Personal Development
if you are constantly holding back, afraid to take pecially if it is not
risks, making excuses. You know if you jump in serving you.
with both feet and throw caution to the wind and
just go for it.
Here is the way to do that. Ask yourself this most
important question. “Is what I’m thinking/feeling/
Naturally, if you discover your primary motivation doing right now bringing me closer to or taking me
and you don’t like it, then it’s time to change it. The further away from what I say I want?” If it’s further
question is how?
away, stop it immediately and start to go in a posi-
tive direction. There’s an old proverb that says, “No
Well, it’s not too difficult.
matter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road,
turn back”.
If you’re constantly making excuses, how bad
does that feel? That’s the key. If you’re motivated So, once you figure out what your primary motiva-
by avoiding pain, it needs to be more painful to tion is, if it doesn’t serve you or it will hinder you
stay where you are than whatever pain you believe in your business, change it immediately into some-
you’ll experience in making the change. Just look thing that will work for you. Then begin at once to
to your future, 1, 5, 10, 20 years from now. Feel how take action. It won’t take long for you to turn things
you’ll feel if you keep making all the excuses you’re around, I promise. It may be slow going at first, but
making now. Paint the picture of what being broke, soon you’ll pick up speed and gain momentum re-
sick and in a rut will really look like in your life. If ally fast. Just stick with it, keep moving forward,
that’s too painful, you’ll spur yourself into action.
don’t give up. Don’t hold back.
If you’re motivated by pleasure, then paint the most
pleasureful picture in your mind that you possibly
can about your amazing fortune, travels, health,
exciting life. If that is pleasurable enough, you’ll
change.
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Keep this all important fact in mind. You are the
one that is in charge of your thoughts, beliefs, emo-
tions and perceptions. If you label something as
scary, you can just as easily label it as safe. It’s your
label. If you label yourself as not good enough you
can just as easily label yourself as amazing, fantas-
tic, incredible, etc.
It really comes down to how bad you want some-
thing. You have to want it more than your excuses.
You have to want it more than the typical thoughts
and emotions that come up immediately and try to
keep you from being “hurt”.
You are better than your excuses. You don’t have to
allow negative, fearful thoughts to hold you back.
You don’t have to believe everything you think, es-
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