9 Seconds by Jerry Hocutt

That was the time left on the Rose Bowl clock when quarterback Vince Young cleaned USC’s. Well, maybe not cleaned their clock but he certainly stopped it and their 34 game winning streak. The University of Texas Longhorns went on to upset the favored USC Trojans in one of college football’s most memorable national championship games 41-38. It was all over with 19 seconds left, except for the singing of “The Eyes of Texas”. (Okay, okay, I’ll admit I’m from Texas, but we haven’t been able to gloat since 1969.)

But not to worry. Today’s article is not about the Longhorn’s stunning upset. (Just had to get it in again.) It’s about getting what you want. Ran across an interesting book couple of weeks ago by T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. It makes you feel a little uneasy reading it. The theme of the book is about getting what you want. Made me think. Can you? Get what you want?

Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns did. Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, and the USC Trojans didn’t. How do you square Eker’s belief that you can get what you want when you don’t?

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The point? Set goals for yourself. Want something. This is the only way things get done. The only way you’ll stretch yourself and grow. The only way you can have a positive impact on others. Everything you have today you have because someone wanted to create it. Someone wanted to market it. You wanted to buy it. If you get what you want, that’s icing on the cake. If you don’t, you’ve grown and you’ll learn how to do something even better on the other side. You’ll have fun along the way. The journey becomes the destination.

What will give you the confidence to go after what you want? Try this. Picture something you’ve accomplished in the past. Something you got that you wanted really, really badly. Got the picture? Okay, now say to yourself, “I can (not will, but can) get what I want. I know. I’ve done it before.” Remind yourself every day until you get it. How do you know it works? Did you ever get anything you wanted? Then you know. You’ve done it before.

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