How to Overcome Your #1 Obstacle: Part 1

What is your main obstacle to the success you desire?

What gets in your way is a belief that you have about an important area of your life.  Subconsciously you don’t really think you can accomplish it. You may even have a great goal set around this area yet you continue to fall far short.

Your mind is your biggest obstacle to getting what you want. Thanks to an excellent new book by John Assaraf and Murray Smith called The Answer, there is now a clear path that shows us how to get over this enormous hurdle. It even explains why our brain works the way it does. You no longer need to feel badly because you have fallen into the same traps almost everyone else has.

Energy and the power of your thoughts.

Thoughts create the physical world – your world. Everything starts as an idea (ex. everything you see out of the window was once nothing more than someone’s idea for a building, road, landscape, business, or school)

“Everything in the physical world is made out of atoms.
Atoms are made out of energy.
And energy is made out of consciousness.”

In his book, The Biology of Belief, former University of Wisconsin cell biologist Bruce Lipton notes that each of us is “a bustling community of more than fifty trillion cells” that is profoundly impacted by our beliefs. “When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful, we hold the key to freedom...it is not our genes but our beliefs that control our lives.” Lipton explains that the universe is made out of energy. The more atoms are studied, the more they seem to disappear from sight and become small packets of energy.

Your thoughts create not only matter; they create whatever level of business you have right now. This is the world of quantum physics. It is the unseen world that is far more powerful than the world that we see and that hits our senses every day. What happens in your business STARTS in the unseen world – with the ideas and thoughts in your nonconscious mind.

Those thoughts, founded in how positively you feel and ‘vibrate’ around them, allows them to magnetize into your life more of what you want. You start to become the person you’ve always wanted to be. But you have to do it deliberately otherwise your brain will default back to what it has always done for you – which is what you have right now.

The Three Laws

1. Be clear about what you want – the Law of Attraction cannot be a magnet for you if you are vague about WHERE you are going.

Here’s the exciting news according to Assaraf and Smith: “Once you have seen that vision in your imagination, you have all the faculties you need to bring that vision into physical reality, using the very same processes that turn an acorn into an oak tree.” This explains why you don’t spend time as a tone-deaf adult fantasizing about being an opera singer! Your mind knows this is not POSSIBLE.

Deciding what you really want is not easy – especially in an age where there is so much choice. But think about it this way. If your brain is an archer pointing a bow and the target is fuzzy and hard to see and likely there the harder it strains, the more targets seem to appear what kind of results can you expect?

I think the challenge most people face is that they do not like to think hard and think deeply. It takes work and requires self-discipline – and time! It is easy to put off. Yet who are we fooling to assume the solution is a quick fix? Please, the holidays are a great opportunity to make this time available.

2. Be patient – the Law of Gestation means that you can’t keep digging up the roots every five minutes to see if the flowers in your new garden of empowering beliefs are taking bloom. Nature has a season for everything.

3. Be in action – the Law of Action requires that you do as much as necessary to fulfill your dreams. You can’t sit around all day ‘hoping’ your thoughts will magically cause everything to fall on your lap.

It’s another of the things I like about the book. It isn’t so spiritual it ignores that we are responsible for creating our lives and that involves DOING something.

Part Two – the step by step guide on how to make these changes: next week!