change my life!
Ever said you wanted to change your life, in those quiet moments when you’re by yourself, on a bus full of strangers, or when you’re washing dishes?
Don’t make it hard - I prefer to live my life by the KISS principle. Keeping it simple doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it keeps it from turning into “too hard”.
You can change your life with something as simple as flipping a coin. The coin is an symbol for the polarity of your thought. For every “can’t” there is a “can.” For every time you say I can’t do this or I can’t do that, truly successful people have a can.
It starts with asking yourself questions, not putting limits on yourself.
For example, let’s say you want to start your own business, but you don’t want to leave the security of your job until the income is replaced.
Ask yourself the basic questions: Who, what, when, where, why, and how.
- Who can I model that has done this before?
- What can I do?
- When can I do this?
- Where can I go for more info / support?
- Why do I want this?
- How can I replace my current income?
Notice 5 out of the six start with can I -
What you do is set your mind working towards a solution – that’s what our brain is exceptionally good at. Some work in a “creative” way, others in a “logical” way, but either way it’s solving problems.
I learned this strategy from a self-made multi-millionaire.
He had every reason to not succeed in life – his mother was an alcoholic, his father was a workaholic. From the age of eight he was making his own meals if he wanted to eat. He learned to be resourceful the hard way.
He didn’t fit in at school, shunned by the other students for either his dirty clothes or his “two left feet” when it came to anything to do with sports. He hated school almost as much as he thought the teachers hated him, and dropped out before he graduated.
He worked at a supermarket, lived in a house that had been condemned, and drove a rusted-out yellow Datsun B210 bomb, which drank as much oil as he could afford to put in it.
For years he barely existed. Then one day it changed. That was the day he realised his life changed when he stopped looking at things with an attitude of “I can’t afford it” and started asking himself “how can I afford it?”
The power in this simple process comes in the “can.”Most people look at things with a can’t, thereby limiting themselves and their options and possibilities. When you flip the coin over, the mind is enabled and empowered. Possibilities and opportunities that were always there, can now be seen for that they are, not what they aren’t.
So – what do you want?
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