You can always tell when people are working toward a Core Desire by the results they achieve. When they are working on a Core Desire, they are enjoying themselves and are determined not to quit until they achieve their heart’s desire. They are learning and doing the things they need to do to get what they want, even though they may get hurt, injured, or discouraged.
For example, two of my daughters love to snowboard. When they first hit the slopes, they fall down a lot. The next day they are so sore they can hardly walk, but they can’t wait to go again. A dear friend of mine, a professional skier, damaged his knee severely. After having six pins put in his knee, having a cast on his leg from hip to ankle, he asked the doctor how long it would be before he could go skiing again. “Not this season,” he was told. But my friend was up skiing—in his cast—in just six weeks! Even pain won’t stop you when it’s a Core Desire. It may slow you down, but it won’t stop you.
When Henry Ford was asked what contributed most to his success, he said, “I keep my mind so busy thinking about what I want to accomplish
that there’s no room in it for thinking about the things I don’t want.” It’s critical that you focus your time and energies only on the things you really, truly want—only on your Core Desires. It’s quite easy to stay focused once you identify them, in spite of all the problems and hurdles in your path.
In the absence of a Core Desire, a nasty monster called Negative Labels lurks. When you fail at something, you tend to give yourself nega- tive labels, such as “I don’t have what it takes,” ‘Tm not smart enough,” ‘Tm too shy,” or “I guess I didn’t want it badly enough. It must not be a Core Desire.”
You are smart enough to learn whatever you want to learn. It’s not a matter of can you learn what it takes, it’s a matter of do you want to learn it. When you want something enough, you will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to get it.
Once you know what your Core Desires are, you will automatically work toward them because they become priorities. Core Desires are things you are always trying to do, and when you are pursuing the things you love in all areas of life, you will find the secret of peak achievement, balance, and happiness in life. Suddenly, astonishing sources of energy become available when you are pursuing your Core Desires.
Listening to your head while trying to determine your Core Desires will lead you off course. Your head usually makes decisions based on facts and data gathered from your own or others’ personal experiences. Your mind can learn anything you want it to. The operative word is want. It can help you solve problems so you can achieve the desired end result. It can help you acquire traits, attitudes, and abilities you didn’t have before.
To identify your Core Desires, pay close attention to your emotional reactions—they come from your heart. You must have the proper heart- set—not mind-set—to achieve your Core Desires. With practice, you’ll develop the ability to evaluate whether what you are considering is a genu- ine Core Desire and whether you’ll be willing to put forth the effort to achieve it. Learn to focus on your Core Desires so you don’t waste time and money on other things.
Having a life in which everything you do is driven by Core Desires— things you love to do or to be—is the most satisfying and fulfilling way to live. When you embark on the journey to identify your Core Desires, you will open up a whole new way of living—a life where everything you ever wanted will be available to you or you will be on the path toward it—and loving it.
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