It’s been said that if we realized how damaging our negative thoughts were, we’d never think another one of them. My campaign to get individuals and corporations to just let go of the limiting beliefs has been dubbed (by me) “Think NAKED”. I’ve made it my campaign after observing the effect negative thinking has on my family members, friends, colleagues, and my workshop participants. My goal is raise the emotional intelligence of myself and others by encouraging everyone I know to just dump off the negative thoughts and emotions, and replace them with powerful and positive beliefs.
Here are 5 thoughts and thought patterns I believe harm us the most:
1) “I can’t”. This thought actually weakens your body! “I can’t spell, sing, find a better job, etc, etc. Does it sound familiar? “I can’t” usually means we don’t know how or we choose not to do something. Try turning your “I can’t” statement into an “I won’t” statement and feel the shift in power you feel once you turn that small phrase around.
2) “I’m not” Once again you can fill in the blank with your own “I’m not” thought. Have you tried to convince yourself that super successful people are that way because they have more talent, money, lucky breaks, and powerful friends than you? Well, it isn’t true! The super successful achieve more because they don’t waste their time worrying about the things they don’t have, they focus on using the talent, abilities, and other resources that they do have.
3) “I’ll never”. Examples of this deadly dogma are “I’ll never get rich working here”, I’ll never convince my spouse to support me in this”, or “I’ll never be able to speak in front of a group”. Unless you have a crystal ball and can see into the future, you can’t absolutely know that any of these are true, but you can sabotage your chances of succeeding and you can make yourself miserable in the process. Challenge this thought and ask yourself if the thought is moving you towards your goal or away from it. Pick the thought that moves you in the direction you want to go.
4) “No one wants to help me”, “buy from me”, “promote or hire me”. Unless you’ve asked every single person in the world, multiple times and in multiple ways, you can’t possibly know this is true, so why bother holding onto the thought? Throw it away and ask another, and another, and another, until you find that person who will help, hire or buy from you.
5) “It’s impossible” Like the thought above, we really can’t know for sure whether or not something is possible, can we? Christopher Columbus, Roger Bannister, and Mother Teresa are just a few of the successful folks who refused to believe that their dream was impossible. Tell yourself you can, and you’re half way to achieving your goal. Ask for help, from others and from above, and you’re closer than you think. You can do it, if you just believe!
Think naked to rid yourself of negative thoughts……I like it…..