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Pick up a flower in
a field and you may disturb a star in the sky.
All is interconnected.
Nothing is separate.
Everything has its place, its function.
Nothing is here for nothing.
Everything is here for everything.
Take care.
The
human mind is a mystery, and we are a mystery even to
ourselves. We do things, and often have no idea why.
Today's
article covers a very subtle form of self-sabotage that
you might not even have recognized as such. I have to
admit I suffer from this one. Yet, it's the sort of
thing that, although very damaging to our productivity,
we somehow end up feeling quite proud of!
What am
I talking about? Read the article and see. As ever,
please give your opinions on
the blog.
Hope you enjoy it.
Regards,
Asoka Selvarajah
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I was listening to a personal development CD the other
day, and
the speaker made a point that really made me stop and
think.
Here is what he said...
Do you have a lot of different projects that you start
but never
finish? Instead, you just start yet another new one?
Well, I do
this all the time. So do many other people.
Now typically, most people almost have a strange form of
pride
about this sort of thing. They may regard themselves as
"creative", or even a highly intelligent multi-tasker.
After all,
Leonardo da Vinci started a huge number of projects that
he never
finished!
Well, this speaker had a different point of view. He
said that
every time you begin yet another project that you never
finish,
you have just engaged in SELF-SABOTAGE.
Now that's a fresh perspective, don't you think? It's
certainly
not the way I've been trained to think about it.
Yet, as I thought about it, and listened to his
reasoning, I
realized that he was absolutely correct. It truly is.
Here's
why...
It has to do with the subconscious mind and the way you
train it
to respond. You see,
, every time you leave a project
unfinished, you have just engaged in lack of integrity with
yourself. You
have taught yourself that you are not a person of your
word. You
cannot be taken seriously, even by yourself, and you can
be
relied upon NOT to follow through. In other words, you
will make
a decision, and then fail to pursue it to the finish.
THAT is
what you are telling yourself over and over again. As
you know,
actions speak louder than words. Hence, it's not what
you say
that really matters. It's what you do that counts,
especially
when your subconscious mind is looking on.
What else have you done? You have told your subconscious
mind
that you are not serious. In other words, that magical
part of
you, which can work behind the scenes to create seeming
miracles
for you, doesn't have to bother. "Oh, you're just a
talker", it
can mutter to itself. "You're not serious. So I'm not
going to
bother myself". Where you could have awakened the most
powerful
ally known to Man to assist you, you have instead put it
to
sleep.
Worse than that, you actually teach your subconscious to
work
AGAINST you when you DO try to persist in a project.
Why? Since
your "norm" is not to follow through, and this is the
comfort
zone you have established for yourself, your
subconscious mind
will act like a thermostat and pull you back into line
once you
start to stray from the norm. It is concerned primarily
for your
safety, and hence any strong move away from the status
quo
thereby spells "DANGER"!
Hence, even though you may have been into this kind of
perpetual multi-project madness before, it is important
that you
get control over the situation. Otherwise, you are in
danger
of attempting much and achieving nothing, and then
wondering why.
You are self-sabotaging and you don't even know it.
This is a world full of distractions and changing
landscape. Wait
in the same place for an hour and it will look
different. We are
constantly being challenged to maintain our focus and to
complete
what we begin. There are so many temptations to drop
what we have
begun and run off after something better. People do it
all the
time. It has become the watchword of our society.
Rather, take the motto, "It ain't done until it's done"
to heart!
This means you don't start something else until you have
finished
what you are doing. You pursue a project right to
completion. You
reinforce GOOD habits to your subconscious, and you keep
agreements to yourself. You tell yourself that you are a
person
who can be trusted to keep your word, and that integrity
means
something to you.
This also means that "nearly done" is NOT "done". It
does not
matter if you have worked at a project for 500 hours and
there is
just another 3 hours of work left to finish it. If you
don't put
in those 3 hours of work, it isn't done. Cruel but true. What if
aircraft
manufacturers did everything else, but failed to fit the
front
wheel onto the passenger plane? Or the windscreen in the
cockpit?
Or neglected to put the hinges on the emergency exit? I
think you
get the point now with regards to your own projects?
Remember:
"It ain't done until it's done!"
So, forget pursuing twenty dreams at once. Pursue just a
few
projects, or even just ONE, and get them finished before
moving
onto something else. In this way, you will pursue an
upward
cycle of success and achieve one dream after another.
May it be so for you,
.
Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2005. All Rights Reserved.
Asoka Selvarajah is a writer on personal growth and
spirituality,
and the author of "The 7 Golden Secrets To Knowing Your
Higher
Self". His work helps people achieve their full
potential, deepen their
understanding of mystical truth,
and discover their soul's purpose. Learn more about his work
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