WHY YOU DON'T ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS ๐
The biggest thing that keeps you from your goal is not mechanical
It isn't strategic or tactical. You could do everything right and still hit a wall.
Why is this? Aren't we supposed to believe you can get anything with enough hard work?
It's simple.
You don't believe it.
Beneath the blood, sweat and tears is a belief that is counter to what you say you want.
This belief is little more than a hardened, memorized emotional state.
That's it. You felt something in a moment of feeling limited and it stayed.
It could've been when you were 3, 13 or 23. You learned limitation and it became a memorized state and boundary to your sense of self.
These limiting beliefs usually show up in a few ways:
- a hard declaration: "That kind of thing isn't for me"
- a soft hedge: "Ehh we'll see how it goes"
- procrastination: "I'll do it when the time's right"
(Do you recognize any of these in yourself? Let me know in the replies).
The thing that's beneath all of them is simply that you don't believe it.
The good news is, this is well within your power to change.
Let me know if this is something that interests you, I'm taking free 1:1 coaching clients helping guys identify and drop limiting beliefs.
@Thomasdelvasto_ If we understand emotions as signal about our circumtance, then anger might be the most immediate one.
It usually means "something needs to change NOW"
If you pay attention it can reveal quite a lot about you
YOUR MOST POWERFUL TOOL
It's absolutely free. It doesn't cost you anything, either in money or effort.
Nobody can take it from you. Nobody can even find it.
You were born with it and you've used it every day for your whole life.
It's your IMAGINATION
In your mind's eye is a world that you are sovereign over.
But many of us have abandoned that throne and so the the bandits are pillaging the countryside
You're tormented by phantoms of old hurts and unpleasant, memorized emotional states
You even dream up entirely fabricated scenarios to be distressed about as captured by this sentiment attributed to Mark Twain:
"I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened."
You've daydreamed before about a made up scene of some kind of calamity. Maybe you replayed a rude encounter with a coworker but remixed it into a fiery story of vengeance.
And you felt that heat, didn't you? The scene was in your mind, but the reaction was in your body. Suddenly you're feeling agitated despite nothing real happening at all.
That's because your body takes cues from the mind, it doesn't vet for what's physical or mental. It treats your imagined scenarios as real.
So most of us have let our greatest asset - our imagination - run loose on autopilot, generating distress in our lives.
But it doesn't have to be that way. The good news is it doesn't control you, YOU control IT.
The same power that's been as bandits laying waste to the countryside of the kingdom in your mind, can become the armies sent to drive the bandits away.
If the body can't tell the difference between real and imagined, then use your imagination to your advance your wellbeing.
With the Law of Assumption, you can use your imagination to manifest greater realities for yourself - realities that YOU chose.
You can retake that throne and make greater the kingdom of your mind.
Is Free Will an Illusion?
I've been thinking about this interesting idea that Neville Goddard wrote about in The Power of Awareness in 1952.
"The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based."
At first I vehemently disagreed. The idea that I'm not in control of my own actions was insulting.
But I've sat with the idea and I think Goddard was onto something here.
Most of our lives are spent living unconsciously so most actions are taken with no real executive input by you.
"Free will actually means freedom to select any idea you desire."
The actions you take flow unconsciously from your assumptions. If your assumption is a life of misery and endless drudgery, you will surely receive it with no effort. Many people live exactly like this.
But if your assumption is a life in first class, whatever that means for you, you will have it.
Your life is based on your assumptions and your assumptions can be freely chosen by you.
@theralkia People have this view of personal progress like it's linear, but the forget-and-remember cycle is pretty much baked in as far as I can tell.
Such is life in the material plane
@conductr_ You are greater than your feelings. Your higher self (the third-person perspective you mentioned) knows there's nothing to fear.
Rise above and pursue the dream. Let the transient feelings pass, because they will.
@jackmoses777 True. When you're "asleep", you're going through the motions on autopilot, which is built on old emotional states - not current data.
Your unconscious, sleeping self, is in a kind of waking death.
@conductr_ Law of Assumption. Gratitude for the wish fulfilled, before it's present in current reality.
Extremely powerful mindset, the world belongs to those who hold it.