Hello,
Currently, I'm speaking with many home business opportunity seekers who are looking for something different, something better in these troubling economic times. Of course, they are smart to do that, and they need to be very careful about any final decisions, but I am still surprised by how many people do not follow through by not taking at least an informed look or guidance.
A mentor explained it as inertia...fear of moving...the unknown of measurable changes...the risk/reward balance...
I like to call it driving a worn-out J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) Work Model to a scary financial destination with a full set of brakes and blinders compared to other Home Business Models to a better "personal economy" and happiness.
This article by Brian Tracy came to mind and cannot be said better. You can overcome your obstacles by questioning your excuses.
"You pick the place you want to walk to and the place you want to walk away from...but see with
clarity where you are going..."
Enjoy...embrace...integrate...release your brakes.
Releasing Your Brakes by Brian Tracy
Do you have any ideas or attitudes about yourself
and your abilities that may be holding you back
from great success and happiness?
As it happens, everyone does.
However, you can learn how to develop
the beliefs that can help you and get rid of
the false ideas that block you from realizing your full potential.
In her wonderful book You Can Heal Your Life,
Louise Hay says that each one of us has feelings of inferiority
that are manifested in the conclusion that we are not good enough.
We think that we are not as good as other people,
and we feel that we are not good enough to acquire and enjoy
the things that we want in life.
Very often, we feel that we don't deserve good things.
Even if we do work hard and achieve some worthwhile objectives,
we believe that we are not really entitled to our successes,
and we often engage in behaviors that sabotage our successes.
The fact is that you deserve every good thing
that you are capable of acquiring as the result
of the application of your talents.
Overcoming Obstacles
You need to develop your beliefs about yourself
to the point where they serve you every day in every way.
Men and women who accomplish extraordinary things
are just ordinary people who developed themselves mentally
to the point where they were able to overcome the obstacles
that stood in their way, and they kept on keeping on
until the goal was attained.
The most harmful beliefs that you can have are what we call
"self-limiting beliefs." These are beliefs about yourself,
most of which are not true; but they hold you back nonetheless.
Sometimes you, or others, will say that you cannot
achieve certain goals because you did not get enough education.
Questioning Your Excuses
The humorist Josh Billings once said, "It ain't what a man knows
what hurts him. It's what a man knows what ain't true."
It isn't the actual truth about yourself and your abilities
that hurts you; it's the things that you consider to be true
and that have no basis in truth.
The starting point of changing your beliefs is to get up the
courage to question them seriously. Question your basic premises.
Check your assumptions. Ask yourself,
"What assumptions am I making about myself or my situation
that might not be true?"
It's a fact that we fall in love with our excuses
and our negative assumptions. We fall in love with our reasons
for not moving ahead.
The author Richard Bach wrote this beautiful line:
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."
Very often, we become the prosecuting attorney
in the case against ourselves.
We dispute and argue and attempt to prove to ourselves
and others that our limitations are real.
And the less justification these ideas or beliefs have,
the more adamant we become in attempting to prove them to others.
Whatever they are, resolve to challenge them.
Hold them up to the light. Imagine that you had absolute confidence
in yourself in a particular area.
Then, act as if it were impossible to fail,
and it shall be!
Action Exercises
Now, here are three steps you can take immediately
to put these ideas into action.
First, accept that you are as good and as talented
in your own way as anyone else you will ever meet.
There is nothing you can't accomplish if you really want it.
Second, challenge a belief or idea about yourself
that is holding you back.
What if you had extraordinary ability in that area?
What difference would that make in your life?
Third, stop making excuses for lack of success.
Instead, start making progress.
Think and talk about what you want and then get busy
making it come true.
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