Celebration
Yesterday, I celebrated an accomplishment with my wife. I celebrated achieving a business production milestone. My sales volume in 2024 was within the top 2% of my company in Pennsylvania. I ranked 38th out of 2,000 real estate agents.
My colleague, who is a member of Master Key Experience, challenged me to celebrate this accomplishment. He also challenged me to tell 10 people about my achievement. I celebrated and I have told others.
My wife, of course, was the first told of this accomplishment. We celebrated by eating at a local (very good) restaurant, a smokehouse eatery that opened some time ago in a shuttered historic hotel/pub. Great food and atmosphere!
This is a very big accomplishment because it is the result of my work. It is empowering. I must continue to grow into a mountain and focus on – think of – abundance. As Haanel wrote,
If we wish to express abundance in our lives, we can afford to think abundance only. Charles Haanel
I have always been tenacious, and that tenacity shall never abate. I have lacked focus, though. However, I changed, I caused myself to change, when I began to exercise regularly after a doctor diagnosed me with type 2 diabetes some two years ago.
Exercising regularly and not indulging in certain foods has bolstered my discipline, self-control and motivation, among other positive qualities. I became more focused. I’m beginning to realize that I’m applying these bolstered qualities more often to other parts of my life, including my business. This has been happening on a subconscious level.
And I’m gaining power from doing so.
This realization reminded me of a paragraph in Scroll IV of Mandingo’s book that states,
I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. Og Mandino
I am starting to understand the significance of “looking beyond that cloth” and seeing the opportunities.
Becoming diagnosed with type II diabetes was, as I now see, an opportunity: a blessing in certain respects. It was and is an opportunity to become healthier and apply what I’ve gained from becoming healthier (last A1C was 5.7, which is fabulous) to the other parts of my life. It could be an opportunity to help others, as well.
This is a mind-blowing revelation!
It is mind-blowing to understand the greatness and healthiness that results from seeing opportunity and abundance.
Now, on to Master Key Experience, I am finding the new exercise to be informative and fun. As I see these qualities in others, I am starting to see them more often in myself. This happened today as I ran 5 miles at the gym.
It’s the most I’ve ever run. As I ran, I at times pondered how others present could be seen exhibiting any number of traits in the Franklin Makeover. And I recognized those traits in me.
