Mine Your Mind
Where Your True Power Lies...Thursday, July 28, 2005
I Want...I Want...I Want
How many times have you walked through a bookstore, picked up a book on self-improvement and find the author telling you that in order for you to better yourself, you've got to think positive? Pretty simple advice to dish out and alot of money to rake in from an author's point of view (Hint: the self-help market is a multi-million dollar industry), but what does positive thinking actually entail?
Well according to many of these self-help books, it means telling yourself that you are rich when you know you are currently $75,000 in debt. That you are thin when you know in actuality that the elevator to your office refuses to close its doors because its overloaded when in fact, you are the only one riding it. The baloney that many of these books spew teaches you to believe that "I am" thin when you are not, is going to set you on a path for a positive change. Let me tell you right now that the two words "I am" are so destructive that its not even funny. The words "I am" do nothing but mask the reality of your situation and worst of all, does nothing for your path for change; whatever it is that you want to change.
Rather, let me introduce you to the two words that will actually set you in motion for change while unmasking the truth of your situation: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome; "I Want".
Let's note the vast difference in attitude here. "I am" a track star will do nothing for you if you are lying on your couch eating chips all day hoping that the secrets to running a 9.2 second 100m dash is in the preservatives from your chips. "I want" to be a track star however fuels a drive within you to set a goal and achieve that target while inevitably realizing that you are not yet a track star.
There is no 'New Age' language or secret codes to getting to where you want to be. Like the title of my blog says, the power to make any kind of difference starts with you and 2 simple words like "I want" will set you in motion towards getting there.
As for me, "I want" a garage to hold my Maserati that I also want. Hey...we all have to start somewhere and I have the posters of the Maserati and sketches of my garage to prove it.
Well according to many of these self-help books, it means telling yourself that you are rich when you know you are currently $75,000 in debt. That you are thin when you know in actuality that the elevator to your office refuses to close its doors because its overloaded when in fact, you are the only one riding it. The baloney that many of these books spew teaches you to believe that "I am" thin when you are not, is going to set you on a path for a positive change. Let me tell you right now that the two words "I am" are so destructive that its not even funny. The words "I am" do nothing but mask the reality of your situation and worst of all, does nothing for your path for change; whatever it is that you want to change.
Rather, let me introduce you to the two words that will actually set you in motion for change while unmasking the truth of your situation: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome; "I Want".
Let's note the vast difference in attitude here. "I am" a track star will do nothing for you if you are lying on your couch eating chips all day hoping that the secrets to running a 9.2 second 100m dash is in the preservatives from your chips. "I want" to be a track star however fuels a drive within you to set a goal and achieve that target while inevitably realizing that you are not yet a track star.
There is no 'New Age' language or secret codes to getting to where you want to be. Like the title of my blog says, the power to make any kind of difference starts with you and 2 simple words like "I want" will set you in motion towards getting there.
As for me, "I want" a garage to hold my Maserati that I also want. Hey...we all have to start somewhere and I have the posters of the Maserati and sketches of my garage to prove it.
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