Three short questions on belief
Lack of belief leads to lack of action, and lack of action leads to failure. To retrain your brain, consider these three short questions.
You cannot make something happen without believing that you can.
This is not a symmetric equation.
Believing you can make something happen does not absolutely guarantee that it will.
Not believing you can make something happen does guarantee you will not.
So to give yourself any chance of accomplishing something, the single prerequisite is that you believe you can.
A three-question exercise, for me and for you:
What, specifically, do you want to accomplish?
When you close your eyes and think about accomplishing it, how does a lack of belief that you will do so present itself?
What, specifically, needs to change for you to start believing?
Good luck.
Till next time.
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Belief, faith, trust: for many: acts of rebellion against the standards pattern.
For others: things they should reassess.
It’s what creates the movement in action to escape the velocity of self betrayal.