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The 3 Assassins of Personal Vision – Distraction, Fear and Doubt

The last few days its feels I’ve been surrounded by a feeling of doubt and uncertainty relating to my ideas and personal vision.

This has led me to ask the questions:

1. Why do people give up on their Personal Vision?
2. What is the biggest killer?

Let me begin by sharing some insights into my own life.

I gave up a life as an employee in 2005, after realizing that my dreams, hopes and desires would never be fulfilled living an uninspired life.

Since then I have done a lot of soul searching while allowing my dreams to flourish and my inspired vision to take form, in order to make ends meet I have taken on some independent consultancy assignments but in the last 12 months I have been working hard to translate my vision from the imagined to something real.

Before starting out on this adventure I had no experience in business management , marketing, sales or product creation, these are all new skills that I am learning as I go along. I’ll be honest and admit that its been very hard work with one exception – I love what I’m doing, I’m inspired by a greater sense of purpose, and everyday I awake excited about what lies ahead.

But I’ve noticed certain thoughts and events can really slow me down and make me question whether I’m doing the right thing.

Early on in my quest I became aware that Distraction is my constant enemy, there are so many things that can cause a temporary distraction, whether it be email, telephone or just messing round on the Internet (looking for something that really isn’t that important).

When Distraction sets in, I lose focus, wasting good time and energy.

The answer was to remove all forms of Distraction from my environment and to set defined periods of the day in which to answer email and take phone calls. This has helped me overcome the majority of situations that this assassin operates.

Something to remember – Distraction cannot hurt you, it can only hope to take your attention elsewhere.

Next comes Fear - The “what if” scenarios and imagined negative future outcomes can seriously impact on personal motivation and belief. I’ve always been good at overcoming fear, my strategy is simple, I just do it anyway.

I have always found that Fear is nothing more than an assassin of illusion, just walk through it and the illusion will disappear.

But when Distraction and Fear fail to take you out of the picture then the head Ninja Assassin is called in, this assassin is called Doubt.

Doubt is subtle, it lurks in the corners of your mind, waiting for the opportunity to make you see how crazy you are. Doubt can hurt you because it niggles you, it makes you question your purpose, it makes you question your conviction.

If you don’t have the self-confidence and belief to overcome the feelings of Doubt you will likely ditch your personal vision and go back to the uninspired life you left behind.

I now believe that these 3 assassins are there to teach you, not hold you back, your belief in yourself and your personal vision is fundamental to meet with success, and your belief can be strengthened to new levels by overcoming these assassins.

When your belief becomes the ultimate fighting champion you have within you the power to achieve great things.

I say “welcome the assassins”, bring it on, my belief and conviction is withstanding.

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