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Is this holding you back severely?  The kids were huddled over behind the bleachers, puking their eyeballs out all in response to the announcement that just aired over the P.A. system at their local High School Football game.  THE COKE MACHINE IS CONTAMINATED.  KIDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL.

People in every nook and cranny of the stadium were acting sickly, holding their stomachs, wrenching in pain even to the point of throwing up until a few minutes later when they’d discovered that it wasn’t the coke machine.  A few had got sick eating at a local dive just before they sat in their hineys down on the bleachers to cheer on their friends and family.  What was the one thing real here?  What was the real problem?  Words.  It was words:

• What got those people sick
• They heard and chose to believe
• What got most people sick

It’s what keeps most people stuck in unfulfilling careers and living up to their full potential.  Here’s what I mean.  These words screamed out powerfully over the P.A. system.  Yet, everyday words like these are accepted as real as they scream through people’s minds.  Most often, they’re taken as truth.  People are greatly affected by it:

• “You can’t do this!”
• “Why even try?”
• “You’re not good enough”
• “I call B.S. on your plans!”

Sometimes, these words in our minds are spurred on by our childhood.  Other times, it’s just our smaller selves trying to stay safe.  My message in today’s blog post is to simply recognise the power of words and that you can dictate how you react to them.  Are they truth or just thoughts to acknowledge  I try to view them like one of those huge Good Year Blimps that adorns the sky often during some big sporting event.  Often, it drags a banner behind them.  Picture the banner with the thoughts you’re having plastered across it.  I can look at the message (my thoughts).  Acknowledge it and then go about what it was I set out to do.  Pretty soon, the blimp and banner and thoughts are out of my sight and mind.