Don't Worry, Be Happy

I was asked today why I think personal development is important. Why isn’t just so you can maintain a pleasant mood, though who doesn’t want to be happy? It’s not just so we can feel prosperous either even if all of us expect or should already understand how prosperous we already are. Personal development allows us to tap into our inner resources and grow our skill set so that we can live an extraordinary life. We learn to be happy in the moment, grateful for what we have right now, & belief that we will achieve more.Then we start to act on our beliefs and take action to hit our goals. So we can become the kind of person we really want to be. And that is why on this post I want to focus on what people let get in the way. I could dress it up in different ways but the bottom-line is that its fear. Some people would say confidence, some would say habits but I say its fear. And I want you all to be crystal clear that fear is the antithesis of belief. If you fear failure, its because you don’t believe. What you don’t believe in, I can't say for certain-only you can, it could be yourself. it could be what is possible.

Now here’s the thing, I regularly share what I have learned about the 'magic of the universe' and if you read my blog every post, you can look back and see that I have covered that when you say you want something, you can’t get it if you then have thoughts of lack, fear and doubt. These are thoughts of worry. Worrying about anything is the evidence of disbelief and doubt. When you believe, action is easy. I can remember when we were kids and we went to the local swimming pool. We were all excited about going off the high dive but for each and every one of us, the first time was the hardest. Some people never conquered their fear. Because they had no belief. In their imaginations, they couldn't see a good outcome for themselves, they doubted themselves. They could see others doing it but for some reason, couldn't see if one could do it then so could others. But those that did, and that was the majority of us, loved every minute of it. We were playing follow the leader, doing the cannonball, diving or even doing flips if that’s what the person in front of us did. Because once we saw it was how we thought about it that was the challenge, we took the lid off and we believed it was no big deal-so it wasn’t. I don't say this to make you feel bad, I say it because we are often trained to be 'worriers' and when someone points out why we shouldn't worry, we often realize that they are right. And sometimes just that knowing allows us to let go of the worry.

And you all know that I have covered belief, determination and action on more than one occasion, but, these are the keys to success. And the number one, critical, have to have it part of that is belief. Think about it this way. Remember when you went to school? You didn’t know how to read or write, didn’t know how to do math, spell, and didn’t know much about anything, right? School seemed hard didn’t it? And then when you were about ready to graduate, did you still think 1^st grade was hard? Or did you think, gosh that was easy and we got recess! And if you went to college, didn’t it seem like high school was so much easier? So what if you could start school all over again, and you could believe that school is easy, you just let your brain do what its supposed to do, you don’t think; this is hard or I don’t get it, you think; here is the information I just need to study it and I will get it. And you will because you believe you will. It’s only hard when you decide its hard. YOU make it hard.

So what you need to do is figure out what you believe in. If you tell yourself you don’t believe in yourself, you are making a huge mistake. Nobody is put on this earth to do it for you, you have to do it for yourself, you are here to make your own way and you were given everything you need to do, be and have whatever you want. But you have to see in yourself your unlimited potential-just like I do, or you will never really try.