It’s All In Your Head

by Robb Olmstead

?? 12/2/2022

I woke up sick yesterday morning at ?5:30. Didn’t want to go to work or do anything. Went back to sleep and woke up at 6:30.

Then I realized it was all in my head so I got up and did my normal coffee routine and thought about the many gifts that lay ahead of me if I hit my target efforts and produce the results I am capable of.?

And I went to work.?

I forgot I was sick and at the end of the day I looked back and realized how I nailed it on every effort I had on my list, and the results on the list to the right of that one were dragons I slayed with superb precision and I exceeded my best expectations.

I did it without any heroic effort. Just the necessary effort.?

It reminded me that every day I used I wake up sick but decided I would do it anyway.?

I was sick of telling myself I can and will do this, and then not doing it.?

I was sick from the excuses I allowed myself to write on that piece of paper (at the end of the day) beside the effort listed - that I failed to do.

I was sick and tired of missing my mark on what I could have done with just one more focused effort checked off my list on the way to work or on the way home from work.?

I was sickened by the thought that I gave my prize - my trophy - to someone else.?

I failed to remember that a sale is always made. Either theirs - or mine. I needed that sale. They needed what I had to offer. I failed THEM.?

Yesterday I asked myself when I felt sick in the head again, “OK, so you don’t feel right. If you felt PERFECT, how would you behave??

“Is this just more adversity? I manage adversity every day. Question is - will this time affect every aspect of my life? Or will it quickly pass?”

Knowing that whatever the answer I give it is equal in energy ?it will cost me and in the results it will deliver to me, I decided I am going to get up and slay dragons today.?

So I dove in - swam like a starving shark, and only came up at the end of the day to take a breath. And when I did, and saw what I had produced in results, and I felt awesome. HEALTHY.

How sick is THAT?!