Focus Point
Stop Thinking Can I? And Start Thinking How Can I?
Have you ever met someone who just seems to have a spark in
their eye and a bounce in their step? Do you remember the expression:
Everything they touch turns to gold? We may look at someone like this and
wonder, how in the world do they do it? How do they keep it all together?
John Maxwell teaches that it is impossible to put it all
together all at once. So before you try to put everything together, just put
something together, and when you get good at putting something together, then
one day you will be able to put everything together.
One of the most important things that you and I can do to
achieve the success that we want, is to control our thinking. We need to learn
to think: How Can I? and forget the nasty stinking thinking of: Can I? or worse
yet: I Can't. See, when we ask a reinforcing question such as: How Can I? then
at once our mind goes to work and starts to think in terms of possible
solutions and manifests them by way of ideas. Our subconscious mind is so
powerful that it has most all of the answers that we will ever need, but we
have to learn how to tap into its potential and draw from it. I believe that we
can overcome challenges and setbacks and become better after the
dust settles a bit, if we learn to ask the right questions.
Now, on the other hand when we think in terms of: I can't,
our mind stops dead in its tracks. It has no occasion or expectation to rise
to, so what does it do? It shuts down and will never think of a solution,
because we are not asking it for one. And so our subconscious mind is where the
answers are, but it must receive permission from our conscious mind to go to
work, and we activate this process by way of our thinking.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can
change your direction in an instant. Say yes to the right things, say no to the
wrong things, and stay in control of the most important things.
This week, let's think in terms of: How Can I? and take note
of the ideas that come.
Remember. Whatever
it takes you can learn!
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