{"id":94,"date":"2012-03-24T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T10:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2012-03-18T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T13:02:07","slug":"hurdles-are-hardest-near-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/hurdles-are-hardest-near-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurdles are Hardest near the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are burning desires and goals in most people&#8217;s lives. Most people even make efforts to achieve them. If you look at the success <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/usa100hdevershit1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/>statistics, though, there&#8217;s a big drop off between those who start out to realise their goals and those who actually make it to living them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a universal law that the more strongly you want something, the more strongly you&#8217;re tested on how badly you really do want it. Little things you don&#8217;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&#8217;s pretty much a 100% chance that there&#8217;ll be not just one, but several obstacles in the way of you getting them. And not only that, but they&#8217;re likely to be real doozies!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching this pattern in my own life now for some time. Some things I&#8217;ve achieved, some things I haven&#8217;t. Nearly all of them I&#8217;ve had to fight for, and the bigger ones I&#8217;ve had to fight real hard to realise. I have no way of knowing which of the ones I didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I started to imagine what my life would look like on those important issues if I had. You wouldn&#8217;t be getting this ezine. My book wouldn&#8217;t be done. My job would be filled by someone else. Come to think of it, my website wouldn&#8217;t even exist!!! I&#8217;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&#8230; Not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at it that way, I&#8217;m suddenly glad I&#8217;ve been through some tough times. There&#8217;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&#8217;m chasing another dream of mine &#8211; 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&#8217;s not going to come to me. I&#8217;m looking forward to those difficulties just to show I&#8217;m serious about how badly I want it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how changing your frame of reference can make things so much easier to face, isn&#8217;t it? What&#8217;s standing in the way of your dearest dreams right now? Is it something really big, because there&#8217;s something amazing and wonderful just the other side &#8211; and if it is why not just take that next hurdle? You never know, it might just be the last one!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are burning desires and goals in most people&#8217;s lives. Most people even make efforts to achieve them. If you look at the success statistics, though, there&#8217;s a big drop off between those who start out to realise their goals &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/hurdles-are-hardest-near-the-finish-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/million-dollar-self-esteem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}