Get what you want. (Photo: Andii.)
Since as humans, most of us get what we need, food, shelter, we desire even more. I’m sure most everyone has been to a point where you had a desire you wanted so much, it hurt. It could be that girl or boy you were in love with or that car, or that house, or that lifestyle.
There are many different ways to fulfill desires. One of my favorites is changing what YOU desire, instead of wanting the world to change your circumstances and giving you your desire. This is the guaranteed way to get what you desire as a vagabond. I’ll write more about this method later.
Though another favorite of mine is making the acquiring of desire inevitable. We will get what we want no matter what. By making it so we will get whatever we want because we set it up this way.
Here is an example a lot of guys or gals are able to relate to.
Your desire might be love. Maybe for a long time you haven’t had love in your life for whatever various reasons. Maybe you stayed home too long, subconsciously set yourself up for failure through your mindset when you met new people.
What if you started to go out and meet a lot of people in areas you wanted to meet new people such as libraries, bookstores, religious events, college, and other related areas? Before you go out and do this, you look at what you have done wrong to repel other people and fix those items. You start to dress well, have a better attitude, and believe you would find love.
Would your results be different?
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein
Making Success Inevitable
My previous roommate and I shared similar ideas in a lot of ways, though in one way we were strikingly different.
One night we were talking for hours about a lot of things over some drinks, from our personal plans, events in our lives, philosophies about people, and personal responsibility.
I understand why we were different, something I learned while selling books door to door in Florence, Alabama (Lauderdale County), in the country. We were taught this by our mentors and in sales school.
“We are who we are going to be for the rest of our lives after college or high school, except for two things, the people we meet and the books we read.” Yanik Silver goes on to add experiences in our lives is another changing factor to this list in a recent blog post of his.
I would talk about making results in our lives inevitable and he would tell me in statistics, nothing can be inevitable, there is always a chance for failure though he says we can increase likely hood of success.
For those who may not understand what I mean by inevitable, from dictionary.com it means 1.unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion or 2. sure to occur, happen, or come; unalterable: The inevitable end of human life is death. Meaning, making an event happen no matter what.
I understand why a teacher would say statistically blah blah blah has a percent to not occur and why others would believe it. This goes along with the belief, key word belief, seeing is believing. To me, this is a very limiting belief because it says we must believe everything we see.
Some people fail at a business and say it is impossible to be successful, while another person can do the same business and be insanely successful.
Example, a gold miner who stopped digging 3 feet from gold and sold the land to another who hired an expert help to find the gold vein in 3 feet.
Another great example is Henry Ford and the V8 engine. He tasked his engineers to create the V8 engine. They said it was impossible, Ford said to go on. After failures, they told him it was still impossible. Ford said to go on. Again, those engineers failed and told Ford again, it was impossible. Ford said go on. The V8 engine was created. The engineers saw their failures and believed it was impossible. Ford believed it was possible, and saw it.
I remember a recent example I read about, a blogger blogged and attracted a lot of daily traffic (6,200+ a day) and didn’t make very much money off of Google AdSense. Guy Kawasaki’s earned $3,350 AdSense earnings on 2,436,117 page views in a year.
Yes, Guy did make very little money in proportion to his page views, and maybe people will say blogging will not earn money because Guy didn’t earn much money. This is if we believe, seeing is believing.
Though what about the many bloggers who earn more than Guy with a lot less views? There are bloggers who earn 6 figures or more a year from their blogs, while not all AdSense, some earn a lot more from AdSense than Guy.
People have envisioned amazing things and they become true while other say they were impossible. Some of these same people still say it is impossible AFTER seeing it possible. Run as fast as you can from these people, they are very toxic.
Who is wrong, the one saying something is impossible or the person making the impossible possible by believing it is possible? I don’t think either person is wrong (even though I’m bias for the 2nd reasoning), they are just different ways to think.
One limiting and the latter removes limits from us.
Lets try this way of thinking on for now. Believing is Seeing. What we believe, we will see. Look at your desires as a vagabond, believe them, and you will see them, just like I have.
Posted on January 12th, 2010.
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Let our actions determine our feelings.And those who believe in love are PROBABIY gonna get it. Carnegie ,from one of his books,puts a list of facts that really affect marriage life.The first one, sex, then values,ways of spending leisure time,money…
Believing is seeing…well, that’s just like what we’ve been told all of our lives as children…if you can dream it, you can do it…dreams aren’t reality, but if you believe it to be possible you can make your dreams come true ha! You’re the only vagabond I know and I can’t get enough of your blogs…keep em comin’!
Dreams are reality if you believe it! So yes, it does come true if you believe it.
Such dreams such as a hero saving you. Dreams are sometimes desires. Believe the desires will happen and they will come true.
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