Alright, time for me to clean something up…
I know sometimes it seems like I’m against “positive thinking”, but in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
I’m a HUGE fan of thinking positive, in fact, I think it’s the critical first step in overcoming anxiety or fear. Heck, it’s the first step to ANYTHING.
What I’m not so keen on is stopping with positive thinking and not following it up with ACTION.
Let me explain…
Before we could put a man on the moon, we first had to BELIEVE we could. I mean if we can’t do it, what’s the point in trying? That’s why you don’t see many professional alchemists anymore still trying to turn lead into gold…we just don’t believe we can anymore (and we’re probably right on that one).
But what if we would have just sat around thinking and pondering how great it would be to go to the moon? What if we just believed it REAL HARD, but that was it?
We’d be no closer to moon than we were in 1900.
We had to believe and then DO SOMETHING. We had to figure it out. Build a shuttle. Set a goal to do it in a certain timeframe.
Kennedy said,
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
ONLY THEN did we actually take the steps necessary to plant our flag on the moon. Belief and positive thinking was a necessary first step, but not nearly enough.
It’s the same with overcoming fears and anxiety.
If you think you CAN’T be different, that you’re destined to a life of misery and anxious suffering, then you’ll never try and put in the effort required to change. You’ll guarantee your own failure. So thinking positive is critical, you HAVE to think positive and believe in the possibility of change just to start.
But if ALL you do is think positive, like some self-improvement wackos tell you to, that’s not much better than doing nothing. You need to add ACTION to the mix and get things moving in the direction toward your goal.
What actions can you take that actually move you closer to the goal?
Things like figuring out what you do in life that causes you to get stressed, anxious, and sick, and do less of it. How about figuring out what you do in life that makes you smile and feel at peace and doing more of that? Starting a recovery program like on that I offer, or seeing a therapist if that’s more your speed, or deciding to confront what’s really at the core of your anxiety…
The options are limitless, but you have to start somewhere. Thinking positive is a great place to start, but a terrible place to stop.
So what are YOU going to do today to move one step closer to who you want to be? Shoot me a comment and let me know!
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