To Do It All Over Again

While growing up, I had a fascination with how your voice could be heard through wires, also how images could be transmitted through the air. I took a chance and faked a resume. I lied and said I had experience, that I went to a trade school, and that I had tools for the trade. During the interview I was asked numerous questions that I had no idea what they were. Not even half way through the interview the manager told me I had no idea about this field. He called in the owner of the company. After hearing what the manger had to say, the owner looked at me as if he was looking into my soul for a while and said, hire him he’s hungry! Sometimes not knowing what to do and putting yourself out there risking your pride is enough to get what you want. After 20 years in telecommunications, I had my own company, right now I’m working as a middle manager in a large corporation and once again going to restart my business. I’m putting myself out there again, this time I am competent as well as confident. I failed my first time as a business owner, but instead of turning away with my tail between my legs, I’m taking my experiences and going for it again. I have the same feeling when I went for the interview . although I lied about what I had done, I know what I could do if given a chance. We all have that in us, that winning spirit, that burning desire to win.
Some people often say if they had a chance to do it all over again it would be different. I believe we all still have that in us. to start again and again and again and again if needed no matter how old or young you think you are. The only advice I would give to my younger self would be to focus attention on what you want, anything else is a distraction. I remember going out on a Friday and coming home on a Monday, just going with the flow. How many of us just go with the flow not realizing that you can control the flow by focusing on what you want to do and holding that attention firmly.
Everything that we have everything that we are is a collection of things that we have focused on in the past. We relive our lives again and again and again. For some people that’s fine. For others like myself, it’s a trap. The only way to free yourself is to focus your attention on things that break the cycle. for me, it’s starting to walk or jog every morning for the rest of my life. Instead of sleeping that extra hour I get up and walk, I clear my thoughts, I focus my attention on what I want to accomplish that day. Before walking, I would get to work pissed about the traffic and anything else that directed my moods and attention. Now, I wake up in control and stay in control by focusing and being aware of what I want handling distractions rather than distractions handling me.