Success is as complicated as a person trying to achieve it makes it out to be. Below is an excerpt from Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins.
Let's say a person has a belief that he's ineffective at something. Let's say he's told himself that he's a bad student. If he has expectations of failure, how much of his potential is he going to tap? Not very much. He's already told himself that he doesn't now. He's already signaled his brain to expect failure. Having begun with those sorts of expectations, what sorts of actions will he probably take? Will they be confident, energized, congruent, and assertive? Will they reflect his real potential? Not likely. If you're convinced you're going to fail, why make the effort to try hard? So you've started with a belief system that stresses what you can't do, a system that subsequently signals your nervous system to respond in a certain way. You've tapped a limited amount of your potential. You've taken halfhearted, tentative actions. What sort of results will come out of all this? Chances are they'll be pretty dismal. What will these dismal results do to your beliefs about subsequent endeavors? Chances are they'll reinforce the negative beliefs that started the whole chain.
What we have here is a classic downward spiral. Failure breeds failure. People who are unhappy and who live "broken lives" have often been without the results they desire for so long that they no longer believe they can produce the results they desire for so long that they no longer believe they can produce the results they want. They do little or nothing to tap their potential and being to try to find out how they can get their life to where they're doing as little as possible. For such actions, what results do they achieve? Of coarse, they are miserable results that break down their beliefs even more, if that possible.
End of part 1. Part 2 is continued in the next post!
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Let's say a person has a belief that he's ineffective at something. Let's say he's told himself that he's a bad student. If he has expectations of failure, how much of his potential is he going to tap? Not very much. He's already told himself that he doesn't now. He's already signaled his brain to expect failure. Having begun with those sorts of expectations, what sorts of actions will he probably take? Will they be confident, energized, congruent, and assertive? Will they reflect his real potential? Not likely. If you're convinced you're going to fail, why make the effort to try hard? So you've started with a belief system that stresses what you can't do, a system that subsequently signals your nervous system to respond in a certain way. You've tapped a limited amount of your potential. You've taken halfhearted, tentative actions. What sort of results will come out of all this? Chances are they'll be pretty dismal. What will these dismal results do to your beliefs about subsequent endeavors? Chances are they'll reinforce the negative beliefs that started the whole chain.
What we have here is a classic downward spiral. Failure breeds failure. People who are unhappy and who live "broken lives" have often been without the results they desire for so long that they no longer believe they can produce the results they desire for so long that they no longer believe they can produce the results they want. They do little or nothing to tap their potential and being to try to find out how they can get their life to where they're doing as little as possible. For such actions, what results do they achieve? Of coarse, they are miserable results that break down their beliefs even more, if that possible.
End of part 1. Part 2 is continued in the next post!
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