We got lots of useful beliefs, and tons of inspiration and motivation!
Too late, too old, not ready yet, not clever enough, too dear, too hard… what is your excuse for not setting out to get what you want in the new year?
Your ability to turn excuses into more useful beliefs will determine your success in 2010.
When you start to think more usefully, things will start to change for you.
When you think about the goals you want to achieve, you will feel differently about them. They will simply seem more doable.
Whatever it is that you want, whether you want a more successful career, better relationships, more money, love, a healthier and fitter body…
You can have it when you get yourself in the right mindset, identify the skills you need to make it happen, and take consistent and focused action.
How can you do this? Well, here how you can get started…
Take a couple of minutes to write down all the negative things you usually tell yourself that have been keeping you from taking action in a particular area. Then turn this into more useful beliefs.
For example: Getting a new job
| Negative beliefs | Useful beliefs |
| – I am not good enough at public speaking
– I am not a good sales person – I am not qualified enough for the job – I am not confident enough for the interview |
– I can become better at public speaking by…
– I can become a better sales person by… – I can be more qualified for the job by… – I can be more confident at the interview by… |
The endings you choose for your “useful beliefs” statements, will give you an idea of the skills you need to get better at.
Your objectives will seem more real and achievable once you have identified what it is that you need to improve.
This is why the best investment you will make this year is in improving Yourself; getting the necessary skills for you to achieve your goals more quickly and effortlessly.
Nothing will ever be as rewarding, long-lasting and good value for money. Talk about bargains!
One of my clients was made redundant from her job this year and came to me for help.
We discussed a number of ideas, all of which she turned down. She said she was too old to start over. She is in her early sixties.
So we googled away, and this is a shortened list of what we found out:
- Verdi composed his Ave Maria at age 85.
- Harlan Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken at 65.
- Ronald Reagan didn’t get into politics until he was 55.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of Little House on the Prairie) published her first book in her 60s.
- Rodney Dangerfield didn’t start doing comedy until he was 45.
- Cezanne’s most highly prized paintings were done in his 60s.
- Alfred Hitchcock’s best films, including Vertigo and Psycho, were done in his late 50s and early 60s.
Not only was she shocked, but she was also deeply inspired.
After this, we worked together on turning her excuses into reasons why she wanted to start over doing something she loved.
Then we identified the skills she needed to acquire in order to do this, and we put together an action plan that worked for her.
She took action straight away, and to this day she emails me telling me how she feels happier and more accomplished than ever.
See, when it comes to personal accomplishment, as George Washington once said, ninety-nine per cent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
So, remember, if you have things you want to achieve in the new year, quit making excuses and avail of the best special offer ever: The opportunity to improve yourself and the quality of your life.
Anna
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