Chapter 66
You Can Control Your Habits
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Today's Empowering Quote
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"We're worn into grooves by Time--by our habits. In the
end,these grooves are going to show whether we've been
second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the
affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine
the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are
grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind,
peace, happiness--achievement."
-Frank B. Gilberth
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Today's Empowering Question
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"What thoughts do I have that continuously drive me into
taking the actions that keep me down?"
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Today's Fast Session
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You can't possibly make a positive change in your life if
you don't know how it is that you make the mistakes in the
first place--the habits that confine you to making the same
mistakes over and over.
...And over.
I can appreciate how frustrating it is to be imprisoned to
running the same old patterns--only to get the same rotten
results. I was a living, breathing example of the power of
bad habits.
No one type of person is immune to the power of habits.
The other day I was reading about some of the tightwad
habits of a few famous, and wealthy, people...
For example, Clarke Gable used to argue regularly with his
grocer about the price of jellybeans. John Rockefeller
once gave his groundskeeper a $5 bonus...then docked it
from his pay when the man took Christmas Day off. Paul
Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, used to
pack a suitcase full of dirty clothes and take it to his
daughter's house so he didn't have to pay to have it
cleaned. Ty Cobb, the baseball great and early investor in
Coca-Cola, used to steal soap from hotels and locker room
showers and send them back to his home.
These are prime examples of the power of habit. Even
after these people became wealthy, they still retained
their old scripting.
Our habits of thought, especially the thoughts that we
don't even CONSCIOUSLY think any more, control every action
and emotion we have... even in our sleep.
So if you've been reading my newsletters for months, and
even if you forward them all over the world, but you
haven't once taken those affirmations at the bottom and
attempted to incorporate them into your daily thoughts, you
are missing out on one of the most powerful and life
altering habits you have available to you; because it is
impossible to change your action habits before you first
make a thought habit change.
Reach up and scratch your ear. The only way you can do
that is if you think about it first, either from a direct
command like I just gave (which you had to think about) or
by the thought, "My ear itches." So you take the action.
You can't take a single action unless you think about it
first. The thought, "My ear itches" is an affirmation. If
your ear lost all its feeling and went numb, a mosquito
could suck it dry and you'd never get the thought, "My ear
itches." So you wouldn't scratch it. The mosquito doesn't
make you itch your ear. It's the thought, "I'm getting
bitten." Numb ear means no thought.
For many decades, yogis have done demonstrations where
they drink a toxic substance like turpentine yet it does
nothing to them. They affirm in their minds that no matter
what the liquid is, their body will react to it as if it's
water. No cell in their body is harmed. No treatment is
necessary.
You have a mind just like they do. Same structure. Same
abilities. There is no difference. Well, there is one...
Your beliefs - your affirmations, are different.
You can only act based on what you believe... what you
affirm is true. Affirmations like, "I'm too short, too
tall, too this, too that, I can't do it, She would never
like me, I'll never learn this, I'm going to die broke..."
...In fact any false belief you have isn't false at all if
you believe it.
If you believe that you're going to own hundreds of rental
properties, you'll learn what you need to know and you'll
do what's required to make it happen.
Conversely, if you believe (affirm) that you'll need
Social Security to survive and that you'll live hand to
mouth forever, you won't try to save, you'll spend your
money on junk, your time will be spent on recreation and
you'll run the other away from setting meaningful goals.
Habits control all of us. Take control of your thoughts.
Make it a daily habit of affirming powerful belief
altering, action producing truths about you and about life,
and it will literally force you to do and to enjoy (if you
affirm to) the actions that will make your dreams come true.
Make a commitment now to be the one in twenty who gets
what they really want in life; The one in twenty who takes
information and actually does something with it; One in
twenty who can take goal accomplishing actions because they
convince themselves that it's fun...
And if you don't believe that... yet, then consider this.
Life is tough no matter who you are. What pain would you
rather have, the pain of sacrifice and labor or the pain of
regret and sorrow for the things you never did because you
believed you couldn't and will never get the chance to do
again?
Choose the first one... Please.
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Today's Winning Beliefs
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-- I have the habits of the most successful people alive
-- My new habits lead me to successful outcomes
-- I am rising above all old limitations
-- I am an example of the power of belief and possibility
-- My habits make me successful
-- Good habits and I are on
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