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Success and Failure

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What if you could be guaranteed of success at ANYTHING you did? What would you do differently?

First, let’s take a moment to consider the relationship between success and failure.

You are always successful at everything you actually DO. AND – you are always successful in NOT doing what you don’t do.

You are ALWAYS succeeding at something.

What you do may not match your desire. And, your environment may give you the impression that you have failed at something. Yet, because you have actually DONE SOMETHING, you have succeeded in doing that something, whatever it is. Likewise, for those things you do not do, you have succeeded in not doing them.

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10 Cognitive Thinking Errors

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One of 10 Cognitive Thinking Errors?

One of 10 Cognitive Thinking Errors?

And what to do about them. Based on the work of Aaron Beck and others, in Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David Burns outlines 10 common mistakes in thinking, which he calls cognitive distortions.

  1. ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING – Also called Black and White Thinking – Thinking of things in absolute terms, like “always”, “every” or “never”. For example, if your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure. Few aspects of human behavior are so absolute. Nothing is 100%. No one is all bad, or all good, we all have grades. To beat this cognitive distortion:
    • Ask yourself, “Has there ever been a time when it was NOT that way?” (all or nothing thinking does not allow exceptions so if even one exception can be found, it’s no longer “all” or “nothing”)
    • Ask yourself, “Never?” or “Always?” (depending upon what you are thinking)
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Bush’s Mistake and Kennedy’s Error

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Self-deception proves itself to be more powerful than deception

By Michael Shermer

Published in Scientific American

 

Michael Shermer, PhD
 

The war in Iraq is now four years old. It has cost more than 3,000 American lives and has run up a tab of $200 million a day, or $73 billion a year, since it began. That’s a substantial investment. No wonder most members of Congress from both parties, along with President George W. Bush, believe that we have to “stay the course” and not just “cut and run.” As Bush explained in a speech delivered on July 4, 2006, at Fort Bragg, N.C.: “I’m not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done.”

We all make similarly irrational arguments about decisions in our lives: we hang on to losing stocks, unprofitable investments, failing businesses and unsuccessful relationships. If we were rational, we would just compute the odds of succeeding from this point forward and then decide if the investment warrants the potential payoff. But we are not rational–not in love or war or business–and this particular irrationality is what economists call the “sunk-cost fallacy.”

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Manifestation – It’s all about gratitude

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The beginning of gratitude is acceptance of what is. Fortunately, this is the easy part of manifestation – you already accept what is in your world – and act accordingly. That is why you have what you currently have in your world and why it is that things are the way they are. You accept it that way and act accordingly.

For example, you accept that trees are green and rain is wet. You do not question nature as it is – you simply accept it. EVERYTHING in your life is as it is because you accept it that way – and act accordingly. When was the last time you questioned something in your life that you take for granted – like air. Over time, you have come to simply accept things as they are – for the most part, you take your life for granted.

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Making It Happen in Writing!

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Stop reading this article, get a piece of paper and a pen, and do this exercise RIGHT NOW!

Stop reading this article, get a piece of paper and a pen, and do this exercise RIGHT NOW!

You’ve probably heard and seen them all – sure-fire ways to manifest what you want. Here’s a rather simple method that takes your ideas out of your head and gives them a head-start (so to speak) by manifesting your goals in writing first. This starting point seems to set them up for manifestation and is a lot of fun to boot.

Some years ago, Ranae Johnson, the originator of Rapid Eye Technology, kept a shoe box in which we placed such papers – like a wish list. I don’t know what happened to the box. I do know what happened to my life – it took off in the directions I wrote about – BIG TIME.

Write out what you want on a piece of paper:

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