Ya gotta have Faith!
I was thinking a lot about “faith” and “fear” this morning. Both are such strong factors in whether or not you’ll be successful… we’ll talk about fear in another post, but today lets touch on faith.
Faith can be in yourself, faith in the universe or God… or even faith in your business process.
Faith is hard to get when you don’t have it.
Its also hard to ‘teach” people to have faith, but I’ve found you can be coached into having faith.
You could hire me as a personal coach, and we can exercise that faith muscle ’till its big and strong…
…or ask your spouse, a friend, a partner (make sure they support your project first) to be a faith coach or a cheerleader. When you ‘re down, they encourage you to keep plugging, when your confused they help you de-scramble the jigsaw puzzle etc…
Teach Faith
Ya know one ofthe best ways to become faithful… Coach others to have faith. Find someone that is down on themselves and Coach them, be their cheerleader. You’ll be amazed by whet you learn when you teach! I always learn from my Coaching Clients!
Sammy Hagar Teaches us Faith
In the immortal word sof Sammy Hagar in the song “Give To Live” :
” If you want faith, just believe a little.”
Just for a moment… suspend disbelief in yourself,your project and your company and imagine what it would be like to have your plan work…
When you look at the past, don’t focus on the down side… Ya know, all those stumbles and falls were just lessons.
My good friend Andy Jenkins of Stompernet tells me “there is no success or failure… only positive or negative test results”
My dear reader… life is a test, learn from it and then take action on what you have learned, tweak you attitude and actions based on the past results!
Sometimes it will be blind action, but have faith in the process, after all… babies have faith that they will one day walk like their Mom and Dad, and they keep trying until they get it right!
Learn from yesterday and move forward to day with fiath that you will have a test result by the end of the day!
Make it an unusual day!
John
You got it right, John. Everywhere you write faith, I can substitute the word “trust”. Do I trust/have faith in myself, in what I’m doing, in other people, in what they’re doing?
Coaching/mentoring is often just the boost many of us need to regain trust/faith. You’ve done that for me, for which I’m very appreciative. Thanks!