Why Aren’t You the Monarch
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When you look around at your life, do you feel like the ruler of anything? Most people don’t.
In fact, nearly no one feels powerful. The theory says that our thoughts form the reality we live in, but how many people are actually exerting conscious control over the circumstances of their existence? Nearly everyone feels their life is less than perfect, and that it’s out of control to some degree.
How can there be such a discrepancy between the theory (our thoughts form our reality), and what we see happening all around us (life is jerking us this way and that)?
The truth is, despite what we think we’re seeing, there’s no discrepancy at all. Our thoughts DO form our reality. It’s just that most of us don’t know what our thoughts are. In other words, we usually do a lousy job of managing our thoughts. That’s why our results seem so out of control.
Ethel, a neighbor of mine, was a terrible driver and everybody in the neighborhood joked about how dangerous it could be when she was on the road. Ethel, however, was convinced she was a great driver. She constantly griped that it was all those other irresponsible drivers who caused the accidents - not her. She had no grasp of the facts when it came to her driving.
And as long as she remained out of touch with reality, there was no chance her driving would ever improve.
Many people are like that. In operating the vehicle of your life, you may be a lousy driver.
Quick way to tell? If you seldom end up going where you want to, you need some driving lessons.
QUICK ACTION POINT 1
List 5 things in your life that consistently don’t go the way you want them to - and you don’t quite know why. Hold on to this list; we’ll be using it again in a few minutes.
Is Ignorance Ever An Excuse?
It’s tempting to say that if we don’t understand the rules, we should be excused from the results of our actions, thoughts and decisions.But should we? Maybe yes, maybe no, but the fact is, the world just doesn’t work that way. “Should” has never carried much weight, and it never will.
Certain principles apply; they always apply. Begging ignorance is not going to change results.
Example: You decide to take a midnight stroll down the middle of your city’s busiest expressway. No matter how uninformed you are, the results are fairly certain… you’ll quickly become quite flat. Or jump from an airplane at 15,000 feet with no parachute. Your end is near. As I said, certain principles apply.
Principles are called that because… well… they always operate. They apply to you whether you know they’re there or not. That may seem like an awfully inconvenient, inconsiderate arrangement, but that’s the way it is. We can either gripe about the way things are, or we can carefully observe how things work, and learn how to use them to make our life better.
Seems like a simple choice when it’s stated that way, doesn’t it? You’d think so. But even among people who have studied self-development materials for years, I still hear people complaining about how life’s treating them. (I’m not pointing fingers at anybody; I still occasionally catch myself doing it too.)
In that case, then, let’s just accept that nobody is born so special that they get a free pass through life. Instead, let’s just suck it up and accept the facts: This is the way things are - we can either fight it or we can accept it.
I suggest that accepting things is more useful. The reason is, we can’t do anything with facts we refuse to accept.
QUICK ACTION POINT 2
Take the 5 items you listed earlier and read each one aloud. After each item, repeat:
“I don’t like the way this is going, but I’ve got better things to do than complain and gripe. Complaining only feeds energy to the situation and makes it stronger, so I choose to do the opposite and starve problems out of my life.”
Your Beliefs Are Your Limits - Choose Accordingly
It has been said that you build the walls that hold you in.Henry spent years griping that his wife was holding him back from a career in art. But when his wife died, leaving him a tidy inheritance at age 38, Henry still didn’t pick up a brush or start sketching anything.
First, he was “too devastated,” then he was “recovering his balance,” and finally he was “too old.”
I reminded Henry one day that Grandma Moses, the brilliant painting phenom of the fifties, didn’t start painting till she was 80 years old.
He gave me a lame “yes-but” and changed the subject to how unfair life was.
Henry will probably never see what he’s doing to himself. Oh, he’s quick to point out the mistakes others are making in their thinking, but he can’t see himself at all.
Everyone has beliefs, and it’s those beliefs that make up the walls of our inner structures. Walls are useful. They keep out unwanted influences and unwelcome intrusions for us. They do it automatically so that we don’t constantly have to think about where our boundaries lie. They help us mark what’s familiar and what’s not. They keep things out, and that can be convenient.
But at the same time, walls can also outlast their purpose and become a prison holding us in, keeping us from expanding when we really want to.
Many of us lose sight of the role we play in erecting those walls. We can’t see how we’re the ones holding the walls rigidly in place, even after we want them knocked out and our living area expanded.
QUICK ACTION POINT 3
Again, read each of your 5 items, and after each one say with me:
“I make a conscious choice to release this difficulty. I’m letting it go, even though I don’t consciously know how I’m going to do that. Fortunately, I don’t have to consciously know how. I can do it anyway.”
Get Ready to Break Out Of Your “Beliefs Cage”
Maybe somebody in your family is a packrat. You know the type. They collect stuff - useless stuff - and refuse to throw any of it away.
My dad was like that. He had stacks of junk mail from the past ten or fifteen years. Magazines he was going to read “someday.” Old hamburger wrappers carefully folded and tucked away between the stove and refrigerator. If you wanted to look something up in the local newspaper, he had at least 15 years’ worth in stacks. It was all there. Somewhere.
Most of us snicker at people who live like that, but we shouldn’t be too quick to point a finger.
Ask anybody if they’re willing to examine their beliefs and discard any of them that interfere with joyous living. Around 99 percent will agree that, yes, they’d happily toss out any useless or harmful beliefs.
But then… if you start suggesting possible beliefs to discard, you’ll meet serious resistance. In fact, you’ll find most people can’t tell the difference between a belief that serves them well and one that has them nearly enslaved.
Many of our beliefs are not even recognized as such.
When Tammy was growing up, she constantly heard that rich people were greedy and ruthless and didn’t care who they stepped on. The family culture she grew up in had a serious prejudice against people with money.
Once Tammy got out into the workplace, she naturally wanted to get ahead, to get promotions and raises. However, she was constantly shooting herself in the foot.
She slept late the morning of a scheduled promotion interview and missed it entirely.
As soon as she accumulated a bit of savings, she’d go on spending binges and blow it all, even running up near-crippling credit card balances.
When we talked, I asked Tammy why she did those things. She had no idea what her reasons were, but she could clearly see she was sabotaging herself.
When we talked about her attitudes toward people with plenty of money, her mistrust quickly became obvious to me, even though she couldn’t see it.
Tammy had beliefs about rich people - but she didn’t recognize them as beliefs. She thought they were hard facts. Rich people really were selfish and greedy, she said. She had seen plenty of evidence proving it, so of course it wasn’t JUST a belief to her.
Naturally, wanting to be a nice person, she couldn’t allow herself to become “like them.”
And until she was able to recognize that her “facts” were really nothing more than personal bias - just beliefs - she was unable to break through the cage of her beliefs.
How about you? What immutable “facts” are dragging you down? Chances are, you don’t know - simply because none of us can see the connection between our “facts” (beliefs that never allow themselves to be questioned) and our greatest difficulties.
QUICK ACTION POINT 4
Read your 5 items aloud again, and this time follow each one with this statement:
“I have released this pattern of difficulties. I have good things to do with my energy and my life. Instead of pouring my attention into what’s wrong, I now fill my mind with positive visions. I think clearly and expectantly about the way I desire each aspect of my life to be.”
Now spend two or three minutes on each item, describing in detail the opposite of your current situation.
Be sure to use positive descriptions rather than negative ones.
Example: instead of, “My boss and co-workers no longer make my life miserable,” say instead, “My boss and co-workers all admire and trust me, and they always go out of their way to show their tremendous respect for me.”
Example: instead of, “My kid stops acting like a teenager, and doesn’t spend all available time avoiding me and the family,” try saying something like, “My daughter (son) is completely secure in the knowledge that I love her (him) without reservation or conditions, and is always warmed by my love and respect.”
ACTION POINT SUMMARY
- Name a difficulty
- Recognize that putting lots of attention on your problems only makes them stronger.
- Accept responsibility. Admit you’re causing it, even if you don’t know why or how.
- Begin replacing your habitual awareness of problems. Do this by thinking deeply and in detail about the way you desire your life to be. Each time you find problems and worry spreading through your thoughts, take charge. Turn your attention deliberately to the situation and conditions you really want to enjoy in your life.
- Persist. I call this defending your dream. Being steady in your determination to insert good into your own life is a powerful thing. So be steady and determined and persistent in displacing fear or depression or worry. Refuse to put up with fatalism and “oh, what’s the use?” thinking.
Remember - your thoughts rule your destiny, and you can rule your thoughts. That’s your birthright.
Now you know exactly how it’s done, so just do it…
- steadily
- persistently
- every day
Cheers from sunny Japan,
Charles
http://www.charlesburke.com
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