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With wishes for a joyful, creative Thanksgiving to all our US friends and a big kiss for everyone else —
Exercise: What’s Kept You From Succeeding?
Sometimes it is simply your own stubbornness and stuck thinking that are holding you back.
This exercise asks you to be completely frank with yourself — asking some tough questions in a kindly voice to help you break through some of those nasty internal barrier success.
So grab a pen and, working swiftly, answer the following 10 questions for yourself with as much blazing honesty as you can muster:
- What has stopped you from succeeding before this?
- What’s your most likely form of self-sabotage?
- If you found yourself engaging in that self-sabotage, how might you handle that?
- What are you afraid might happen if you fail at this project?
- How might you address the situation if that failure actually occurred?
- What are you afraid might happen if you succeed at this project?
- How might you address the situation if that success actually occurred?
- What qualities do you possess that can help you move through this project?
- What question has not been asked that you need
- What is the truth? (Start by writing, “The truth is…”) You may notice that imagining the worst of both failure and success, and then imagining how those eventualities, helps you feel a bit more in the driver’s seat.
Fear paralyzes;curiosity cures.
Writing down the answers to these questions encourages you to give voice to the monsters under the bed, disarming them once and for all.
Read good books.
Watch webinars offered by people you respect.
Listen to podcasts hosted by smart, generous people.
There are a lot of brilliant people out there giving away their
very best secrets, and you owe it to yourself – and your
business – to learn as much as you can from them.
I know the sheer volume of information out there can feel
overwhelming, but dedicating some time each day to learning
will pay off in a thousand different ways.
Consider seriously points of view you don’t agree with. What do
they know that you don’t?
I had to share this THRILLING email from one of the participants in the Start Right Where You Are course —-
“If you had been in the room yesterday when I went to the most unlikely place in the house and pulled out the jeweler’s pouch with the long-lost diamond earrings, you would have heard screams of joy and excitement that have never before come out of a classy 85-year old’s mouth!
[My friend] Gloria had asked me last Friday if I could “logically and systematically” go through all of her jewelry boxes, elegant purses and designer jackets to see if her lost earrings could be found.
I wrote the exercises from Start Right Where You Are Lesson #2 right before I went to her house.
After we had spent time checking the logical places diamond earrings could be lost, I remembered your definition of Intuition as Cognition without Knowing…no documented or logical evidence and I got inspired to follow my “gut.”
I walked to a very public place in her house and noticed a one-foot tall Chinese wedding basket and started to walk away because
“logically, who would hide very expensive, large and valuable diamond earrings in the middle of a well traveled area?”
Then I remembered your definition and went to the Chinese basket and opened the top and it looked empty, however, I followed my intuition and swept my hand around the dark circle of the basket and found a small jeweler’s leather bag and brought it to Gloria.
As she opened it and discovered her treasure she was ecstatic and said, “You’re a Genius! How did you know to look there?” and I shared my Sam Bennett homework with her and let her listen to part of your call to hear your strong belief in Intuition.
She was so happy, she gave me a brand new necklace that we had found from India when we were looking in the “logical” places earlier.
Today she called me from her new home in Rancho Mirage and said,
“I am telling everyone this story and I am going to follow Sam’s list and get rid of my “Intuition Killers!”
I felt so alive when it happened and wanted to let you know how powerful your work is to get us back in touch with our Being…..
Joyous in Long Beach,
Ashley Waugh, an even bigger fan
And when I asked Ashley if I could share her story with you, she graciously agreed and added —
“I would love to be a small part of anyone falling in love with their intuition again…..”
So…what can you do follow to YOUR intuition today?
Let me know — you know I love to hear from you.
You’re stuck because you think you know what you don’t know.
But you don’t.
Because you’ve never done This before.
You think you know how your project is going to unfold, and I’m here to tell you that you don’t.
You think you know how much people will pay for your product or service, and you don’t.
You think you know how much work your project will be for you, and you don’t.
You think you know how your project will be received, and you don’t.
All these things you think you know (but don’t) are keeping you from moving forward.
Think back to your own experience – every single project you have ever done for the first time has grown and stretched and changed and evolved as you’ve worked on it, right?
So let’s pretend you are an absolute beginner, and enter this project with a spirit of joyful exploration.
The Isle of Skye
What if there was
another you who lived on the Isle of Skye?
And what if, in the soft light of that
other home,
you forgot to think the thoughts
that hold you back?
What if, in the mist,
you knew all,
you forgave all,
and you remembered to be
oh so gentle with yourself?
What if you, on the Isle of Skye,
could just breathe,
wearing a warm sweater
and half a smile?
And what if your heart’s own work just flowed out of you –
lipping in between the endless hills and endless sea – a balm unto the world?
© 2014 Samantha Bennett
