Empower Newsletter – September 2014
Welcome to the September 2014 edition of the Empower Newsletter and the beginning of Spring. As Spring signifies new growth and renewal I thought it would be nice to focus on restarting and redoing.
Do you know?
‘the past does not equal the future!’
How often have you decided not to start something simply because it didn’t work out in the past?
It is surprisingly very common! A lot of the time we don’t realise we are even doing it! The reason for this is that we are often on auto-pilot and our unconscious takes over. It remembers everything and it just wants to look after us. When we have had a bad experience in the past it reminds us how it turned out last time. And we wouldn’t want to go through that pain again, so we avoid it!
Some common examples of things you may have started that ended badly include a course that you didn’t complete, a relationship that didn’t work out, an arthroscopy that left you wondering if it was worthwhile or an attempt to learn a musical instrument.
Are you defined by the pain of your past? I wonder what will happen if you continue to let this pain hold you back. The answer is ‘nothing’. That’s right nothing will change! Life will continue as you know it today. It’s time to move away from the pain of the past and toward the joy and contentment of your future!
And the good news is, no matter what you’ve done in the past – whatever mistakes you’ve made, whatever knowledge you didn’t yet have, whatever limitations you allowed to hold you back – it doesn’t mean you are doomed to live that way always.
I hear some of you saying, ‘what’s the point in doing it again it didn’t work out last time?’ Well what would happen if you did do it again and the outcome was different and/or more successful this time? How would that change your life? Would it give you more enjoyment and make you feel more content and good about yourself!
By changing one little thing will change the outcome. It could be a thought, a belief, a feeling, an expectation of failure, an action or even a non-action.
How can we expect to succeed if our expectation is that we will fail? What do you need to think about yourself in order to expect success?
Choosing to change the meaning, to reframe the situation is another useful way of creating a different outcome.
What will you begin or restart?
Your future is for you to create!
Definition
Future
Something that will exist or happen in time to come.
In other words, something that hasn’t happened yet!
Something to Ponder
If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: The Past does not equal The Future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last 16 years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn’t mean anything…All that matters is: What are you going to do, RIGHT NOW!!?” –
~ Anthony Robbins ~
Quote of the Month
“See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”
~ Robert Collier ~
Affirmation Corner
I can accomplish anything that I put my mind to here in the present moment. My past has no bearing on what I can and will create. If it has never happened before, that is all the more reason for me to make it happen now. I will cease being a slave to my past.
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September 4, 2014 3:11 pm
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