When you want to do something but you’re not sure where to start, you’ve probably heard somebody tell you “Just do it and take the first step.” Perhaps this is something you’ve heard for the longest time.

However, you may be hesitant to take the first step. You may end up losing your confidence, and therefore do nothing.

Doing Something is Better than Nothing

When you want to accomplish something, merely thinking about it is not enough. You have to do something to move forward.

Suppose you are afraid of completing a task because you don’t know how it will end up. Well, doing nothing will get you nowhere near your goals.

On the other hand, those baby steps that you can take will bring you closer to completing your accomplishments– even if it takes a long time. These baby steps will slowly add up and before you know it you have reached your goal.

Baby Steps Will Take You There

Taking one small step at a time will help you to get where you want to go. Every little move you make will point you in the right direction to achieving your ultimate goals– no matter how small it is.

The most important thing is that you do something and start somewhere. Don’t waste another moment this year take that baby step now!

What I mean to say is that it took you time to develop the belief system you currently have… so it only stands to reason that it is going to take some time for you to change that belief system. I’m not suggesting that it’s not possible for a person to change “overnight” but it is highly unlikely.

I think we put enough pressure on ourselves as it is, and when you put this type of pressure on yourself where you are saying, “Well, I’ve read this book on Friday, and now it’s Sunday, why am I not a millionaire?

Why am I not attracting all the wealth and abundance that this book said I would?” You’re putting more pressure on yourself than necessary, and really what is happening then is the opposite of what you want to happen.

Unnecessary Pressure Can Negatively Impact Achieving Your Goals

You’re putting stress on yourself, you’re putting pressure on yourself, and you’re setting an expectation for yourself that is highly unlikely. Not that it’s impossible, but it’s highly unlikely that your goal or the change that you want to take place will actually be accomplished in that short a period of time.

Again, I just want to emphasize here. I would never tell anyone, “You can’t do something.” I would never tell someone, “This will never happen.” Because I believe that if you believe that thing on every level, with every fiber of your body, you will create that situation for your life.

But what I do want to say here is really take into consideration the fact that when you were two, three, four, five, six years old, seven years old, those are the absolute, most impressionable ages in anyone’s life.

How Your Brain Processes Information

Your brain is like just a sponge, just taking in information. Not only does it just take in every bit of information that it gets, it also takes it on as the truth. It’s actually taking that information on as this-is-the-way-things-are. Because of that, it starts to build a belief system. It starts to actually mold your paradigm that you will potentially live into.

Of course, again, that paradigm can shift at any given time. But if you’re 25 years old, and you’ve learned something at five years old, particularly, if that thing was reinforced at five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 20 and still 25.

I mean, if you think about the fact that something may have been taught to you and reinforced in your life for 20-some, 30-some, 40-some years, the likelihood of that belief system going away overnight, again, is very, very low.

The point is that if you truly want to change your belief system and create the life you want you have to stop the insanity and give yourself time. Be persistent and consistent in your efforts and you will see the rewards before you know it.

My conversation with this young lady turned into a whole new conversation when I pointed out that she was getting so upset about something that she had a significant level of attachment to. A significant level of what I’d like to call ‘significance’ which is the weight or importance that you put on something that can easily be causing that level of frustration.

What I was explaining to her is this: sometimes you may or may not know what you are thinking at any given time on a subconscious level, or believing, more specifically, about something at any given time. She told me, “Well, I’ve read this book and I’ve read that book, and I’ve done this work this weekend, and I cleared it out, all of my financial blocks.” And I asked her, “You cleared out your financial blocks in one weekend?” She goes, “Well, yeah, I did. Because I did this self-evaluation and blah, blah, blah, and all my blocks were cleared. And I still don’t know why I didn’t get this thing.” I said, “Okay.”

Well, I’m not here to tell anyone that they can or cannot clear up something within one weekend. But I will say this: Based on my studies, and my 20+ years of research into the human mind, the human brain, human behavior, and how humans interact with the rest of the world, it’s highly unlikely that a 20, 30, 40, 50-year-old person can completely change their entire belief system in one weekend.

Now wait,  hear me out, please.  I am not, by any means, saying that it is impossible. I am not, by any means, saying that it cannot be done. I’m sure that it has been done, and I’m sure that it will be done again. However, I think it is the exception rather than the norm.

I really do feel that it takes a little bit more work than picking up a book, reading it, and saying, “After having read this book, I’ve dropped all of my negative or self-defeating or limiting belief systems that I’ve been living my entire life.”

I think it is very unlikely – not impossible. Not impossible, by any means, but I do think that it is unlikely. Again, of course, this is based on my research. This is based on my experience, not only with myself, but with other people as well.

Again, I have to emphasize: I am sure that someone has had a life-changing situation. That’s really the caveat that I’d like to add in. Typically, when someone makes a huge paradigm shift like that, it’s because of some type of life-changing or traumatic, or I would just say some hugely significant event – a car wreck, someone dying or getting really sick, or some other major life event – that causes someone to really stop in their tracks and reflect.

Again, I have to emphasize, I know I’ve said it a few times, and I’m not saying that a book could not do that. I’m not saying that a home-study program that you took in one weekend couldn’t do that. I’m not saying that a weekend seminar couldn’t do that. However, again, based on my studies, I find it to be highly unlikely that that is the case.

I say this, because I want you to understand that it is a process. It is an ongoing process, and one that we all have to stay on top of to make sure we are manifesting what we say we want in life.

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Sorry, got a little distracted

Anyway, as I was enjoying this incredible soup, I overheard the lady at the table next to mine say, “I’m in survival mode right now…”

The guy she was talking to affectionately replies, “Yeah…I know survival mode. I’ve been in survival mode for the last 18 years.”

That was just amazing to me.

I can’t deny, I’ve been there before, but it was never a good feeling. And I could only imagine how it would feel over a time frame of 18 years, how that would seriously impact your psyche.

It made ask, “How do you stay in survival mode

My thought is that survival mode begets more of survival mode, which begets more of survival mode. And when you’re in survival mode, you’ll think about your survival mode and you’ll attract people who are in survival mode so you can talk about your survival mode and share your survival mode stories….and guess what…?

You’ll have more of survival mode.

Ok. So what do you do?

There comes a time when the cycle has to be broken. You have to chose to get out of survival mode…(despite your circumstances)
And from my experience, it can only be broken one of two ways:

1) by you,

2) by someone else.

So, here’s the deal, you can sit around and wait for someone to hand you something (a handout) that could give you the ‘lucky break’ you need to get out of survival mode or you can decide that you are not going to support a survival mode anymore and be in a “success mode.

Think about the things your want, think about the things place you want to be. Imagine yourself doing and being in the place you want to be…not in the place you’re in.

What’s your choice?

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For example: When most people attend a seminar, they learn a specific thing that may help them; and it may be empowering or beneficial to them. So they go back to the ‘real word’ and they might share the information with their friends; and they may even apply some ideas or strategies to their lives.

For me, the law of attraction was a total paradigm shift and has become my fundamental belief system.

Even moreso, this has happened relatively quickly, as most people would say “overnight”. So, it is difficult for people to really relate to the level of belief I have.

I had a conversation with my brother and he was telling me about some of the challenges and struggles that he’d gone through when he was growing up. Interestingly enough, the conversation kept getting abruptly halted because of my belief system.

For example, he would say, “Well, you know things happen in life…” and I would cut him off and say, “Well, no. Things don’t happen in life. We create the things that happen in life. Things just don’t happen.”

Then he’ll say something like, “You know, you just want to be prepared for what life throws at you…” and again, I had to stop and say, “Life doesn’t throw anything at me…”

And this happened two or three other times, and he started getting visibly frustrated – which is totally understandable.

I said over and over, “You know man, I really appreciate and love you for telling me with this, because I know you’re coming to me out of love..I know you’re not trying to hold me back or make my life miserable; however, there is a belief system that I live by that doesn’t coincide with what your saying.”
I understood that everything he was telling me was coming from a place of love, but it was still coming from his limited beliefs. In fact, he even made that statement, “Well, I am just telling you; these are the things that I know, these are the things that I’ve learned, and these are the things that I’ve come to believe.” and I said, “Exactly! Those are the things that you’ve come to believe, but I don’t believe those things. Those things don’t exist in my reality.”

That conversation was a real eye opener for me. First of all how much the law of attraction has become an integral part of my life. It is not just a surface level application that I use when I need to feel better or when I need to pump myself up.

Secondly because of how difficult it is for people to understand the law of attraction if they don’t “believe” it.
It’s actually become a part of who I am, a part of my existence, a part of the reality that I see when I experience the rest of the world. Because again, I see the law of attraction as a way of being…a fundamental belief system.

You believe it or you don’t.

It is just like gravity; you either believe in gravity or you don’t believe in gravity. You can’t believe that gravity works sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. Because if you had a ‘wishy-washy’ belief about gravity, you would go insane. Worrying every moment of the day whether or not you were just going to float off into space. If you had that belief you would go nuts, and the law of attraction, in my opinion, is the exact same way.

I don’t think there is a middle ground. I don’t think the law of attraction is a surface level Band-Aid, or concept that is to be intellectually understood and applied where necessary, because it works everywhere…all the time.

I say all this to say; for those of you who are making the transition into living the law of attraction and not just thinking about it or talking about it… don’t be discouraged.

Don’t be discouraged when your friends start thinking you are weird, don’t be discouraged when your family members stop talking to you as much; don’t be discouraged when people start disappearing. The law of attraction states that like attracts like.

You’ll find that other people will come into your life that will have the same belief and that will make a huge difference for you.

I put together a local group of Law Of Attraction practitioners in Atlanta called “The Secret” Society. They’ve become like a family to me and I’m overwhelmed with joy that I’m a part of their lives.

Having people who don’t judge me, think I’m weird or tell me “I need Jesus” is such a wonderful experience. It’s so important to have like-minded people around you to share in this experience and keep you encouraged. I love them dearly

By finding like-minded people you don’t have to be be discouraged by allowing the limited views of the society we live in to hold you back from what you know to be true. And by reaching out to others you avoid the potential ‘fear’ of your friends disappearing.
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