Amigo, I really appreciate your time here today. Thanks for being you.
Let’s get going.
Read the title again of this message.
“I believe in struggle.”
I have to admit this.
Although I didn’t ‘realize’ it for years, I believed in ‘struggle’ for years.
Years.
I would have some success, though always find some way to screw it up, to halt my progress.
I would go forward, then back 4 steps, forward a few and keep repeating the cycle.
It’s like I HAD TO make things more difficult for myself then they needed to be, you ever do that?
What I didn’t get back then is that I bought into a real bad, real bad, real bad BELIEF.
That belief is called STRUGGLE.
It’s when we think everything needs to be difficult and a struggle to achieve.
It’s a belief passed onto us from our environment. It could be the home, schools, culture, jobs we’ve had, and our environment.
It’s a belief I see so often in the ‘employee mind’.
Check this out.
One of the reasons the ‘rich get richer and the poor get poorer’ is that the poor have bought the belief called struggle.
Struggle is all about negativity.
Struggle develops from a self image that doesn’t believe one’s even worthy to succeed.
Let me say that again.
Struggle develops from a self image that doesn’t believe one’s even worthy to succeed.
When’s the last time you checked in on your self image?
Do you realize there’s some ridiculously stupid belief you bought into 25 years or more that’s holding you
back today from your best self? Yes, I believe this is true.
“Mike, what’s the opposite of struggle?”
Answer: Effort.
Daily effort without all the negative mindset and emotions that struggle brings.
So much of this comes down to our thinking.
I had to realize over the years that my thinking was off base, not helpful to my goals, and filled with errors.
Errors.
Ask yourself this today:
What is one negative recurring thought I’ve had for the last 10 years that is still holding me back today?
Bring in to your awareness, then let it go.
We don’t realize so many of the chains that are holding us. After years, decades, they become invisible to the eye.
Today we have a decision, a choice.
We can stay with struggle or move closer to actions that bring us greater fulfillment, greater calm, and better results.
Which will you do?
Your Coach,
Mike Litman
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