The First Step to Getting What You Want

The First Step to Getting What You Want

Mary wants a healthy body. Wallace wants a highly-successful accounting firm. Brian wants a big happy family.

All three know what they need to do to reach their goals. Mary knows she needs to control her diet and exercise every day. Wallace knows he needs to promote his accounting practice and provide outstanding service to his clients. Brian knows he needs to learn more about raising children and to spend more time with his family.

Yet they never actually DO the steps they must do to HAVE the results they want to have.

Be, Do, Have

To HAVE the things you want, you need to DO certain actions. You need to produce, speak, create, act, assemble, promote, sell or perform some sort of action.

For example, before you can HAVE money, you need to DO things to earn the money. You need to identify the most valuable product or service you can provide. You need to show people the benefits of your service or product. You need to deliver a lot of this service or product. You need to improve the value and quality.. You need to collect money, expand your operation, train and manage people, work hard, learn new lessons from your mistakes and so on.

While the action steps are important, one other condition must exist before you can succeed.

Before you can successfully do things that lead to owning or having things, you must BE the right identity.

"The ability to be is more important than the ability to do. The ability to do is more important than the ability to have." -- L. Ron Hubbard

The Correct BE

You have the ability to BE anything you like. Remember when you were very young you could BE a race car driver in the morning, a police officer in the afternoon and a famous singer after dinner?

It's not only fun to BE something new, it's vital for your success.

For example, Mary, who wants a healthy body, needs to exercise every day. So instead of forcing herself to start jogging, she works on the BE. She puts on her running suit, her running shoes and her running hat. She stretches her muscles like a runner. She straps her portable stereo to her arm, puts on the headphones and turns on some rock 'n' roll. By the time she finishes preparing, she can't wait to go out and start jogging. She feels healthy already! Because she is BEING a healthy runner, the DO is much easier. She goes outside and runs with joy.

What identity should Mary take if she wants to control her diet? Maybe a diet expert? Perhaps a gourmet cook who specializes in healthy food?

What must Brian BE to do the steps necessary to have a successful family? In his case, he might only need to take off every other "hat" in his life and put on his family hat. He becomes an outstanding father with a decision. Maybe he puts on an old soft sweater, uses a kinder voice and thinks about nothing except his children.

The Incorrect BE

Even though he wants a highly-successful accounting firm, Wallace won't change his identity. "I don't care what anyone thinks. I can do perfect accounting work, but I'm going to BE whatever I want."

Wallace wears the same type of clothing he wore in college. He uses bad language, smokes fat cigars and throws paper airplanes around his office.

His partner Linda assumes the identity of a highly-successful accountant. She wears professional clothing, uses perfect English and keeps her office spotless.

Wallace says, "Linda is phony. I know she's really a slob like me, but acts like a big shot. She makes me sick."

Linda ignores Wallace. Clients prefer to work with Linda as they trust her. She earns three times more money than Wallace.

Linda soon assumes a bigger identity. She becomes a highly-successful accounting firm owner. She attracts five big businesses as clients, moves her practice to an expensive office suite and hires two new accountants. She is creating a million-dollar firm while Wallace is still being a college student.

More Examples

Julio wants to get married and have a family, but the women he tries to meet want nothing to do with him. He realizes he is BEING boring, unattractive and shy.

Julio changes his identity to be attractive, confident and cheerful. He wears his best clothes, forces himself to stand straight and adds a smile to his face. An attractive woman at his work notices him for the first time and smiles at him.

Beth wants to write a book on training horses. After working with horses for 20 years, she has discovered several new training methods. However, she has never written anything before and after trying to write her book for an hour, gives up.

Beth learns the importance of BE before Do. She realizes she was trying to write a book while being a horse trainer. She reads how her favorite writer writes before sunrise, drinks herbal tea and wears a yellow sweater.

So Beth gets up before sunrise, brews some herbal tea and puts on a yellow sweater. Suddenly, she is being a writer and not a horse trainer. She writes her first five pages before her horses demand their breakfast.

Recommendations

If you truly want to DO the actions necessary to HAVE what you want from life, work out and assume the correct BE.

1. Write down something you want to have.

2. Write down the actions you must take to get it.

3. Work out the identity you must assume. List the characteristics, attitudes, appearance, qualities and features of this identity.

4. Before starting the actions, BE the correct identity for the job. Assume the characteristics. Put on the hat. Do not DO anything until you are BEING it.

5. Once you are being what you need to BE, you will feel anxious to start the DO. Jump in with both feet!

6. Ignore anyone who criticizes you for being what you need to BE or doing what you need to DO to get what you want to HAVE from life. They will also be jealous of your success.

7. If doing the job seems too difficult, you may need to back up a step and boost the BE. Expand the identity. Do a little research about the top people in the field. Add more traits and characteristics.

Once you assume the correct BE, the DO is much easier and more effective. You will HAVE the success you deserve.

For more information about Be, Do, Have, read chapter three in The Fundamentals of Thought by L. Ron Hubbard. This book is available at www.amazon.com and www.bridgepubs.com.

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