Difference Makers Burn with Desire

Can you imagine having within you a goal which is so profoundly intense that it forces you to push yourself beyond the boundaries that you have lived within your entire life? Once you do this, then you have witnessed the Burning Desire necessary to achieve your goals. And when you live from your Burning Desire you will be able to be a difference maker.

I can help you take steps towards the dreams and goals you have always wanted. I know many of you have tried and tried again to set goals, then reset them, only to continue to fail. You become frustrated with the goal and then discontinue trying. You Give Up.

If you are able to examine your past and how you have developed to this point in your life, then you will be able to grow and actually change your current belief system, which in turn will help you stretch and become the best that you can be. It seems utterly ridiculous to some people that a Burning Desire needs to be explained at all. Then, there are those who do not have the slightest inkling of what it means to truly experience a Burning Desire.

So what is the nature of a Burning Desire? A Burning Desire is that moment when you sense a powerful feeling inside of you which screams that you NEED to accomplish a goal, that you NEED to have your goal, and that you NEED to do whatever it takes to reach your goal. Your need is so deeply intense that it actually hurts. It could be butterflies, an upset stomach, an ache in your heart, or any other feeling that tells you, "WOW! I really need this ..." That is your Burning Desire.

Sometimes people mistake this feeling for anxiety and believe that perhaps their goal is simply too steep of a challenge or that perhaps it is too much of a stretch, but remember one statement that you will see repeated often in my writing: Napoleon Hill said, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Indeed, this means that your path could become a very difficult and rough road before you finally embrace the light at the end of the tunnel, but if the goal means something supremely important to you, if you really want to be a difference maker, then you will be able to find the strength and conviction to be able to give up a season for the rest of your life.

I will talk more about goals later, but for now let's say that your Burning Desire can be anything from a goal that is tangible such as a particularly beautiful car, a grandiose home that you passed by or walked through, or a fabulous piece of clothing that you would "die" for. I realize you might take that statement on face value and believe that there should not be any "tangible" goal that is worth that much. You have to understand that it is usually not the tangible goal which matters but rather the key is what that goal represents. I hope that you are able to fully understand what I mean by that statement. If you are reading this, hopefully you consider yourself an achiever and maybe even a high achiever and truly want to make a difference in your life and the world around you.

Personal Journey

Allow me to give you a little personal background. When it comes to taking action the best way I can share my thoughts and feelings is to share with you my life experiences.

I hope you can see yourself in my story. I have been fortunate to live a life full of experiences. Some are positive and some are not so positive. In fact, some are darn right negative no matter how much of a positive twist you want to put on them. I like to say that life will throw curve balls at us once in a while. At times we might even feel as though we are being knocked out of the batters box, but that is when we need to dig our heals in and slug one out of the park.

Well, I had come to that situation after a lot of success in the home building industry. I happened to be raised on construction sites. Not sure how my dad did it, but he had me working with him at an early age. I am serious when I say an early age. I remember being just old enough to have him help me crawl into the pickup truck and I would follow him around. Even employees at the lumber yards and other suppliers would know me and offer me candy or a drink and ask me what I want to be when I grow up. At the age of 4 or 5 I obviously wanted to be a General Contractor just like my dad.

As I look back, I believe that this is where I might have started being a dreamer. I enjoyed helping my dad start with a field full of weeds, trees, and other vegetation and within a few months, there sat a beautiful home that we had built. This was in the Midwest so it was hot and humid in the summer or cold and wet in the winter. We built a lot of our homes on the shores of Lake Erie. This is where my dad taught me the meaning of hard work and not to ever stop until the job was finished. We would even get into trouble with my mom because of getting home too late for dinner, but we had a job to do and we went home when our task for the day was finished, not before.

How many employees will leave at the very minute they are supposed to "clock out?" Actually most will begin to pick up and have everything in place to leave the minute their time is up. You might be saying that is what they should do. After all, they only get paid a certain number of hours and most companies are not paying overtime with the current economy. That is my point.

Anyone who has had a lot of success has committed time and energy doing more than what was expected. You make a living from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and you get ahead from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm as I mentioned earlier. Not many people are willing to pay the price of success.

We could get into the definition of success, and in fact, that could be an entire book. I am sure there has been many books written on the topic of the definition of success. I will make a brief statement at this point to define my definition of success so you can feel and know where I am coming from. My definition of success is this. Doing What You Want To Do, When You Want To Do It. This will never happen unless you truly have a desire to accomplish whatever it is for you. This is what I call the "Burning Desire." Just like I have mentioned earlier, most highly successful people have had to pay a price.

If you are reading this book I will assume you are not average and are interested in becoming more successful than making an hourly wage from a J.O.B. It is likely you are interested in building success for you, not for an employer. I have never met anyone who became financially secure working for someone else and only doing their minimum job description. Even in the business world, what do they do when they find someone who is willing to work harder than their piers? They give them a title and put them on salary. What a salary does is allow the business owner to make you work more without a concern of paying you overtime. Every company or employer I have met requires or expect their salary people to work beyond a 40 hour work week.

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