When you start this journey of personal development, it’s likely you are somewhat delusional and think that you’ll listen to a program once and then you’ll be an overnight success. You fail to realize that those who have achieved MASSIVE levels of success worked at it, often for many years. By dissecting my own journey a bit, I figured I could give you some insights.
Experimentation: At this point in the journey you are excited because the possibility of finally changing all this bullshit in your life that you are not happy with has arrived. You get your first Tony Robbins course or whichever personal development guru you prefer and you find yourself inspired. In fact, you start to find that some of the small things actually work. Then you start aiming for big goals which takes you into the next phase.
Doubt: When you start to affirm bigger goals and they don’t happen, you start to question whether or not all this nonsense really works and you convince yourself of nonsense such as “I guess this is my fate.” You are more or less unaware of the 10 signs that the matrix has you. Making the shift from doubt to faith is what separates those who make it from those who don’t.
Faith: The transition from doubt to faith is often the most difficult one because it’s during that period that “nothing is happening.” The life coach I worked with has said over and over again that it’s when you want to stop doing all this stuff (affirmations, visualization, etc) that you’ll make the most progress if you carry through.
Belief: When you act on faith you start to attract things into your life that make your belief in something get stronger. For example, I had gone through Napolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich once before, but I didn’t quite get enough out of it. In the last few weeks I’ve probably listened to certain chapters in the book about a dozen times if not more. I have no doubt in the power of auto-suggestion considering people like Andrew Carnegie used these exact methods.
Achievement: In the last few months I’d been affirming “I earn 5,000 dollars per month in come from my blog.” In the last 2 weeks I’ve started lining up freelance work that’s leading to several hundred dollars extra per month, and I’ve reinforced my belief and got to the point of achievement.
As I’ve said before, the one reason all this crap never works for most people is because they don’t do it consistently. Once again, How often do you decide not to brush your teeth? `
This is exactly what I needed in my inbox today! I am struggling and pacing between the first 3 phases...but now I think I hav decided to believe!
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