Squirrel

Focus On Purpose

As I sit here early on a Saturday morning writing, I notice my attention is drawn away from my computer and into my backyard…

Now, I have intentionally gotten up early to write, my wife and kids are sleeping and I have a great chunk of time to work on my book. 

As I look out back across our pool, I notice a squirrel inside our screen enclosure.

I think to myself… I have to get the squirrel out…

Focus On PurposeSo I stand up and start walking to get my shoes….

That’s when it hit me…

I start laughing out loud. 

I’m working on a book about living life intentionally and writing the chapter on FOCUS!!!

And I’m literally getting up to chase a SQUIRREL!!!

How often are you distracted from chasing your dreams, your goals, your purpose, your passion? 

Too often we are chasing squirrels (distractions) when we should be pursuing our purpose and passion. 

How distracted are you?

I created the Wake Up On Purpose Course & Planner to help myself to:

  • Remember who I want to become 
  • Align my goals with a bigger vision 
  • Stay focused on my goals every day
  • Get more done and feel more productive
  • Put myself first instead of feeling like I’m always doing for someone else

If you feel like you are constantly doing for others…

If you feel like you aren’t making progress on your own goals…

If you feel like you are constantly working at a job you hate…

Stop Chasing Squirrels!

It’s time to make a change

It’s time to Wake Up On Purpose – https://www.wakeuponpurpose.com/

Dan

ps – Once I’m done writing this, I’m literally going to chase a squirrel!

What gets you up in the morning?

Wake Up On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz

“There are two great days in a person’s life;
the day you were born and the day that you discover why.”

 – William Barclay

 

What gets you up in the morning? 

Is it the dreaded beeping of your alarm clock? Is it the kids screaming running into your room and jumping on your bed? Is it the guy next door mowing his lawn obnoxiously early? What is it that really gets you out of bed? 

Let me ask that a different way.

Wake Up On Purpose - Dan Beldowicz

How do you get up?

Are you dragging yourself out of your warm cozy bed? Are you asking yourself if it’s really true that it’s morning already? Are you cranky and don’t want to talk to anyone before you have had your first cup of coffee?  Are you waking up just because you have to get the kids to school? Are you waking up and dreading the day because you are going to a job you hate and are unsatisfied with? 

What is it that really gets you going? For so many people they don’t wake up because they want to, they wake up because they have to. 

So waking up because you have to, because you feel like you have to get up, go to work, get that paycheck, pay the mortgage, all this other stuff. Where is the sense of you, your true who, what wakes you up in the morning? The familiar phrase, “here we go again, another Monday morning.” 

Interesting fact, did you know that statistically, heart attack rates increase by 21% Monday mornings? People are literally dying to go to work! 

It actually starts Sunday evening, after the football game you start building that stress and anxiety about going to work tomorrow morning. 

Another alarming statistic is that 85% of the American public hates the job they are going to. Whether it’s not fulfilling, it’s not challenging you, it’s not in your best interest, it’s not really what you want to do. So why do it?

Going to a job you hate just sucks your energy away, it lowers your self-esteem, it raises your stress levels but we keep doing it. It robs you of your time. Realize we spend most of our time at our jobs. Why do we do it if we can’t stand being there? We’ve only got so many hours in any particular day, that’s the only thing that’s equal to all mankind. 

Are you working on your purpose and passion or are you working on somebody else’s? 

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

– Farrah Gray

You work your 9:00 to 5:00 and then you work your 5:00 to 9:00 where you can express what it is that truly is coming out of you. I understand everybody has different obligations – kids, challenges, bills to pay, a mortgage but when you take your purpose or your passion, your purpose is really your reason why, your passion comes out in what it is that you do and how you express that purpose. 

If you could just take that your purpose and your passion, package it, promote it, and profit from it, that’s where most people find the biggest discoveries. That’s where those that are the richest have gone. Think about Bill Gates, his whole reason was about putting a computer in every home that was running Windows. Steve Jobs, innovation.

What is it that’s getting you out of bed in the morning? Time just happens to slip on by when you are not waking up on purpose, a day goes by, a week goes by, years go by. And in order to see that look back on your life, think back a year.

And it’s easy to say that at the end of the year and especially around resolution time when everybody makes these new resolutions about how they are going to pay down their credit card debt, they are going to go on a diet and lose some weight, they are going to finally look for another job that’s more fulfilling. 

How many years have you made the same resolutions over and over again? It happens to all of us, it does. How many people have made the same resolution more than twice? A good portion. What is it that stops you from going forward on that? How do we keep going, how do we build up enough reasons why to keep going on that resolution?

Maybe that resolution doesn’t fit within your value system or what it is you really want to do. 

The day that you discover your “why” is a life-changing event and it’s really why are we all here, what are we doing, what did you come to this world for, what did you bring and how are you expressing that, how are you getting it out there? That’s really where Wake Up On Purpose came from is really every day we get to wake up, we get to choose what we do and how we do it.

The Momentum of the Morning

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Have you ever experienced a morning that just didn’t start quite the way you thought it would?

You hit the snooze button, you think you are getting extra time in bed then you started the day off on the wrong foot, maybe you stub your toe and it set up the rest of the day to just suck. The morning sets the tone for the rest of the day!

Maybe you spilled coffee all over yourself right before you’re walking out the door or you left the coffee mug on top of the car and backed out of the driveway and fell off and spilled all over the place. How many rough mornings like these have you experienced:

  • The alarm was set for PM not AM and you were late 
  • Stubbed your toe walking around the bed
  • Hit the snooze button more than three times
  • Coffee didn’t brew at the right time
  • Got a speeding ticket on the way to work
  • Kids missed the bus
  • Kids forgot their lunch

Yeah, I think we’ve all had those days.

You see we’ve even had those weeks where Sunday or Monday kicked it off on the wrong foot maybe you got a ticket driving to work where you missed one of your kid’s practices and it set the tone for the week and you just had a rough week. You get to the end of the week and you are just fried saying, “Holy crap this week kicked my ass!”

Yeah…I’ve had a couple of those.

Hell, I’ve had months like that!

It was just a rough month that everything seems to just stack up and everything seemed to be against me. I’ve even heard people talk about a rough year and they can’t wait for this one to be over. They wish the year was over… they look back on all the experiences, all the negative things that are stacking up and wish away six or seven months.  They feel that there was nothing they could do about it, bad things just kept on happening.

We all get to choose what it is we focus on, but when we have mornings that start off on the wrong foot and we stay focused that, our thoughts continue to swirl around how mad or frustrated we are. Sometimes we even take it as a sign, a sign of how things are going to go for the day. 

Now we are projecting that forward and as we focus on it, more and more our thoughts swirl around it, and our feelings of aggravation, frustration, and stress continue to build. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s what we see more and more of when we do that throughout a day. 

Hoping that the next day is going to get better but we’re still focused on what frustrated us the day before. The more we think about it, the more upset we get, the more we focus on it, and as the saying goes, where the focus goes energy flows. 

We can build a day that we never wanted and that day turns into a week, those weeks to turn into months and finally, months turn into years. This is how people end up having a rough life. 

This all started because of how we woke up 

and stubbed our toe?!?!?!?

 

This is your start your morning in … “The F.A.S.T. Lane”

Frustrated – Anxious – Stressed – Tired

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap

Mind the GapThe gap I’m talking about is the “knowing doing gap”. Now for all you city folk you know from the subway there is a “mind the gap” reminder on the subway floor so you don’t fall between the train in the platform.  It’s a reminder we all need to mind the gaps in our lives. We are all doing things that we know we shouldn’t be doing and we are all not doing things we know we should be doing and most times those are the exact things that will give us exactly what we want.

You see, we are constantly out looking for new innovations, new ways to do things, new information, new education, another way to do something, somebody else’s perspective, how somebody else did it. So rarely do we actually turn within to see what we already know about the things that we should be doing, the things that we could have done, the things that we would have done, had we not been afraid to do it. That’s the biggest thing with the knowing doing gap! What stops us from doing the things that we know we should, is the fear of either missing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of what other people are going to think about us and it holds us back from who we truly are. From having what we really want.  From doing the things we really want to do. Being the person that we truly know we’re meant to be, and living the life of our dreams.

Now I know, to some of you this all sounds like a whole bunch of hooey, or meditative bullshit or hippie dippie crap, but it’s true. If you don’t like what you hearing take a look in the mirror. Are you living the life that you want to live? Do you have the relationship you want to have? Do you have the financial abundance that you know you want?

When you stop judging the message, and if you don’t like what you hear change the channel or turn the page, but ultimately that’s more about you, because I think and I feel that you probably already know that there are things in your life that you should be doing, could-be doing, and would-be doing if you weren’t holding back.  You are falling in the knowing doing gap!

How do I know? Because I do it too. I’ve done it for years! And it took a huge wake up call for me to start closing that gap, to really decide to go after the things that I really want. And for some people that might be a financial fall, it might be the loss of a relationship, or getting out of one. It might be getting out of the career or job that you hate. Now I’m not saying to do it all at once, but get started on the journey. At-least take responsibility and start going through what it is you truly know and what are the things that you’re actually doing.

Once you start working on yourself, and following your inner voice you, start closing the knowing doing gap. And when you start closing knowing doing gap, life opens up and what you desire starts to enter your life.

Close the knowing doing gap by making faith in yourself greater than all your fears and then you’ll truly wake up on purpose.

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