Ten traps to avoid:
Excerpts from "Tools To Life"
Here are ten traps to avoid:
Trap 1: The instant gratification trap It’s truly one of the biggest problems in today’s society. We all want everything now, and our ability to put in the effort required has greatly diminished. You want change and you want it now! If you can’t get it right now, it doesn’t hold your attention. That’s why we get in trouble in life to begin with: We fail to pay attention.
This belief in magic solutions also makes us susceptible to all the false promises that advertisers sell us. Buy this amazing machine or pill or product, and you’ll have the best abs in six weeks! Don’t fall for this trap. Put in the effort and time, and the results will come.
Trap 2: The "This is silly," trap If you can simply disqualify something as nonsense, then you don’t have to follow through.Congratulations, you win! Now things can remain the same in your life. How do you know about anything, unless you try?
Trap 3: The agreeing trap You already do some of the things I mention, and you agree with them. Now you intellectualize the material while reading and think that by simply acknowledging it, you’re performing the tasks. That doesn’t work; you have to do all the activities. It’s in the doing that TOOLS takes effect. Just thinking it while reading is not sufficient.
Trap 4: The I’m so smart trap You’re so smart that you can read everything all at once and learn all the material. Can you go to school and learn a subject in one day? It’s in the continuous studying and discussions that you apply thought to the subject. It’s during this process that the material gets absorbed and translated into your internal language of understanding. Learning is a process. Respect the process, and you’ll be the beneficiary.
Trap 5: The eager trap You like what you’re reading and you’re thirsty for more, so you read more than one lesson a day. Can you go into a gym and get in shape in one day? If you try, you work out too much and get sore in the attempt. Then you can’t work out anymore, and your eagerness has the opposite effect of what you desired. The timing of TOOLS has been thought out carefully for you. You don’t have to figure out how much to do or what to do. All you have to do is follow the process as written.
Trap 6: The robotic trap Your intention is not really to make this process work. You’re doing it but with no emotional attachment to the process. Like a robot, you do the Exercises and Train the Brain but you are disengaged. We will talk a lot more about this subject throughout TOOLS. As Emerson said, “Nothing great has ever been created without enthusiasm.” You have to get involved in the process and absorb the material. You have to get excited, and you have to have the intention of success. Your intentions remain a subject we will discuss, but you may want to think about it. What are your intentions? Is your intention to make TOOLS a successful part of your life?
Trap 7: I’ll prove you wrong trap I don’t know why, I really don’t! Some people get angry when given good advice and they want to disprove it. They’ll participate in a process but only with the desire of showing that it doesn’t work. If your intention is to prove that TOOLS doesn’t work, then congratulations once again; you win. If that’s what you want to prove, you can prove that. However, you can only prove it in regards to you. I can prove that it does work, in regards to all those who want it to. Let me ask you, what exactly did you win? As I said, I just don’t get it.
Trap 8: Pick and choose trap You like some of TOOLS, and you’re willing to do those parts. Other things you don’t like, so you don’t do those. In other words, you pick and choose. It doesn’t work that way. TOOLS has been carefully created. It works as a building process. If you pick and choose, you’re writing your own program and you’re not building the Tools you need. Please, do it all.
Trap 9: "It doesn’t apply to me," trap Great, you don’t smoke, so you skip the Reading on smoking. Or you already work out, so that doesn’t apply to you. You’re not overweight. Congratulations, though sixty percent of Americans are. I can go on and on, and I can tell you that in TOOLS, everything applies to you. Within each subject there are mental connections that will take place. It’s all a reinforcement and layering process. Also, the real message is not always obvious til you read it. There is a Chinese proverb, “Miss one step and you will always be a step behind.” Let’s do TOOLS together, step-by-step!
Trap10: I’ll do it tomorrow trap There is another saying: “If you do what you have always done, you get what you have always gotten." Listen, these traps, including this one, are your old behaviors and thoughts trying to take over the process. The point of TOOLS is to develop new behaviors and winning thoughts. In order to do that, you have to do it every day, follow the steps, and do everything. In order to be able to re-create your life and make it whatever you want it to be, all you have to do is: Follow the yellow brick road. We’re off to see the Wizard...-Leo Feist The Wizard of Oz
Here are ten traps to avoid:
Trap 1: The instant gratification trap It’s truly one of the biggest problems in today’s society. We all want everything now, and our ability to put in the effort required has greatly diminished. You want change and you want it now! If you can’t get it right now, it doesn’t hold your attention. That’s why we get in trouble in life to begin with: We fail to pay attention.
This belief in magic solutions also makes us susceptible to all the false promises that advertisers sell us. Buy this amazing machine or pill or product, and you’ll have the best abs in six weeks! Don’t fall for this trap. Put in the effort and time, and the results will come.
Trap 2: The "This is silly," trap If you can simply disqualify something as nonsense, then you don’t have to follow through.Congratulations, you win! Now things can remain the same in your life. How do you know about anything, unless you try?
Trap 3: The agreeing trap You already do some of the things I mention, and you agree with them. Now you intellectualize the material while reading and think that by simply acknowledging it, you’re performing the tasks. That doesn’t work; you have to do all the activities. It’s in the doing that TOOLS takes effect. Just thinking it while reading is not sufficient.
Trap 4: The I’m so smart trap You’re so smart that you can read everything all at once and learn all the material. Can you go to school and learn a subject in one day? It’s in the continuous studying and discussions that you apply thought to the subject. It’s during this process that the material gets absorbed and translated into your internal language of understanding. Learning is a process. Respect the process, and you’ll be the beneficiary.
Trap 5: The eager trap You like what you’re reading and you’re thirsty for more, so you read more than one lesson a day. Can you go into a gym and get in shape in one day? If you try, you work out too much and get sore in the attempt. Then you can’t work out anymore, and your eagerness has the opposite effect of what you desired. The timing of TOOLS has been thought out carefully for you. You don’t have to figure out how much to do or what to do. All you have to do is follow the process as written.
Trap 6: The robotic trap Your intention is not really to make this process work. You’re doing it but with no emotional attachment to the process. Like a robot, you do the Exercises and Train the Brain but you are disengaged. We will talk a lot more about this subject throughout TOOLS. As Emerson said, “Nothing great has ever been created without enthusiasm.” You have to get involved in the process and absorb the material. You have to get excited, and you have to have the intention of success. Your intentions remain a subject we will discuss, but you may want to think about it. What are your intentions? Is your intention to make TOOLS a successful part of your life?
Trap 7: I’ll prove you wrong trap I don’t know why, I really don’t! Some people get angry when given good advice and they want to disprove it. They’ll participate in a process but only with the desire of showing that it doesn’t work. If your intention is to prove that TOOLS doesn’t work, then congratulations once again; you win. If that’s what you want to prove, you can prove that. However, you can only prove it in regards to you. I can prove that it does work, in regards to all those who want it to. Let me ask you, what exactly did you win? As I said, I just don’t get it.
Trap 8: Pick and choose trap You like some of TOOLS, and you’re willing to do those parts. Other things you don’t like, so you don’t do those. In other words, you pick and choose. It doesn’t work that way. TOOLS has been carefully created. It works as a building process. If you pick and choose, you’re writing your own program and you’re not building the Tools you need. Please, do it all.
Trap 9: "It doesn’t apply to me," trap Great, you don’t smoke, so you skip the Reading on smoking. Or you already work out, so that doesn’t apply to you. You’re not overweight. Congratulations, though sixty percent of Americans are. I can go on and on, and I can tell you that in TOOLS, everything applies to you. Within each subject there are mental connections that will take place. It’s all a reinforcement and layering process. Also, the real message is not always obvious til you read it. There is a Chinese proverb, “Miss one step and you will always be a step behind.” Let’s do TOOLS together, step-by-step!
Trap10: I’ll do it tomorrow trap There is another saying: “If you do what you have always done, you get what you have always gotten." Listen, these traps, including this one, are your old behaviors and thoughts trying to take over the process. The point of TOOLS is to develop new behaviors and winning thoughts. In order to do that, you have to do it every day, follow the steps, and do everything. In order to be able to re-create your life and make it whatever you want it to be, all you have to do is: Follow the yellow brick road. We’re off to see the Wizard...-Leo Feist The Wizard of Oz
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