I’m a pretty change-happy kinda guy. I like when things change for me. The area in which I tend to get lost, though, is directing that change and turning it into productivity.
Change is automatic. You change as you age, life changes, uncontrollable circumstances force change. It’s just something that happens.
This morning, I was surfing facebook a little before I got to work and ran across something Jason Moffatt posted. It was a video from Tony Robbins, and it’s completely changed my day.
In the video, Tony talks a little about conditioning, and how as a baby, a circus trainer will tie a rope around an elephants neck and drive a stake into the ground to keep it where they want it.
And despite how hard the baby elephant fights, it learns that it can’t break free and eventually becomes conditioned to accept that when the rope is tied around it’s neck, it can’t move… this thought remains with the elephant, even as an adult that could easily pull itself free. But it’s conditioned to believe that the rope is unbreakable.
Then he compares it to humans in that we as people have conditioned ourselves to believe that certain things are (and are not) possible for us. We tell ourselves that we can’t do things, and restrict ourselves on what we see as achievable. But the worst part about it is that we keep those limiting beliefs with us, even as we grow and progress and change.
It’s kind of a long video, but WELL worth the listen.
Or, if you’re just too busy to help yourself out, take this out of it.
Raise your standards in life. Just because you couldn’t in the past, doesn’t mean you can’t now.
We live who we believe we are.
