Sunday Story...The Biggest Growth Lie

Sunday Story…The Biggest Growth Lie

All you have to do to attract more (fill in the blank here)______________is ask for it. Use affirmations, write it down on a 3x5 card and look at it every day, read your goals out loud, in the mirror and SHAZAM all your dreams will come true.

What a load of crap. Getting healthy won’t happen just by wishing it so. Being more fit won’t happen because you say to yourself every day …”I am fit, healthy and strong.” Your bank account won’t swell because you believe you are a millionaire, act like a millionaire, or even live like a millionaire. Sorry, not going to happen. You won’t become more conscious, you won’t be a nicer person, and you won’t magically become enlightened just because you say it or think it.

This lie, this myth has been especially prevalent over the last 4 or 5 years but it has been around a long long time. I can remember being told to write my affirmations down and carry them and read them every day waay back in the dark ages (the 80’s), And I get all the stories about building a vision board and then “poof” the vision comes true. Life is not an I Dream of Jeannie episode where all someone does is nod and all your dreams come true. I wish it was like that but it isn’t.

That being said, it also isn’t rocket science or brain surgery. If you want to your life to look a certain way you have to do at least 3 things:
1. Decide what it is you really really want. What really lights you up? What gets you up in the morning, springing out of bed like someone just poked you with a cattle prod and your feet on the ground running excited? Decide what it is you want…more fitness, better health, more success, more time, more of something. Whatever it is, make a crystal clear choice.
2. Be that. “Be the change you want to see”---M. Gandhi. Want to have more fitness…start being more fit…in other words you are going to DO something. Get to the gym, hit the road, Jack. If you want to go back to school start being a student. Want to have more money? Start being more successful, work harder, find people to emulate, get your resources focused on success.
3. Commit. The map is already laid out for you. It is right here, right under your feet. If you aren’t there yet you may not be 100% committed to your decision. Go back to step #1 and make sure the decision is really what you want. Then back to step #2. Be the thing you want to be. Then get off the couch, off your butt and get moving. The anticipation of pain is always worse than the pain itself. You can’t win this race sitting on the sidelines or bemoaning all the setback and things you don’t have to make it work. Get committed and get going. As someone once said…”Hard work beats Talent when Talent doesn’t Work hard.” Or this one…”When you want to be successful as much as you want to breathe you will be successful.” You can substitute the word success for any of your decisions.

That is it. Crystal clear hair on fire decision. Be who and what you decide (take action). Commit. Get out there, stay out there, work hard, and good things will happen.

So what are you deciding right now? Does your life look the way you want it to look? What are you doing about it? Do you even know what you want it to look like? Do you have any idea of what you really really really want…deep down in your bones? Do you? Get out there and be it. Get out there and stay out there. And if it doesn’t work the first time, pick yourself up and try it again, try it a different way, get some help but never give up on your dream. Never stop being who and what you want to be.

Approach this with great goals, a calm mind and driven purpose and you will win the day.

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
www.martialartsnevada.com

Follow me at:
Twitter --- http://m.twitter.com/jmariotti
FaceBook --- John Mariotti
Blog Spots…John Mariotti
http://feel-good-friday.blogspot.com/
http://sunday-stories.blogspot.com/