Nervous Energy Can Be Motivating

The poet Guillaume Apollinaire once wrote:
"Come to the edge He said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge He said.
They came.
He pushed them, and they flew..."

Yes, edges can induce great fear. We’ve all felt it at one time or another. As a Motivator, I have met many people who look over that cliff with palpable dread. It's understandable. Change - even if it's about improving your career - raises some anxiety-provoking questions: Can I handle it? Do I have what it takes to reach the top-producer level? What if I fail?

The first step is to be open to change. This goes back to looking over that edge. It's scary. And so is change. Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you want results you're not getting currently, you'll have to change. I chose this profession because I truly believe each one of us has the potential to achieve greatness. I've seen potential reached hundreds of times. For some it is easy to see that potential, to grasp it and to reach it. Others need a push.

With that said, I'll leave you with another poet's quote, Orison Swett Marden: "The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."