Change
Way You Think and Change Your LifeDennis is working as a factory worker during day and a security guard at night. He needs these two incomes in order to stay above water in his bills. He has Wednesday’s off on both jobs and that is day he gets everything done. Yes, he’s tired all time, but hey, how else is he expected to make a living.
One Wednesday, Dennis attended a seminar giving by motivational speaker, Dawn Fields, and discovered his life purpose is to be a writer. He always liked to write. He was never serious about it but it was always something he did that helped him get in touch with his creative side and he really enjoyed it.
After seminar, Dennis was gun-ho about his writing. He figured he would bring some notepads and pencils with him to his security guard job and instead of watching television while on duty, he would spend his free time writing.
The next day after attending seminar, Thursday, he was diligent with his writing. But after writing three pages, he torn it up and told himself that it was horrible. He started again. This time, he didn’t get past first page before he balled paper up and threw it in garbage. He started again and this time he got to page four before he decided that he simply was not a good writer. What was he thinking? He couldn’t write anything that anyone would be interested in reading. He simply wasn’t good enough.
He wasn’t even good in English when he was in high school. He can’t even remember how many times he brought home a C- or a D in English. He can still hear his father saying, “Boy, you must really be dumb.”
That’s it. He’s dumb. He knew it. How could he possibly be a writer when he is dumb? That motivational speaker was cause of all of this. If it weren’t for her pumping him up into thinking he could do this, he never ever would have tried and therefore he wouldn’t have to put himself in this position that is now making him feel so miserable.
You see, Dennis will never be writer he was meant to be, unless and until he changes way he thinks about himself. Somewhere along line, either Dennis or Dennis’ father, or perhaps someone else, has convinced Dennis that he is dumb and cannot write. Although Dennis loves to write and considers writing to be a way in which he expresses himself creatively, he believes that his writing is not good enough for others to read or enjoy.
Dennis has a problem. But it’s a problem that can be fixed.
So many of us know that we have capability to do something wonderful and enjoyable with our lives, yet we allow ourselves and others, to sabotage our efforts. We listen to negative information and take it into our minds as if this negative information were indeed facts about us. Before we know it, we start believing it to be true.
The solution: learn to think positive.
Yeah, Dawn. I know that. I’ve heard it a thousands times. But how do I really think positive when I have all this negative information inside of me that has been inside of me for years. It’s easier said than done.
Well, I’m not going to lie to you and tell you that it’s simple and if you do XYZ by tomorrow you will be able to remove all negative doubts you have about yourself and replace them with positive thoughts.
But what I will tell you is how to start changing your doubts about yourself, into positive feelings that will help you believe you can live life you were born to live. And that longer you tell yourself that this is true, more you will start to believe that it is true, thereby pushing out of your mind, all negative garbage that was inside of you.
