Let's start off with a quick quiz for you. You have two options which would you prefer?
1 - Having the life you want.
2 - Having the reasons why you cannot have that life.
Which option do you choose?
You are aware it is a choice right?
As Richard Bach told us ‘Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re all yours’
That is something I want to concentrate on - choices. Although our minds resist it, fact of the matter is just like me, you have a choice between having the life you want or the reasons why you can’t.
You can live your life of luxury with an expensive car, a nice house etc. Or you can carry around a big black bag of trash, in that bag of trash is all those incidents and accidents that have occurred since childhood.
You have two options, you can live the life of a victim, burdened by the traumas of your past, or you can live the life of a hero, you don’t have the option to both.
If you are a victim, how do you become a hero? By shifting your constant focus on all that is wrong, and injustice in your life, and focusing on one simple question - What do I want?
If you want to feel empowered, then you need to make a courageous decision, step out of your comfort zone and gravitate to what you want.
A neurological fact that blows my mind, is our brains are unable to distinguish the difference between an event from the past that we’re currently thinking about and an event that is actually happening right now.
Memories that fire together - wire together - and by keeping our experiences fresh in our consciousness, it makes them ready for recall.
In fact we would all be better off if we just let those stories go. Stop feeding them no matter how hungry they are, because by doing so we reduce the amount of neurological support for them.
You’re about to start a 100meter race, what are you thinking about? The gold medal? Wrong. You’re about to take a penalty in the world cup final, what are you thinking about? The ball hitting the back of the net? Wrong. That is simply wishful daydreaming.
You want to imagine yourself successfully running that race, everything you need to do to achieve that 1st place finish during the race. You want to imagine yourself, running up to the football, focus on how you hit it, and where you’re aiming for it to go. Essentially doing whatever is required to achieve your goal or outcome.
That is the process that grooves our neural pathways for the successful race, for the successful penalty, to successfully achieve that goal or outcome.