What controls you? Do you wake up each morning with a burning desire to get things done, with a thirst for progress, with goals? Do you immediately act on them? Does your passion guide you? Do you hold the keys to your success, and your destiny?
Or are you a victim?
Are you always sidetracked by things you can’t control? Do people barge in on your ability to think, to function? Are you unable to really get anything done?
One of the keys to any kind of success is the ability to have a sense of self-control, or self-motivation, that takes no prisoners, that shoots first, that gets things done and that refuses to take “no” for an answer. If someone tells a person with this type of attitude “no”, then they will just go to a different person until they finally get what they want.
The world doesn’t happen to a person like this- the person happens to the world. Sure, sometimes we encounter obstacles. Sometimes we get sidetracked and delayed. Sometimes plans fall through. There are no guarantees. But to a go-getter like this, there is a higher chance of success.
For someone who has a victim mentality, who allows him or herself to be inappropriately guided by outside controls, who shuts down when they encounter resistance, unless someone more powerful is in charge, and helping them- to that person, the world will be a locked door 99% of the time. The 1% who manage to find a big brother or big sister to do their work for them usually squander any rewards that come from the fruits of someone else’s labor.
What controls Chuck Norris? It’s simple: when Chuck Norris jumps into a river, he doesn’t get wet. THE WATER GETS CHUCK NORRIS.
How can I become like Chuck Norris? Get positive, and get to work!
-Ernest
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Awesome post. Good inspiration for all. At times I get frustrated by getting sidetracked. I used to even think the time I took to read blogs like this was in a way wasteful and pulling my focus from ‘work’. I now recognize the benefits that reading blogs such as this have in my day-to-day ‘work’. I sometimes plan them into my day or otherwise use them as a catapult of inspiration back toward I task I am procrastinating (the later is currently the case). While they might cover topics outside of what my day-to-day ‘work’ activites entail, blogs and other online media are about things that I am passionate about, from people I care about, or topics that make me a better person for knowing them. WWCND? What Would Chuck Norris Do? We can all benfit from those words. Thanks for the reminder, Ernest.
Hey Matt! Thanks for being the first tribe member to join the conversation on our new blog. We’re up to something here, and I’m excited about it. What you shared about sometimes feeling that interacting on blogs and social media are wasteful is a feeling I battle every day. It can often be such a gray area, now that the deck has been shuffled in this post-industrial age. But I totally agree with you on the notion of using blogs and other social media (I learn so much from the people I follow on Twitter) as a means to catapult yourself into inspiration. You have pretty much described my exact routine.
Here’s something I read on Techdirt about a week ago. When I saw your comment, my mind immediately went to this blog post: Yes, Twitter And Facebook Can Make People More Productive
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. So glad this blog could serve as a way for you to catapult yourself into inspiration.
Thanks for the Techdirt link. I am once again finding fodder to recharge for the afternoon!