Summertime
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Summer is the time to nurture and protect. Spring is the time to plant your seed, to make a decision and start doing the work. Now that you are on your way you will be tempted to get back to your old habits. You will be tested at all times! By yourself, by your friends, by the weather, by everything around you! You will hear a lot “What you are trying to do is too hard! You won’t be able to do it!” or “Why try so hard? Lets just relax and have some fun like we used to!”. These are the bugs and weeds of life! They are there to destroy what you just planted! You have to guard yourself against them, you have to protect your garden, your crop! Nurture and Protect!
In Spring you planted. Very well! You are already ahead of many others like you! But if you don’t protect your crop, it will be devastated by these bugs and weeds! Now is the time to persevere, to say no to the parties, say no to nights out with friends, say no to staying at home chilling on the couch! “Lets go out for drinks!” “No!!”, “Why not?!”, “I got work to do! I have a goal to achieve! I’m in the process of changing my life!”!
If you really want to do this and are determined to change your life, I gotta tell you, it’s gonna be hard! If you want to change your circumstances you have to change a lot of things in your life, you’ll gonna need to change your thoughts, you behaviours, your habits, you might need to change your location, your work place, even your friends! Yes! Your friends! When you start seeing results, your friends might think that now that you are in a different “level” you don’t care about them no more…but let me tell you, you don’t have to feel bad about this! If they stayed behind that was their choice! You already know, everybody has the same opportunities, many others did it, they went from rags to riches! If your friends are still where they were years ago and you are not, that is their choice, they choose to ignore their individual abilities, their unique potential! And you don’t have to feel bad about it!
Now, in the Summer, is the time to persevere, so that in the Fall you can reap the rewards! So be strong, stay away from every temptation, get used to saying “no” and you will see that soon, when you least expect, you will start seeing the results! It is already working with me! For months that I don’t go out to have fun and now, when I was about to be forced to move back to my parents house … offers start coming in! I even have to turn some of them down! I am being paid like I’ve never been paid before, I am doing a really interesting job, I was blessed with a golden opportunity here! But this job that I have now is not my end goal, it is just a means to an end. I look at it as something to develop my skills and add a few other new skills to my repertoire! And I also now that I can’t miss this opportunity!
As I am writing this article, it is now 00:55 am, I just came from a dinner with a client, I’m tired, I have to wake up early in the morning, I am a bit tipsy, but I know … that I can’t rest without doing what I have to do! I want to go to bed, my body is tempting me, but I know I have to take care of my garden! And I hope you to can be equally strong … and if you are not, if you decided to go to bed without doing what you are suppost to do, if you broke the commitment you have with yourself, I will let you go to bed with this tought in mind…