‘What if I mess it up?’ she said in a small voice, lacking any faith in her own abilities.
‘You will for sure then!’ I smiled at her… she looked a little surprised.
‘Why do you say that Simon, you are usually so positive!?’
William Blake the painter and the poet penned the words “If the Sun and the Moon should doubt, They’d immediately go out.” We should hold these words very close to our heart. I wish I had written them, how wonderful it would be if we had these in our mind before we started anything new…
Having faith in yourself and a belief without doubt is the way out of the paralysing fear that stops us achieving the magnificent life we hold as a desire in our consciousness.
It’s ok and natural to have moments when we are nervous and unsure, I’ve felt it whenever I’ve had to stand up and speak in front of an audience, all of my old feelings come rushing to me, they flood my mind, fog it entirely if I let them… the fear that I might open my mouth and nothing is heard, or looking at someone close to the lectern and they’ll raise their eyes at me with a hint of... who in hell does he think he is?
But I have learned this initial lack of confidence effects all of us at certain times, it has probably been there right at the beginning of every great human accomplishment. Our self-doubt comes from the knowing that all of us grade and praise or blame whatever someone else does, our own ego makes a judgement based on our perception of whatever that ‘thing’ is.
But perfectionism in an imperfect world is a perilous state, we must forget our doubts and our fears and get on with our task, whatever it is and do the very best we can.
If we begin with a thought that we will fail in some way, then certainly we will, and if we push aside any doubt and look to the thoughts that it will be extraordinary, and to keep imagining that, despite anything that trips us along the way, then it will be that instead… it will be astonishing.
I know that is hard to believe, but try it and I promise it will be exactly that. You have more power in you to create the life you choose than you have ever been told or taught.
So I then said to her… ‘if you think only of a mess, you will surely achieve it, but imagine the praise and the smiles as you hand it over and it will be that instead. Think of your mind as a satnav, set the destination which is your end goal and begin. Doubt will make you deviate, so ignore any niggling uncertainty or what others might say… keep your sights focused exactly on your aim, and you will get there as surely as your car journey ends exactly where you set the address into your little electronic contraption.
© Simon Lawrence
‘You will for sure then!’ I smiled at her… she looked a little surprised.
‘Why do you say that Simon, you are usually so positive!?’
William Blake the painter and the poet penned the words “If the Sun and the Moon should doubt, They’d immediately go out.” We should hold these words very close to our heart. I wish I had written them, how wonderful it would be if we had these in our mind before we started anything new…
Having faith in yourself and a belief without doubt is the way out of the paralysing fear that stops us achieving the magnificent life we hold as a desire in our consciousness.
It’s ok and natural to have moments when we are nervous and unsure, I’ve felt it whenever I’ve had to stand up and speak in front of an audience, all of my old feelings come rushing to me, they flood my mind, fog it entirely if I let them… the fear that I might open my mouth and nothing is heard, or looking at someone close to the lectern and they’ll raise their eyes at me with a hint of... who in hell does he think he is?
But I have learned this initial lack of confidence effects all of us at certain times, it has probably been there right at the beginning of every great human accomplishment. Our self-doubt comes from the knowing that all of us grade and praise or blame whatever someone else does, our own ego makes a judgement based on our perception of whatever that ‘thing’ is.
But perfectionism in an imperfect world is a perilous state, we must forget our doubts and our fears and get on with our task, whatever it is and do the very best we can.
If we begin with a thought that we will fail in some way, then certainly we will, and if we push aside any doubt and look to the thoughts that it will be extraordinary, and to keep imagining that, despite anything that trips us along the way, then it will be that instead… it will be astonishing.
I know that is hard to believe, but try it and I promise it will be exactly that. You have more power in you to create the life you choose than you have ever been told or taught.
So I then said to her… ‘if you think only of a mess, you will surely achieve it, but imagine the praise and the smiles as you hand it over and it will be that instead. Think of your mind as a satnav, set the destination which is your end goal and begin. Doubt will make you deviate, so ignore any niggling uncertainty or what others might say… keep your sights focused exactly on your aim, and you will get there as surely as your car journey ends exactly where you set the address into your little electronic contraption.
© Simon Lawrence