I somehow lost all belief recently, or at least I had put all kinds of negative beliefs, thoughts in my mind. And somehow it all goes back to history, to the things I did in the past and didn’t work out. So in that process I kind of stopped, in a not so convenient way I guess, and didn’t feel like doing anything anymore, as I just believed that the result of my actions would be negative or not be there. And this whole thing just got me in some negative spiral which I didn’t find a way out of. And I’m not sure yet if I’m out of it, but at least I started writing this post now and am trying to share something.
And I’m not sure if you recognize, but my ‘doing nothing’ just made me feel worse, made me feel guilty, especially as Napoleon Hill, and many other ‘self help’ guru’s somehow state that in the end it’s all about action. But I also know or believe that uninspired action doesn’t work either. So yes, somehow stopping is better than doing some kind of action without the right feel, without the right intention, even though I’m not fully sure if that’s correct in all situations. Just doing ‘something’ may also have a positive effect if you feel stuck or blocked or paralyzed. And my main worry(?!) is and was planning, as I still don’t have a proper plan for how to move on with Inspiration for Success, with achieving my personal success through it as described in many posts and especially my desire document related to Inspiration for Success.
So after feeling very bad and kind of helpless for the last few days I finally found some positive answer in the chapter about faith in Think and Grow Rich. And one of the things I found was that negative thoughts are fatal to success. But this was (and is still a bit) exactly happening to me: thinking negative thoughts. So I felt even more guilty as I was doing exactly the opposite of what was needed. But the chapter also gives clues how to get out of this type of thing and the main answer lies in autosuggestion. So my start was follow one of the instructions and reading the self confidence formula aloud. And that made me feel better already. And I just typed it, not copied it, to repeat it to myself in a different way. You may also want to do that, reading aloud and/or typing, as I believe it is a very powerful formula, including things like patience and being careful with one self, not ‘forcing’ action, the thing I was describing earlier in this post.
So where am I right now? Well, getting anxious again about my planning, that I don’t have and don’t know (yet) how to make, how to formulate. Let alone put into action or have others perform action from it.
But I want to share one more thing, as I also read aloud my one million dollar desire document that I made for this project, for the project Inspiration for Success. And this was the first time it really came alive and felt good, as it was one of the first times I read the current version that I made a few days ago. And that’s a bit weird, as many people would say, including me, that it’s kind of a weird, or ‘impossible’ document. But to me it’s proof that indeed the principle of auto-suggestion works, that you can make the mind believe virtually anything you want. And that’s indeed what the principles of success faith and auto-suggestion are all about.
And I’ll stop now, as I made a small step. And going from full-stop to running might not be wise.