There's an ad on TV where some loud bloke says

"You don't need to know a thing about real estate to become a property millionaire; all you have to do is see it."

But that sort of thinkin' don't always work:—

there is a right and a wrong way of seein'

I know, cos my baby brother Bazza - may he rest in peace - believed that he could have his dream if he could just see it properly.

 

 

 

he practised and he practised visualisin' himself... flyin' like a bird...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No matter how well he could see and feel himself flyin'
when Bazza used the chook shed roof as a launching pad...

he still broke every bone in his body!

To this day, I can still see him lyin' there in that chook pen... with egg on his face... and I can see my momma leanin' over to whisper to him:

"Bazza Honey, Kingsford Smith had a vision of himself flyin', but in that vision, he was the pilot, not the plane."

 

Now, you might ask, "what's inspirin' about this story?"

Bazza died doin' somethin' he was passionate about! Except for those few moments when he mighta been thinkin' "Uh oh...", he died happy. He didn't have to actually fly to be a success.

Success is not somethin' you get, it's somethin' you are doin'.

Like Joseph Campbell Lariat said, you got to "follow your bliss".

Bazza wasn't lyin' in that chook pen, dyin' and wishin' he'd taken more chances, or had more courage, or paid more attention to his dreams. No regrets there. He was lyin' in that chook pen, dyin', knowin' he only had one life, and that he gave his all to his dream.

But what must we learn from this story?

if you want to soar like an eagle
you got to check in with flight control occasionally!

What Bazza didn't realise is that
to succeed,

• you got to break your dreams down into achievable steps

• you got to use risk management techniques

• and you got to follow some Lariat Laws of Success:

Lariat Law # l. Trying harder doesn't always help — sometimes you got to

try different

Lariat Law #2. You are what you do - so if you want to be somebody, you

got to do something

Lariat Law # 3. "Should" is not always the best strategy