BLOW AWAY THE DEAD STUFF
| Category: Personal Development For Marketeers | Date: 2002-01-17 |
Yesterday morning I was looking out of my office window at the trees in my front yard. The trees were filled with brown, shriveled, dead leaves. These leaves were once healthy and green. They had turned brilliant colors under the fall sky. But now they were old and dead.
The wind was blowing strong yesterday. As the wind hit the trees, the dead leaves came flying off. It looked liked a leaf shower. I could almost hear the trees laughing with glee that the dead things hanging from their branches were finally flying away.
As I watched, the thought hit me that every once in a while, we humans need to have a clean, refreshing wind blow through us to blow off all those dead things - ideas, attitudes, mindsets - that hang on us and weight us down.
What kinds of dead things are hanging off your branches?
Dead Thing #1 - I Cant Do This
Do you realize that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to do? Your mind is a powerful instrument. If you believe you can do something, your mind is a powerful catalyst toward getting it done. Rather than sit on your couch and repeat over and over, *I cant,* start saying out loud (yes, out loud), *I can do this. I am able. Nothing is too hard for me.* Once you say it enough, youll come to believe it. Then watch out world!
Dead Thing #2 - I Dont Know How
The people who really are rocket scientists didnt know how to build rockets until they learned. Its OK not to know how to do something. The problem is when we let this attitude keep us from attaining our goals. There are many resources on the Internet, in your local library, on your towns college campus. Take advantage of these resources and learn how to do what you need to do.
Dead Thing #3 - Im Stupid
My husband was told this very thing so often while he was growing up, that eventually he came to believe it himself. Yes, some of us are able to access more of our brain power than others, but that doesnt mean that you are stupid. If youve heard this through your life from others, or if youve been telling yourself this, turn this around by repeating to yourself often throughout the day, *I have the power to learn. I will learn. Nothing can stop me.* It may take you longer
than some to reach your goal, but you will get there.
Dead Thing #4 - It Will Never Happen for Me
Hogwash! If you keep repeating to yourself that nothing good will happen to you, then, of course, nothing will. Just like when taking a picture with your camera, what you focus on, develops in your life. There is nothing different between you and the successful person. You can learn to be successful. Success is more of an attitude than a state of being. Get up every morning and say, *Something good is going to happen to me today.* Look for those opportunities that sneak by and jump on them. Be determined. If it happens for someone else, it can
happen for you.
Dead Thing #5 - I Have Nothing to Offer
You dont have to be a world-famous, multi-degreed person to be of help to someone else. Each one of us has experiences in our lives that we have come through. There is always someon who is still in the middle of that same experience. Share what you ave learned. Let others know what did and did not work for you in that circumstance. Youll be surprised at just how many people want to hear how youve overcome. Your down-to-earth practical counsel based on experience is worth more educated supposition.
If any of these dead things have been hanging around on your branches, its time to blow them off! You can change the way you thing, how you look at life, and your attitude. It may take some time, but its well worth the effort.
See, dont you feel lighter already?
Copyright (c) 2001 Sharon Dalton Williams
About the author.
Sharon Dalton Williams is the author of "How to Succeed and Live a Full Life." Learn how to reach the goals you have set or your life and business. Surf to sdwassociates.com to order your copy.
Learn how to use what is uniquely you in building your business. Subscribe to *Out From the Crowd.*
oftc-subscribe@topica.com.
http://www.sdwassociates.com
The wind was blowing strong yesterday. As the wind hit the trees, the dead leaves came flying off. It looked liked a leaf shower. I could almost hear the trees laughing with glee that the dead things hanging from their branches were finally flying away.
As I watched, the thought hit me that every once in a while, we humans need to have a clean, refreshing wind blow through us to blow off all those dead things - ideas, attitudes, mindsets - that hang on us and weight us down.
What kinds of dead things are hanging off your branches?
Dead Thing #1 - I Cant Do This
Do you realize that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to do? Your mind is a powerful instrument. If you believe you can do something, your mind is a powerful catalyst toward getting it done. Rather than sit on your couch and repeat over and over, *I cant,* start saying out loud (yes, out loud), *I can do this. I am able. Nothing is too hard for me.* Once you say it enough, youll come to believe it. Then watch out world!
Dead Thing #2 - I Dont Know How
The people who really are rocket scientists didnt know how to build rockets until they learned. Its OK not to know how to do something. The problem is when we let this attitude keep us from attaining our goals. There are many resources on the Internet, in your local library, on your towns college campus. Take advantage of these resources and learn how to do what you need to do.
Dead Thing #3 - Im Stupid
My husband was told this very thing so often while he was growing up, that eventually he came to believe it himself. Yes, some of us are able to access more of our brain power than others, but that doesnt mean that you are stupid. If youve heard this through your life from others, or if youve been telling yourself this, turn this around by repeating to yourself often throughout the day, *I have the power to learn. I will learn. Nothing can stop me.* It may take you longer
than some to reach your goal, but you will get there.
Dead Thing #4 - It Will Never Happen for Me
Hogwash! If you keep repeating to yourself that nothing good will happen to you, then, of course, nothing will. Just like when taking a picture with your camera, what you focus on, develops in your life. There is nothing different between you and the successful person. You can learn to be successful. Success is more of an attitude than a state of being. Get up every morning and say, *Something good is going to happen to me today.* Look for those opportunities that sneak by and jump on them. Be determined. If it happens for someone else, it can
happen for you.
Dead Thing #5 - I Have Nothing to Offer
You dont have to be a world-famous, multi-degreed person to be of help to someone else. Each one of us has experiences in our lives that we have come through. There is always someon who is still in the middle of that same experience. Share what you ave learned. Let others know what did and did not work for you in that circumstance. Youll be surprised at just how many people want to hear how youve overcome. Your down-to-earth practical counsel based on experience is worth more educated supposition.
If any of these dead things have been hanging around on your branches, its time to blow them off! You can change the way you thing, how you look at life, and your attitude. It may take some time, but its well worth the effort.
See, dont you feel lighter already?
Copyright (c) 2001 Sharon Dalton Williams
About the author.
Sharon Dalton Williams is the author of "How to Succeed and Live a Full Life." Learn how to reach the goals you have set or your life and business. Surf to sdwassociates.com to order your copy.
Learn how to use what is uniquely you in building your business. Subscribe to *Out From the Crowd.*
oftc-subscribe@topica.com.
http://www.sdwassociates.com
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