Searching for some practical avenues for achieving your Full Potential? Excellent!
How about…
Identifying your Blind Spots. Recognizing opportunities. Seeing possibilities. Reaching so far beyond your hurdles with such positive force of will that all your obstacles are overcome as a matter of course, and the entire exercise of doing so is a pleasure!
“Life on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.” – K. Wallenda
Self-discipline is before the fact; punishment is after the fact.
The Scenario: You know you’re going to make a critical decision, but you want to know: Is my key driver here emotion or conviction? What’s the difference?
EMOTION and its outputs are ephemeral.
Insight: A decision made in or based on EMOTION has built-in escape hatches. Which means ultimately that decision has no stamina, no power, and it’s tough to ever have any real confidence in it.
CONVICTION is a potent & limitless fuel supply.
Insight: A decision based on CONVICTION is a decision based on a Principle; it may have to be “qualified” with a proviso at times to be functional, but this never operates as an escape hatch.
The Takeaway: Doesn’t every conviction originate with an emotion in the first place? Yep. The key is that as you mature, you must identify & select certain emotions, then try, test, and transform them into conviction.
How? You can start with an emotional thought, but then strip away everything unreasonable or irrelevant. Then, whatever becomes visible as an underlying Principle is the reason you feel the way you do, regardless of circumstance; it is upon this Principle that your conviction is based.
Remember: Conviction is not, and should never feel like, a ‘dead weight’; instead, it should feel like and function as fuel for excelling yourself!
The less you fear your own weaknesses, the more you can engage your own strengths.
A belief is simply an assumption that you once made, that you come back to over & over again, and have come to rely on as true. The more you repeat this pattern, the stronger the belief.
And when you repeatedly act on a belief, it becomes a habit.
If you ever get the feeling that dealing with something in your life is “long overdue”, take it as physical proof from within that you are actually ready to successfully deal with it.
Any fear can seem overwhelming when you allow your imagination to magnify it; the consequences of making the wrong choice seem infinite.
But if you can face that same fear head on, you’ll notice the magnitude of potential consequences shrink considerably, giving you the presence of mind to dominate that fear and make the right choice.