The one question I am always asked when I speak is, “how do I get rid of those obsessive negative thoughts that dominate my mind”?  My answer is commitment.  I tell them that they need to understand this is a process that takes time.  It’s hard work and for those who stay committed, their life will never be the same.  It requires tremendous patience and the ability to love yourself enough to make the changes work.  If you give up because you don’t see immediate results, then you are cheating yourself of the life you want and could have.  You need to identify what is preventing you from loving yourself.  For many this is the first real challenge in change.

Everyone I know who has achieved greatness has told me, “you should have known me before”.  What they are telling me is they had to work their buns off to change their thinking.  Once they were able to achieve new thinking, their lives did slowly change.  No one had an instantaneous “life change”. 

The first thing they needed to do was work on their self-image and see the truth about themselves.  They had to stop the thoughts that were against them.  They had to catch the negative thoughts before they became words and switch to a positive way of thinking.  They needed to recognize that when criticizing or judging they were sending out an energy that was only going to come back to hurt them. The true learning was in seeing their authentic selves as talented, creative, prosperous, beautiful, confident and secure –  going from acting “as if” and truly feeling these attributes.  They also realized the universe wanted them to reflect these attributes to all others so they could achieve greatness as well.

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