Your thoughts create your perception, which creates your reality.
Your thought patterns determine what you think you’re capable of, and therefore, what you choose to pursue.
Every time you grow as a person, or your life improves, it happens because you’ve adjusted or amended a thought pattern. While some of these patterns may be blatantly obvious to you, others are less so. Here are some of the most insidious ideas hindering your potential, often without you ever realizing.
1. “Only so much good can come from my life before it’s balanced out by the bad.”
When we’re young, we lack control over almost every single thing in our lives. We rationalize our near-constant discomfort by believing that life is, in essence, hard.
2. “I can only earn a life I love by doing things I hate.”
The sister belief to “life is hard and I am simply waiting for my next struggle” is the idea that to have to a life we love, we must do things we hate.
3. “I am responsible for any problem in my proximity.”
This is a particularly poignant issue if you’re someone with suppressed anxiety. When you have anxiety, you are constantly scanning your environment for potential threats and hazards. When you find one, it becomes your obsession. You fixate on it until you’ve come up with some kind of emergency plan or otherwise taken control of the situation altogether.
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