Focused, Action Oriented People ("FAOP")

Today I met two interesting people. Both are focused and action oriented people. For the purpose of this entry we'll just say they were both "FAOPs" One was a gentleman about 38 years old. The other, also a man, was 27...if you can call 27 being a man. Heck that's just one year older than my son!

Mr. 38 was about 6'8" and had played professional football. Once he got his belly full of that he invested in real estate. Mr. 27 was his partner.

These two individuals are both very wealthy, very focused, very polite, yet demanding. They know what they want and they go after it. I happened on them during a brief encounter wherein they were purchasing a small ($25 Million) hotel in a resort area in Texas.

Something tells me that they knew the power of dreaming and visualizing their desires early on. I can also tell that they knew how to crystalize their dreams into visual images which drove them to where they wanted to go. I suspect that once they knew the direction they wanted to take (toward their imagery) they were action oriented and took steps to make their dreams come to fruition.

The difference between a FAOP and a regular Joe is that Joe might dream a little bit, but Joe argues with his desires and finds every excuse in the world why things won't go well for him A FAOP dreams, makes a list of action items and gets started on succeeding, unwilling to listen to excuses or reasons why something won't work. When they reach a dead end a FAOP will simply cut their own road to their destination.

I've been a Joe most of my life. I have been held back by my Negative Nancy thinking, I have been crippled by ignoring my ability to dream and create my own destiny. I have put all that aside and now I am on of the FAOPs.

It's great to be a focused, action oriented person. (Hear me talking to myself?) Sure, I still have the negative garbage in my head but when it starts talking to me, I just talk back. When I hear:

It's useless to try to lose weight. You are too old. You're post-menopausal...you are toast, over the hill, forget it sister!

I say back to the negative thoughts: I can do anything I want to do badly enough! Even if I was over the proverbial hill I could still move a mountain or two!

Messrs. 38 and 27 were an inspiration to me today. Had I been in my "Joe" mode I might have perceived them as a couple of stuck-up snots. But having engaged myself fully into a positive, powerful woman who had a weight and health problem and took steps to resolve it I know that I have the power to do whatever I want badly enough and I looked at them as subjects to study. I studied their politeness rather than their "demanding" behavior. They weren't rude in any way. They just pushed for what they wanted and how they wanted it to happen and they got it. When they left my presence they both thanked me profusely for my time, even though it wasn't necessary. I wasn't dazzled by their attentions (though I would suggest that many women might be taken in by their charms), I was captivated by their proven success and examined them as specimens of success; I took note of their words, their behaviors and mannerisms of being polite and dignifying a worker bee's efforts by gentlemanly behavior.

Lessons learned today from proven experts on success:
-Expect things to work out the way you want them to.
-Getting your way can be achieved through firm, polite, consistent behavior; being an ass is not required.
-Ask for input from experts when you need it.
-Don't fret over minutia.

Signing off from this segment of the World of Willa.

Willa Smith