Thinking of making a change in your life? Want to try something new or different?
What happens next will determine your success or failure. It’s a simple thing, but a very powerful thing.
It’s the questions you ask yourself.
Are you asking questions that look for a solution or are you asking questions that create great long lists of obstacles?
The questions we ask and the statements we make demonstrate our true intent.
For example, asking something like “What can I do right now to get me moving in the direction of my dream?” is the type of question that opens you up to solutions.
On the other hand, there are the sorts of questions and comments that will simply keep you stuck in the familiar and will keep you from creating that change that you say you want, such as:
- “What would people think?”
- “I could never do that.”
- “What about my job?”
- “How much is it going to cost?”
- “Who’s going to look after the things I usually look after if I’m off doing something else?”
Coming up with obstacles seems to be the most natural response – it’s our brain’s way of keeping us rooted in the familiar and in keeping us ‘safe’. Left to its own devices, the brain will do the ‘lazy’ thing and filter for what it already knows. The same. The familiar.
The good news is that we can circumvent the brain’s natural response by giving it a different task to focus on. Give your brain the task of looking for a solution and it will filter and process all the information it can in order to get to that solution.
What you set your mind to is what you will create. You get to choose from the land of obstacles or the land of solutions.
Which do you choose?
