Reaching Your Goals by Overcoming Self-Defeating Thoughts and Attitudes
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Reaching Your Goals by Overcoming Self-Defeating Thoughts and Attitudes - Steve Buitron
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CHAPTER 1
A GOOD, BAD EXAMPLE
Most people, once upon a time myself included, believe that motivation and action are synonymous. They are decidedly not.
I remember a few years after I’d dropped out of high school in the ninth grade I began to think about going to college; I had gotten my GED about the time I would have graduated high school and so I often contacted colleges and wrote for brochures and catalogs and stacked them up in my room. I would look through them over and over and fantasize about how cool it would be to have a degree in some interesting field and be qualified to get a high paying, rewarding job. But years would pass before I would actually enroll in college. The reason for this is because I would become sidetracked or, more accurately bushwhacked, by my own rationalizations about what I wanted or believed that I could achieve.
During the many years I looked into
college I endured a series of dead end jobs that, some of which, I thought for a while at least might lead to something. While at a few of those jobs I actually made, what at least for me, was pretty decent money and so I sometimes thought that they might not be so bad for the long term. I also got married and had a child pretty young and so along with my new child I began to nurture the convenient rationalization that as long as I made okay money then that was going to be fine for the long term.
Most of the people in my family didn’t go to college and worked at blue collar jobs – in fact when I was growing up my parents actively discouraged my pursuing higher education. My Dad retired from the U.S. Post Office at age 58 where he had worked as a mail carrier. My parents actually didn’t object when, at age 16, I informed them that I was dropping out of high school.
My parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses and back when I was growing up the Witnesses actively discouraged secular education beyond learning to read and write. After all, they maintained, the end
is very near – it still is by the way – and so children ought to just focus on the important door-to-door work instead of wasting time in school gaining an education they don’t need