Liberate Yourself From Self-Limiting Thoughts and Feelings
Instead of falling into those familiar feelings of futility over yourself, work to deliberately drop those discourage-filled thoughts that are telling you the limit of your present view is the limit of your possibilities. Who you have been matters only to those dark states that want you to remain that way so that they can continue to rule the day. Refuse to dwell in discouragement over who your own thoughts are telling you you’ll never be. Just get started working on who, and what, you are right now!
In other words, do what’s in your power and refuse to be discouraged about anything else. And keep repeating this new conscious action one step at a time, over and over again. It is in your power to learn whatever it takes – one lesson at a time – and make it all the way to your designated goal.
Here’s one last special thought to help summarize this important life lesson in liberating ourselves from the limitations of discouragement:
Any conversation you permit yourself to have with dark and discouraging thoughts guarantees you’ll wind up with a dozen good reasons for why you feel so dark and discouraged.
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Thank you. Thank you. This is a column full of energy and life-changing thoughts. And we need them more than ever today, especially when so many people are dealing with the loss of jobs, or homes, or both. There are plenty of gloomy voices all around us in the world; we don't need extra ones inside.
As a (trying to reform) self-admitted control freak, dropping self-defeating demands will be my biggest challenge. Understanding that it can be done seems easy; doing it seems hard. I hope you'll be writing more in the future. And thank you again.