Getting What You Want:
The Short Course
by Kevin Hogan
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How to Become the Person of Your Aspirations
"What would you like to be when you grow up?" I bet you heard
this question asked many times when you were growing up. But
have you given this question any thought lately? Just because you and I
are grown is no reason for us to stop aspiring TO BE.
Different people have different aspirations.
So what's your aspiration?
Do you want to become a doctor?
(This is a great aspiration if you dig chemistry, biology, statistics, mathematics and anatomy)...now do you want to be a doctor? Does it still
"feel good?"
How about a lawyer, pilot, or
entertainer?
Or would you want to be like Tom Cruise or Bill Gates?
If you are 20, a budding Scientologist, damn good looking and have an in on the remake of Risky Business, you can be like Tom Cruise. If not...then maybe Bill Gates. If you are the world's great implementer and a person of amazing focus and team building, you could run this course.
By fitting your desires with your skills/future skills and aspirations, you can become pretty much anything you want to become.
But listen, you don't have to be a Bill Gates and shake the world. In fact it's a damn hard thing to be in the spotlight as Bill Gates is. People like Bill Gates work harder than you know. But people like Gates love their work!
It is their pride and joy!
There's a lot of people who have an aspiration of raising a beautiful healthy family and never remotely want to be in the newspapers.
All of the above 100% applies here.
How many people do you know that had children and you saw the results and wondered what they were thinking?
Aspiration meets skill meets joy meets dedication meets long-term (18 years in that case) meets reinvention at the cycle's end. Make sense?
OBVIOUSLY, there are a few limitations. The elderly
should stay out of the space program and the wheelchair
bound should avoid trying out for pro basketball. Let's never be
stupid and waste life on a pipe dream.
BUT most stuff is wide open out there. If someone
else can do it, just about anyone can do it.
You must have the desire and passion to know everything you can
about your next and ideally better life ahead..
If you can have a real person to emulate or
look up to, the better.
For example, you may see yourself as
Michael Jordan (for basketball), Mariah Carey (for singing), or
Heidi Klum (for modeling), your Mom (for being a great Mom...if she was!) One of those things you can do when no one else is around is "role playing."
Feel, talk, and act as if you're that
person you're emulating. You'll quickly acquire the behavior and
qualities of that person. If it seems cool, you have a base to start from. It SHOULD feel uncomfortable. This sequence works....sometimes too well.
Take motivated action and start making your aspirations real. Don't
wait for everything to be perfect. That will never happen. There
will always be bumps and obstacles ahead. The important thing is
to start right now and adjust along the way.
Persist until the very end. Never let failures distract you.
Failure does NOT MATTER.
Just keep moving yourself toward what YOU want. If you ever think that a
task seems impossible to accomplish, (like getting to the Expert setting on RockBand!) banish that thought immediately.
It's just a useless feeling. Dump it.
Your mind has the capacity to help you bring into reality
virtually anything you desire.
As long as you stay focused and patient on
your objective despite any setbacks or discouragements, you will
get what you want much sooner than you may think.
Powerful Ways To Fire Up The Obsession
It's so difficult to go on when everything seems to fail. I've been
there and so have you.
Are there times in your life when you really want to call
it "quits" because you just can't see any positive results from all
the hard work you've done?
Stop and breathe. That's NORMAL
Never ever think of giving up. The battle is never lost until you've abandoned your
aspiration.
But what if you're really exhausted physically, mentally and
most of all, emotionally?
Welcome to the real world. You were exhausted Pre-Aspiration!
You are currently doing what you don't want to do and don't feel like
you have the energy to do what you DO want to do.
Again, normal. BUT you MUST train yourself to overcome
this inertia. It's a LIFE eraser!
So, how do you make it simple?: Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 
Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
3432 Denmark #108
Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732
Photograph of Mariah Carey appears under license with PRPhotos.
