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As you begin to make progress on pushing your limits, you’ve got to keep up the effort and continually build on what you have got.
Let’s summarize what we’ve covered so far so you can see the process clearly.
• First in line is the destruction process where you examine and destroy limiting beliefs. You begin to realize how much other people have influenced your beliefs, and how you often picked up where they left off.
• Next is the rebuilding process where you begin replacing your limiting beliefs with empowering ones. You begin to trust your inner knowing again, and honestly assess your capabilities.
• Then you begin challenging and conquering your fears and doubts. You begin dissecting and disarming these negative thoughts, effectively diminishing their power over you.
• Next, you begin to expand your concept of what is possible and proceed at a slow and steady pace. You take it a step at a time while keeping in mind that growth is a process.
• Finally, you commit to going the extra mile and continuing on past the point, where you would have normally given up.Then, the only thing to do is rinse and repeat.
The more frequently you can complete these steps, the more natural and intuitive the process becomes. You’ll find yourself questioning and confronting every stray craving, fear, uncertainty, doubt, lazy impulse and more. You will stop accepting excuses as facts and start demanding more from yourself. You will start thrilling to the challenge of adversity and you will ll learn to love the feeling of accomplishment as you take just one more step along the path of self-development.
You will probably even develop a greater sense of self-discipline and patience the further you get into this process because you will ll gain the insight that anything worth doing is worth doing well and completely, rather than rushing through it. You’ll learn to value every moment of the journey, not just the destination. Eventually you’ll reach a point where pushing your limits is largely an automatic reflex. You’ll laugh derisively at limiting thoughts and flatten obstacles with one mighty fist. (Okay, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration but it sounds cool, doesn’t it?)
What all this ultimately means is that you’ll stop letting yourself be derailed from what you really want! You will ll have packed your bags and moved to the Land of Empowerment, the most freeing place to live in the world. It really is up to you where you choose to spend most of your time; so choose wisely.
Additionally, never stop developing your self awareness. It really is the key to any self-improvement. When you have the insight and courage to be honest with yourself, you’ll never be able to deceive yourself, trick yourself or betray yourself.
Self-deception is a poison that will kill any attempt you make to improve your life.
Don’t let it destroy your progress! Self-deception has clear warning signs, so keep on the lookout for these:
• If you place the blame for things going wrong everywhere but on yourself, you are deceiving yourself. Sure, sometimes things just happen through no fault of your own. But if you notice a lot of anger and blaming coming from within you and
directed out to others, it is time to re-evaluate your part in the problems.
• If you start justifying unproductive behavior, self-deception has reared its ugly head. Excuses like these will be the death of your progress: “I’m too tired.
“It’s too hard.” “Everyone else has better luck than I do. I can still be successful even though I do not work consistently on my goals.” You already know WHAT you need to do to achieve any goal you set for yourself, you just have to be diligent at DOING it; no excuses.
• If you start double guessing your intuition, you may be deceiving yourself, or trying to sabotage your efforts.
Sometimes we’ll receive an intuitive hunch about something and “know” it’s true, but logically we can’t figure out why so we doubt it. If you’ve ever done this, you probably remember the sting of regret as you kicked yourself for not trusting your intuition like you should have. Get to know your intuition and exercise it frequently; then you’ll be able to know for sure when you should trust it.
• If you start scattering your energy in too many directions instead of sticking to your original plan, you may be deceiving yourself by an endless search for the “next big thing” or the “easiest thing.”
There is no next big thing or easiest thing, only the “thing” you choose for your own life. Tackle one thing at a time and stay focused. Your results will speak for themselves.
In general, an awareness of possible self-deception is often enough to stop or reverse it, but sometimes you will ll need to take firm action. Again, trust your instincts and take charge when necessary. Remember at the beginning of this post I told you to set aside that list of things you know you’ll “never” be able to do? Take another look at it right now and reconsider the items on it.
Do you still feel the same about them? Or have you begun to realize that you are capable of more than you thought? Don’t worry if you’re still a bit doubtful; even a tiny increase in hope and belief is a good thing.
Hang onto your list and keep reviewing it periodically. Do this especially once you begin to make measurable progress on pushing your limits, because you will likely feel a lot different about the concept of never. Maybe you’ll decide you simply don’t
WANT to achieve the items on that list, or that you want to eventually but not right now.
But with some of them, you just might surprise yourself.