Last weekend Sash and I decided to pledge that we wouldn't use the F word anymore! We figured it'd be a good first step towards becoming more civil human beings. Hence, we decided that everytime one of us succummbed to the natural urge of cursing we would be fined 10 bucks!
We shook on it and agreed!
3 days later I'm down 130 ringgit and I've cleverly kept it under the radar to avoid paying up!
So I'm asking myself - why is it so hard for me to stop cursing? It could be because I'm a juvenile delinquent that's just rotten by nature... Which is most probably what i am...
ORRRRR....
maybe (and this is not me justifying...) it's because I don't BELIEVE I need to stop cursing. Consciously I know I want to stop cursing but deep down inside me I don't believe it's important to stop. Deep down inside I believe it's perfectly fine to curse as long as it's in moderation and it's not in front of my future mother in law!
So even though i consciously want to stop (trust me i do - it's F****** expensive!) I can't, because deep down inside I believe I don't have to.
This whole to curse or not to curse problem got me thinking deeper....
Maybe the whole "if I don't believe in something I can't change my behavior" concept also applies to other parts of my life?
For instance, I've been trying to think positively about my physique lately but it's not easy. It's tough to think that I have a superb physique when I look in the mirror and all I can see are those HUGE LOVE HANDLES staring back at me! I wake up every morning and WHAM there they are saying good morning in the mirror!
So how the heck do expect me to be postive about my physique or about my bank account when it's staring at me that things are in a shitty state! So after lots of thinking I'm convinced that I can't think positively unless I believe in positivity. To put it differently, I can't be positive about my physique unless I truly believe I have a great physique.
I need to trick myself into believing that I have a superb physique regardless of whoever I see saying 'hello' to me in the mirror. Once I get that believe in me, the positive thinking comes naturally and then the Law of Attraction takes over!
I need to truly believe that I have a great physique before i can start thinking positive about my physique. And the only way to change my believe is to keep bombarding it with positive input! That's why the poster and the positive statements are so important!
You don't have to believe in the poster or the statements yet but if you keep looking at it - you'll unconsciously develop new positive believes. And when you unconsciously develop new positive believes you unconsciously develop new positive thinking as well. Make sense?
Once you've got the positive thinking (unconsciously) going - just leave it to the Law of Attraction to deliver your goals!
As for me; I'm already starting to believe that empowering 1,000,000 might not be so tough after all :) I've been looking at my poster and saying my positive statements out loud the whole day.
Funnily enough, I had an opportunity to empower someone today. A client of my sales staff has a nephew whose going overseas in Oct. He's looking to gain some exposure before he leaves and they're asking if he can gain some experience by joining my team. Maybe I'll hire him and expose him to all the craziness that happens in my company! It might empower him :)
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