4. Using a smudge stick, candle, or incense, devise a ceremony to purge your Critic from your work space. Perform your banishing ceremon whenever its voice gets a little too loud.

5. Draw a picture of your Critic, with a balloon coming out of his mouth. Write its favorite negative phrase in that balloon. Then burn picture, rip it into shreds, or crumple it into a ball and step on it.

6. Talk to your Critic. Thank it for caring, but it needs to go away now. Politely but firmly ask it to leave. Keep asking until it goes.

7. Take a break. Go outside, and reconnect with creative energies that flow all around you.

8. Go for a walk or a run. Go to gym. Do something physical that will help you focus on now.

So next time you hear that little voice whispering not-so-sweet nothings in your ear, get rid of it! Quickly. Then get back to work on what really matters.

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Copyright 2005 Lynn Cutts

You see I wasn’t always like that till family problems “made me” take Responsibility. I had no one to rely upon except myself and to tell truth I felt like I was Lost in complications and trouble. At that point I gave a promise to myself that no matter how many troubles I had I Would Succeed in Life. I was so determined that I slept only 3 to 4 hours a day.

What I did find out, was that key to get what you want is ATTITUDE and not just any attitude but right attitude. Let’s say you want to get rich, in order to get rich and successful you must behave like rich and successful people even if you are starving to death. You must believe you deserve to be rich and I don’t mean some superficial belief deep in your head, rather a strong conviction that you do deserve what you ask for.

When you have that kind of convictions and determination people will start treat you way you deserve. It’s a weird thing but most people form an “Opinion” based on things you believe about yourself, so if you believe you are rich you will be perceived like one, if you believe you deserve to be respected you will be respected. In time those same people, will make your “false” conviction come True. The future “You” is made from present “belief of” you.

The only restriction of what you can achieve is your Imagination. Imagine best “YOU” in every detail and you will certainly become this “YOU”.