Have you heard someone saying this…
“If it’s so darn easy like what the personal self improvement books and seminars taught, how come I’m not a millionaire?”
I don’t have the answer.
But I do know how I became wealthy.
I was struggling at first until I realized the potential of what I’m about to share with you…
Belief in yourself.
Believe it or not, the limitations we experience in life are often the result of our own mental limitations.
Consider for a moment the hoopla surrounding Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile. Previous to him setting this record, most people considered it impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
In fact, I dare to bet that there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four minute mile, but were held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so simply because no one have done yet.
Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed. And thus, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds.
All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).
Numerous folks have problems setting personal goals and then following them. It can be because of a lack of self-discipline, lack of direction or perhaps a mismanaged lifestyle that has them moving around in a circle, never making any headway. Irrespective of what the explanation is, personal goals are not being met and that can result in a downturn in the quality of life for that individual. If you find that you are spinning your wheels but not getting anywhere as far as your own personal goals are concerned, maybe the time has come to look into life coaching.
Life coaching techniques are all about helping other folks to reach their goals and their aspirations. Utilizing a combination of coaching skills from several disiplines such as psychology and sociology, a life coach will lead by example while providing effective life tips to clients. As a life coach, he or she must help the client analyze their current living circumstances and help them reach a decision as to where they would like to be in life. As well as offering tips and guiding you along, they will also assist you in overcoming any obstacles that might pop up along the way.
It will prove very helpful and telling to see why you believe as you do. You will surely be surprised to realize how ill formed some of your beliefs are.
The fact is that the major portions contributing to the building of a belief system are based on illogical input! That’s right! Only 1 out of the 5 means of building beliefs is based on logic.
The 5 core information sources feeding your beliefs are:
- Evidence
- Tradition
- Authority
- Association
- Revelation
- Evidence
Evidence gives supporting facts that one thing happens because of another. The ‘cut and dried’ quality of evidence appeals to the analytical and critical thinking part of your mind. Developing your belief system through this mode is very rationale and stems from the use of logical thinking.
Two sources of evidence:
- Scientific study supplies results from critically tested hypotheses to support evidence based beliefs.
- Your unique life experience of cause and affect. You might continually experience a regular outcome from your actions. For example:
- If you insult a friend, you will feel badly.
- Paying your bills on time keeps all your service providers happy.
Life isnt the sweetest candy. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy, I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives. And then thoughts come popping into my mind like bubbles from nowhere How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life? Then I pause and observed for awhile I figured out that maybe, they start to work on a place called self.
So, how does one become genuinely happy? Step 1 is to love yourself.
Genuine Happiness Comes from Within
My theology professor once said that loving means accepting. To love oneself means to accept that you are not a perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great ounce of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve your repertoire to recover from our mistakes.
Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your family, your friends, the place you live in, your car, and all the things you now have truly, you know the answer to the question how to be genuinely happy.
