“You Gotta be an Eager Beaver”
by Kenneth Barton
“The Eager Beaver Plan for Success”
How do you approach anything in life and
make sure you are able complete the task successfully? It is much easier than most people might
think. Consider in your own lives, what
is it you enjoy doing, and what is it you do not enjoy doing? Have you noticed that the things you enjoy
doing come easy to you and give you a lot of pleasure after finishing the
task? Just like the little beaver down
by the stream that takes on toppling a huge tree to make up part of its
beaver-dam. A huge tree, a thousand
times larger, and hundreds of pounds heavier, than that little beaver; but, one
bite at a time the little eager beaver works away at the base of the tree until
it comes crashing down with a thud! The
eager beaver does not sit there and ask if it can accomplish such a feat, he
just begins the task at hand knowing it will succeed.
The opposite response is most like what
happens while you attempt to complete tasks you do not enjoy. This is of course a natural response. Most people struggle when doing undesirable
tasks, such as: changing diapers, balancing the check book, getting up in the
morning to go to work, or shoveling snow.
When it comes to doing the things we
love, like: packing for vacation, eating apple pie ala-mode, or cashing in a
winning lottery ticket, it’s easy to get excited and enthusiastic over such
tasks. Remember how the Eager Beaver
took on that big tree. The things that
we love to do, and are most successful at doing, inspire in us passion,
excitement, enthusiasm, and inspiration!
“The
Eager Beaver Success Formula”
Passion – for what you are doing, believing in what
you are doing, and working hard to excel at your endeavor.
Excitement – about having a new day for endeavoring
upon a new opportunity to challenge you and then being able to see the fruit of
your hard work when the task is completed.
Enthusiasm – you can pass on to all you meet about the
positive adventure you are pursuing which helps them to capture in their minds
a visual treat that lifts them up along with you in their spirits.
Inspiration – that comes from the vision you hold fast
in your mind of the outcome you are working towards seeing come to past.
Like the Eager Beaver, when a mountain climber
gets it under his skin to climb a particular mountain, he focuses all his
attention on that one mountain. No
other. He allows the vision of himself
climbing that mountain to fill his thoughts.
Each step he’ll make is carefully planned out. The equipment he will need is carefully
selected, making sure to plan for the unexpected, for the possibility of ‘Just
in Case’. All the way up the mountain he
sees his progress until the moment he is standing on the top. The climber does all this before he even
tells someone his vision. In his mind he
“Visualizes Victory” and this visualization instills within him, an unrelenting
“Passion” for the endeavor to come.
His excitement, now fueled with this
overwhelming passion, begins to spill out in all his planning. Travel plans start to take shape as he
purchases plane tickets, updates his passport, and arranges for transportation
to the mountain. He selects all the
equipment needed for the climb and ensures it is all safely delivered to where
he can pick it up. All this he
accomplishes with growing Enthusiasm as the day approaches for him to begin his
long climb to the top of his mountain.
Then that day arrives. The weather is just right for the climb. All his equipment is in order and packed to
go. He has a good meal early in the
morning, but not so much that he will feel weighed down either. Gathering his backpack he starts out on what
he already knows is going to be an awesome adventure.
Along the way he has to traverse huge
crevices, scale steep pillars of rock, one step at a time. His legs aching, his arms pulsating with
fatigue, and his mind only filled with one thought, getting to the top. Along the way he notices the little designs
in the rock faces, the familiar shape of a passing cloud, the vista engulfing
him with marvelous grandeur. The
Inspiration he felt when he first saw the mountain drives him onward,
relentlessly, pushing higher, and higher.
Finally, his feet land upon the top, and he settles his pack down so he
can catch his breath and take in all that is round about him. Months of planning, the trip over, the
equipment, then the work to reach the top, covering possibly many days and
nights, passing weather, but it all seems insignificant now.
“When you want to Breathe as bad, as you want to Succeed,
Then you’ll be Inspired to Achieve the Success you
want”
How does a person get so fired up that
they can accomplish such a formidable task as climbing a mountain? They let the mountain fill their minds like a
drowning person’s mind is solely filled with getting a breath of air! Nothing is more important in such a
situation, than that life-saving breath of air.
Approaching any venture with such
driving passion has changed the world a number of times. Man has been to the moon, flown faster than
the speed of sound, built huge skyscrapers, cured diseases, all with driving
passion that drove them to overcome obstacles that would have stopped anyone
else. Do you have the heart of an Eager
Beaver or the driving passion of a Mountain Climber? Set your eyes on the “Goal’ you wish to
Achieve, Believe in your heart you will, and nothing, absolutely nothing, will
stop you. Push forward and upward until
you plant your feet on top of your mountain and never look back along the way
except to take in the view.
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