Life has a habit of reminding you what is important, doesn’t it? I received some very sad news recently, a friend of mine has just been diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease (MND). He is in his early forties with a wife and a young daughter, he had just started his own business and had everything going for him, unfortunately with this incurable disease, he is now contemplating a very different future than the one that he had planned for himself. He is mentally resilient and I am sure that he will find a way to make the best of his situation going forward.
Seize the day
Things like this make you think about your own mortality, what you want out of life, the contribution that you want to make and the legacy that you want to leave. It makes you feel grateful and humble, and it makes you realise that every day is a blessing and an opportunity.
The fact is that however long we are on this planet it will not be long enough, we have a short window of opportunity to make the world a better place, to dream and to realise our dreams. Life definitely is too short to spend our time living with regrets, guilt, being angry at others, being fearful and procrastinating. Our time is now and we have a duty to ourselves to make the most of it and live our life the way that we want it.
So, what is holding you back? What is it that you are waiting for? How come you are not fully living your life the way that you want it?
Your saboteur
I’ll give you the answer, it is your internal saboteur! Don’t worry, we all have one, in some of us it is more active than in others but it is ever present, lurking in the back of our mind, waiting for an opportunity to sabotage our happiness, and success.
Your saboteur is:
- The thing that argues that you “can’t” do something and if you listen to it then you will never do it.
- The part of you that blames other people when things go wrong, or when you do not achieve your objectives.
- The thing that reminds you of reasons to be unhappy when you are having a great time.
- The voice in your head that tells you that you don’t deserve success and happiness.
- The thing that persuades you that you are “too” tall, small, poor, forgetful, unorganised, unintelligent, lethargic to achieve your true dreams.
- The thing that persuades you to have a lie down or watch tv rather than get some exercise.
- The reason that you worry.
- The reason that you have regrets.
- The reason that you procrastinate.
- The reason that you have unwarranted fear of the unknown, fear of losing something, fear of failure, fear of being good enough.
You see, the thing is that our internal saboteur gets mixed up, confused. Its original duty is our protection, it is our fight or flight mechanism and it can be useful in that respect. It feeds off messages that we give it via our thoughts and it strengthens the more that we involve it in our life. The more thoughts that we have that are negative in nature the more encouragement that we give our saboteur, it thinks that it is being useful and so it gets more and more involved in our life. We programme our thoughts through repetition (this is NLP), we programme our saboteur through repetitive encouragement.
Awareness – Choices – Change
The only way to deal with your saboteur is to be aware of it, to train it so that it serves you well. Watch your thoughts for one of the above 10 signs of internal sabotage. When you recognise the involvement of your saboteur, then you can acknowledge it, thank it and decide whether or not it is positive for you at that moment. This is how you can start to live your life the way that you want it.
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Seize the day, take steps forward in your life, tell your nearest and dearest how much you love them and smile incessantly!
To your sucess
Anthony
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