Sometimes when I talk to people about their progress in achieving their goals they will say that they seem to take two steps forward and one step back. If you are one of those people it is time for you to learn a new way of moving, like say two steps forward and no steps back.
How do you do that? I know that this will sound funny to some of you but you do that by discontinuing your practice of blaming anyone or anything for what happens to you, including yourself. Blaming only causes anger, anger causes you to move backward-it’s that simple.
Monitor yourself for a day or two; are you impatient? Do you have a ‘short fuse’? How many times do you feel frustration, anger or upset in a typical day? No matter how much personal development you are doing in a day, if you are holding onto anger nothing else matters.
When I tell this to people they sometimes say, ‘You don’t understand who I have to deal with’ or “It’s not my fault the economy is bad’ or ‘Well, you don’t know what he/she did!’ I don’t have to know because it doesn’t matter, anger even justified anger hurts you not who or what you are angry about. This doesn’t mean that you never allow yourself to feel anger, it means you limit the time you feel angry, you forgive, let it go and move on. You don’t do it for others, you do it for yourself. It doesn’t mean you forget but it does mean that you let the passion around the incident fade until it doesn’t burn you because it is never going to burn anyone or anything except you. And I am certain that you are not taking the time to read, listen to or watch personal development material and then not put any of it into practice-what would be the point?
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