How To Win This Year: Be Willing

Over the holidays I was lucky enough to escape on a warm break with my husband to the gorgeous Dominican Republic. As an extrovert who can be a little over scheduled, I experienced some initial feelings of anxiety/displacement/unease on vacation (does anyone else ever feel this way, or am I nuts)!? And so I remedied this with a lot of reading. Ahhh... just me and my iPad with hours to read and no interruptions - it turned out to be bliss! Because my usual self-help books felt a little work-y, I downloaded Amy Schumer's book. And Andy Cohen's. And Anna Kendrick's. And I loved them all. I realized it had been so long since I had read any biographies that I forgot the major lessons that exist quietly within them. When you consume the hilarious words of a comic, the diaries of a TV show host and the stories of a child actress, you may think there'd be no commonalities at all. But there was one major commonality in these books. And it's not just found in these books of course. It's the same thread that is present in so many of the other books that I've read about people who've succeeded, the stories I've heard about people winning when the odds are against them and it's the quality that's present within the lives within of every single successful person I've met and coached. All people who achieve their dreams possess this one undramatic, unwavering and robust quality. They are willing to do what it takes. No exceptions. It struck me as a true "Aha!" moment and made me excit...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news