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Are You Making It in Life -- or Doing Something Better?
I got an email the other day from Mike Kemski. It got me thinking so much that I just had to share it.

Mike is the creator of BANABU, an excellent personal growth program that has helped me a lot. He's a pretty cool guy with a great sense of humor. He talked about going out for lunch recently with a very successful friend. As often happens with Mike, their lunch devolved into a hilarious misadventure.

But something significant came out of it.

The conversation turned a little more serious. Mike's highly successful friend started talking about less trivial obstacles he faced.

Seems that success has not insulated him from obstacles. In fact, success is directly responsible for throwing MORE obstacles in his path than most people experience.

So if he gets so many more obstacles, why is he successful?

I'll let Mike tell you in his own words:

"The only difference from the people who make it and the people who don't
is that the people who make it look forward to and expect that to happen and the
people who don't think they have 'made it' when they figure one thing out.

"The people who make it (and this applies to life in general) are the ones
who spend the time and effort to master and figure that first thing out for the
sole reason being to expose the next thing.

"They know that you 'never' get it done and that you only evolve what is
there into the next phase or level so you can choose the next fork in the
road.

"While people who don't make it are trying to get it done so they can
stop!

"... you must always continue to learn and grow and I think along with that
should be you must always expect and have the mind set that the actions you take
today to figure out or solve a problem are really the first steps to creating
more problems, challenges, and obstacles in the future.

"Because by doing that you always have what you need in your life TO
continue to learn and grow."

I've found that to be so true. We look for a destination. We look to arrive at a place where everything is perfectly at peace and nothing can possibly cause us discomfort or uncertainty.

But that destination doesn't exist. As another favorite person of mine, Jim Edwards, says: "Success doesn't rid your life of problems; it simply gives you the right to deal with more interesting ones."

It's like with a video game. You beat all the obstacles in one level and you advance to the next one. That next level is more challenging -- more interesting -- than the last. You get a deeper sense of accomplishment the higher you go. But you never, ever come to the point where there's nothing left to overcome.

If you ever did reach the end of the highest level, would you keep playing just to bask in hours upon hours of wandering around whatever world it portrays, with no challenges? BOOORRING!

No, you'd move on to another game that you could challenge and conquer.

We simply aren't made to live the kind of safe and uneventful lives we think we're trying to find.

We're made to stretch our limits. We're made to become more than we already are. And when we attain that, we're made to become even more than we have become.

Don't get caught up in the search for a safe destination. Trust me. You wouldn't be happy there.
Jeff

P.S.
If you're ready to tackle becoming more than you already are head on, I know of no better tool to help than Mike's BANABU. Applying the eleven principles he teaches in it WILL change you on your deepest levels and help you to conquer the challenges that currently hold you back.

Are you up to the challenge? Then check BANABU out.

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