Every morning I begin my day with a Facebook “live” pep talk from Rusty Lackey. He is this entrepreneur who has lost over 500 lbs over the course of 12 years and has made millions of dollars by investing in himself, his motivational speaking and many other business ventures. He is obviously a Christian man and that doesn’t stop me from listening to him. I am used to altering what people say to fit the situation I am in because, as a religious minority, Christianity is everywhere I look and listen. I think the ability to do this shows that I have a lot of respect and understanding for the diverse religious groups and that we can work together without being in complete agreement. It’s about having compassion for others and respecting their rights to religion. Anyways, I get a lot out of these morning pep talks and today’s was particularly great. It was basically telling us to get off our asses and stop making excuses why we can’t do something. We tend to use everything under the sun as excuses for obstacles, our jobs, need of money, our children, our health, ect. However, all these can be turned into the reason TO go for it. They can be our motivation if we allow them. All that really stands in our way of success is ourselves. As a small business owner, I don’t get daily “thatagirls” or immediate gratification from much of anything. When I create a new piece for the shop, I never know how it will be taken by the public. I don’t know if people will love it the way I do or not. Sometimes it can be difficult to put a piece out there that I worked REALLY hard on and get no response in return. Some would say no response is better than a negative one and that is true but what I am saying is that there are times that it is VERY difficult to stay motivated. There are times that you wonder if you should be doing something else. There are normally more people within your close circle questioning your decisions, thinking you’re crazy, only seeing the bottom dollar, criticizing all they don’t understand and pressuring you (intentional or not) to just give up on your dream. Rusty calls these people liabilities and urges us to let them go. I love this analogy he uses calling them chickens. He says that we are eagles, we were born to fly. These people are chickens, they are fat and fed from a farmer who will eventually turn them into food. Eagles shouldn’t waste their time trying to convince a chicken that they can fly. We don’t need them and they will only hold us down. An eagle can conquer the world, find his own means of food and well-being, where a chicken will rely on the one who will eventually be its demise. I have a few chickens in my life! Although Rusty is very right about them being liabilities and me needing to let them go, I still really hope that they see this eagle soar before they wind up on the dinner table. I will release them as a liability and hopefully I will even turn them into future motivation. Sometimes we all need a pep talk. Someone who doesn’t tell us that we can’t do something, but rather gives us that jump starting kick in the ass once in a while. These “LIVE”’s by Rusty Lackey are mine and I hope all you find yours too. Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12859567@N06/2133965053/ In case you want to look for it....The Rusty Lackey Facebook Live post I am referring to in this post was posted on his page on 4/17/18 at about 8 am central time.
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Diana Hogan
5/1/2018 07:13:06 am
I started listening to him too. He is very up beat.
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