The race is won from the barn. Long before it’s time to take my horse to a competition, long before we load on a trailer and go to an event, long before we are before the fences. Success begins in the barns of our daily existence. Relationships for successful endeavors begin in trust. Trust that you yourself can learn. Trust that you can have your needs met. Trust that when you work hard, you’ll be rewarded. You see my horse knows that I am trustable. I’ve had over fifty years experience making sure my friends are fed, exercised, taught, rewarded, and can trust me. You see, when its time to compete, the exercise is simply the dressier public version of what we do consistently.
Are you ready to run your race? To change realms, create a second or third act? Success is not a destination its a series of decisions that involve taking actions. Just as there is a daily feed time in my barn, there needs to be a daily feed time of your learning and facilitating your dream. You will become more excited, more informed, and more comfortable with your identified dream as you daily spend time visualizing it, sharing it with your team, saying your next steps out loud. When we identify and know the steps of our race, we become better able to run it. Do you know what is needed? Do you know what your role is? Do you know why your clients or consumers need your product line or why your opportunity is an amazing one for them? Just as my horse knows what to expect, what is expected, and that it can depend on me, have you defined for yourself that you can depend on you? What we tell ourselves about what is new or unfamiliar is important. Do you allow yourself time to walk the course before you expect yourself to jump in and run? Do you spend time with others who are where you seek to be so that you have a dynamic understanding of the life you are creating? How are you preparing for your daily work at your space? Do you have a space? Do you plan for time to connect to others on the phone or computer? When do you connect to potential team members, customers, or cohorts?
Is it time to run your race? Are you doing the preparations to know you can cross the next finish line and the next and the next? My horse knows that long before I ask for us to ride and jump fences, we’ve so been in the habit of successful practice that event day is a celebration of our usual daily work. Our business begins in the barn with consistent expectations of each other. Our relationship is solid because we each know our roles. Our success is growing because we understand why we do each action we do with one another and we each have great pleasure in together running our field. Is it time to build your business in your own barn? Is it time to identify the daily actions that build trust of yourself and trust from others. Is it time to exercise and practice your abilities? Are you ready to walk your course and become familiar with your finish lines so that as you are ready to run your next race you’ll not only be familiar, but you’ll have already rehearsed the win so much that when you do win, it will be as though it was simply another day of practice. The practice of winning in life begins with deciding the events and the experiences that matter to you and living them daily….today!
Are you limiting your options based on your experience? Each of us make decisions based on the options we are familiar with from our experiences or the experience of others we trust. Makes sense doesn’t it. We think through what has happened in the past, or from stories we’ve heard that happened to others, and we often replay in our minds what has happened in our own past. However, what we sometimes fail to do is to research and ask questions of others about what options they have experienced, that we could learn from.
