Look out for indecision —it can easily block your path. #62

 

You begin the week and have a fresh idea that you really want something.  That something is a part of your natural need to grow i.e.  Advance, progress, accomplish, etc.

Before you get very far with the idea, you experience a strong sense of indecision.  It is a very familiar feeling and probably more “like you” than the fresh idea.

The process continues slowly over the next few weeks and months, and the indecision leads to second guessing, doubt and eventually fear.

You don’t act on the idea and experience more & more of the same old routine, as in status quo living.

 

Fear chokes progress – and does it quietly:

We all want to advance, grow and add more value. This requires operating from strength, coupled with your own view of what you want (possibility).

The problem is that while vision and fresh ideas expand you, indecision, doubt and fear shrink  you.  They act to protect you by keeping you locked in where you are. They actually serve to block your way.

To me, the odd thing is they (in-decision, doubt and fears) are so subtle, they sneak in “on cat like feet”, and you think they are real, a part of the true you. They aren’t.

 

Scan on a weekly basis:

To solve this problem, look at your own thinking every week.  Just compare what you want to have (accomplish) with how much indecision you are generating at the same time.  It is as if you are a radio station broadcasting two opposite signals simultaneously.

When you see the indecision, you will know what to do. The weekly scan is the way to catch it early.

Action idea:

• Surface the idea of what you want.  Refresh it.
• Immediately list all the ideas you get that argue against it.
• Accept that these thoughts (destructive thinking) are an older part of you that have outlived their usefulness.
• Don’t fight it. Instead, expand more and more energy toward what supports where you want to go and what you want to have.
• Remind yourself that your desires are key to the future and must be protected.

 

It may not be easy, but it is quite simple and well within your capability. You are training yourself to reject what you don’t want.   Success and failure are the result of how you think and use your mind.

Try it. It’s a good idea!

Cheers,

Richard L Reardon

Los Angeles,  CA.