12/12/2017
Pushing Through Obstacles: Strategies to Tap Into Your Powers of Possibility by Marissa Levin.
Remember: You are stronger than you think you are. You are stronger than your challenges.
1: Consider the possibilities, free of criticisms, opinions, and judgments. All possibilities start from that one moment of consideration. If there were no hurts, criticisms, or judgments, what would your life look like? What would you be like? Our possibilities start with our commitment to participate in the experience of our own life, and to not allow others to decide our outcomes. People will constantly remind you of your failures, of the things you don’t have going for you. Don’t let them in to your mind, your spirit, your soul, your willpower. The hardest thing I’ve done is blocked out all of the negative thoughts and people that have the power to derail me, and push them to the side. For all of my challenges and my climbs, I’ve learned how important it is to keep a bubble of confidence and strength around me.
2. Create a supportive web of influence. Research has proven that we are the average of the 10 people that most closely surround us. We become the people that are closest to us. People have a lot more control over their web of influence than they realize. They automatically put long-time friends, family members, and business colleagues into their web, even though they may not be the people that are most supportive, understanding, or happiest for their success. This is your life, and your web and you get to decide who is in it. It should be very difficult for someone to earn a spot on your A-team or in your inner circle. What would you do if the naysayers weren’t around? 87% of people allow fear of failure to stop them from pursuing their dreams and fulfilling their possibilities. The crime is not that others tell you that you can’t achieve what’s possible. That’s exactly what you should expect from human nature. The crime occurs when you don’t believe in yourself. Every day is a selling job on you. “I can do this. I can make this happen. No matter how bad things get, no matter how hard my climb is, I can make it happen.” Feed your faith, and your doubts will starve to death.
3: Change “I Can’t” into “Why Can’t I?” How many times do you think or say “I can’t” in a day? What the mind can conceive, and believe, it can achieve. Our thoughts lead us in the direction they are following. If our thoughts are self-defeating and critical this will be our path. There is nothing as powerful as a made-up mind.
4. Get back up!! Life is full of situations that knock us off our feet. 8 out of 10 millionaires have been financially bankrupt – multiple times. The goal should not be to live a life devoid of pain and difficulty… after all is that really living? To feel pain also means to feel love, joy, passion, and happiness. We can’t have the capacity to feel one side without feeling the other. What matters is that when we are knocked down, we find it within ourselves, and also from others around us, to get back up. It may take days, weeks, months, or years depending on our situation, and that’s OK. What matters is that we get back up.
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” –Jack Canfield
