The human animal has two basic psychological pathways: We run towards things we want, and run away from things we fear. Because motivation only happens when you have a “why,” it’s worth spending some time thinking about how that process unfolds.
Think back to the example of James Allen in As a Man Thinketh. He equated the mind with a garden plot. You can just let it happen. The wind blows in seeds and you have a bunch of wild weeds. Or you consciously cultivate the crop, and you grow flowers or vegetables.
Of course your mind is the same way. But the stakes are a whole lot higher…
The average person has about 60,000 thoughts a day. Unfortunately, most of them are the same ones every day. These thoughts follow the same neural pathway in your brain. They literally create a rut they travel through over and over.
We like to think we create our future. But you don’t really create your future. You create your daily habits – and then those habits actually create your future.
He said I had come, because I had built such success habits, that it was easier for me to come, than it would be to stay home. He saw it as a demonstration of cosmic habitforce that Napoleon Hill learned from Carnegie. He’s onto something there...
Sometimes the reason you’re not able to pull the trigger on a new project or venture – is because you haven’t yet become the person who is capable of doing it.
