...your belief system is.
When I first read this quote on an entrepreneur instagram page, I thought to myself
'WTF does that mean now?! I always thought the sky is the limit is already a quote used for motivation..'
But after thinking about it I really like that quote, it describes in a nice way how big the impact of your beliefs can be. Or maybe someone just made 'the sky is the limit' into a motivational quote because it gets attention.. Anyway the point of this thread is not to discuss a quote. This quote only serves as a nice intro for what I am about to tell you now.
Let me start with this: I am not about to tell you some 'The Secret' like stuff.. I watched the movie on youtube and even if it has some good intentions, most of it is just there to sell books IMO. What I agree with is that positive thinking is one step to get to your goals, it is ONE STEP of it, not the whole thing like 'The Secret' claims. If you sit around on your lazy a$$ wishing that you will be a millionaire it will get you no where then still wishing the same thing in 40 years..
What I want to tell you, and what I hope will help you, is that your beliefs are a powerful weapon on your road to/on the Fastlane.
To make it short: if you don't believe that you can do it, you most like won't do it. Simply because you will never engage in real process if you are not convinced that you can do it. Let me tell you one metapher that I like to use, yeah it is kinda silly but it paints the picture I want it to paint:
Assume you are playing a video game. The goal of most games is to get from point A to point B and do whatever needs to be done on your way to B. Now since it is a video game you know it can be done, you know no matter how difficult it will be, no matter how many tries you will need and how many hours you will spend on it, it can and eventually will be done some time. To what do those beliefs lead you, even if subconsciously?
It makes you go through it no matter what, or did you ever took the disc of the game out of your PS4 and threw it out the window because you could not overcome one level? I guess not.. You just do it, you find a way to do it and you finally get to B, you never questioned if it is possible to get to B, and you never thought about staying at A, because of it being easier to just stay there.
So let's take that into real life. When it comes to being rich young, most people are conditioned to NOT believe in the possibility of reaching point B, so they keep on the "safe" (or should I say "easy") point A their entire life.
But what if you believe that you can actually reach point B? If you do not listen to all those Slowlaner stories, and rather listen to people who succeeded at what you want to succeed? What does this seemingly small change in your mind do?
It will make you leave that overcrowded ("safe") point A and get you on the road to point B.
I am not telling you, that you are halfway there simply by believing that you can get there. You are still where you are now. Not even 1 foot into your journey. But it can make you put your car on the road and start your journey.
Just take the example with the little boy from MJ's TMF, who asked him to take pictures of his Lambo, because he will never own one himself. So his believe system is that he can never reach point B (being able to buy a Lambo), so most likely he won't do anything to get to point B, simply because he does not believe that he can get there.
When MJ saw the young guy with his Lambo, MJ thought to himself he will own one himself one day. And what did he do? He did everything to get to his goal, and eventually he got there.
This does not only apply to entrepreneurship, let's take my mom for example. When she was a child she (without knowing) ate a rotten chicken at a friends house. Since that day she never ever ate a freaking chicken. So no matter how silly it maybe is, you will act on your beliefs, if you believe that you can never lose weight, you most like will not even go to the gym or eat healthy.
Your beliefs are a powerful weapon on your road to/on the Fastlane, so make them fight for you and not against you.
When I first read this quote on an entrepreneur instagram page, I thought to myself
'WTF does that mean now?! I always thought the sky is the limit is already a quote used for motivation..'
But after thinking about it I really like that quote, it describes in a nice way how big the impact of your beliefs can be. Or maybe someone just made 'the sky is the limit' into a motivational quote because it gets attention.. Anyway the point of this thread is not to discuss a quote. This quote only serves as a nice intro for what I am about to tell you now.
Let me start with this: I am not about to tell you some 'The Secret' like stuff.. I watched the movie on youtube and even if it has some good intentions, most of it is just there to sell books IMO. What I agree with is that positive thinking is one step to get to your goals, it is ONE STEP of it, not the whole thing like 'The Secret' claims. If you sit around on your lazy a$$ wishing that you will be a millionaire it will get you no where then still wishing the same thing in 40 years..
What I want to tell you, and what I hope will help you, is that your beliefs are a powerful weapon on your road to/on the Fastlane.
To make it short: if you don't believe that you can do it, you most like won't do it. Simply because you will never engage in real process if you are not convinced that you can do it. Let me tell you one metapher that I like to use, yeah it is kinda silly but it paints the picture I want it to paint:
Assume you are playing a video game. The goal of most games is to get from point A to point B and do whatever needs to be done on your way to B. Now since it is a video game you know it can be done, you know no matter how difficult it will be, no matter how many tries you will need and how many hours you will spend on it, it can and eventually will be done some time. To what do those beliefs lead you, even if subconsciously?
It makes you go through it no matter what, or did you ever took the disc of the game out of your PS4 and threw it out the window because you could not overcome one level? I guess not.. You just do it, you find a way to do it and you finally get to B, you never questioned if it is possible to get to B, and you never thought about staying at A, because of it being easier to just stay there.
So let's take that into real life. When it comes to being rich young, most people are conditioned to NOT believe in the possibility of reaching point B, so they keep on the "safe" (or should I say "easy") point A their entire life.
But what if you believe that you can actually reach point B? If you do not listen to all those Slowlaner stories, and rather listen to people who succeeded at what you want to succeed? What does this seemingly small change in your mind do?
It will make you leave that overcrowded ("safe") point A and get you on the road to point B.
I am not telling you, that you are halfway there simply by believing that you can get there. You are still where you are now. Not even 1 foot into your journey. But it can make you put your car on the road and start your journey.
Just take the example with the little boy from MJ's TMF, who asked him to take pictures of his Lambo, because he will never own one himself. So his believe system is that he can never reach point B (being able to buy a Lambo), so most likely he won't do anything to get to point B, simply because he does not believe that he can get there.
When MJ saw the young guy with his Lambo, MJ thought to himself he will own one himself one day. And what did he do? He did everything to get to his goal, and eventually he got there.
This does not only apply to entrepreneurship, let's take my mom for example. When she was a child she (without knowing) ate a rotten chicken at a friends house. Since that day she never ever ate a freaking chicken. So no matter how silly it maybe is, you will act on your beliefs, if you believe that you can never lose weight, you most like will not even go to the gym or eat healthy.
Your beliefs are a powerful weapon on your road to/on the Fastlane, so make them fight for you and not against you.
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