This morning my fiance shared a beautiful story with me about a documentary he saw about 10 years ago about MOVING THE MOUNTAIN. Michael Apted’s 1989 documentary was about the pro-democracy movement in China that later escalated into Tianamen Square and the courage of one man captured in a photograph before he met his death standing up for what he believed in…
In the end, Thomas shared that we can move a mountain ONE SHOVELFUL AT A TIME. He then said that it is like he’s heard me say before, “Focus on base hits instead of home runs…”
We don’t usually win at the game of life in one full swoop. Sure, some people win the lottery and then proceed to lose everything they gained, because they don’t know how to manage it.
Most of us build wealth steadily with some rather nice growth spurts at times, what Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer refer to as THE PHENOMENON.
We’re creating our EXTRAORDINARY lives, so we talk like this most mornings, noons and nights. We’ve got our vision boards. We have our daily goal cards and action steps. We’ve mapped our plan. We make a point to only watch, listen to, and participate in INSPIRATIONAL activities.
So back to my story… He said,”You know, it is just like Jack Canfield says in THE SECRET that you have to have faith as you move forward only being able to see 200 feet in front of you because you will eventually reach your destination. Of course, you need to know where you’re going…”
Which triggered this thought I’ve literally run back into my office to share with you this moment!
Last weekend we were celebrating my Dad’s 65th birthday AND my fiance’s birthday, because they BOTH SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDAY!
All joking aside about how we eventually marry our fathers (or mothers), we were on our way to a really amazing restaurant called the Canebrake. It happens to be in the MIDDLE of the countryside in the middle of a small town in the middle of somewhere that for a minute felt like it might as well have been #%&*! Egypt…
TWO important points. One is that since I run an internet-based business, I can do it from HAWAII like I did last summer and I can do it from OKLAHOMA where we are now to enjoy some time with family. So when you read this, understand we’re in Oklahoma right now. The second is that I have an older ML-430 SUV Mercedes WITHOUT a GPS tracker and I was using a Google MapQuest map.
We knew our starting point (Tulsa, OK). We knew our destination (Canebrake in Wagoner, OK). We made it, but not without some challenges…
We got LOST… LOST… LOST…
LOST #1: I had the map in front of me, but did not follow it. I was supposed to get off at the first exit on the turnpike but I got off earlier when we were just merging with the turnpike and got on Highway 51. I asked Dad if that was the right exit by phone and he thought based on what I was sharing that it was, but it turned out to be wrong. Even so, I was looking for a street intersection, found it, and ended up in a neighborhood with no restaurant to be seen anywhere. We discovered we had gotten off the turnpike earlier than anticipated and had taken a smaller highway so we went forward, reconnected with the turnpike, and followed the map.
LOST #2: We followed the map, but the map was WRONG. At one point, the map said highway 51 merged into a street called CHEROKEE, and that we’d take our next right after Spencer. Highway 51 did merge into Cherokee if you proceed forward and ironically at a point where Highway 51 makes a SHARP RIGHT that the map did not mention.
A short distance down CHEROKEE, we did find SPENCER, the street that was supposedly right before our next right onto the street where the restaurant is supposed to be.
But we never found the next turn to the right which was supposed to be our destination. Instead we ended up going WAY farther forward and dead ending at a street that ironically had the same intersection signs as the first time we got lost (on both signs). But clearly, the restaurant was not there.
(I had a mini-breakdown on the cell phone realizing we were stuck at night in the middle of the countryside in the middle of nowhere not knowing where to go. I was panicked. My fiance made the honest observation that I was being a, “FRICKIN’ NIGHTMARE” to which I promptly replied, “HAPPY FRICKIN’ BIRTHDAY!!!) We laughed about this publicly at the dinner once we arrived and had a little champagne! 
LOST #3: Not trusting the final set of directions. We got the right directions but since we had chased our tails so feverishly twice before, I was starting to lose it. We gassed up and the attendant had no idea where the restaurant was that I was talking about. I was seriously consider going back home.
I turned around two or three times (much to the dismay of my fiance) before proceeding forward cautiously and finally making it to the correct destination.
Jack Canfield calls this phenomenon “CORRECTING COURSE…” He shares that most of the time a flight has the correct destination locked in on its computer, but the majority of the time, the flight is correcting course to reach its destination.
So we arrived at this beautiful spa, resort, fine dining location and enjoyed a beautiful birthday celebration and had a perfectly wonderful night. Never mind that it took our friends one hour to get there and it took us two and a half hours to get there.
We reached our destination… Actually, everyone marveled:
1. We STUCK IT OUT until we arrived. STAYING POWER PAYS OFF EVENTUALLY!
2. We were able to figure it out despite a WRONG map and without a GPS SYSTEM (…Guess what I’m getting for my birthday from Dad this year?…).
3. We were able to enjoy and celebrate a ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY.
So the moral to the story is…
1. KNOW WHERE YOU EVENTUALLY WANT TO END UP… This is a critical key to your success and it is worth the time to get a clear solid and exact picture of where you are going. It saves a lot of time, headache, and heartache along the way. Others in the group found it by actually going to the Canebrake’s website (better directions from the source) and relying on a real road map (yeah, the old fashioned kind that you keep in the car with you) instead of a Google or MapQuest map.
2. STAY THE COURSE… Despite being tested along the way, stay the course. Correct course when you get off track. Staying the course helps when you have a clear picture (not a foggy one, but a definite and clear focus) of where you are going. It may take two to three times what you anticipate it is going to take before you get there, but you must stay the course in order to actually arrive.
3. GO THE DISTANCE… Remember that one of the Universal Laws is the LAW OF GROWTH. If you retreat just before the seed sprouts, you’ll never see the flower. In our case, we decided that even if we made it for dessert and coffee, we were going. Turned out they had enjoyed appetizers and champagne and we were able to enjoy the remainder of the meal with them. If we had given up, we would have missed a very special once in a lifetime night.
Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
The Manifestation Mentor
P.S. And when in doubt, remember that one man can move a mountain one shovelful at a time… This may not be ideal for fast business growth, but remember that base hits win the game steadily in lieu of home runs, and often times with a much better overall standing when it is all said and done…
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