Sometimes U Just Need to Tweak It

Have you ever had one of those days when you just want to give up? Yes, me too. Sometimes all your efforts and hard work seem to produce very little and it feels like your hitting your head on a brick wall. I know you may not want to here this but this is not the time to give up.

Often failure is just the Universes’ way of....not wanting us to stop…but just to do things a little differently. At times we are so attached to a certain way of doing things, so used to doing it that way, or so sure it’ll work, that we keep at it, even when what we are doing isn’t producing the results we want. And then, finally, instead of just altering our methods we give up altogether.

Let me give you an example of how we can come at something another way. Just imagine you’re a budding journalist and really want to get one of your articles featured in your favourite lifestyle magazine. Every week you ring the features editor to ask if she’d be interested in receiving articles from you and are told she’ll call you back, which she never does. You also email her as follow up and you get an automatic reply saying she’ll contact when she can, but you never hear from her. Ok, so instead you could do things a little differently. Email her one of your articles, complete with sample headlines and images, which accurately suit the typeset and style of the publication and tell her she is free to use it if she likes it. Make sure you include you bio and a pitch for 2 more article ideas that she might be interested. Then call to ask whether she received the email and liked the article/ideas. Even if you can’t get hold of her she will have received a sample of your work and got an idea of who you are and what you can do. Do you see how it works? You still called, you still emailed, you just did things a little differently.

So, is everything going the way you want in your life at the moment? If not how can you use the idea above? I challenge you to think of something that you have been doing that hasn’t been producing the results you require and to find a way to do it differently. Whether it’s getting a partner to pick up after himself, getting your children to do their chores/homework without the usual arguments or getting your boss to take you more seriously at work. Sometimes all it requires is a little change on our part to get a great change in results.