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I probably get more questions about the plain desire to be happy than anything else. Most people are miserable, generally.
And yes, it’s horrible, but also avoidable.
I know… I was one of the biggest perpetrators of stinkin’ thinkin’ you’ve ever met. But that simple, yet profound, shift, when it comes over you – actually when you make it your objective to change it – just puts a different shading on how you see nearly every hour of your life…
Anyone interested in getting better results, becoming more productive and ultimately more successful should probably take an honest look at the problem of procrastination.
Most people think procrastination is just an issue that involves putting things off that can be done later without much of a penalty. That idea just scratches the surface of the procrastination issue and is indicative of the denial people have about it.
Truthfully, procrastination is like an addiction because it is the symptom of a thinking problem and like any other addiction, its difficult to break!
“If you want to be a writer, you have to write.”
I was 16 years old when my father said those kind-and-cruel words to me. I never forgot them. The first time I can remember wanting to be a writer, I was 11 or 12 years old. Back then, I had no idea that there was such a thing as copywriting — the kind of writing that would eventually make me a very rich man. I just wanted to be a writer. Any sort of writer.
I’d written a poem for Sister Mary Something at school. My rhyming quatrain (AABB) was titled, pretentiously, “How Do I Know the World Is Real?”
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw
According to Global Entrepreneurial Monitor (GEM) fear of failure is the top reason given in Ireland and worldwide by aspiring entrepreneurs for not starting their own businesses.
NESTA – the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and the UK’s largest early stage investor in innovative and creative businesses — found that almost three quarters of people who said they had what they believed was a good business idea were not acting on it because they were afraid of not succeeding.
As they journey on the path of entrepreneurship, many successful businesspeople would identify their intuition or gut instincts as their compass and mentor. Without it, they wouldn’t have achieved the “unachievable.”
“Don’t let the noise of other people drown out your inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become,” advises Steve Jobs, Apple Computer CEO
So what is intuition or gut? For some it is a feeling in their stomach, for others, a compelling vision, and for more its an inner voice; all of which are promoting with conviction, a course of action.
If asked, could you name the five wealthiest people in the world, or five people who have one the Nobel Prize, or the last five Academy Award winners for best actor and actress? The point is, none of us remembers the headliners of yesterday. When the applause dies, the awards tarnish, and achievements are forgotten, no one cares about who won which award.
But if I asked you to list five teachers or mentors who believed in you and encouraged you, five friends who have helped you through a difficult time, five people who have taught you something worthwhile, or five people who have made you feel appreciated and special – that’s much easier to do, isn’t it?
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” – Above Life’s Turmoil
This principle was not easy for me to accept and I fought it for a long time. As miserable as my life was at the time I learned this concept, I was certain that there was no way that it was due to the thoughts that I had held.
There were too many other reasons why things had gone bad: my ex-spouse, the economy, a client who had wronged me, and on and on and on. Since I wasn’t responsible for my “bad luck,” then certainly my thoughts had nothing to do with it.
If you don’t plant seeds today, you won’t reap a harvest… tomorrow!
The Law of the Farmer is one of the great success truths of all time. You can find this truth in the ancient book of Matthew found in the Bible. The Great Teacher went down to the sea shore and a great crowd amassed around him. Everywhere he went, the crowds would gather. The Great Teacher looked over the crowd ready to hang onto His every word.
“I heard you did a great job connecting with the audience and got all choked up with your acceptance speech for the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame,” said my friend Victoria.
“Yep, when I DO authentic, it works every time,” I said with a chuckle.
I was kidding about ‘doing’ authentic, of course. What immediately connected with the audience was ‘being’ authentic.
The fact was my introducer, Warren Evans, brought me to the stage with “Welcome home Vince.” I was emotional about coming home to Canada with this kind of honor.
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to my discovery of AFFORMATIONS — empowering questions (NOT “affirmations”) that immediately change your subconscious thought patterns from negative to positive.
The staggering realization I made in The Shower on that fateful morning was that you create your reality in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourself and others.
Traditional success teachers have focused a great deal of energy telling you to change your statements. But until The Shower, no one had fully realized, or shown how to harness, the awesome power of what happens when you change the questions.