Will Power Or Won't Power

byTheCatherine

13.9K followers

3 years ago

I don't know whether it's because it's the new year, or there is another factor, but at the moment there are lots of post about mindset. To be fair, there should always be a lot of comments about mindset.

Recently, I've had a lot of PMs about people who let life get in the way of their dreams. Are you one of these? Are you a wannapreneur.

What is A wannapreneur

You like the idea of having your own business, but somehow or another is just too much effort to bring about the change that's needed to have a profitable business.

Your business will not create itself! You need to create it and if necessary you need to change your mindset around the possibility of creating something new.

If you jump out of bed every morning, out of the same side, you clean your teeth, standing in the same place, you get dressed in the same place. You go downstairs and you eat the same breakfast. All of these activities are not bringing anything you into your life. They are repeating and reinforcing the past.

They represent the old way of doing things. The person that wasn't self-employed. The person who worked in corporate, or for the local library, or whatever your job.

The new you, the one you want to create with their own business has to have a different mindset. You quite literally have to change the way you think. The way you think served you in the past but bear in mind is that mindset now applicable to the new you you want to see in the future?

I'm not a great believer in New Year's resolutions because they generally fail, most people will a failed already by this, the 10th day of the month. However, I am in favor of permanent change.

To bring about permanent change you need to change the way you think every second of every day. If you keep telling yourself the same old story then you will have the same outcome.

Examples of the story I mean are

Some people can make money online, but it's not for me

I am not good enough

I am not clever enough

I can't do this

You get the point. The story you are telling yourself as you will fail and guess what, if you tell yourself you will fail the chances are you will!

"Whether you think you can know or you can't, the chances are you're right".

Henry Ford

What are you doing today and every day to change the story you're telling yourself.

One of the things I want to make a permanent change with is my health. I have been a vegetarian/ vegan / fructarian the best part of 50 years. Several years ago I made the choice to eat only organic food. Granted not a hundred percent of what I put in my mouth is organic, but over 90% of it is. For me that is sufficient change. I could make the transition to make it 100%, but I choose not to.

This year I choose to make changes that will boost my immune system. I already exercise and I already take care of myself. I have chosen to do the Wim Hoff method which means I have to very aware of how I breathe.

This is important to me because I was born when my mother was five months pregnant so I have underdeveloped lungs. You may think that at 65 it is too late to do anything about this. Maybe, it is but that is your mindset and not mine.

My mindset is the breath work will improve my immune system. Secondly the second part is having cold showers every day. I can't say I enjoy this, but some days are harder than others. It's important to do this for increased time every day. I am now up to five minutes and some days those five minutes seemed to last forever another days they're over in the flash.

Either way this will improve my immune system and my overall health which considering the crap that's going on at the moment I consider this to be important. I take responsibility for my own health rather than anyone else doing it for me.

That involves both willpower and won't power! I will give up I will focus on what I want until I get that.

Equally, that's how you will achieve your goals in your business.