metaphor, because it sometimes does feel like that. If you don;t do certain things, someone else will do it. The beauty is that it won't look like your way, but it will be done and you can actually marvel at the prospect. Some of these old ideas happened to be as follows-: The baby bag/rocking/vibrating pillow idea. Two, the standing from a wheelchair prospect....I designed that idea a few weeks ago, so the person who came up with the prototype was obviously working on iy way longer than that idea popped into my head. There are a few others that do not come to mind as quickly to write down now...and I am being bombarded by some new ideas, like this afternoon, I was writing an article and reading from another one to get a reference, and I found that I should be able to literally swipe my finger across the quote from my Macbook and see it embed itself into my article on my I-Pad. I also find that everything on one machine should be automatically transferable to the other machine as a matter of course. So many times I have images on my I-pad and have to email them to my computer! Sheesh. it is about increments of minutes, yes, but I am already patient for newer and faster technology. I can't wait for when 3D technology happens naturally on a computer interface that will no longer have any screen because it would basically be hologram technology. The things we see today will one day be integrated together to make things even greater, and that is something that I am really looking forward to.