Tuesday 17 July 2007

Self Belief

Readers,

Do you believe in yourselves? Can you reach out and turn your dreams into realities?
Well you better because if you dont - then how do you expect to make anyone else believe that you can? Exactly - you wont be able to!

'But what if i cant?' - Ever heard of the self fulfilling prophecy? This is where a thought causes the outcome. This is not to say that the outcome would have been different but for the thought - it may well be that the outcome would be precisely the same - but the thought could still be the main cause of the outcome because whether or not the outcome would have been different with a different thought can never be known as you cant turn back time!

I can imagine that the last paragraph can be very difficult to understand without a working example.... so lets use the example of a person who is learning to ride a bike - he falls off the first time and decides that it is an impossible thing for him to learn and that he will never be able to achieve it and therefore doesnt ever climb back on a bike again in his life. (In this example ths person dies without learning how to ride a bike) - now if this person did climb back on the bike - there is no guarantee that he ever would have learnt to ride the bike - some people are just destined to go their life without ever being able to do some stuff! But the point is - in this example.... the reason that he never learnt is because he believed he couldnt rather than he actually couldnt because whether or not he actually couldnt was never discovered as a 'fact'!

Do you want to go through life missing out on something because you were too much of a coward to give it your best shot in fear of failure? If so - I pity you for that is such a sad way to live. Scared someone is going to judge you if you keep climbing on the bike and dont ever learn to ride? Two things - why allow someone to have *that* much power over you????
and more importantly - close your eyes and imagine the satisfaction of riding the bike - without stabilisers people!!

Now close this page down and go away and give your dreams your best shot - and may the force be with you.

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