Never confuse AVAILABILITY with ABILITY. Being available to do something does not mean they are able to do it! Choose your help wisely or suffer the headaches.

It is common practice to place or hire someone into a position because you are in urgent need of help. Choosing the wrong person can cause you to spend more time, money, and energy than if you would have waited and chosen the right person.

You see it in managers who have no idea what managing means and in customer service reps that provide absolutely no customer services.

Choosing the wrong person for a task is the same as choosing a hammer to tighten a loose screw.

Do you already have the wrong person, and they have a desire to be the right person? Be prepared to spend time and money on proper training and follow up work until they are performing at the level you desire. If you are not getting MEASURABLE results in a REASONABLE amount of time, then it may be time to replace them. Remember everyone is not cutout to do what you need done.

If this blog has helped you in anyway please leave me a comment. Thanks.

Until next week:
Keep Fighting the B.E.A.R.
Dewong Lucas, Sr.
Hunter@FightingTheBear.com
www.FightingTheBear.com

Don’t Get Lost Chasing Butterflies. This statement is a warning against getting distracted by what looks good or might make you feel good at the moment and lose track of what is important and necessary.

It is natural for us to wanting to avoid what we perceive as painful and go after that what we see as pleasurable. This pain could be physical or emotional. Just as the pain; the pleasure could be physical or emotional as well.

The things that keep most people from reaching their true destiny are not the obstacles in the way, but the distractions along the way. It’s not that they don’t have the ability or even the desire to reach their goals. In most cases it’s that they simply run out of time. We all have a finite number of heart beats and breaths that we are going to take. Doesn’t it make sense to use them to reach our destiny? Before reaching your destiny, the butterflies are like detour signs on the road of life. Once we have reached our destiny we then can chase the butterflies of life.

If this blog has helped you in anyway please leave me a comment. Thanks.

Until next week:
Keep Fighting the B.E.A.R.
Dewong Lucas, Sr.
Hunter@FightingTheBear.com
www.FightingTheBear.com

If this is your first time hello, if not, welcome back.

Many of us have great desires and dream of wonderful achievement and personal growth. Some do mental goal setting and some of us take the time to write them out and even set deadlines for their accomplishments.

The problem comes when it is time to take actions, to get them underway. Often time we get stopped by the two most common types of fear: The fear of success and the fear of failure. We fear success because of the expectations others may have on us. We fear failure because of the criticism that may come our way.

We start playing back mental recordings of our past failures. We start mental conversations about how difficult it may be. We say to ourselves “If it could work why someone hasn’t already done it?” We start reciting what we lack: “I don’t have…”, “I’m too old”, “I’m too young”,”I’m too fat”,”I’m too skinny” and on and on. We simply start making excuses for not taking that first step.

Instead of looking at what we don’t have, we should create for ourselves an emotional carrot and stick. Mentally create something that is strong enough to pull us forward and painful enough to push us away from sitting still. If you need examples post a comment on this blog and I’ll give some ways to do it.

Sitting still has caused countless dreams and desires to go unfulfilled.  The graveyard is full of inventions, cures, products, services, unspoken words, and undone acts that could have completely revolutionized the world.  Don’t let your dreams, goals and desires leave the earth when you leave.  You have great value and a great purpose.

If this blog has helped you in anyway please leave me a comment. Thanks.

Until next week:
Keep Fighting the B.E.A.R.
Dewong Lucas, Sr.
Hunter@FightingTheBear.com
www.FightingTheBear.com