Morning Motivation
Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. — Jim Rohn
Morning Motivation
“When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.”
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Morning Motivation
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Morning Motivation
Here are three of my favorite tips from Clint Eastwood for taking charge of your life.
1. Don’t use self-fulfilling prophecies to bring yourself down.
“I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.”
What you think will happen often does. If you focus on and think that things will go badly you interpret things negatively and take actions – or no action at all – based on that. You can’t really see reality, you just have a perspective of it in your mind. Now, whatever you perspective you use your mind will find proof that your current “reality” is “the right one”.
So you have to be smart about things.
Like Clint says, you have to let go of pessimism and choose a perspective that empowers you instead of making you feel like a victim and like things will always turn out in a negative way.
This can be hard because you are so used to your current perspective and feel like you are right about it since you have so much proof that it was right from past events. Also, it’s not that pleasant to admit to yourself that the negative perspective that you may have held for years or decades was a mistake that messed up your life instead of making it better.
When you take charge and choose for instance a more positive perspective things around you change. Many of them may be the same things that were always there. You just see them – and yourself – in a new light now. And you can start using self-fulfilling prophecies to empower instead of disempower yourself. Check out 8 Awesome Reasons to Blast Negativity Out of Your Life, and How to Do It for more practical tips on how I have gone from a negative attitude to a more positive one.
2. Let go of the illusion of safety.
“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
Why do people sit on their hands and get comfortable in their ease and quiet? Well, one big reason is because they think they are safe there. But the truth is safety is mostly a superstition. It is created in your mind to make you feel safe. But there is no safety out there really. Most things don’t come with any guarantees. Everything changes, for better or worse.
You may get layed off.
Someone may break up with you and leave.
Illness will probably strike.
Death will certainly strike in your surroundings and at some point come to visit you too.
This belief in safety is not just something negative. It’s also created by your mind so you can function in life. No point in going all paranoid about what could happen a minute from now day in and day out. But there is also not that much point in clinging to an illusion of safety. So you need to find balance where you don’t obsessed by the uncertainty but also recognize that it is there and live accordingly.
As you stop clinging to your safety life also becomes a whole lot more exciting and interesting. You are no longer as confined by an illusion and realize that you set your limits for what you can do and to a large extent create your own freedom in the world. You are no longer building walls to keep yourself safe as those walls wouldn’t protect you anyway.
3. Take responsibility for your own life.
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”
You can look for the next big thing that will fix you. Read more blog articles. Read more personal development books. Look for people to help. And yes, some articles or books or people will give you insights that resonate deeply with you.
But in the end, if you are an adult then no one is coming. No one is coming to save you. You have to take responsibility for your own life and what happens in it. Other things and people can certainly aid you quite a bit. But you are responsible.
You can go around blaming society or some people for your problems in your life. You can always find scapegoats to judge to feel better about yourself. For a while. You can look for people that will “fix you”. You can do this for the rest of your life if you like. It won’t change much. Whatever has to be done, it’s you who have to take responsibility and do it.
Yeah, things might always not go your way and you will probably have bad luck from time to time. But you still have to focus on yourself and doing what you can do in whatever situation may arise in the outside world.
Morning Motivation
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan
I sometimes get asked the question of why do I write this message every morning, I don’t get any comments so there isn’t anyone paying attention. That is a matter of perception , first off the person who asked the question had to be paying attention, DUHHHH? Secondly I am paying attention. Every morning I put a little more of me on these pages and my goal is to free myself of unreal restrictions. One of the ways I’m freeing myself is creating a consistency of action. No matter how I feel, my mood or momentary perception (and these posts help to make them momentary), I write. In doing so I change and direct my mood mindset and future putting one step closer to my freedom , my goals. What action steps are you Taking Towards Your Goals ?
