Chris Cade's Personal Transformational Ecourse (Part 2 of 7)...
As I mentioned in yesterday's email – people will often cut short positive actions – like meditation or learning an instrument -- because they just don't "feel in the flow" that day. They further argue that setting boundaries by committing to a set amount of practice or study time each day is "unnatural."
Boy isn't our Inner Critic cunning... It picked a term like "unnatural" to stop us from committing to consistent actions that would make us happier, healthier and wealthier.
After all, being all-natural, green and organic is the way to go.
But if someone has smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for the last thirty years – I can guarantee you they are going to find that it feels very "unnatural" to stop smoking.
But smoking certainly isn't natural. We didn't come out of the womb smoking cigarettes. Sure, in Indonesia you can see videos of kids smoking as early as two-years old. One toddler on the island of Sumatra -- who has become world famous – "goes crazy, slamming his head on the floor and even gets sick if he doesn't have his two packs a day."
You only have to look at the somewhat "freaky" video of this overweight toddler smoking 40 cigarettes a day to realize that it may be "uncomfortable" for him to quit – but it's certainly not natural for him to continue.
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Likewise, whenever we set new boundaries on our life (either to avoid a bad habit or create a good one) it may be uncomfortable at first. But if it is going to make our life better then it's certainly not unnatural.
You know what's really unnatural? Not being able to stick to something if you know it's going to improve your life. That's unnatural!
And it's certainly not "living in the flow." It's living in fear of taking action.
Not taking action may be "comfortable." Especially if that's what someone has been doing all their life. But it sure isn't natural.
We humans give way too much importance to emotional likes and dislikes. "I love this. I hate this." We'd be far happier if we focused on what we WANT instead of what we "like."
As I mentioned in yesterday's email – people will often cut short positive actions – like meditation or learning an instrument -- because they just don't "feel in the flow" that day. They further argue that setting boundaries by committing to a set amount of practice or study time each day is "unnatural."
Boy isn't our Inner Critic cunning... It picked a term like "unnatural" to stop us from committing to consistent actions that would make us happier, healthier and wealthier.
After all, being all-natural, green and organic is the way to go.
But if someone has smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for the last thirty years – I can guarantee you they are going to find that it feels very "unnatural" to stop smoking.
But smoking certainly isn't natural. We didn't come out of the womb smoking cigarettes. Sure, in Indonesia you can see videos of kids smoking as early as two-years old. One toddler on the island of Sumatra -- who has become world famous – "goes crazy, slamming his head on the floor and even gets sick if he doesn't have his two packs a day."
You only have to look at the somewhat "freaky" video of this overweight toddler smoking 40 cigarettes a day to realize that it may be "uncomfortable" for him to quit – but it's certainly not natural for him to continue.
FFF TTT
Likewise, whenever we set new boundaries on our life (either to avoid a bad habit or create a good one) it may be uncomfortable at first. But if it is going to make our life better then it's certainly not unnatural.
You know what's really unnatural? Not being able to stick to something if you know it's going to improve your life. That's unnatural!
And it's certainly not "living in the flow." It's living in fear of taking action.
Not taking action may be "comfortable." Especially if that's what someone has been doing all their life. But it sure isn't natural.
We humans give way too much importance to emotional likes and dislikes. "I love this. I hate this." We'd be far happier if we focused on what we WANT instead of what we "like."
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