Fear: The enemy of our personal development potential March 4, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: Hope, Insipiration, life, personal development, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, positive thinking, self-improvement
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By Dennis Mellersh
The author of one of my personal development books suggests that fear is one of the primary causes of procrastination.
And from our own personal experience we each know that not only can fear result in “putting off” doing something until a later date, it can also result in putting it off altogether and never doing it.
As such, fear can be the enemy of our self-improvement efforts.
In his landmark television series, Civilization, Sir Kenneth Clark suggests that one of the primary causes of the collapse of two of the greatest advanced ancient civilizations, the Greek and Roman empires, was fear.
Fears such as invasion by the barbarians, fear of plague or war, and fear of the supernatural.
The result in Clark’s view was a significant decrease in citizens’ confidence and energy, the two main drivers necessary for building a successful and viable civilization with staying power.
Similarly, creating a successful personal growth program for ourselves requires confidence and energy, as well as a desire, coupled with effort, to push through our fear to accomplish things.
Paradoxically, we can be in the position of starting a personal development program in part to reduce our fears but then allow our fears to impede our progress.
How come?
Seth Godin believes that one of the major reasons that we do not follow through with our new project efforts is our fear that “This might not work.”
However, the need to push through our fears, such as ‘this might not work’ is easier to say than to do.
That’s when we need to draw on our energy.
Misconceptions about the Law of Attraction August 24, 2014
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth, Law of Attraction.Tags: achieving goals, goal setting, intention and manifestation, philosophy, positive thinking, self-improvement
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One of the more prominent recent concepts within the discipline of personal growth and development is the concept of the Law of Attraction.
One of the basic “principles” behind the Law of Attraction is that whatever we focus on strongly (such as thinking about something a lot) the Universe will take notice of and will help enable.
This applies to negative focusing as well as positive.
If we spend most of our thinking time focusing on the existing negatives and the potential negatives (our current and future problems; lack now, and future lack; what’s wrong now and what will be wrong with our lives) chances are that not much if any positive good will result.
Conversely, if we spend most of our thinking time on the positives of our lives and the potential positives, the likelihood is that favorable outcomes will occur.
At least that’s the theory. But there are two components missing.
Unless we believe in an interventionist Universe and interventionist God, then how does the Law of Attraction actually operate?
It works by coupling: (1) the concept of Intention (2) with Action.
If we look at any particular Intention as a goal, it is clear that to achieve it, we will need to have an action plan.
Stating, or writing out our Intentions and reviewing them constantly is a sound practice. It reinforces what we want out of life now and in the future.
But without related goal-oriented actions however, our Intentions will be little more than positive reinforcement, or at worst, wishful thinking.
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