How many times have you talked yourself out of doing something by believing in all of the following?
- you can’t do it
- you’ve never been able to do it
- why try? It’ll only fail
- too hard, too expensive, too scary
- don’t know where to begin
- don’t know what would happen
It’s a loud ‘little’ voice shouting out to you about your weaknesses and often it paralyses us and stops us in our tracks. You want to know why we stop?
Quite simply it’s because we listen to it! By that I mean we hear what it is saying, we believe what we hear and we then have it confirmed by others.
We give attention to the negative things we say about ourselves and the negativity and doubt just increases in power and volume. My mentor calls it the ‘scumbag’ voice.
Want to know how to turn the volume down on it? Stop listening. Yep simple solution however it takes a little while to put into action.
The important thing to know here though is there is not only that little voice talking to you. There is yet another, and yes it does get quite crowded in there! This one is often much much smaller and quieter and often remains completely unnoticed – many don’t know it’s even there at all.
This one is your little fan club, your support group, your cheer squad and the complete opposite to the ‘scumbag’ voice. This little voice tells you you are completely and utterly amazing, magnificent, beautiful and can achieve anything you set your mind to.
Great isn’t it? And yes it is in there, honestly, you just have to listen a little harder.
This is the voice I want you to find, listen out for (even if for just a glimpse) and once you hear it, really really listen to it.
Unlike the ‘scumbag’ voice, transfer your complete and honest belief to whatever it tells you – what have you got to lose?
The more you listen the more often you will hear it and the more often you hear it, the louder it will get. I strongly suggest you repeat out loud to yourself whatever it says and write it down. Whenever you find you can’t hear it, go to what you have written. Realise it’ll have all the things you love about yourself, it’ll say you are amazing and then say them out loud, over and over again. Keep doing this and I promise, one day you will believe what you say and you’ll only ever hear the cheer squad!
The scumbag voice will have quietened down completely allowing you to tune into your true self.
This alone will keep you going, keep your momentum going to get back up and dust yourself off, and keep you on track.
– it’s you, it’s intrinsically inside of you to do whatever you set your mind to. You just have to believe it.
As a final thought from Napolean Hill – Author of Think and Grow Rich.
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
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