The key to achieving your dreams and goals and realizing a true life of significance is altering your beliefs about yourself.
- “There’s a governor on our lives, and it’s our identity — what we think we’re worth; what we think we deserve.” – Motivational speaker Ed Mylett
- A good person in any endeavor will only take what he thinks he deserves. In other words, a good person will not take more from the table of life than what he thinks he’s worth
If you want to alter your life, alter that governor of self-identity
- Put yourself in circumstances that demand you to get outside your comfort zone.
- When you do that repetitiously, you begin to believe in that new level of identity.
- Surround yourself with people who operate at a higher level than you.
- Both your behaviors and associations are key to altering your beliefs about yourself, which are the path to getting (and giving) more out of life.
There is something we are trained to honor more than our dreams: the comfort zone.
- Simply be aware of the comfort zone and its effect on you.
- Often, what we really want is hidden beneath what we’ve settled for.
- “80% of success is showing up” – Woody Allen
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
- “God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, the ant. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” – Jules Renard
- Deadlines get us going, get us moving, motivate us to do things sooner rather than later.
Re-source: Reflections
What are the thoughts you think when you use these emotions in a limiting way?
- “I’m too tired,” “I’m no good at this sort of thing,” etc.)
Where in your body do you feel fear? Guilt? Unworthiness? Hurt feelings? Anger?
- Simply be aware that a “friendly” use for this seemingly unfriendly emotions is possible.
Benefits of action
- If we don’t do something, we’re not going to get anything
- Hidden values
- Excitement hiding as fear, caring hiding as hurt
- Making mistakes show us what we need to learn
- Use critical thinking by asking “How can I have done better?
- “First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.” – Dr. Rob Gilbert
Many times the question really is, “What’s more important – your goal, or others’ opinions of your goal?”
- “There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others.” – Ralph Waldo Trine
craving from “Change That Up” – changethatup.com
craving and resource from “DO IT!” – Let’s get of our buts – by John-Roger and Peter Mcwilliams
