The Amazing and Misunderstood Power of Showing Up.🔌

Published: Tue, 08/16/22

Keep Showing Up. Nothing Good will come of It, If You Quit.

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Hello, I’m Earl Nightingale….
Those classic words were like one of the many soundtracks to my early life in the Caribbean. I grew up listening to Earl Nightingale on the local Jamaican radio station for many years. At the time, I had no idea that he was one of the giants of the personal development movement. To me, he was like a wise uncle who, every morning, would wake me up and send me on my way with gems of wisdom that would allow me to live a better life. It's a pity I was too young to appreciate it.

Keep it Simple and Show up.

He had this deep, authoritative voice that was passionate about improving the human condition but knew the message would only get to certain people. Not because he was limiting his reach, but because most people would not take his principles onboard. That’s just how it is. I was young, but amazingly there were episodes of his speeches that I still vividly remember. One such episode had Earl talking about the common denominator of success. A conclusion he came to mainly from the research of famous life insurance salesman.

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The disarmingly simple secret was this; successful people will do the things failures will not.
My writing career is based on that premise, so I have much to thank Uncle Earl.
If you know what most people are unwilling to do daily, you can use it to your advantage.
I’m not special in that regard. I’m no prodigy that gets excited about doing these things all the time.
Far from it.

Sometimes I’d prefer not to do a lot of them either, but the excellence I strive for as an author demands that I must. A lot of what is required to set you above and beyond the competition is just showing up. I don’t want to trivialise the hard work it takes to achieve your marvellous goals, but this is the gateway to greatness. Showing up requires no training. No skill. No effort. No willpower.

Just one foot in front of the other, and that’s how it starts.
Write fiction every day.
Write in my Journal every day.
Read every day.
10,000 steps plus every day.
Talk with my readers every week.

I’ll show up when I’m tired, unmotivated, sick or frustrated because I know it’s something failures would not want to do.
Imagine your life, gentle reader, if you not only showed up but were passionate and talented.
You’d be hard to stop.

The scores of authors I knew in the early days mostly gave up, the idea of showing up was too much, and only a handful remained.
The truth is that outperforming most people isn’t rocket science; it requires you to show up consistently and do the small tasks required of you.
When you give your attention to a particular goal that you focus on day in, day out for a set period of time, no matter how small, it’s inevitable that you’ll get closer to where you want to be. It’s inevitable. Opportunities will begin to present themselves, and you will be ready.
That is the simple power of showing up.
Whatever your dreams are for your life, just keep showing up and start moving.

Martin Luther King said it the most succinctly.

If you can’t fly
Run
If you can’t run
Walk
If you can’t walk
Crawl
But by all means, keep moving.