Everyone needs a written budget. Don’t fool yourself; unless you write down where you spend your money…you really don’t know where your money is going. Setting up a written plan is critical to one’s financial success. It is often not how much one makes, but how much one keeps and invests. When is a great time to take control of your income?

Buzzy the fly is killing herself in a most ineffective attempt to fly through a glass window. The buzzing sound of her wings and the constant thud of head and thorax banging the clean glass window suggest her strategy – try harder.

She is not at all successful.

The frantic struggle offers no possibility for hope. Oddly enough, this great effort is part of the deception. It is not possible for Buzzy to try hard enough to break through the glass. Nonetheless, Buzzy has risked it all to reach her goal of getting through the glass based purely on fortitude and resolve.

Buzzy is done for. Buzzy will breathe her last breathe on the windowsill.

On the other side of the room, less than fifteen feet away, another window is wide open. In just seconds of safe flying Buzzy could be outside the room, soaring free. Buzzy could easily be liberated from this self-imposed “buzz kill”. The solution is there. It can be so easy.

But why doesn’t Buzzy try another strategy, something else? How did Buzzy get so committed to this particular plan? How did she come to believe that grit and determination would allow her the best chance for success? What sense is there in continuing on until ruin, a fatal flight to “make good” and a most certain demise”?

Sadly this strategy makes perfect sense to Buzzy. Unfortunately, it’s a plan that will kill her.

“Trying harder” isn’t always the answer to achieving success. In fact, trying harder might not be the solution to helping one attain what they want in life at all.

If you risk your dreams for victory merely on trying harder, you may destroy your possibilities for success.

P.S The true story of Buzzy was paraphrased from a lecture by Price Pritchett…the names however…have been changed to protect the “innosect.”