Last Thursday I talked about my success as a sales person for Pitney Bowes. Because I was a top seller in the branch, I won a trip to The Camelback Resort in Arizona.
However, something very interesting happened after I won that trip. All my demons jumped up and surrounded me. Fear set in and not knowing what I know today, I let it overtake me. I didn’t have the tools to walk through my fear. I convinced myself that I hated the monthly quota and left that job to become a human resource manager where I had a nice salary and didn’t have to worry nearly as much about the results. What a great story of sabotage!
Humans are creatures of habit. We love to cling to our “comfort zones”. Comfort Zones are positive and negative patterns of thinking. No matter how much we want to change we stick to those yucky old patterns of thinking that prevent us from getting the success we desire. I want you to think of these “comfort zones” as your internal thermostat. The thermostat’s job is to keep us comfortable. If it’s set to 72 degrees, and the temperature rises it turns the air conditioner on and if the temperature drops below 72 it turns the air conditioner off. So, just like a thermostat our mind conditioning works like an internal regulating system constantly pulling us back to our “comfort zones”.
Today I understand how my conditioning from early child pushed me into fear and feelings of thinking I could never repeat what I had accomplished. I had no understanding of how to use affirmations and support systems to help me through what I was feeling and experiencing. At that point in time there were no coaches or mentors.
On Thursday I am going to talk about Napoleon Hill’s research on 500 of the wealthiest men of his time and how his book “Think and Grow Rich” helped me.
