Which Ghosts are guiding you...?
On Saturday Lynn was out partying with some of her friends - and us guys stayed in for a takeaway, ready for the call to go and collect the girls when they finally wanted to come home..So we sat there drinking Coke and eating Prawn Crackers making conversation betwen us, although none of us actually knew each other that well. Now, guys will talk about cars, football, money and business - what struck me was not the subject of the conversation, but the context - there appeared to be three main Ghosts in their Machines..
1. Ghost of Christmas Past - the old days were better. Young people today don't have any respect and lack the knowledge to make a valuable contribution to the world. These guys were stuck in the past and were being guided by their dislike of the new.
2. Ghost of Christmas Present - their identity was purely based upon what they were doing right now. This was the power of the Ego - how everything that went well was due to their own personal efforst and aything that didn't - was the fault of someone else. They talked about how great they were, how much they knew and how everyone else was somehow less than them - they were in fact the Alpha Males and their whole identity was defined by what who they were at that instant. Apparently the brand and size of car is important here too...
3. Ghost of Christmas Future - the dreamers. We have lived in the USA and now we live in rural France - the journey has been and continues to be exciting...
I really can't tell you the number of people (in the dozens...) who have told me that they would love to travel the world, live in Las Vegas or France and have a business that supported their lifestyle; rather than the other way round. What I can tell you is the number of people I have met that have actually done it - Three.
The conversation occasionally moved to "what if scenarios" - however, for every positive there appeared to be three overiding negatives that meant the Dream would have to wait - for the Kids, the Business, the Money etc..
All these Ghosts are debillitating in their own way - the reality is of course that Ghosts only exist if we believe they do, or we choose to create them as a mechanism to cope with the FEAR of achieving our true potential - maybe it is time to look for alternative evidence to support a different belief structure.
Now we all have our Ghosts and Demons - but is there one that is dominating your life or business...?
Which Ghost is guiding you - is it time to move on..?
