Self-improvement: The past does not equal the future October 10, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Overcoming Fear.Tags: achieving goals, ego management, focus on the present, managing the ego, self-improvement, Tony Robbins
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In managing our ego or our mindset towards ongoing improvement in our life circumstances, what you do now and in the future is more important than what you did or did not do in the past.
Tony Robbins makes an important point in his book Notes to a Friend, when he comments, “What you did in the past does not determine what you will do in the future.”
Robbins is not saying that what we have done in the past has absolutely no effect on the future, because it does. What he is saying is that we can change how we take actions today; and the actions of today can be different than how we acted in the past.
It’s an important distinction because the ego’s tendency is to focus on the past and the unknown, rather than on the reality of today.
If we are constantly revisiting the past with all of its mistakes and omissions, or worrying about possible problems in the future, it is difficult to focus on positive actions we can take today.
It’s worth remembering that there are second chances in life.
Ego and mindset management: Focus on the task at hand October 6, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, controlling ego, ego management, managing the ego, personal development
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One of the difficulties in controlling our mindset is in trying to deal with our ego’s tendency to fill our heads with all of our problems at the same time.
This can lead to our mindset focussing on the overall results we want in our lives rather than concentrating on dealing with immediate tasks on hand that could help in achieving those results.
For example, we might be in more debt than we want and the overall result we want is to remove that financial worry.
In this case we should be looking at finding one step, or one task at hand that we could do to work towards that goal.
Mentally dwelling on our entire life situation and its problems will not accomplish much; but taking one action towards solving one of our problems, and doing this every day can lead to a sense of optimism and accomplishment, and eventually a solution.
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