What do you think of you?

A practitioner stops on thought or a question to ponder, question, explore and understand, and use the outcome of the thought.

The right important question can take a week of hard processing – like this question.

It’s a question that is at the root of how the rest of your life will go.

What do you think of you?

Older but the same?

Are you the same person you were ten years ago – just older?

Or are you a better, smarter, more able, and fulfilled version of you?

To become a better you, change your environment, the people you spend time with, what you learn, and what you do.

In ten years from NOW, will you be older but the same?

Where did you come from?

If we compare where we are in life to other people who are doing better than us, or to the life of our dreams all the time, we will always feel disappointed with our life.

Instead, compare where you are to where you were; where you started out.  (If you are in the same place, and you like it there, you wouldn’t likely be a subscriber).  If you are in the same situation as when you grew up, or as you were years ago, that’s not good.  

But most of us have made progress, and we can look back and say “I used to be there, and now I am here, and I am proud of that”.  We have gone from nowhere to somewhere.

Put where you are against where used to be, not where you want to be all the time.

Habits are great. Habits are not great.

The cumulative results of what you do/hear/see/eat/drink/think/say have a profound impact on who you are and where you wind up.

Habits are powerful in shaping your life.  

What positive habits do you have?

What negative ones?

Drawing the wrong conclusions

This happened and you decided it meant____________.

“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”

When we draw the wrong conclusions and they become beliefs, they limit us forever.  What decisions did you make about yourself or the world that, if you really think about it now, were wrong?

Can you see they have been limiting you?

Think about it again.  Can you make a new decision?

"Self Intervention"

In order to have a breakthrough, something’s got to break.  Doing it yourself if you are able, can be the best way, and make you proud in the end.

What do you need to just acknowledge, call out why it hurts you, and say “That is enough!”?

Then stop triggering the behavior by setting up your environment and the people around you so that the old behavior is more difficult and less accessible and the new better behavior is easier and faster?

Having your own full resolve and participation is a powerful way to change.

If you believe every thought you think…

…you’re in trouble.  

Are you a perfect thought making machine?  Do you think that you are influenced by envy, prejudice, fear, and past decisions.  Do you not think that you have confirmation bias, and think thoughts that confirm your past (uninformed) decisions?  Do you know that you will think thoughts consistent with your self-image and how you see yourself?

We do tend to believe your own thoughts because we created them, and this keeps us stuck where we are.  Questioning ourselves is the first step to enlightenment, and to a way out and up from the life we live now, to a better one we can imagine.

Man bites dog!!

Dog bites man.  Happens every day.  Not news.

Man bites dog!  The exception.  Big news!

Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, dementia,  – not news.

New is the exception, not the rule.

You're the boss

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, their yours” – Richard Bach

What have you been saying you can’t do?

What bad situation have you been saying you can’t get out of?  

In what area have you kept yourself small?

You’re the boss of you…

Change your thoughts, change your life.

Who doubts you?

It better not be you.