Start today with a Fresh Canvas

It is amazing to sit back and look at the painting that is called "My Life."

Norman Rockwell's Triple Self Portrait

If the roadblocks to my success reside in me as I suggested yesterday, then I also am the artist that paints the picture and puts it on display for everyone to see.

I can remember when I walked into my first full time job interview thinking, "I have this job and I will be a fitness manager at this club". I had no other thoughts and guess what, within two years I created a position of Personal Training Manager. There really wasn't any Personal Training when I walked into the club, but I created it in my mind without any doubts... No Road Blocks!

Somewhere down the road when success didn't happen as easily I started creating a new picture of myself and I turned "I have this with no doubts" to "I hope I am good enough."

How can a 25 year old man with no experience think he is the king of the world and the same man 20 years later, with more knowledge and sweat equity, have doubts about himself? Easy, I let others come in and erase what I saw in the mirror and change what I looked like. I started to believe some of the negative things people were telling me and I have been repainting that picture on the same canvas all these years.

Complicated as this may be, I think the simple fix is to start with a fresh canvas and repaint my picture.

Health and Happiness!

Bill