There are burning desires and goals in most people’s lives. Most people even make efforts to achieve them. If you look at the success statistics, though, there’s a big drop off between those who start out to realise their goals and those who actually make it to living them.

Why?

It seems to be a universal law that the more strongly you want something, the more strongly you’re tested on how badly you really do want it. Little things you don’t really care much about, not much seems to stand in the way of them. Big things that could make a life or death difference to you, there’s pretty much a 100% chance that there’ll be not just one, but several obstacles in the way of you getting them. And not only that, but they’re likely to be real doozies!

I’ve been watching this pattern in my own life now for some time. Some things I’ve achieved, some things I haven’t. Nearly all of them I’ve had to fight for, and the bigger ones I’ve had to fight real hard to realise. I have no way of knowing which of the ones I didn’t get were just around the corner, or over the next hurdle, at the time I gave up and decided to move on to something else, like a quote I read somewhere that there are so many people who never knew how close they were to their goals at the time they gave up chasing them.

I started to imagine what my life would look like on those important issues if I had. You wouldn’t be getting this ezine. My book wouldn’t be done. My job would be filled by someone else. Come to think of it, my website wouldn’t even exist!!! I’d probably be going day by day through the motions, waiting for the weekend then spending it dreading the next week, if I even had a job at all… Not a pretty picture.

Looking at it that way, I’m suddenly glad I’ve been through some tough times. There’s a lot to be grateful for in my life, and having had to fight for it makes it just that much more worthwhile. Now, I’m chasing another dream of mine – involving a promotion at work. I know there are going to be obstacles, because this will put me into the category of people who are doing 100% of what they love at work, if I manage to get it. But if I never chase it, it’s not going to come to me. I’m looking forward to those difficulties just to show I’m serious about how badly I want it.

It’s amazing how changing your frame of reference can make things so much easier to face, isn’t it? What’s standing in the way of your dearest dreams right now? Is it something really big, because there’s something amazing and wonderful just the other side – and if it is why not just take that next hurdle? You never know, it might just be the last one!