You are the architect of a goal that you are passionate about. You have just designed the most beautiful structure you have ever seen. It has consumed your waking and sleeping hours for months now. It is your baby and you can see it, taste it, almost touch it, but your contractor doesnt believe that he can build it. It is too fantastic he says and out of his league. There is no way that a building like that could maintain its integrity built on a slope like that. How can you even get men over there when there is no road or bridge? It is impossible to build it the way you want. Can you change it? Make it less grand? No said the architect, I want it this way. This is what I want and I can see it. I have been dreaming about this for so long and it consumes me. I know that it is possible. Please trust me. It can be done. I dont think so said the contractor, and this went back and forth for many weeks. Now they are both stuck. What should the architect do? What would you do? Do you hire a new contractor, someone who willing to take a risk and build something they have never done before? Would you be able to trust them? OR, would you reduce the vision like the first contractor said, and stay with him? Most folks respond adamantly that they would hire a contractor who is willing to work with them and give them what they want. Says K I would find an architect that caught fire with my vision and wanted to dialogue about it and co-create it with me. I would look for someone who had the absolute passion and enthusiasm that I did for what I was doing. How about you? Do you have your answer? What if I told you that YOU were the architect? Oh, and you are the contractor too. Every day millions of people just like you have dreams and goals and desires that their very own architect designs for them, and every day they set that dream aside because their contractor says NO, its not possible!! Why are you so adamant that you would find someone to give you what you really want,when every day you smother your real passion to start a business of your own. Your dream of becoming a full time painter or the author of published a book lies unfulfilled? Dont let your dreams die or be diluted when you can have it all. There is an old Native American Proverb and it goes like this, I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy ... myself. - anonymous Native American Proverb Now that you recognize the war inside, why dont you let your architect win a round and see where it takes you? If you have a passion for something that consumes you than dont let anything or anyone get in your way of achieving your goal. Even yourself. Can you think of something that you can do right now to help you align yourself with your vision? How could you mediate between your architect and your contractor to get working on your goal? What ACTION could you take to start breaking ground on your dream? I specialize in the impossible. People tell me all the time that I make things seem easy and do-able. I have thought about this long and hard and figured out why. It is because I believe. I believe I can do something so I can. So can you. Let me ask you again..What would you do if it were you? |
