Time Is Not What You Think It Is

I Remember when Dr. Wayne Dyer’s power of intention, the secret, the Law of attraction, etc. really took off and became mainstream several years ago. Oprah and millions of people worldwide started believing that they could create their own reality just by their thoughts, intentions and feelings of desire. You could simply intend, and a BMW would magically appear in your driveway. Me being the entrepreneur that I am and learning something new, of course I had to try it out to see how it worked. I believed in it 100%, well maybe 99%. My friends who were also very successful, had been through a lot of the same personal growth training as I had: Tony Robbins, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Jim Rohn, Zig Zigler, Marianne Williamson, a course in miracles, power versus force, quantum physics, Greg Braden, etc. So it’s basically a leap of faith. Diving off the highest level diving board and trusting that there is going to be water in the bottom of the pool by the time you get there. It doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes you go splat. The thing that I have learned the most over the past five years since I became a full-time life coach, and real estate and investing in real estate became a part-time hobby, is time is not what you think it is. Let me explain what I mean. I think one of the biggest discouraging things, or should I say obstacles that gets in people’s way as they’re striving to succeed, is they’re focusing on how long it’s going to take to get to where they want to be. It’s like we put these time constraints on how long it’s going to take to get to our goals. When things don’t happen, or we don’t perceive that they are happening fast enough, we throw our hands up, want to quit and give up on pursuing our dreams. We try to find something that will bring us instant gratification. Maybe it’s a different job, or a different girlfriend, or buying a new car, or…