Are you still running with your New Year Resolutions and Goals or have you abandoned it the same way you did last year, with a mental note to go at it again next year? Do you even still remember what the resolutions are?
Here is John Maxwell’s explanation in an excerpt
from his book, 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth:
“When I was a kid, one of my father’s favourite riddles to us went like
this: Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are
left?
As you go through life and come across its attendant highs and lows, you can either associate your experiences; the successes and/or failures, to factors you have control over or to forces outside your control. Whichever disposition you choose has a direct influence on your long-term success or failure.
Everything we do is driven by something. Some of our actions are driven by love. Some are driven by hate. Money is also a powerful driver. Some people also act based on their religious sentiments.
I was recently reminded of another powerful driver, Fear. Having the opportunity to meet with a lot of people from different walks of life on a daily basis, I peer into the psychological depths of many of them and see all kinds of emotions on their faces. One thing that is constantly reoccurring and almost impossible to ignore is Fear. These faces are adult faces, so the fear I see is not fear of the dark or of monsters. It is a fear that paralyzes us to act.
