Make Progress Now: Take the Hand Brakes Off Your Life!
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Make Progress Now: Take the Hand Brakes Off Your Life!
Do you find yourself striving upward in life yet making little or no progress?
Are you high on activity but low on achievement?
Very clearly, it’s time to stop, look and listen. You’re obviously not doing something right.
I’ll share with you something that happened to me recently. I believe it will help you understand my телефонные гарнитуры point.
I am an “Advanced Learner” driver. By now I shouldn’t still be wearing my learner plates, I guess I just love the fact that people clear out of the way when I’m coming, and clamour to help me at the slightest sign of driver-distress. Talk about loving thy neighbour!
Any way, I was driving up a steep hill Пылесосы Panasonic one bright Sunday morning when I noticed the car making some not-so-funny growling noises. Also, to my alarm, no matter how hard I stepped on the throttle, the car would not accelerate. It continued its belaboured, uphill climb, growling grudgingly as it went.
I made it some how to the top of the hill and pulled over to see what all the fuss was about.
As the smell of burning rubber reached my nose, my teenage son, sitting next to me exclaimed, “Mom, the hand brakes are on!”
I had been striving upward, making very little progress. I was “high on activity, but low on achievement.” Thank электронный переводчик God it occurred to me to “stop, look and listen.”
I had the hand brakes on the whole time; the trouble was entirely my fault! The strange part was that it took some one else to spot the problem. It could have taken me ages, and much further damage, to see it myself.
Albert Einstein is reported to have said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” Quite often in life we have the hand brakes on and don’t even know
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