STOP! Trying Harder... (Start doing things differently.)

from The 90-Day Challenge.

When I first got involved with writing for network marketing, I quickly (and fortunately) met Richard Brooke. He sent me a little booklet titled you² (as in squared) by Dr. Price Pritchett. To this day it remains one of my top 10 reads of all time. (Amazon has it for $7.95).

I believe I've published this piece below at least two or three times a year since I first read it— and I've told the story and retold it more times than I can remember. And now, I made a recorded reading of it for you.

Enjoy this powerful story from the very beginning of the booklet you²... And please, tell it— yourself and to yourself— again and again.

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To listen/download via the url: Click here.

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I’m sitting is a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or-death struggle going on just a few feet away.

There’s a small fly burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The winning wings tell the poignant story of the fly’s strategy— try harder.

But it’s not working.

The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.

This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.

Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.

Why doesn’t the fly try another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route, and determined effort, offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing until death, to seek a breakthrough with “more of the same?”

No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it’s an idea that will kill.

“Trying harder” isn’t necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it’s a big part of the problem.

If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.

From you2 (you squared)
By Price Pritchett, Ph.D.

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[Tula Alcocer]

Hi John, This story made me remember the days I worked hard building my mlm business... I sure know now that trying hard is not the solution to approach our goals. We must do the "right things"... even if that means to turn on to another direction!
Tula Alcocer.
Founder and Director of MultinivelenAccion.com
http://www.multinivelenaccion.com

[Susan Davis]

For me this is another reminder of how I do life.I feel like the fly a lot of times.I really want to do things differently, or do I? That is the question. Sometimes I think we know the right things to do, but we don`t follow through with them. We make a choice to not be our word and then we punish ourselves for being out of Integrity, hence, we stay in the same place doing the same things over and over. What is the paradigm shift that has to take place to make us want to do the different? Still pondering that one John.

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