Hitting Your Goal - A Funny Story to Make a Point

There before me about 40 yards ahead appeared the carcass of a dead dog in my traffic lane. Not a really big one, but big enough that I sure didn't want to hit it. All I had to do was swerve to the right or to the left just a little bit to miss it completely. I had plenty of time.

So with a laser focus on the carcass looming just ahead, my mind told my body to move over just a tad so I would miss it, and avoid possibly going air born. But no matter how hard I tried; no matter how much I wanted to lean a little to left or a little to the right I COULD NOT DO IT!

And so I ran over the carcass just as smooth and clean as you please. I did not go air born thankfully. I didn't wipe out as I feared. But the adrenaline was really pumping, I can tell you that. And when we all reached our destination I was in for some teasing. One of my friends asked me, ‘So I guess you figured that dog wasn't dead enough?'

I thought about this incident for a while, wondering why couldn't I have avoided hitting that carcass? I really wanted to! I finally came to the conclusion that the reason my body would not respond to my demands to move over was because I had a laser focus on that object. I'll bet I didn't even blink! I mean my eyes were riveted on that dead dog in the road ahead. And with such focus and intensity, my body ignored my verbal demands and followed my visual focus. Right over that dead dog in the road.

Now when I think of some goal I really, really want, I know exactly what I have to do to get it or achieve it. I just have to put a laser focus on it. Keep my eyes on it and don't blink. That way every little decision I make throughout my day brings me one step closer to my goal.

If you have a laser focus on your goal, there is no way on earth you cannot NOT be successful in reaching that goal. That focus will carry you to your goal as surely as it carried me right up and over that poor dead dog!

I have a laser focus on my goals in real estate. There is no doubt in my mind I will arrive at my goals and be successful. I have defined specific milestones and continue to learn and hone the tools of my trade.

I read a blog here on ActiveRain yesterday about one of the members and how he ‘eats, drinks and sleeps' real estate (proclaimed by his wife).

Now that's what I'm talking about!