The Power of "This Time Will Be Different"
Devote four minutes toward reigniting your dream, and I will help you more purposefully and powerfully finish what you start.
I’m friends with a motley crew of writers and creative types whose ability to maximize their day, day after day, leaves me in awe.
Finishing my never ending novel-in-progress is my obsession.
It is also work, for me.
By comparison, a podcast episode seems more like an indulgence—a quick win that is straight-forward and easy.
Yet is it just me, or does it seem like the “quick wins” with the most reward on the other side are the easiest to lose?
The hard truth is that the course of one’s life is rarely rewritten by a “quick win” that is not, beneath the surface, extremely hard won.
I’m pretty desperate, at this point in my life, to change my life’s course.
Maybe that is why, every spring since 2022, I’ve uploaded the “first episode” of this very podcast—only to fizzle out by episode 2 or 3. Again. This is therefore my THIRD attempt at executing season one.
This time will be different.
This time, I’m going to boldly seize the adage, “The third time is the charm,” as if it’s the password “Open sesame” that will rattle open the rusty, crusty entrance to Ali Baba’s cave of treasure!
Yeah, right.
Still. Backed by the knowledge from the different times you tried and failed to seize upon that “this time will be different” difference, the fundamental belief, “this time will be different” that you cannot or will not let go is a working definition of tenacity.
Of grit.
Of that not-giving-up-ness that sets you apart from those has-beens and might-have-beens and still-maybe-could-be’s who would rather bully than build.
For those who cannot conceive and create are the very people who qualify, quantify, manage, and mitigate those who do.
I have a vision, like you.
Also like you, that vision starts with mastering the ability to finish what I start—putting any tendencies toward all-encompassing panic, (or paralyzing guilt over prior instances of caving into that panic), on pause.
I suspect your vision, whatever it may be, begins at that starting point, too.
Today, I challenge you: cast your thoughts upon a potentially painful question. One that is painful because of just how many times “this time will be different” did not open closed doors for you.
If you knew for a fact that you could still live out a dream you’ve already abandoned, what dream would you choose?
With that question in mind, I’d like you to feel your hand along the cave wall feeling for a latch as you tiptoe toward my next question: