Today's TQ

Daily Lessons in Intentional Excellence
Monday, January 5, 2026

Are You Willing To Pay The Price?

Discover what you want. Determine what it's going to cost you. Decide if you are willing to pay that price.

You can have anything you want in life as long as you're willing to pay for it.

Today's TQ Challenge: Commit to Actually DOING Whatever It Takes -- Then DO It.

Choose to be CONFIDENT! What do you want?
Choose to be OPTIMISTIC! How much time and effort will it cost to get what you want most?
Choose to be SELF-RELIANT! Are you willing to pay the price for what you want most?

Success is the direct result of taking the right actions, the right way, at the right time for the right reasons. Understand this and you can take on anything with confidence. Just discover what the right actions are and do them. Your success isn't limited by past mistakes -- but by your willingness to take the right actions right now! If you have no confidence in your ability, you won't even try. But, if you're committed to do whatever it takes until you get it right -- you will eagerly proceed with the confidence to succeed.

"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think about it. How well and how often do you actually DO Attitude Factor 3B?

"I'm confident that I can succeed at whatever I do, as long as I simply take the right actions."

A high commitment (3B rated 8 or better) suggests you approach every situation with the expection that you will ultimately find the right thing to do and then do it. Because you are confident you can achieve anything you want, an endless series of possibilities open up. This is not simplistic, blind faith that things will always work out. Instead, it's a belief gained from a history of trying new things and staying with them until you succeed. Even when you don't know if you'll succeed, you still take action in pursuit of what you want -- because you are certain you will figure it out eventually.

On the other hand...

A lack of commitment suggests you are someone who tends to fear failure and avoids the pain of doing things wrong. A lack of confidence, and a fear of failure, prevents you from proceeding -- more times than you'd like. You find it hard to take action when there's no guarantee of success. It's even worse when you've never done something before. This lack of confidence holds you back from small things like initiating conversations with strangers -- to large decisions like career changes. And day-by-day, you simply give up on things you want -- because you have no belief in your ability to achieve them.

What happens when you CHOOSE to do Factor 3B a bit more frequently?

You have the confidence to passionately pursue anything and everything you want. You accumulate performance positives like "Confident, Self-Assured and Optimistic" -- immediately moving you towards the results you expect.

What happens when you FAIL to consistently do Factor 3B?

There are things you want, but you hesitate to try because you fear failure more than you expect success. Negatives like "Doubtful, Hesitant and Pessimistic" start to take their toll on your performance -- quickly moving you away from the success you want.

Now Ask Yourself This...
Is Factor 3B Causing You Problems?

If you believe this factor is a key performance obstacle -- and that it's preventing you from realizing your personal dreams and goals -- then you need to improve it.

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