Going beyond your limitations
April 5 - This Week's Quote:
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"You are not limited to the life you now live. It has been accepted by you as the best you can do at this moment. Any time you're ready to go beyond the limitations currently in your life, you're capable of doing that by choosing different thoughts."
- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh
If you keep thinking the same thoughts, you’ll get the same results. As Einstein once said, “You can’t solve a problem at the level on which it was created.”
If you want to change your life – or something about your life, you first need to change your thinking about it. You can do this in many ways depending on what it is you’re wanting to be different. But here are a few basic suggestions:
- Change your perception of the problem or issue. Look at it from the other person’s perspective. Or, look at it from a higher, more inclusive, big picture perspective. For instance, if you were a writer, including this scenario in your story, what would be the benefit to all the characters involved – including yourself? What might be the lesson or the “gift”? You’ve heard the old adage: “every cloud has a silver lining.” What’s the silver lining in this problem/issue?
- Change your self-talk. Stop saying I can’t. Say instead, I CAN. Like Henry Ford said, If you believe you can, you’re right, if you believe you can’t, you’re right.
- Decide to be proactive and stop seeing yourself as the victim. Take back you’re your power and do something. Do whatever you can to correct the problem. If there’s nothing physically you can do, then let the “doing” be in your mind. Let go of the worrying or obsessing about it. Turn it over to God, the Universe, or a Higher Power to handle. And know that things will turn out right for you.
- Put your focus else where. Decide that you will feel good about yourself and where you are in life regardless. And then begin to focus on what you do want, and how you do want your life situation to be. You see, when you are focused on what you don’t want and all the things you don’t like, you attract more of that into your life. When you stop and begin to focus on what you do want instead, you’ll start seeing more things that you do want appearing in your life.
If you’ve been primarily focusing on how bad things are or all the things you don’t want for awhile, it may take some time to break the “negative thinking” habit. And that’s okay. When you notice yourself thinking about what you don’t want – and especially if you are feeling negative emotion about it – just stop and say, “cancel” and immediately think of what you do want.
However, be careful that as you’re thinking of what you do want that you’re not focusing on the lack of it. This is very important and can sometimes be a very subtle difference. The key is to check in with your emotions. If you are feeling good, more positive, or even excited as you think of something you want, you’re on the right track. If you are feeling heavy, or not good in any way, then you’re focusing on the lack of what you want. You’re focused on not having it, which is bringing evidences of not having it into your life.
You are not limited to where you are now. This is simply where you’re choices and decisions up to this point have brought you. At any time, you can decide to make different choices. You can choose to think or act differently. And in doing this, you begin to create a new future for yourself. You begin to step beyond where you are today, paving the way for a different tomorrow.
Blessings!
Becky
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