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Claim Your Right to Success
David Constance was a young man in love with photography. Wherever David went so too, his beloved camera. It was his constant companion. The more they lived together the better they got. Like any loving couple the two together made three or four not two. They produced fantastic photos together. They just loved each others company. Then horror struck. Whilst on holiday in Australia in 1982 David was involved in a diving accident which left him paralysed from the shoulders down. His dreams were over. He couldn’t feel himself holding a knife and fork never mind a camera. But wherever
he went he saw situations as images. Potential photos. As he travelled around
in his wheel chair all he kept seeing, in his head, was really good photos. After a period of time he realised his problem was simple:
To David it
was a simple problem – you just adapt the camera to the wheelchair, then you
adapt the camera to fit your abilities. Simple!!! The long and
the short of it was that David wrote to the camera manufacturer for help and
they did. The result is that David is now taking photographs again and
travelling the world to do it. The obvious
moral to the story is that if you really want to do something you can. If you
really are in touch with your vocation then nothing will stand in your way.
Other people will come in and out of your life in order to help you achieve your
vocation. But
what stops you and me from trusting ourselves and going for it?
PERFECTION and
PROCRASTINATION If you can’t
guarantee that where I am going is going to be a better place then I won’t
start. If you can’t
work out that I will succeed then I won’t make the effort. If there is
an element of risk involved then I prefer to stay where I am, thank you. What’s that
proverb: Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. After all, it’s
much better staying with something that’s under par than looking for what you
really want. Because you may find yourself in a worse situation!!!! Then what
would you do? One of the
biggest problems of being a perfectionist is that there is no room for anything
other than perfection or failure. If you run your life on having to be in charge
or perfect at every stage then the only alternative is not in charge and
imperfect. Therefore: failure. You cannot have excellence or success in your
life, you can only have perfection or failure.
Procrastination is the blind side of perfection. What’s the reason you have
decided not to do it now? Why have you put off making that decision? What stops
you from moving forward? Why have you applied the brake to that brilliant idea?
Procrastinators, for some reason or another, put off what they want to do and
wait or do another task. A friend of
ours has the most perfect and clean kitchen. Why? Because whenever she sits down
to draw if the image doesn’t develop quickly then she notices something out of
place, something not cleaned recently. Anything, to stop her working through her
drawing. Anything, to divert her attention. David’s
story shows each of us that the only one who actually stops me achieving what I
want to achieve is me. I can blame whoever I like. I can blame whatever I like. But the bottom line is that I choose not to follow my dreams. Not to find and follow my vocation. I choose not to put the effort in. I choose to put it in the “too difficult” basket. Don’t short
change yourself. Claim your right to success. Now! By the way:
you can see David's work on
www.sittingimages.com. Good Luck
Graham
and Julie
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