Monster headline, right?
That’s coz it’s a monster topic.
Perhaps this is the biggest monster that eats away at achieving our biggest goals.
“Just Give Me Something To Believe”
The faces all around me they don’t smile they just crack
Waiting for our ship to come but our ship’s not coming back
We do our time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for? What are we saving for?
So give me something to believe
‘Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
So Many Of Us Want To Believe, Don’t We?
A founder said to me last week he still doesn’t believe he’ll get his business to work.
“If I believe it more,” he said, “I know I can find a way.”
“That makes sense to a brain waiting to see pigs fly doesn’t it?” I responded.
Puzzled, he murmured, “What do you mean?”
I told him that for years I tried to convince myself that my outrageous goals were possible.
“And you know what I learned from tens of thousands of hours invested in mental conditioning? “I asked him.
It’s very difficult to get that brain of yours to believe what’s possible.
No matter how much you do, it’s mostly a see-believe faculty, isn’t it?
I’ll believe it when I see it, we say.
But believing gets easier when you see it the other way.
Action Before Believing Takes Bravery
Because it can be hard to convince your brain that your goals are possible…
Many of us never take the actions that make our goals possible.
It makes sense to think, If only you can get yourself to believe it is possible, then you will do those things.
But if instead you can just kick the belief can down the road a little bit…
And take your best action anyways…
The more you believe your goals are possible!