19/05/2021
Thinking creates your reality. If things aren’t the way you want them to be, whether in your life or your business, the root of your reality will be in your thinking. So, what does that mean?
It means that if your business or life isn’t giving you what you want, you may be suffering from what, as Zig Ziglar used to say, is a case of ‘stinkin’ thinkin’’.
You see, you can be as positive as you like, but without the right ’thinking’; the right ‘beliefs’ behind the positivity, nothing will get better for you.
The thinking creates the picture, the picture provides the motivation and the motivation provides the discipline to take the action.
Here’s a little example from my own coaching files of a client who was suffering with stinking thinking.
This client really struggled to get the results he wanted in his life and business. He was a really positive guy but nothing seemed to work for him. This would really stress him out.
He was constantly chasing the latest ‘silver bullet’; the one thing that would fix everything. He would sign up for this course or that course, read all the books in the self help library and still nothing changed.
So, when he came to me for help I didn’t give him some great new strategy or teach him how to become an expert in marketing.
I began by looking at his ‘values’, his true and honest ‘beliefs’.
We dug beneath the veneer of bull@$%! positivity and found that he was clinging onto a massive, metaphorical suitcase of mental clutter. It was full of learned, limiting beliefs and was so big and so heavy that it would not let him step over the threshold and through the door to the life he really wanted to live.
Instead of teaching him some new, gimmicky business strategy, we worked on him letting go of that suit case full of crap!
And guess what? Today that same guy runs a successful business earning as much money as he wants. His relationships are stronger. His staff love him, his family appreciates the time and love he shares with them.
When he puts a strategy in place to grow or develop his business more, it works! Why? Because he ‘believes it will work. He isn’t encumbered by all that useless mental clutter that used to hold him back.
So, how’s your thinking?
Are you hiding behind false positivity? Are you conning the world and yourself?
Here’s a tip: give yourself a mental audit, dig deeper than the surface veneer and find out what you truly believe about yourself and your life.
If it’s all great and you’re getting, doing and being everything you want, fantastic, give yourself a well earned pat on the back. If you’re not, then start changing that thinking today. And if you need a little help with that, reach out, but whatever you do, check your thinking today.